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I like watermelon. No two ways about it. And when the warm weather arrives and summer is around the corner, I find myself drawn to the cool, juicy, sweet fruit and start experimenting with ways to serve it. Last year I…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 12th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: feta, herb, recipe, Salad, summer, watermelon | 3 Comments »
Even though I haven’t lived at home for years, my mouth still waters when I think about the “schtka, schtka, schtka” sound that the pressure cooker made. That meant my mom was making beef tongue. I…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: beef tongue, pressure cooker, recipe, tongue | 4 Comments »
Recently a thoughtful friend baked me a savory treat as a thank you gift—something I’d never heard of or tried before. Called Banica (pronounced Ba*ni*tsa), it is a traditional urban pastry in Bulgaria and the…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Banica, Banitsa, Bulga, pastry, recipe | 4 Comments »
My mother recently sent me some food sites from the UK. Check them out. GoodFood by the BBC. The site includes cookery videos (enjoy those funny English accents), recipes, plus a section on wellbeing. ASDA (big…
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: banana, butter, pineapple, recipes, UK, websites | No Comments »
A librarian friend of mine turned me on to this book. The alternate title could have easily been Zen And The Art Of Owning A Small Restaurant, for its unconventional culinary philosophy and total lack of ego. Half…
Posted by: Colin Kohler on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: American Food, cookbook, Eat Me, Kenny Shopsin, New York, recipes | 3 Comments »
The topic of Easter dinner came up with some friends a few weeks ago; we were discussing what our family meal had been when we were kids. Some people said turkey, others said ham, I said lamb. I checked my…
Posted by: Denise Boyle on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cured meat, easter, eggs, italian, Pasta, quick, recipe | No Comments »
I travel with my stomach. I just love experiencing other cultures through their food. Living in Vancouver I’m pretty lucky to be able to travel around the world without going more than a couple kilometers. Living…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bbq salmon, Camus cook book, First Nations Cuisine, First Nations recipes, Lilliget Feasthouse, Slow Food, West Coast First Nations Food | 2 Comments »
Stroganoff was one of the first recipes I learned through instinct, passed onto my mother through my Uncle Mike, a Ukranian neighbor in Calgary (who was also responsible for my early addiction to homemade perogies). It…
Posted by: Jules Morgan on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: beef stroganoff, recipe, Ukranian | No Comments »
Following my previous article on Terroni and the search for Vancouver restaurants that served bucatini all’amatriciana, my husband decided to make it himself. Joseph found two key ingredients at the Granville Island…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Babbo, bacon, Bosa Foods, bucatini, David Rocco, Duso's Pasta & Cheese, fat, flavour, Granville Island Public Market, guanciale, italian, Mario Batali, noodles, olive oil, Oyama Sausage, Pasta, pecorino cheese, pig, recipe, tomato | 11 Comments »
/caption] Sorry for the delay in posting this recipe, one of the delicious items Don and Joyce served at our Foodists launch event at South China Seas. Briouats are a Moroccan dish traditionally served at festive…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 27th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Briouat, chicken, Moroccan, pastry, preserved lemon, recipe, South China Seas | No Comments »
When I first tasted biscochitos my taste buds did a stadium wave, my eyes rolled back to get a better look at the pleasure center of my brain, and I was transformed into Cookie Monster for two straight weeks. I’m…
Posted by: Colin Kohler on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cookies, dessert, holidays, recipe | No Comments »
/caption] It seems that Spam is a “love it or hate it” ingredient; it makes some smile and it makes many people gag, but it’s a selection that Steph and I often consider at our local haunts. It can be…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food, fun, instruction, Meats, recipes, Spam | 4 Comments »
Lately we’ve been doing all our entertaining over brunch. I think mostly because it’s with couples who also have young kids and this way we can see them, and Lila can play with them. And when I say play, I…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: italian, poached eggs, polenta, recipe, tomato, truffle oil | 3 Comments »
I love to read. I love to travel. I love food. I love all 3 combined. Sound familiar? So what’s a girl (or guy) to do when you can’t carry Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry Cookbook in your purse (or manbag) to…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: book, bourdain, celebrity, chef, cook, culinary, Ellerbee, food, humor, journalism, kitchen, learn, recipe, school, training, Travel | 3 Comments »
When I think of dark chocolate, matcha tea is something I never considered as a pairing. I first experienced these truffles at Hapa Izakaya restaurant, as a dessert. The combination was so perfect, I couldn’t get…
Posted by: Janeen Leynes on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chocolate, dessert, matcha, recipe, tea, truffle | 2 Comments »