Suanne and Ben’s Food and Travel Adventures from Vancouver, BC
11
Apr
I think this one looks better — almost seem perfect, don’t you think?
Two weeks ago I blogged about making the Sally Lunn muffins from an idea I gotten from Rosa’s blog. That didn’t turn out OK and so I tried again this weekend with a few new tips from Rosa. This time they turned out pretty good — no more burnt sides.
10
Apr
We made our way across the border today into Washington state and visited the Tulip Festival at the Skagit Valley. Skagit Valley has been hosting the Tulip Festival every April for the past 23 years and is about 50 miles from the Canada-US border. Here are some of my favourite shots - hope you enjoy it.
10
Apr
For long timers in Vancouver, Pink Pearl is perhaps the most well known dim sum restaurants. It’s also one of the first upscale dim sum places in Vancouver. Located in East Hastings between Main and Commercial, Pink Pearl had over the years been somewhat surplanted by newer and fancier dim sum restaurants located in Richmond and Burnaby. Opened in 1981, before the start of big scale inflow of newcomers from Asia, this restaurant must have been one of the top restaurants in it’s early years. This is evident from the fact that they have won numerous best chinese restaurant award in the 1990’s.
9
Apr
OK, here is my second attempt in making Egg Florentine. I has earlier tried making it but it turned out looking really funny. I rechecked the recipe and I think what I did wrong was the fact I overcooked the eggs into hard-boiled ones. So, for this time I use one of those plastic thingy that I imported all the way from Malaysia which makes perfect soft-bolied eggs.
8
Apr
For this week’s cooking club, Tammi also showed us how to make a Japanese Cabbage Pancake. This seems like a simplified version of Okonomiyaki that Yumiko made. Yumiko’s Okonomiyaki was awesome and had a lot more ingredients. Tammi uses prawns and cabbage — a simpler version but much more quicker to make.
7
Apr
Spring is my favourite season. After the drab and cold winter, it’s always great to see colours springing up everywhere. This is certainly a great time to whisk out the camera and do some photography. Here are some pictures I took just outside our home this afternoon. Enjoy!
6
Apr
Hersheys is the world’s largest chocolate manufacturer. This is simple to remember — that Hershey’s is made by a company called Hersheys which is located in the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania by a man called Milton Hershey. Remember this because I am going to give you all a quiz on this at the end of this blog, you hear? :-)
5
Apr
Today, Tammi showed us (the Richmond Community Kitchen Cooking Club) how to make Berry Bread. She made 2 types of Berry Bread, mixed berry (frozen) and strawberry (fresh). She used the same batter recipe for both the bread.
Here is the fresh strawberries bread.
4
Apr
One of our favourite is the Pizza Bread. We bought out Pizza Bread from Bun Master although Suanne could have just as easily made it ourselves. Refer to this previous blog on Sesame Seed Bagels for more about Bun Master, It goes very well with a mug of hot coffee.
3
Apr
Back in the days where I grew up in Malaysia, sweet potato are basically eaten by poor people. I recall my parents telling that during the second world war, people survived on these stuff because it was easy to grow. In Canada, sweet potatoes are referred to as yams.
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