VanEats

I love panettone. All year I look forward to Christmas when some of my favourite stores like Santa Barbara and Bosa start stocking it. This past Christmas, however, I just didn't get my fix. After we returned from our holidays in Ontario, I still craved it. So I baked some of my own.

To follow up our previous item about Rebecca Blood linking to us, here are some more blogs about food that Rebecca found:

• The delightful Gohan Taberu about cooking in Tokyo complete with delicious sounding recipes and great anecdotes about her husband's cooking class and life in Japan
• f**kcorporategrocieres.net which apart from its silly name has some decent looking recipes and a great philosophy, eat cheap and local (in this case Chicago)

Seductions of Rice is an essential cookbook for every rice lover! Check out our review for more details.

Andrea's Date Nut Muffins look like just the thing to break in our new silicon bakeware form (a Pantec 12 muffin form) that we bought today.

Rebecca Blood of Rebecca's pocket, a famous and influential blog, and writer of the great blog essay weblogs: a history and perspective linked to us today! Thanks Rebecca!

As the unusual but very nice sunny, crisp and snowy days fade into the normal pattern of grey Vancouver rain, I start to dream about the Tuscan light and when I read articles like On the Fringes of Florence, Memorable Eating (found on the incomparable dangerousmeta site), I am once more back in Tuscany on our honeymoon and content!

Haggis is one of those foods I've always wanted to try but never got around to trying. Partially because I don't have any close friends who are Scottish that practise the custom but mostly because few of my friends are adventurous enough to go out and try it. In most cases, Robbie Burns day would come and go and I'd read about the haggis as an after thought.