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Perhaps you’ve noticed something called Tarte Tatin on the dessert menu of your favourite restaurant. If you ordered this legendary French treat, you probably marvelled at how lovely this twist on mom’s…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: apple, caramel, dessert, french, online recipes, Tarte Tatin | No Comments »
Yesterday Mark and I sat on a panel on branding at the Sysco Awards trade show. While preparing for the show we revisited our 2005 holiday greeting “Beefin’ Up the Holidays with Betty Fuller“. If…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 6th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chef, meat | No Comments »
I’m not sure what our wine-guru friend Colin would say about this. French Rabbit Wine comes in a tetra pack! But think of the advantages – unbreakable, light-weight, no corkscrew needed, resealable, and…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Friday, September 29th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alcohol, drink, French Rabbit, tetra, Wine | 1 Comment »
Oh dear. I have no idea if this is good news or very bad news, but one of my favourite BC wineries, Dirty Laundry, was just sold. Beyond concerns that customer service may drop (they’re amazing), I do hope the…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: British Columbia, Dirty Laundry Vineyard, Gewürztraminer, Okanagan, Pinot Noir, Wine, winery | 2 Comments »
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 »
A few of us had the great pleasure to meet our online friend Helen Rennie while on a trip tp Vacouver recently as decribed so eloquently by Colin in his article “Dinner At Home…Vancouver Style”. Helen…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: friends, home cooking, Travel | No Comments »
Hmmm, not sure I’m ever going to try this, but knock yourself out. Recipe for Butter Fried Krispy Kreme Donuts. (via grow-a-brain)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Breakfast, dessert, online recipes | 1 Comment »
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 »
Since Vikram Vij opened his first restaurant twelve years ago, like many of my fellow Vancouverites I’ve been an ardent fan and enthusiastic supporter. What got me hooked wasn’t necessarily a by-the-book…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Chefs, cookbook, indian, vikram vij | No Comments »
The other day, Mark and I were watching Kylie Kwong on TV, and saw her preparing Chinese-Style Poached Chicken. We’ve seen it in restaurants before, but never could figure out how to make it. How can something so…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Friday, September 1st, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Asian Kylie Kwong, chicken, chinese, poach, recipe | 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 »
Spaghetti Puttanesca translates directly as “Whore’s Spaghetti”. There is some debate as to how the dish acquired such an unusual name. Some people suggest that the women-of-ill-repute in Italy would…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Monday, August 14th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: italian, Pasta, recipe, spaghetti | 1 Comment »
For the past five years, I’ve had the luck to visit Seaview Game Farms in Merville, BC., the province’s leading producer of fallow venison. Venison is a delightful meat. Dark, dense and very lean, venison is…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Edible BC, meat, Seaview Game Farms, venison | 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 »