VanEats

For a New Year's resolution, many people have vowed to eat a more healthy diet, including more vegetables. Here's a delicious way of getting a variety of veggies into your diet! You can use whatever combination of vegetables you like in this Malaysian style curry. To complete the meal, serve the curry over rice and serve some fresh fruit for dessert.

For Shaun's birthday party on Saturday night, we bought a St. Honoré Cake.

For those of you who don't know what a St. Honoré cake is, it is a delightful cream puff cake with a filling of chantilly cream or chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian Meringue and flavoured with rum, coffee or kirsh) topped with vanilla cream and chocolate cream. There are many variations of this traditional Italian cake; here is a recipe from rec.food.recipes.

If you need a Korean food fix and you are in Burnaby or close to the border, then Da Rae Korean Restaurant is the place to be!

The Creole and Cajun Recipe page is chock full of excellent info about cajun cooking and classic recipes like crawfish étouffée, gumbo, jambalaya, etc..

Feeling like doing some baking but still feeling guilty about overindulging during the holidays? Then here's a great recipe you can whip up for your favourite canine buddy!

These crunchy dog biscuits are named after my dog, Leroy (who incidentally did not help in the development of the recipe!). They keep for a long time in an airtight container, but they won't last long if you've got a moochy hound like Leroy around!

The buzz about Ouest on South Granville , which opened late in 2000, makes me want to eat there! From Vancouver magazine: "Expect the unusual from David Hawksworth.

www.horsdoeuvres.com has you guessed it, horsdoeuvres! This site which, Terresa, one of our members and friends pointed out, has lots of excellent links to horsdoeuvres sites.

For example, New Orleans Style Appetizers or seafood appetizers or appetizers from Food and Wine Magazine. The list is short but comprehensive. Thanks Teresa!