McCain Fries Deserve More Than Just Ketchup While we love a good french fry dipped in ketchup, or even better with a little aioli, we decided to kick it up a notch and go for a slightly more posh topping for a recent dinner party! We featured Ocean Wise seafood in this “Seafood Poutine” and even kept our choices very local. Our McCain #SuperFries Crinkle Cut fries got a decadent topping of “gravy” made with sour cream and tuffled goat chesse, then some Dungeness crab, smoked salmon, caviar, capers and parsely. McCain fries are made with Canadian potatoes, canola oil and sea…
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Continuing GLV Spruces Up with The Dailey Method Studio Well it’s been a week since I started Dailey Method Barre and Cycle Classes and I’ve now been five times and have the stickers to prove it! (I’m also in the photo above, but WAY, WAY in the back – I swear). Keeping accountable is the way to go, as I’ve signed up for their 30 and 60 day contest to hit three classes a week! The prize is a $1000 Nordstrom GC, and YOU could still do the 30 day competition until the Dec. 11 start date. ALSO – Don’t…
TEDxVancouver 2015 is coming! Saturday, November 14, 2015 Link to purchase tickets: http://tedxvancouver.com/countdown/ 9:00AM-5:30pm at the theatre at Rogers Arena 800 Griffiths Way Vancouver Tickets: $99.00 TEDxVancouver returns for its seventh edition and will be the largest TEDx event in the city’s history! This year’s theme is ID – a unique focus on the conceptions and realities of individual identification. Who are we? Who am I? Who will I be? This year’s speakers will help answer these questions and share in the discovery of individual identification. Speakers include John Herdman, Head Coach of the Canadian Senior Women’s National Soccer team, and Dr.…
It’s TODAY! Dine at JamJar, Burdock & Co and My Shanti and support healthy food and food security. Restaurants for Change supporting food security! Restaurants for Change is an annual fundraising event that brings together some of Canada’s best restaurants to create change in our food system. On October 21, 50+ of Canada’s best restaurants will donate proceeds from their dinner service to support healthy food access and empowering food programs in low-income communities across Canada, and push for a fairer and healthier food system. Join in and show your support by making a reservation at a participating restaurant in…
We’ve partnered with Sam Adams to help spread the news about a series of tasty lobster dinners in Vancouver and Squamish! Chef Matt Dean Pettit of Toronto’s Rock Lobster Restaurants and cookbook author of THE GREAT LOBSTER COOKBOOK, in partnership with Samuel Adams beer, will be travelling to Vancouver, B.C., to collaborate with three talented chefs at their respective restaurants. YEW seafood + bar, Jamjar Folk Lebanese Food, and The Watershed Grill, will each craft a unique menu alongside Chef Pettit that highlights the fresh ocean bounty from the Pacific Coast and in particular, showcase the sumptuous creations lobster can offer…
Western Canada’s Largest Women’s Show The West Coast Women’s Show offers the Ultimate Girl’s Weekend, October 16, 17 & 18 at the TRADEX Trade & Exhibition Centre in Abbotsford. With more than 400 exhibiter booths, five stages and a variety of show specials and giveaways, the West Coast Women’s Show is Western Canada’s largest show in BC for shopping and entertainment. The Hall of Flame Calendar Firefighters are back along with new features for 2015 including an Artisan’s Market. Recording artist and humanitarian, Bif Naked and actor Josh Morrow of the Young and the Restless headline the Main Stage in…
Avocado Pasta Sauce There’s bound to a few leftovers in your fridge from time to time and rather than wasting them, I find the best way to use things up is either soup, or pasta. We had some post-Thanksgiving ham in the fridge, so I whipped up some Avocados from Mexico Sauce and added in some tasty bits from the pantry (olives and capers) and some tomatoes that were on the verge of demise and we had lunch. There’s still some of our basil on the balcony, but you could used cilantro if you would prefer. Sauce is also good…
#NOFOODWASTED: ACCLAIMED LOCAVORE CHEF DAVID GUNAWAN AIMS TO TRANSFORM FOOD WASTE, PERCEPTIONS WITH “UGLY DUCKLING” DINNERS Five-Course Menu Calls Attention to Sustainability Issues, “Trash Cooking” Concept by Showcasing Dishes Featuring Usually Overlooked, Often Discarded Offcuts and Outcasts Royal Dinette Chef/Owner David Gunawan’s waste-not, want-not culinary values come into focus this fall with a duo of Ugly Duckling Dinners on Oct. 20 and Nov. 24 that will feature underutilized, often disposed scraps and offcuts. Already one of Vancouver’s thought leaders in locally sourced and sustainably procured farm-to-table cuisine thanks to his award-winning restaurant Farmer’s Apprentice and natural wine bar Grapes & Soda, Gunawan…
From October 13-25, 2015 all around Vancouver, Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival Brings Communities Together Art, Culture, Food and Sustainability – As We Are, Together From October 13 until October 25, 2015 Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival focuses on making connections in your communities through a series of events focused on food preservation, gardening, and the right to food. This festival is city-wide festival and includes everything from food inspired art exhibits to local food workshops on food preparation and gardening, potlucks, talks, walks, and more – all taking place in community centres and public spaces throughout Vancouver. There are almost fifty events in…
What better way to brunch than with beer, pretzels, and sausage during a German Harvest Haus Festival! General Admission includes: A four hour Oktoberfest-inspired seating, with access to the Harvest Haus Halle alongside hundreds of other autumn revelers Theatrical keg tapping opening ceremony, interludes and closing stage performances that immerses attendees in an interactive story of the harvest, from ancient days to modern times High energy, unique Bavarian musical performances Access to authentic European food stalls in the Marktplatz serving pretzels, bratwurst, sauerkraut, meat and cheeses, and schnitzel. Watch out for the traditional chocolatier! Access to the custom-created Harvest Haus merchandise…
Pop-up café and market features organic goods by donation to the food bank It’s never been easier to eat well and do good. Local organic food company, Nature’s Path Foods Inc., is inviting Vancouverites to eat and shop in support of the hungry at the annual Nature’s Path Eat Well Do Good Foodraiser being hosted on Oct. 8th at Robson Square. Two themes run across the event: everything is by donation to the food bank and everything is organic. Featuring a pop-up organic café and marketplace, 100% of cash and food raised at the event goes towards the Greater Vancouver…
So you’ve got your turkey ordered and your silver’s polished, now what to serve on the side? Almond Breeze has some great recipes for side dishes packed with nutrition and flavour. Sweet Potato Hummus to start, a Cream of Carrot Soup, Moroccan Quinoa Salad and a smoothie! Sweet Potato Hummus Roasted sweet potatoes and shallots are puréed with chickpeas for a sweet and savoury homemade hummus. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Yield: 12 servings Ingredients 1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped (about 2 cups) 3 shallots, peeled and halved 4 cloves garlic, peeled 1/3 cup (75 mL) olive oil…
This week’s Avocados From Mexico post takes us to Chicha Peruvian Restaurant for ceviche! If you haven’t been to Chicha, you are truly missing out on the best Latin food in Vancouver. Chef Shelome Bouvette excels at ceviche and this recipe has some avocado in the dressing and in the final presentation. It’s healthy and while it does take a bit of time to assemble, you’ll have dressing left over that is perfect for salads or topping some grilled veggies! For ceviche: 1lb cleaned and deboned wild salmon cut into cubes 1 bunch cilantro finely chopped 2 jalapeños deseeded and…
A Growing Chefs! Harvest Kitchen Party on Sunday, October 4th at Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts@ Don’t miss this opportunity to support Growing Chefs all while enjoying delicious food and drinks at PICA! I love these kitchen parties and wouldn’t miss this! Hope to see you there. Tickets $200 Sunday, October 4, 2015 Pacific Institue of Culinary Arts 1505 West 2nd Ave. This is a 19+ event. For the sixth year in a row, we’re bringing together some of the city’s most prominent chefs and mixologists and the region’s best growers and producers for a fun night of B.C. wine and beer pairings,…
If you eat anywhere this weekend, make it CinCin as it’s the last weekend for their 25th Anniversary special commemorative menu. My friend Tess and I had an excellent and very tasty time trying this menu. I’d do it again in a flash and the price is a deal! It is a super romantic room too, so grab your partner and you’ll be in their good books forever. For the anniversary menu Chef Andrew Richardson mixes CinCin classics with contemporary twists and incorporates wood-fired dishes the spectacular Grillworks Infierno. The four-course anniversary menu will be featured only until Monday, October 5th and is only $79 per person…
October 17th, 2015 – Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver It’s one of the most coveted culinary seats at a table in the city, a stunning long table for 100 guests (the city’s longest single table) and one of the most uniquely elegant dining experiences of the year. An annual event hosted by Les Dames d’Escoffier, BC Chapter that honours a single great international chef, with the city’s top chefs preparing the multi course meal. The guest of honour this year, Chef Lynn Crawford, former Executive Chef Four Seasons Hotel Toronto and New York, Chef-Owner of Toronto’s Ruby Watchco, Star of Pitchin’…
Vancouver’s largest Volksfest returns for its succeeding year. Held under the Festzelte at Queen Elizabeth Plaza – Harvest Haus brings folklore from the 1st century to the Great White North. Combining modern fare with authentic European harvest traditions, gather your closest mates for the most gluttonous and gratifying weekends of the year! The crunch of fresh produce, crackle of the grill, the fizz of the pour, the bite of the chopping block and the clinking of glassware. Applause. Laughter. Conversation. Music. The sounds of autumn! PROST! LOCATION Located right downtown Vancouver on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza, the Harvest Haus Halle…
Last week Meinhardt’s opened a second location and as I was roaming the aisles, I spied those darn Avocados From Mexico! This time they were making their way into sushi rolls! This got me thinking about all the rolls I’ve had topped with or filled with this wonderful fruit and wondering how avocado got to be a big part of the North American sushi menus. I remember being told that Tojo had invented the California Roll in Vancouver when he moved from Japan and was trying to get Vancouverites more excited about sushi. He realized the seaweed and raw fish was a…
Slow Fish Dinner with the Chefs Table Society Lovers of seafood and social times are to mark their calendars, as the Chefs’ Table Society’s Slow Fish Canada Dinner returns at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) on September 27th, 2015. This annual event unites Vancouverites to gather and taste sustainable seafood in the most interactive way. Tickets, $89 + taxes and fees, can be purchased here. The evening starts with PICA culinary student-prepared canapés, and libations including BC wines and beer from and beer from Dogwood Organic Brewery. Next, attendees move through the school’s eight professional teaching kitchens to meet the visiting…
We’re heading to Salt Spring Island Apple Festival on Sunday October 4, 2015! So many apples, so little time, but take time to taste the apples along the way! Salt Spring Island was among the first area in BC to grow apples (1860) and now grows over 350 varieties organic apples. Home to the Salt Spring Island Organic Apple Co-op, Salt Spring Island is the Organic Gardening Capital of Canada. When: Sunday, Oct 4, 2015 Where: All over Salt Spring Island. Start at Fulford Hall on the Fulford Ganges Road (you can’t miss it). Theme: Let the KID inside you escape. Local…
