VanEats

This recipe for Caramel French Toast from the Blue Max Inn in Maryland, USA sounds absolutely decadent! (Found via Backup Brain)

As mentioned yesterday, we asked our guests to bring non-perishable food donations to our open house. We received over 90 items! The food will be given to the Surrey Memorial Hospital Youth Clinic and the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

Thank you for your generosity. Although we still have a long way until we can eradicate hunger, donations to the Food Bank help to keep individuals and families from being hungry in these difficult times.

My apologies to the people at Foo's Ho Ho restaurant in Chinatown. On December 12, I mistakenly called their restaurant Foo's Hoo Hoo. This is wrong! The correct name is Foo's Ho Ho,. I have corrected the December 12th item.

For our annual Winter Warm-up open house and food drive for the Food Bank, I usually serve Italian sandwiches on large bread rings from Calabria Bakery. When we picked up the bread rings, I noticed that they also sell pizza dough. I bought some, since I was planning to make pizza for the party and the time saving factor was attractive.

At the Winter Market today, we picked up some excellent cream cheese with basil from Mountain Meadows. It's made from sheep's milk, tastes great and has less fat then cream cheese from cow's milk. It's not too late to check this and other great food and non food items at the Winter Market, since it is open tomorrow Sunday December 15th from 10a.m. until 5p.m. An excellent place to pick up Christmas gifts!

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The Venus Cafe is one of the many cafes (like the Teatriz Cafe) that caters to the large Cantonese speaking population in Richmond.

No need to worry if you can't speak Cantonese! I don't (although I am learning since Barb's parents are from Hong Hong) and have no problems there!

The room is colourfully decorated and inviting. I have only had lunch there.

UPDATE: December 15. This restaurant is called Foo's Ho Ho NOT Foo's Hoo Hoo as I originally wrote on December 12th! My apologies. I have corrected the rest of this story.

I had lunch today with Larry Wong, a Chinatown insider, at Foo's Hoo HooFoo's Ho Ho at 102 East Pender Street.

I try not to eat fast food. Not just because it is bad for the environment, bad for your health due to unsanitary food handling practises as documented in Fast Food Nation and many other sources, and is a low wage industry but mostly because it doesn't taste or feel like real food.

So when I first encountered The Slow Food movement in Italy, it was a revelation.