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Meet Sarah Reinertsen our latest guest contributor. The fortunate instance of a bus breakdown in the Himalayan foothills – after the bus driver tried unsuccessfully to fix the malfunction with a 2×4 and a…
Posted by: Sarah Reinertsen on Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: black garlic, garlic, guest, Risotto | 5 Comments »
I was walking by beautiful bunches of organic young golden beets when a stark realization hit me that I’d never cooked beets. Ashamed of myself, being a foodist and all, I grabbed a bunch and was determined to cook them…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beats, bechamel, parmesan cheese, Risotto, roots, Salad, vitimens | 1 Comment »
“If anyone serves you risotto in a ring mold, get up and leave.” That was just one of the little tidbits of advice we were treated to when Andrea M and I ventured into Cookshop for a Spanish Cooking class with Chef…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Chef Romy, chocolate, cooking school, Cookshop, paella, pears, poached, recipes, Risotto, Romy-Prasad, sauce, soup, steak, tomato | 8 Comments »
Sure there are those packets of ready made risotto but nothing beats making it from scratch yourself. Fellow Foodists Colin has written about his Best Risotto Ever (and the amended New Best Risotto Ever), and I revisited…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: avocado, chardonnay, Risotto, seasonal food, shallots, tomato, Wine | 6 Comments »
It goes without saying that it will rain the day after you take your umbrella out of your purse and by the same token, I should have known that a trendy, tasty Italian restaurant would open up in the culinary dead-zone…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: chick peas, chinatown, fish, italian, Pasta, polenta, pork, restaurant, review, Risotto, sausage, steak, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »
One of my favourite things to do on the weekend is to drop into Tonina’s Italian Deli & Cafe in my old neighbourhood at 25th and Main Street. Depending on the time of day I might just be picking up supplies for…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 8th, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: appetizer, deli, pizza, Risotto, Seafood, tapenade, Tonina's | 4 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 »
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 »