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As the leaves start to fall and there is a chill in the air, my mind turns to warm comfort foods to take me through the winter. I feel a warm hug just thinking about my mom’s adobo chicken. I’ve made it…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Monday, October 12th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: adobo, chicken, comfort food, recipe | 2 Comments »
Everybody and their uncle has their special chili recipe, and they all swear theirs is the best. They all claim to have a secret, be it an unexpected ingredient or some special cooking technique. Well, to that I say…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 25th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: bullshit, chili, mark busse, moose, recipe | 28 Comments »
My buddy Handsome Rob (not my name for him – not that there’s anything wrong with that) took me salmon fishing out of Sooke on Sunday without much expectation. The big springs had moved through already, and he…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: barbecue, delicious, recipe, salmon | No Comments »
As much as I enjoy spending multiple hours preparing dinner, sometimes that’s not possible and the exploration of the “15 minute dinner” is equally as fun. I was in the middle of making a new (to me)…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: dinner, italian, pancetta, parmesan, Pasta, recipe | No Comments »
When it’s this hot out, one of my favorite patio drinks is limoncello with vodka, crushed ice, fresh mint and soda. It’s so refreshing and delicious and goes down just a little too easily. I was thinking about…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: alchohol, lemon, recipe, sugar, sweet, vodka | 5 Comments »
2kg Fresh strawberries 24 stalks Rhubarb 4 oz water 250g Caster Sugar 250g Honey 250g Brown Sugar Juice of one lemon 500ml liquid pectin Yield: Sixteen 250ml jars Chop rhubarb and cook til tender with water, caster sugar…
Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: canning, jam, jelly, recipe, rhubarb, strawberry | 2 Comments »
I like watermelon. No two ways about it. And when the warm weather arrives and summer is around the corner, I find myself drawn to the cool, juicy, sweet fruit and start experimenting with ways to serve it. Last year I…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 12th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: feta, herb, recipe, Salad, summer, watermelon | 3 Comments »
Even though I haven’t lived at home for years, my mouth still waters when I think about the “schtka, schtka, schtka” sound that the pressure cooker made. That meant my mom was making beef tongue. I know,…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: beef tongue, pressure cooker, recipe, tongue | 4 Comments »
Recently a thoughtful friend baked me a savory treat as a thank you gift—something I’d never heard of or tried before. Called Banica (pronounced Ba*ni*tsa), it is a traditional urban pastry in Bulgaria and the…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Banica, Banitsa, Bulga, pastry, recipe | 10 Comments »
The topic of Easter dinner came up with some friends a few weeks ago; we were discussing what our family meal had been when we were kids. Some people said turkey, others said ham, I said lamb. I checked my Larousse,…
Posted by: Denise Boyle on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cured meat, easter, eggs, italian, Pasta, quick, recipe | No Comments »
Stroganoff was one of the first recipes I learned through instinct, passed onto my mother through my Uncle Mike, a Ukranian neighbor in Calgary (who was also responsible for my early addiction to homemade perogies). It…
Posted by: Jules Morgan on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: beef stroganoff, recipe, Ukranian | 1 Comment »
Following my previous article on Terroni and the search for Vancouver restaurants that served bucatini all’amatriciana, my husband decided to make it himself. Joseph found two key ingredients at the Granville Island…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Babbo, bacon, Bosa Foods, bucatini, David Rocco, Duso's Pasta & Cheese, fat, flavour, Granville Island Public Market, guanciale, italian, Mario Batali, noodles, olive oil, Oyama Sausage, Pasta, pecorino cheese, pig, recipe, tomato | 12 Comments »
Sorry for the delay in posting this recipe, one of the delicious items Don and Joyce served at our Foodists launch event at South China Seas. Briouats are a Moroccan dish traditionally served at festive occasions. As with…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 27th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Briouat, chicken, Moroccan, pastry, preserved lemon, recipe, South China Seas | 1 Comment »
When I first tasted biscochitos my taste buds did a stadium wave, my eyes rolled back to get a better look at the pleasure center of my brain, and I was transformed into Cookie Monster for two straight weeks. I’m not…
Posted by: Colin Kohler on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cookies, dessert, holidays, recipe | 4 Comments »
Lately we’ve been doing all our entertaining over brunch. I think mostly because it’s with couples who also have young kids and this way we can see them, and Lila can play with them. And when I say play, I…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: italian, poached eggs, polenta, recipe, tomato, truffle oil | 4 Comments »