Foodists

I typically never shop at Granville Island Public Market on the weekend because it is jam packed with browsers and tourists. After Spot Prawn Fest, I needed groceries so I reluctantly entered the gourmet vortex of…

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Welcome back veggie & vegan friends. And thank you for joining us new lactose-free friends. My husband often points at me, laughs, and says in a sing-song, intentionally whiny, pre-adolescent voice “Lac-tose,…

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So there I am at Granville Island. And there’s a big lump of BC Wild Octopus just sitting there. I’ve never cooked anything other than baby octopus (stir fried quickly with garlic, butter, and wine). I had no…

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Sable filet, skin on Haricot Vert Peas Fennel Fennel Fronds Pea Shoots For the Bacon Vinaigrette: 2 strips Sloping Hill Farm bacon, diced, rendered 1/2 T Honey 1/4 C Champagne vinegar or Verjus Rendered bacon fat Olive…

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My wife isn’t much for cooking though she does claim the kitchen for baking. However, she is an avid gardener and provider of fresh, organic produce for us. Though I do the bulk of the cooking in our house, she…

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Pairing the salty and sweet is no longer enough for serious dessert lovers. Salted caramels? yawn. Using salt alone to heighten flavours is old news for refined palettes. Umami is the newly crowned flavour to dominate the…

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Last month was my birthday.  As always, my lovely husband spoiled me rotten – dinner at Tojo’s, a beautiful Shun chef’s knife and a cooking class at Dirty Apron.  He had originally signed me up for the…

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I don’t eat meat. I think it’s gross. There, I said it. And I think there’s about a bajillion things in the world that can be made without meat that are full of delicious tasting goodness. In addition, I have (as…

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New Orleans is a special place for more reasons to count, but its gastronomy certainly ranks pretty high up there (followed closely, perhaps, by its open-container outside drinking laws). It is, after all, where the…

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There are a lot of people in town celebrating national pride and a large part of that is culinary. “Houses” (more like tents in most cases) have sprung up all over town draped in the colours of their homeland.…

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I’m not entirely sure how I slid into it so swiftly, but going vegan was a decision that solidified itself with little disturbance despite the sudden shift in my system. Proposed by a vegetarian co-worker, it was…

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What’s Robbie Burns day without haggis? If you can’t have haggis, you at least need whisky. I’m a traditionalist, so I like to do both if I can and I wrote about the whisky yesterday. Robbie Burns Day is…

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When I was young, Robbie Burns Day meant highland dancing in some sort of festival, but now that I know better, it has come to mean whisky. Robbie Burns day is the closest thing to a Scotch national holiday and while…

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There’s something amazing about the yin yang nature of Vietnamese coffee – hot coffee and cold condensed milk, dark and light, bitter and sweet. The Chocolate and Vietnamese Coffee Tart with Condensed Milk Ice…

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Mussel Chowder with Parsnips and Tarragon 1 Large Leek, diced 1 Small fennel bulb, finely diced 1 Shallot, minced 4 Parsnips, peeled and diced 1 Cup of White Wine 1 Cup of Whole Milk 1 Pound (454 grams) Mussels, rinsed…

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