Asia Market

Submitted by Barb on Sun, 01/20/2002 - 22:22

When I worked in the Downtown Eastside, I often visited the Asia Market to marvel at their extensive range of exotic and authentic ingredients from all over Southeast Asia. They carry a variety of often hard to find condiments, fruit and other dry goods from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Pane e Formaggio

Submitted by Barb on Sat, 01/19/2002 - 17:47

This past week, Roland and I discovered that, David, one of our building neighbours, has recently opened a bakery/deli called Pane e Formaggio. As the name indicates, the store specializes in artisan breads and fine cheeses.

Located on a bustling strip of west Broadway, just east of Blanca, the shop is a beautiful place to drop by for caffe, panini and some deli goodies and bread to go.

On our visit we shared a panini filled with chopped black olives, fontina, salami and hard cooked egg. We also picked up a loaf of Tuscan (our favourite) bread that we haven't tried yet.

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Kerrie's Zyliss Chopper Comments

Submitted by Roland on Fri, 01/18/2002 - 23:55

Our friends, Kerrie and Toni, who gave us the Zyliss Chopper we mentioned previously, emailed us the following comments:
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Twelve Steps to Carefree Cooking

Submitted by Roland on Thu, 01/17/2002 - 23:31

Dee Hobsbawn-Smith's Twelve steps to carefree cooking are right on! Especially the ones about buying the best, trusting your taste buds and thinking! Check it out!

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Gung Haggis Fat Choy

Submitted by Roland on Wed, 01/16/2002 - 23:11

Our friend, Walter, sent us an email about an interesting upcoming fusion Gung Haggis Fat Choy / A Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner at Spicy Court, one of our favourite Chinese restaurants.

Here's an excerpt from the email. All the links except the last one (to the review of last year's event) were added by myself.
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January 27th, Sunday, 5pm
Spicy Court Chinese Restaurant, 5638 Cambie St. Vancouver.

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Bosa & Company on Victoria Drive

Submitted by Roland on Tue, 01/15/2002 - 23:58

Vancouver has alot of great Italian shops. One of our favourites is Bosa on Victoria Drive.

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Bosa & Co.

Submitted by Roland on Tue, 01/15/2002 - 23:41

Bosa & Company is one of our favourite places to shop for Italian foods. They have everything for the Italian kitchen.

This includes spices, meats, cheeses, olives, olive oils, Italian cooking gadgets, breads, pasta, etc. And all are reasonably priced (a little cheaper than the shops on Commercial Drive I find).

It is very crowded with Italians and lovers of Italian food on the weekends so avoid weekend prime time if you can since the store is not that big!

Zyliss Transparent Comfort Food Chopper

Submitted by Roland on Mon, 01/14/2002 - 22:59

For Christmas, Kerrie and Toni gave us (thanks!) the Zyliss Transparent Comfort Food Chopper (warning, the preceding is a commercial link since I couldn't find this on either the Swiss or American Zyliss sites).

I am normally leery of these types of gadgets but this one looks like it may be good for onions, tomatoes and spices. We'll try it out and let you know. It looks cool nonetheless.

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Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques

Submitted by Barb on Sun, 01/13/2002 - 22:55

During the holidays, Roland bought us a copy of Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques. I have always admired Pépin's cooking style and skills.

I am amazed by the hundreds of techniques explained and illustrated in this book. It inspires me to "relearn" some of my usable but poor techniques and to try out new ones.

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Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques

Submitted by Barb on Sun, 01/13/2002 - 22:19

Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques is highly recommended for anyone who cooks western style food. The 830 page volume combines two of Pépin's earlier books, La Technique and La Méthode.

Although many of the techniques are based on French cooking, most of them are good basic skills that will help any cook. The book begins with a a chapter on 70 basic skills. It then covers techniques and recipes for several food categories such as fish and seafood, poultry and pastry.

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