Crispy Red Bean Cake
on Mar 12, 2009 in 2009 Cakes Dessert Cake Community Kitchen Recipe Red Bean While Minoo’s Salmon and Potato Chowder is in the making, Heidi showed us how to make a Taiwanese Crispy Red Bean Cake.  We had to have both the demonstrations going at the same time as it takes time for both to be ready in the 2 hours of the...

Salmon and Potato Chowder
on Mar 11, 2009 in 2009 Seafood Soup Community Kitchen Potato Recipe Salmon Minoo shared this Salmon and Potato Chowder recipe in the Gilmore Park Church Community Kitchen.  She also shared the following soup tips. homemade stock can be freeze in small batches for convenient use later look for low sodium stock if you are o...

Burgers Etc on Hastings, Burnaby
on Mar 10, 2009 in Fast Food Burger Burnaby Restaurant Review At work, I report to someone whose base is in Atlanta.  I don’t see my boss very often.  Maybe once every quarter. Last month, he told me he’s coming over to Vancouver and did not state his agenda for the visit.  Some of us were uneasy...

Pearl Castle on Sexsmith, Richmond
on Mar 9, 2009 in Taiwanese Bubble Tea Restaurant Review Richmond Ever since we started going to and blogging about Bubble Tea places, we see a name that keeps popping up on comments from our readers.  The name is Pearl Castle.  I guess lots of people likes Pearl Castle and after our visit, we realize the reason...

Little Ongpin on No 5 and Cambie in Richmond
on Mar 8, 2009 in Filipino Restaurant Review Richmond A few weeks ago, Rey sent us an email introducing himself to us as an advocate for the Filipino community.  Rey works with a Filipino foundation (the Ugnayan Foundation) whose goal is in promoting the Filipino culture through raising awareness and F...

Istanbul Topkapi on No. 3 Rd, Richmond
on Mar 7, 2009 in Others Restaurant Review Richmond Turkish Istanbul Topkapi is a new Turkish restaurant which located across Richmond Centre.  It has opened for about 2 months.  Nanzaro told me that the food smelt good while he was waiting at a bus stop right in front of the restaurant.  Polly and I decid...

Pork Pancake
on Mar 6, 2009 in 2009 Pancake Pork Community Kitchen Recipe While Lucy still have time a couple of weeks before her pharmacy course starts in the middle of March, we are fortunate to have her to show us how to make Pork Pancake.  She brought some of these Pork Pancake to the Gilmore Park Church Community Kit...

Brown Sugar Baked Apples
on Mar 5, 2009 in 2009 Dessert Apple Community Kitchen Recipe For dessert, Frank and Christina made this Brown Sugar Baked Apples for the South Arm Cooking Club for seniors.  This recipe is adapted from Bon Appetit and it serves 8.  We used Gala apple for this recipe. For this recipe, we’ll need apples...

Grandma’s Butter Dips
on Mar 4, 2009 in 2009 Quick Bread Biscuit Community Kitchen Recipe June Wasnick shared this biscuit recipe in the South Arm Cooking Club for seniors.  Biscuit is a great compliment with soup, so it goes well with the Tomato Soup Chowder.  June made this Butter Dips with Paul’s help.  This is June’s gr...

Free Easy Recipes
on Mar 3, 2009 in Non-Food Sponsored THIS IS A PAID REVIEW: Ben is a picky eater, despite him always declaring that he is not. He is. He definitely is. So is Arkensen. So is Nanzaro … they are ALL picky eaters. Because of this alone, cooking meals for them is such a difficult thi...