VanEatsBarb and Roland's guide to dining and cooking in VancouverSteakCamp at Brave Bull tonight - Vancouver then and Now- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Check out SteakCamp which is tonight at The Brave Bull at Clark and Hastings (join them if you wish), organized by Raul. However good or bad the food is, I love Rebecca's and others meta reflections on how we could be losing a certain Vancouver "essentialness" as neighbourhoods like Brave Bull's gentrify and change.http://www.vaneats.com/2008/06/23#a4341 Gurth Pretty on The Definitive Canadian Wine and Cheese Cookbook VIDEO- (Found June 24, 2008 ) More info: Whitecap.ca's official The Definitive Canadian Wine and Cheese Cookbook page and Gurth's website. This video was recorded live without editing at Salt in Gastown on October 18, 2007.http://www.vaneats.com/2007/10/19#a4327 Ken's Chinese Restaurant - First Visit- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Ken's Chinese Restaurant (1097 Kingsway, 604 873-6338) is a bright, cozy Hong Kong style eatery which means among many other yummy things Hong Kong-style Milk Tea and Hong Kong versions of "western food" (which I don't care for but the Hong Kongers seem to love; to each his own!) and lots of families of Hong Kong Chinese heritage enjoying cheap, cheerful and tasty meals.Last Saturday for dinner, took advantage of their $25 special: 14 HaineseHainese-like chicken (or roast duck, Jr. likes...http://www.vaneats.com/2007/10/28#a4328 Claire Clark on Indulge 100 Perfect Desserts- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I am quite fond of many many things British and look back at my time in London in the 90s happily. So I love chatting with British people like Claire Clark, pastry chef to the Queen and now Head Pastry Chef at The French Laundry (our most popular story) and author of of Indulge 100 Perfect Desserts (a big "Vielen Dank" to Amanda of Whitecap Books for arranging this!).Check out our videoblog below (original MP4 version for those who are "Flash challenged") as we discuss the secrets of baking,...http://www.vaneats.com/2007/10/31#a4329 Circle Farm Tour- (Found June 24, 2008 ) In the Lower Mainland we are fortunate to be surrounded by rich agricultural land that produces food for our area as well as across Canada. Circle Farm Tours highlight some of the great food producers in the Fraser River area. The tours are self-guided and focus on a small region such as Abbotsford, Langley, Mission.This past weekend I checked out the Agassiz-Harrison Mills Circle Farm Tour and made a few stops.The Back Porch: Pottery meets freshly roasted coffee. The coffee is roasted in small.http://circlefarmtour.com Progressive Dinner November 2007- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Roland and I live in a townhouse community with some great food lovers. A few years ago we started having progressive dinners. Tonight's theme was small plates. Heather and Andrew's (Spanish tapas):-sauteed prawns and scallops with roasted pumpkin puree and spicy sauce-Spanish beet salad-olive bread with balsamic vinegar and olive oil for dippingBarb and Roland's (local, seasonal):-roasted kabocha and pear soup with homemade cracker sticks-a "deconstructed" streudel filled with wild mushroom...http://www.vaneats.com/2007/11/03#a4332 Tableland - a film about Sustainable Food- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Michael Ableman, Michael Stadtlaender, Heidi Noble, Brent Petkau aka The Oysterman, Sinclair Philip: These are just a few of the people and personalities across North America who are building sustainable food systems and sustainable food is what Tableland (a film by Craig Noble featuring these people) is all about.I was lucky enough to see the screening on Sunday at The Ridge and was able to record the dialogue and Q&A with Chef Jeff Van Geest (9:16 5MB MP3 file for your iPod or MP3 player) of..http://www.vaneats.com/2007/12/03#a4334 Baking Bread- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I can't remember the last time I bought a loaf of "regular" bread. "Regular" bread meaning a loaf of whole wheat or multigrain sandwich bread. Over the last few months I've been experimenting with different whole wheat bread recipes and have come up with one that I'm happy with.This loaf is pretty basic: whole wheat and unbleached flours, yeast, butter, honey, water, salt. The variations are limitless: vary the proportion of whole wheat to unbleached flours, throw in other flour or grains,...http://www.vaneats.com/recipes/baking/wholewheatbread VanEats on Living Vancouver- (Found June 24, 2008 ) After a hectic week home from the holidays, today was my first chance to plug into Living Vancouver. I caught the Living to Eat segment and low and behold there's a link to VanEats' Baking Recipes! It's great for the show to support a local blog! For more dessert recipes, also check out our Dessert Recipes section.http://www.cbc.ca/livingvancouver/?page=segment&sid=6011 The Great Food Challenge- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I love a good food challenge. Not that food should be challenging. I just like to push myself a bit, think out of the box and try out new ingredients, cooking methods and flavours. We have been thrown the ultimate challenge. The Kid has undergone some preliminary allergy testing and we have to put him on a 2 week food elimination trial: -no shellfish-no wheat-no rice-no eggsNo shellfish, no problem. We're not huge shellfish eaters.No wheat. OK...No eggs. Fine.No rice. What! He's Asian! What's...http://www.vaneats.com/2008/01/16#a4336 |