Cooking With New Friends
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…
Meditations - Enlightened gastronomic insights
Try this at your own risk!
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)
Ice Cream, Mexi-Style.
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…
Elegant & Inspired
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…
Chickitie China, the Chinese Chicken
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…
Nice Feesh!
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…
Shellfish Risotto is the New Best Risotto Ever
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 Pasta of Ill Repute
Spaghetti Puttanesca translates directly as “Whore’s Spaghetti”. There is some debate as to how the dish acquired such an unusual name. Some people…
Venison, anyone?
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…
Dinner At Home…Vancouver Style
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…