BA in Vancouver

I feel like the last few batches of ice cream I’ve gone really heavy on the chocolate. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I needed a bit of a change. I have been toying with the idea of hazelnuts and came up with a potential combo for hazelnuts, cranberries & cherries. Unfortunately the local […]

I have a pretty long commute for work and it’s all on public transportation. As a result, my arrival to work and then later at home, really is at the mercy of the Transit Lords. The Transit Lords giveth and the Transit Lords taketh away. Sometimes they taketh away really hard. I won’t go into […]

I received this birthday cake request last year and I dutifully stored it in the back of my mind under “Cake Requests”. I find it pretty helpful to get requests – I have a good direction of what to prepare and I can explore how to really “kick it up a notch”. For those not […]

Two things I wanted to address here: 1) My mango ginger sorbet! I only make it once a year – when the ataulfo mangoes are in season and the prices aren’t too exorbitant. I was lucky to stumble upon a heaving bag of mangoes in the ‘discount produce’ section of a local market. Out of […]

Last week I participated in Social Bites’ “DinnerPartyYVR” event…in my own home! Social Bites, if you have not heard of it, is run by Annika Reinhardt and organizes competitive dinner parties. Or rather, dinner parties with a competitive edge. It’s a bit like the TV show “Come Dine With Me” – two sets of diners […]

In an issue of Gastronomica, there’s an article on whether food can be considered art. I wholeheartedly agree with this notion, but I understand if others do not. After all, food, for all intents and purposes, is sustenance for our bodies. It’s fuel – plain and simple. But I do believe that food is also […]