A few years ago a friend of mine sent me a stock photo request for a cortado coffee. I had no idea what one was. As it turns out, it’s a Spanish coffee, where the milk ‘cuts’ the espresso. So a 50-50 mix of coffee and espresso. I had never heard of one before. Apparently […]
I love fresh oysters and I have no idea why. The thought of them really isn’t particularly exciting, really. And yet, somehow, they are amazing. My oyster journey started more than 20 years ago, when I was having a bite to eat with a friend of mine. He is older than I, and I trust […]
I was asked by one of the utilities here in British Columbia to take a few photos of some of their properties. I made a fairly large loop (about 600km) and ended up driving down the Fraser Canyon on my homeward leg. My grandparents lived in Salmon Arm, BC and we would regularly drive the […]
I’ll bite: How is it that water tastes better in a restaurant? I went for lunch with an old friend today. We went to Chambar, a downtown restaurant. It was a little strange, with everyone in masks but the food was pretty darn good (more on that later). To start the meal, our server asked […]
A neighbour of ours, before he started a micro-brewery, farmed a piece of land near Vancouver. His sister, as I recall, was in charge of the garlic, and one day he dropped a bag of scapes off for me. It was rather kind – he also dropped off a piece of horseradish root a while […]
June is always rainy in Vancouver. Well, not always but often enough so I can say it always rains in June. It isn’t currently raining, but it will, soon. The weather for the rest of the week is looking pretty good, thankfully. It’s about this time of year (and again in Mid-December) when things kinda […]
Here is how this worked – I pulled out a pan to fry up some spuds that I had cooked the night before. I figured I could give them a bit of heat in some butter, crisp them up. You know, like dinner hashbrowns or something like that. Dinnertime was looming and I had leftovers […]
Not going to dignify my pizza dough failure with a photo. Actually, it isn’t a failure… yet. But still no photo. I thought it had this figured out. Appropriate amounts of water, flour yeast, sugar, oil, elbow grease… Still flummoxed about yeast, though. This time I used instant yeast as opposed to traditional yeast, and […]
My wife has a blue recipe book. In it are all her family recipes – well, not all of them, but a bunch of them, including several of her mom’s family recipes. Many are written out by hand. Some in my wife’s hand; some in my sister-in-law’s hand; some in my mother-in-law’s lovely writing. The […]
I’ll be brief. Eggs. Toast. Salt. Pepper. Breakfast. And a little background… Empires have been torn apart over the appropriate way to boil an egg. Do you put the egg in cold water and bring it to the boil? Or drop it into boiling water? 3 minutes? 7 minutes? Both techniques have pros and cons […]