BA in Vancouver

At the beginning of the year, I wanted to try a month of meat-free eating. At a time where there would be lots of fresh vegetables, but before the BBQ season started. April, it was decided, would be the month. So here I am, blogging about my meatless month! Rules: Eggs allowed Dairy allowed Fish […]

While my family was in town, we went to one of our restaurant mainstays – The Keg. Although I am an adventurous eater and come from a family that has roots in the restaurant industry, my parents are fairly conservative when it comes to food. My brother is game to try new things, but doesn’t […]

I hosted a dinner for a date recently. I slow cooked a beef shank and served it on polenta with sauteed mushrooms. One of the parts of the meal I was looking forward to was the juicy (and giant) marrow of the beef bone. Like a bulleye, it stared me down whenever I opened up […]

Ok, so a little late to the party, but I’m back!I have some big news to break – but that’s another post for another day. The first birthday cake of the year snuck up on me and I only had a few days to pull it together. I have always wanted to make a confetti […]

Okay, okay, I know. Very bad blogger, Spoon! The end of 2011 was a lot hairier than I expected. I wrapped up some big projects at work, had a typically busy  end-of-year social life, did a whack of home renos and…to top it all of – a raging sinus infection that had me at my […]

So yes, I haven’t blogged in a while. It doesn’t mean that I’m not busy! I’m still cranking things out of the kitchen, but a lot of what I was making was for my Christmas project. Ironically, today, I decided to scrap the original idea and go with a more generic focus. My idea was […]