VanEats

Lemon meringue is the new colour of our living room and kitchen! As a true victim of lemon mania, I like all things lemon like the lemon soup and potatoes at Ouzeri restaurant. Check out our mini-review for more details!

Barb's Herb Roasted Chicken, like Adobo, Gulay and Trenette with Pesto are easy to cook comfort foods which always cheer me up.

I just spent the long weekend painting our place a sunny lemon yellow (the paint was actually called "lemon meringue"!). So I've got lemon on my mind. Coincidentally, this month's Gourmet (table of contents only, articles not available online yet!) features an article on lemon desserts.

Next up in our series of recently downloaded photos is a photo of the twice baked almond croissants that Barb made on April 8th.

Here's a picture of Barb's Kimchi Soup as featured back in March.

I finally downloaded all the photos from my digital camera tonight and discovered this photo of Barb's Jap Chae from way back in February!

One of my rules of thumb is that the more expensive the kitchen, the less it's actually cooked in. Most of the really good cooks that I know cook in very modest kitchens. Critics call books like La Varenne Pratique, "gastro-porn", I call articles like Kitchens of the Rich and Famous "cucina-porn" :-)However looking at articles like this is fun!

The 12th Annual Restaurant Awards from Vancouver Magazine are out.

It's always interesting to see how the opinions of professional critics (who get paid to go to a restaurant more than once unlike us who do it for the love of food for nada!) compare with ours. It's a thrill akin to seeing if your Oscar picks match the academy's.

This is the main course that we served for brunch last Sunday. This strata is a great make ahead dish that requires very little time to prepare, looks impressive and tastes great!

You can use different combinations of meat, cooked vegetables and cheese in this dish or omit the meat entirely. I like this with sauteed onion, red peppers, mushrooms, leftover chicken and smoked gouda.