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When we did some smoked salmon canapes for a dinner party a while back, Mark suggested they’d be even better whith some crème fraîche, and he was right, dammit. However, without a gourmet food store…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: appetizer, sauce, suggestions | No Comments »
Who would ever think you might tire of a freezer full of smoked salmon? Um, well, it’s started to happen, friends. Crackers and smoked salmon, fusilli with smoked salmon cream, more crackers and smoked salmon, and…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Categories: Guidance | Tags: appetizer, canapes, recipe, salmon, Seafood | No Comments »
If you haven’t been to one of the joints that are a part of Vancouver’s burgeoning Izakaya scene, now is the time. They’re not just for homesick Japanese exchange students anymore…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: downtown, Hapa Izakaya, izakaya, Japanese, omakase, review, vancouver | No Comments »
Are you tired of eating turkey sandwiches for the entire week after Thanksgiving? Yes, you are. Well, there’s a better way to dispose of the beast, my friend: the answer is creamed turkey.
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Friday, October 13th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: creamed turkey, meat, recipe, thanksgiving, turkey | 1 Comment »
There are certain criteria for assessing the quality of anything. For that new pair of running shoes you got last week, the Canada Prime ribeye you had for dinner last night. And so on. For beer, there’s fizziness,…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beer, drink, Phillips Brewing, Phoenix Gold Lager | No Comments »
After the humiliation of the tart shell disaster a while back, I haven’t dared go near the deadly things, but at last I got over the shell-shock for a dinner party last week. It was lemon tart again, and this time I…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chocolate, dessert, ice cream, mexican | 3 Comments »
It doesn’t happen always, but every summer my pals Owen, Clint and I try to get out to Sooke on Vancouver Island and go fishing for some salmon. Last week it all came together, and with wives and girlfriends along,…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Friday, August 25th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chinook, fish, fishing, Seafood, sockeye, sooke | No Comments »
The lobster and dungeness crab risotto K. and I did for our new food pals Helen and Jason (and our established food pals Mark and Andrea) a while back was such a hit that a recipe is in order. So the former best risotto…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Friday, August 18th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: crab, lobster, recipe, Risotto, Seafood | 2 Comments »
When fellow blogger Jer had a huge Atlantic lobster party a few weeks ago, I took what was left of the four critters I got, and made stock from them. So I’d been wanting to make lobster risotto for weeks. And I…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Sunday, August 6th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: dinner, home cooking, potluck, Risotto, Seafood, vancouver | 5 Comments »
There are a multitude of reasons why you may not like beets. Okay, I can’t personally think of any, but I can gaurantee you that if you’re not fond of them, then it’s not because you’re baking them in foil.
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beet, cooking-tip, David Hawksworth, foil, roast, root, vegetable, West | 6 Comments »
Do you like mushrooms? Well, it’s peak morel season now, my friends, and that means ridiculously low prices from the mushroom guy in Vancouver’s Granville Island Market.
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Granville Island, market, morel, mushroom, seasonal | 4 Comments »
After a very long day of arriving in Florence recently – three flights from Norway, a train from Bologna to our destination, and a final hike to our hotel – Kristil and I arrived feeling tired, grimy and in…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: dessert, Florence, gelato, ice cream, italy, Travel | No Comments »
Welcome to Norway, land of the most beautiful people on earth. And while looking gorgeous, they can turn out some pretty mean chow: so far I’ve had a seriously good lamb stew, made by my wife’s grandmother,…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: champagne, cream soda, drink, norway, soft drink | No Comments »
We’ve all got them. Beautiful knives we bought years ago. And we’ve taken good care of them…steeling them before setting them to work, then washing them by hand (never putting them in the dishwasher!…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cooking-tip, Jack Kintano, knives, sharpening, vancouver | 2 Comments »
Had some of my foodie peeps over for dinner a while back, and for one of the courses I threw a little shitaki mushroom risotto together for them. Okay, I didn’t exactly throw it together, I’d been planning on…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Friday, March 31st, 2006
Categories: Guidance | Tags: David Haw, mushroom, recipe, rice, Risotto, vancouver, West | No Comments »