VanEats

At today's Nat Bailey Farmers' Market, Barb and I bought some delightful Nuclear Nectar from Oddball Organics (604 514-9277, Langley store featuring this and other products made with ingredients from their organic farm opening soon!) for $10.

Nuclear Nectar is a wonderfully hot AND sweet organic concoction made up cayenne, habanero, honey, garlic, lemon juice and apple cider vinegar.

I am not religious, but I love the Real Live Preacher's story about Tamales. Check it!

Ron James from San Diego, suggested we add a link to his new blog, The Hungry I, to our Food Weblogs directory. Done!

And it looks like his blog has got off to a fine start. Check it out! And if you have a food blog that's not in our directory, please feel free to suggest a link.

Check out Alec Saunders In Vino Veritas, a blog about wine. He's based in Ottawa but wine is universal!

To celebrate the arrival of our new Weber barbeque, we grilled up a Vietnamese style meal. One of our bbq items was lemongrass chicken. I was looking for the flavour similar to the lemongrass chicken dishes that we eat at local Vietnamese restaurants which is slightly different from our previously posted lemongrass pork (or chicken) recipe.

Craig MacPherson emailed us about his restaurant in Coquitlam, Craig's Cafe & Tapas Bar (1046A Austin Avenue Coquitlam, 604 936-4141): "We have been winning awards for our breakfasts and lunches for the past 4 years and have recently opened at night as a Tapas Bar. " It sounds great.

Mexico Sabroso (440 West Hastings, 604 688 7426) serves good honest, inexpensive Mexican food in an informal setting.

My friend, David, and I tried their lunch today. I had four tacos for $7 (soft shell mmmm!): al pastor (pork in a red spice sauce), birria (lamb), lenua (tongue) and pollo asado (roast chicken).

My favourite was the pork in a red spice sauce.

Saab Ken has written another review (thanks!). Check out his Foundation Lounge Mini-Review.