It seems as though it may finally be spring in Vancouver. Or, if it isn’t and we have another hailstorm (as happened yesterday), I still feel a desperate need to invent things that will make it feel like spring. Like that bank of fluffy clouds, lined up in a perfect row across the skyline, as though someone has pushed a ruler underneath their bottoms. So white and happy, and not full of rain. [Read more…]
Mmm, I love yuzu.
And Matcha.
And when you put them together, they explode in your mouth in a burst of tart and sour goodness.
A few weeks ago, while researching (I love doing research for this blog) local chocolatier’s offerings for the Valentine’s Day post, my partner and I stumbled upon Beta 5 chocolates, in the industrial area of East Vancouver.
The brainchild of Adam Chandler and Jessica Rosinski, Beta 5 Chocolates takes its name from the stable crystals which form when chocolate is properly tempered, to create the smooth, glossy, snappy look and feel characteristic to fine chocolate. [Read more…]
I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge, this week.
Flush with the (relative) success of enrobing some pretty nice looking cubes of ganache, topped with gold transfer sheets, and upon presenting these bonbons to my grateful students, who could not quite believe I had actually made them, I thought I would notch it up a bit, this week.
I am venturing outside the relative safety of the ganache cube. In mathematical terms, I am going off the grid. [Read more…]
Mmmmm. My whole house smells like a chocolate coated deep fat fryer, but it has been worth it.
I made salmon cat treats at the beginning of this week, as my beloved partner was across the country, 4000 odd kilometres away in La Belle Province (Quebec). He needed to be that far away for me to attempt this odd culinary feat, as the smell of salmon makes him nauseated. [Read more…]
Big smiles broke out on my family’s faces when I mentioned I was going to have a go at making some of this.
Bacon and chocolate are two of their favorite taste sensations and as we had just finished listening to a radio interview with a woman who promotes eating bugs as part of a sustainable and protein-rich diet, I guess it is not surprising this combination raised nary an eyebrow.
Hmm. Chocolate bugs. Yep. Think I’ll save that one for another post. [Read more…]