Category: Extreme Foodie
Cooking in Season
How to Freeze Summer Fresh Berries
A quick tip on how to best freeze the summer bounty of fresh berries: freeze on a parchment-lined tray in a single layer until firm, and then pour into a zipper-lock bag, label, and freeze.
Cooking in Season
Tips for Strawberry Picking
Getting the best strawberry is not simply a matter of going to a U-pick. You must also know where to pick and how to pick. Let me show you.
Cooking in Season
The Wild Salmon Taste-Off: Red Spring vs White Spring
This evening, our family had a taste-test for dinner. And it all started because of the new guy at …
My Life in Food
Defending Our Backyard
Defening our Backyard is a fabulous food festival and fundraiser for local farmers (wow, say that 5 times fast). It takes place on Vancouver Island at the end of May every year.
General
Because I want gold in 2010
Chef Heidi Fink wants to win the Best Cooking Classes in the City for the second year running. Let’s help her win gold in 2010!
My Life in Food
Fun With Tiny Eggs
For all my knowledge about quail egg use in Asian cooking, I did not really know the egg of the quail. In honour of Eggy Weekend (excuse me, Easter weekend), I decided to delve into a quail-egg kitchen experiment. But from the moment my boys saw those eggs, it was game over for serious kitchen experimentation, and game on for fun with tiny eggs.
My Life in Food
Ode to my friend T.K. (who out-cheffed me)
T.K., you are one of those really energetic people. A do-er. The kind of person who cycles 30 minutes to and …
General
Cooking With Tea
This is almost the strangest thing I do – I cook with tea. Well, to be honest, I …
Extreme Foodie
FEATURE INGREDIENT: a very special seaweed
Inspired by a question I received today via email, I have chosen to feature a decidedly un-glamourous ingredient: …
Digital Kitchen/BBQ Thermometer with Magnet and Clock Timer
Asian Ingredients: A Guide
