Make The Holidays Sweet With Jacek Chocolate The 2018 Holiday Collection from Jacek Chocolate Couture, is both gorgeous and delicious includes a perfectly curated selection of hand-crafted chocolates, artisan bars like The Audrey (tart cherries & pistachio) or The Colette (marbled chocolate), and other delicious surprises your readers will enjoy gifting to their list this…
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Harvest Community Foods Seasonal Initiatives – News Release
Artisanal culinary offerings and holiday gift baskets arrive at cozy Chinatown grocer and restaurant Need a gift for someone who loves food. This release landed in our inbox today and we want one of everything and a big bowl of noodles too. CJA Historic Chinatown’s premier one-stop gourmet grocer and restaurant is celebrating the arrival of…
CLOSED #GIVEAWAY – Hippie Snacks New Cauliflower and Avocado Crisps
HIPPIE SNACKS LAUNCHES NEW CAULIFLOWER CRISPS AND AVOCADO CRISPS The Hottest Plant-Based Ingredients – Finally, in a Snackable On-The-Go Format Hippie Snacks has added two new products to its lineup: Cauliflower Crisps (in Original and Classic Ranch flavours) and Avocado Crisps (in Guacamole and Sea Salt) and we’re giving away a basket of 8 bags…
Nespresso Launches Parisian Gourmandise Festive Collection – News Release
Nespresso Coffee Pods Celebrate The Season Earlier this year Nespresso launched it’s new Metrotown Boutique and we made the switch over to Nespresso at home. The pods are now fully recyclable and our coffee has never tasted better. My only wish is that I’d remember to order the pods before we run out, as when…
Mon Paris Pâtisserie Sweetens The Holidays – News Release
Mon Paris Pâtisserie’s Modern Collection of Festive Treats Chef Elena Krasnova’s holiday collection is now available at her charming Parisienne chocolate and pastry shop in Burnaby The pastry case at Mon Paris Pâtisserie (4396 Beresford St., Burnaby) is now decked with show-stopping treats for Christmas. Mon Paris owner and pastry chef, Elena Krasnova, has created a…
Fresh Prep Partners With The Juice Truck
Fresh Prep Meal Delivery Brings Deliciousness To Your Kitchen We received a Fresh Prep to review and ever since we’re ordering almost every week. I’m sad we are going away next week so will miss the opportunity to try these two meals, but you still can. USE THE CODE GOODLIFE18 to get three free meals….
Taste Canada Announces 2018 Food Writing Awards – News Release
Taste Canada Food Writing Awards #TasteCanada Y’all know how much I love my cookbooks! Congratulations to all these winners! Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada (tastecanada.org) has announced the winners of the country’s only national, bilingual food writing awards. October is National Cookbook Month #Love Cookbooks #MoreThanRecipes A champion of cookbook authors and…
Food Gays Cooking In Color
Food Gays Launch Their First Cookbook And It’s Gorgeous I’ve known the Food Gays, Adrian Harris and Jeremy Inglett for a few years now and I feel proud to see them accomplish so much and have so enjoyed watching their journey. Their food styling and photography is so well done and also well documented on Instagram (@foodgays), and…
In My Kitchen – Japanese Cooking With Naomi
Cooking Classes From In My Kitchen I attended one of the very delicious Tayybeh Syrian Catering pop-ups last year and luckily met Paula Mohammed, a women with a mission to bring eclectic cooking experiences from home cooks to Vancouver through “In My Kitchen”. I was thrilled to hear about the possibility of learning home cooking techniques from…
VegExpo – A Couple Musts
What Not To Miss At VegExpo I had lunch last week with my pal Chef Pola Schacter, a natural food distributor, at Lunch Club on Arbutus (great spot btw) and she brought me a couple items that will be available at the Veg Expo today and I wanted to be sure you didn’t miss them…
Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
It’s Not Too Late To Go All Out For Mother’s Day You’ve still got a few days to find that special something for Mother’s Day and we’ve got some great sweet suggestions, because basically, flowers are so very overdone. Les Dames d’Escoffier Dames Wine Rose Wine – $31 Marquis Wine Cellars Give your Mom a…
Bobbette & Belle Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Bobbette & Belle Share A Sweet Recipe For Valentine’s Day I don’t think cupcakes could ever go out of style, especially when they are salted caramel. Sure macarons, eclairs and donuts that have gotten their fair share of play of late, but I will always choose a cupcake over most sweets, sometimes just for the…
Meet Lori Joyce from Betterwith Food At The Wellness Show
Lori Joyce Joins Women Empowering Women Panel For the past 26 years, The Wellness Show has been on the cutting edge of the latest health and wellness trends, bringing them to the residents of the Lower Mainland. This year’s show takes place February 16 and 17, 2018, at the Vancouver Convention Centre and there’s lots of…
Chef Alex Chen Takes Gold At Canadian Culinary Championships
Chef Alex Chen Shines Through Three Intense Culinary Competitions This year seemed particularly special at the Canadian Culinary Championships in Kelowna, as there seemed to be a tight group of chefs, all producing top notch dishes through the three competitions that made up these gourmet Olympics, and I was gratefully ring side to take it…
Chef Ned Bell’s Arctic Char
Pan-Seared Arctic Char with Lentils, Parsnips, and Vanilla Vinaigrette We caught up with Chef Ned Bell at Christmas in November where he demonstrated this tasty Arctic Char from his new cookbook, Lure! You can also make this with chicken, he mentioned, as he often does when cooking for his kids as some of them prefer…
Eggnog Cheesecake With Rum
Eggnog Season Continues With Eggnog Cheesecake You may still have some whipping cream around and maybe a bit of rum, so why not continue the festivities with an eggnog cheesecake? This one has a great rum sauce that adds depth to the already flavourful cheesecake! 200 g digestive biscuits 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 100…
Last Minute Holiday Recipes – Quickies From Presidents Choice Part 2
Antipasto Misto, Pomegranate Punch and Chocolate Orange Bread Brioche It’s not too late to nip out and get a few more things to make your holiday table even more festive! We’re running around Kelowna under instructions from the family to pick up a few more ingredients for dinner tonight and we’re already wishing our family…
Christmas In November Chartier Restaurant – Mind Blowing Tortiere
Tortiere Done Right Chef Steve Brochu from Chartier Restaurant I’d never cried during a cooking demonstration until I watched the one hosted by Darren Cheverie and Chef Steve Brochu from Chartier Restaurant in Beaumont Alberta. I’d met them during the Christmas in November weekend as they were my neighbours at the Jasper Fairmont; when my luggage didn’t get to me in time…
Last Minute Holiday Recipes – Quickies From Presidents Choice – Part 1
Grab a Few Items From Presidents Choice For Quick Holiday Dishes We attended a little holiday party at Ritual this month hosted by Presidents Choice and Thea VanHerwaarden , a local food and lifestyle expert and we have some of the recipes she created to share. These are quick ones and can rescue you from holiday…
Recipes From Christmas In November – Part 2 The Olsons
Savouries From Anna and Michael Olson For The Holidays and Beyond Part of the fun at Christmas in November, the annual festival at Jasper Park Lodge, is learning a few new takes on recipes, and sometimes new recipes altogether. Anna and Michael Olson’s main stage performance this year involved Bacon Okonomijaki ( a Japanese pancake), Pork-a-Leekie…
