This summer, I’ve been taking gluten-free baking to the Mayfair Market, and aside from (1) selling lots of baked goods and (2) meeting the people who need gluten-free baking, one of the great things about the markets is meeting and talking with some of the other vendors.
There’s been a tamale cart at most of the Wednesday [...]
Last weekend, Kris Constable organized an Ideas conference in Victoria. 2 days, 50 talks, each 10 minutes long. There was no restriction on topics, so they ranged from discussions about optimal housing arrangements, to the benefits of bio-diesel cooperatives, to how technology could aid lymphodema patients! (check out www.ideawave.ca for the deets). I gave a short [...]
So they tweeps have spoken, with a narrow margin voting in favour of a food-related post!
Tonight’s post is another easy dinner, that you can throw together with mostly on-hand pantry items (depending on your pantry), but can also be modified to meet whatever flavour profile you’re hankering for, or adapt to whatever seafood you have available.
These [...]
I sense a theme coming on — Easy Sunday dinners!
We’ve had dreadful weather lately, and braving it out on the barbeque in the rain and the wind, hoping that summer would magically appear! Well yesterday, the sun was out, and everyone rushed out in shorts and tank tops, madly pursuing summer activities, and I was thinking [...]
Last night we had crab cakes for dinner, and I put up a quick pic of a lone crab cake (taken after we had scarfed down a few with side dish for dinner!), so I thought I would post the basic recipe I use.
Crab cakes are a bit of an indulgence, given the price of fresh [...]
