Category: Food
Travel and Food Writing Class – Recipe for a Blueberry Coffee Cake
My very last assignment for my Travel and Food Writing course! (Actually, my last assignment that I’ll be working on is finishing my longer piece about my Competitours adventures!). This past ... Read More
Travel and Food Writing Class with UBC – España Restaurant Review
My latest professional/ personal development project: I am taking a Food and Travel Writing course with UBC’s Continuing Studies Program this Summer! Course description: If you’ve always drea... Read More
VIP Experience at EAT! Vancouver – Chocolate Class and Meeting Celebrity Chefs
Thanks to a local food photo competition put on by gastropostvan, I was able to have an incredibly cool experience at the Eat! Vancouver festival and share this with my friend Jen! This is Canada’s... Read More
French Food Revolution at the Dirty Apron Cooking School
(Original article appeared on my previous blog: my30before30.com) My new thing: taking newlywed friends to Vancouver’s Dirty Apron Cooking School! Glenda was the first friend I ever made while s... Read More
My Prize from Tourism Vancouver’s Photo Contest – Dinner at Fishworks
“I’ve heard about you! You get published for all your food photos!” These were VERY kind words (and incorrect ones!) from my colleagues wife when we first met a few months ... Read More
Better than Cinnabon Cinnamon Buns
The cinnabon has long been held as Eric’s gold-standard for junk-food consumption. That is, if he/we are going to give in to sugary temptation, it better be as delicious and as satisfying as the... Read More
Torie’s Cherry Chocolate Chunk Cookies (with toffee and oatmeal)
I have a go-to chewy chocolate chip recipe that I’ve used for over 10 years. Whenever I was feeling stressed out in University, I would bake! There’s something very therapeutic about beati... Read More
Vancouver’s Annual Hot Chocolate Festival Experience
These winter months of January and February in Vancouver are affectionately known as the Indulgence Season! Source – Tourism Vancouver! Well with the 17 day Dine-Out Vancouver Festival behind us... Read More
Home-Baked Goods – Momofuku Cornflake Crunch Cookies and French Pear Pastry
There have been a couple of home-baked items I’ve made over the past few months with the promise to share recipes afterwards…. I’m admittedly quite late with these, but here goes! Tw... Read More
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2015 – Part Two – Café Pacifica, Mahony & Sons and Minami
This is a continuation of my Annual Dine Out Festival presented by Tourism Vancouver series! Went to three restaurants offering $18, $28, and $38 set menus in the first week and then went to another ... Read More
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2015 – Part One – The Abbey, Chicha and Bistro Pastis
When January rolls around in Vancouver, I look forward to a couple of things – hitting up Whistler and the local North Shore mountains for some snowboarding and the Annual Dine Out Festival presente... Read More
The Dirty Apron Cooking School – Ocean Fling the Ultimate Seafood Class
(Original article appeared on my previous blog: my30before30.com) Back in the Summer as I was planning for my wedding in France, my good friend Rosine surprised me with a day out getting pampered at t... Read More