Pastel Easter Doughnuts Courtesy of BakeGood.ca These Pastel Easter Doughnuts from BakeGood.ca combine some of the most fun parts of the spring holiday, including delicious treats, bright pastel colours and everyone’s favourite candy-coated chocolate eggs. More recipes INGREDIENTS Doughnuts: 1/3 cup milk 1/3 cup water 1 (2-1/4 tsp.) envelope Fleischmann’s® Traditional Yeast 2 to 3…
Botanist Bar 50 Best Bars Awards
Botanist Bar Wins 50 Best Bar Award – Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award Botanist Bar in Vancouver, Canada, has been announced as the winner of the Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award, part of the second annual North America’s 50 Best Bars Awards 2023. Created to recognize the importance of hospitality in the bar experience, this…
Vancouver International Wine Festival
The Countdown to the Vancouver International Wine Festival is on! For the first time, the Vancouver International Wine Festival is featuring an entire continent as its theme region! The spotlight shines on the wines of South America this April, with forty-four wineries representing four countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay – participating in a…
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns for Easter When I was younger Hot Cross Buns were not my favourite. We bought some supermarket brands that were inevitably stale and had those pieces of coloured candied cherries that come in the equally horrid Christmas Cake, very unappealing. Then there was the margarine!!!! Don’t get me wrong, some amazing things…
Purdys Easter Chocolates
Purdys Has Something for Every Bunny for Easter Sorry, I couldn’t help it with the pun, because Easter is always such a happy holiday for me. When we were younger the anticipation of Easter Egg Hunts and then finding eggs months later, usually melted, because my mom and dad were such good egg hiders, the…
KitchenAid Colour of the Year Hibiscus
KitchenAid Celebrates Hibiscus with Spring Recipes I’m a KitchenAid fanatic, I have two, one tiny one and one larger, but they’re not Hibiscus colour and now I am envious! However, I can whip up some recipes that will at least pay homage to the colour including a Mocktail, Galette and Chicken Wings. Looking for a…
What’s Good March 20th Edition
Vancouver Events and Happenings to Plan For It’s been a while since we’ve done our weekly roundups, but we’re bringing them back as things are now back full-on in person. Does anyone else feel that there is something interesting every night? Here are a few things on our radar. FOMO is big, but don’t forget…
Provence Marinaside Presents Quelle Surprise until April 15
Provence Marinaside Two Course Daily “Quelle Suprise” We are fresh off testing the new delights at Provence Marinaside with their new menu, called Quelle Surprise and it is a fantastic deal full of delicious items. More Events From the press release: Province Marinaside presents Quelle Suprise – Owner/Chef Jean-Francis Quaglia is sharing his native French…
Feast! Vancouver 2023
Feast! Vancouver Includes Michelin Chefs and Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Chapter I’m excited about the lineup of chefs for Feast! Vancouver. Many events do not have enough women chefs and when I initially saw the lineup, I got involved to rally some women to participate and now we have way better representation. I’ll be there…
The Artful Pie Project by Denise Marchessault and Deb Garlick
The Artful of Pie by Denise Marchessault In honour of pie day, March 14 3.14, we salute the Queen of Pie, Denise Marchessault, and her newest cookbook The Artful Pie Project, with Deb Garlick. Denise is a fellow member of Les Dames d’Escoffier British Columbia and has been an integral part of our scholarship committee…
Culmina Wines and BC Cheese Pairings
Pairing BC Cheese with Culmina Wine Culmina Family Estate Winery was founded by the Triggs family atop the Golden Mile Bench in British Columbia’s South Okanagan and the wines are crafted with care from grapes grown on their family estate. Winemaker Jean-Marc Enixon is a classically trained French vigneron and winemaker who has made wine…
Hot Chefs & Cool Jazz Gala
Hot Chefs & Cool Jazz Gala – April 14, 2023 – The Fairmont Pacific Rim Hot Chefs Cool Jazz hosted by Fairmont Pacific Rim and award-winning Mission Hill Wines The 2023 Hot Chefs & Cool Jazz Gala, in support of Junior Culinary Team Canada, will be hosted by Fairmont Pacific Rim Executive Chef Damon Campbell….
Bagheera Pays Homage to the Indian Subcontinent
Bagheera Brings a Sense of Theatrical Opulence to Main Street The team behind Canada’s Best New Bar of 2022, Laowai, opened its latest hidden gem: Bagheera* and we visited this opulent and glittering sanctuary, concealed behind an unprepossessing Chinatown betting shop! The cocktails are excellent, and the room blew our minds. (From the press release)…
Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey
Cocktails with Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey From National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day to International Whiskey Day and National Cocktail Day, March is packed with reasons to celebrate with a creative cocktail! May we suggest you try out Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey? Sounds crazy, but it’s delicious on its own or on…
Naramata Bench’s Aasha Winery
Aasha Wines Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Rose I was so impressed with the bottles, the storytelling in the tasting notes and the gorgeously designed website of Aasha Wines that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on these mystical bottles. There are gorgeous illustrations on the labels, and they are sealed with wax to protect…
Battle of the Breweries H2 Kitchen + Bar
Competition is Brewing at H2 Kitchen + Bar News from H2 Kitchen + Bar – The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver’s smokehouse restaurant, hosts its inaugural ‘Battle of the Breweries’ dinner, on March 22 with two decorated contenders in the BC craft beer scene. Vancouver Island Brewing and Backcountry Brewing will go head-to-head for diners’ votes as…
Cookbooks for Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month Through Cookbooks Penguin Random House has a wonderful list of Cookbooks to celebrate Black History Month. “Food is an important part of the fabric of our lives, and it’s one way we can connect with people from diverse cultural backgrounds from our own. In celebration of Black History Month, they’ve curated…
Cookbooks – Vegan Chinese Kitchen
The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition: A Cookbook – Hannah Che Author Hannah Che discovered the tradition of Zhai cai, a Chinese cooking technique emphasizing vegetarian cooking using umami-rich ingredients that has its roots in Buddhist temple kitchens. In The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, Che replicates Chinese dishes in a meatless way,…
Vancouver Cocktail Week at L’Abattoir
Dinners and Bar Takeovers at L’Abattoir for Vancouver Cocktail Week Many events have already sold out for Vancouver Cocktail Week, but if you act quickly, you can join L’Abattoir, one of Vancouver’s very best restaurants, complete with a stellar team of front and back house talent for one of two cocktail-paired dinners, a bar takeover…
VCC Foundation Annual Wine and Food Gala
Vancouver Community College (VCC) Foundation is excited to announce the return of Flourish After a two-year pause due to the pandemic, Flourish returns bigger and more delicious than ever — featuring elite wine tastings from Naramata Bench Wineries, local craft beers pairings, food designed and prepared by top local chefs, and music performed by leading…
