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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 »
There are some days when I really wish I could read French. Today was one of those days. Julie Rothhahn’s website looks very fascinating and it looks like she’s an experimental food designer of some sort.…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food designer, french, Julie Rothhahn | 2 Comments »
I’m not a scotch drinker but this Macallan Maple Scotch is seriously delicious! It’s a sweet single malt scotch whiskey that is flavoured with maple and pecans. It’s a great after dinner drink and…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Macallan, maple, Scotch, whiskey | 1 Comment »
Something we’ve always wished we did more of was have actual Foodists events. Of course, we’re making that happen now, and what better way to get that ball rolling than to celebrate the recent launch of the…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, January 30th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Foodists, Launch event, South China Seas, specialty, vancouver | 4 Comments »
Fellow Foodists Steph, Todd, my husband and I had a great dinner at db Bistro Moderne a few nights ago. I was really looking forward to dining there, and seeing what the designers did with the décor in the transformation…
Posted by: Janeen Leynes on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: DB Bistro Moderne, Dine-out, restaurant, review, vancouver | 4 Comments »
It goes without saying that it will rain the day after you take your umbrella out of your purse and by the same token, I should have known that a trendy, tasty Italian restaurant would open up in the culinary dead-zone…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: chick peas, chinatown, fish, italian, Pasta, polenta, pork, restaurant, review, Risotto, sausage, steak, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »
Last night I had an itch that only a steak sandwich could scratch but knew I wanted to go beyond steak and bread, and add my own twist to it. I knew I wanted to add some caramelized onions and I had an abundance of…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: basil, bocconicini, caramelized onions, onions, pine nuts, steak, striploin, tomatoes | No Comments »
About a year ago I was faced with the task of roasting a leg of lamb in an unfamiliar kitchen. I pulled it off, barely, but we were left with a bunch of undercooked meat in the fridge that needed using the next day. A…
Posted by: Dave Shea on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: bacon, chipotle, lamb, stew | 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 enough…
Posted by: Janeen Leynes on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chocolate, dessert, matcha, recipe, tea, truffle | 4 Comments »
At the very mention of a certain Tagalog word, I forget the deep fried bananas, sweet sticky rice, cassava, and mouthwatering mangoes; that word is Ube. Ube is a close cousin to Taro and for all of the other Laowai out…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: dessert, filipino, hopia, pastry, snack, ube | 15 Comments »
Every Christmas, I make gingerbread people. Gingerbread people require molasses, but of course my recipe uses slightly less than a standard carton of molasses. I’ve struggled for years (years, I tell you!) about…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chili, molasses, nuts, pecan | 2 Comments »
Well it’s a few months in and I’m starting to find my way around my kitchen. I’ve slowly progressed from prototypical bachelor life-style (pizza and Liptons Sidekicks) into someone who is increasingly…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: learning, review, rouxbe, school, suggestions, website | No Comments »
This year we gave a Betty Crocker Easy Bake oven to our young niece Chloe, who has been baking cookies in it like a fiend ever since. A regular baker! And during the holidays my young nephew Landon and I spent some…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cookies, Easy Bake, memories | 2 Comments »
Last weekend I cooked two dishes that required fresh herbs – a pugliese seafood pasta with sage, and a rosemary cake with… rosemary. Finding fresh rosemary is never a problem at our house, as we have two…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: herbs, public gardens, rosemary, sage | 1 Comment »
I really didn’t want to tell anyone about this. I wanted it all for myself. But it looks like the supply lines are opening up a little, so I feel a bit safer in letting you all in on a delicious little secret.…
Posted by: Dave Shea on Monday, January 19th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: alcohol, beer, brewery, dogfishhead, review | 5 Comments »