If you follow this blog with any kind of regularity, then you know that I have a love/hate relationship with pastry. Love eating it. Hate making it. I’m a decent baker but pie crust eludes me completely. So, I buy it. The two shell yellow box from Tenderflake. It’s fast, easy and has never failed [...]
Archive | September, 2011
Tomato Eggs
There is absolutely nothing like tomatoes straight from your garden. Nothing. Not even tomatoes from the farmer’s market. When you grow them, you get to choose when you pick them. You can eat them when they’re still warm from the sun and you can smell that distinctly tomato vine smell that comes with them – [...]
A New Food Venture: Food Bloggers of Canada
I’ve been a bit quiet lately with recipe and photography posts. But, I have a good excuse! Really, I do… Four months ago, over dinner with friends, an idea got tossed out and started to percolate. Over the next few weeks it began to take shape and before we knew it, it started to take [...]
Multi-Cultural Green Beans (and a give away!)
I am a bit glum this week. It’s Photoshop World 2011 in Las Vegas and I had really, really hoped to be there this year. I had to miss last year and promised myself I’d make it up to me this year. But money and other commitments meant it didn’t get to happen and [...]
See You At the PNE
One of my earliest memories as a kid was going to see the lumberjack showcase at the PNE here in Vancouver. I must’ve been about 5 and got such a kick out of watching lumberjacks spin on logs in the water, waiting for them to fall in to the pond of water. I remember my [...]
