Keep Cool in the Summer!

What do you do when it is burning hot outside and you are trying to keep your kids and yourself cool? Simple! You make your own popsicles! All you really need is popsicle molds of whatever kind you like. You can even make your own out of small yogurt containers. You can use a variety … Read more

Chicken Goat Cheese Roulade

Want to try chicken a new and different way? Make a chicken roulade with your favourite ingredients. We have chosen a goat cheese and herb chicken for this recipe, but you can put more or less anything from nuts, seeds, dried fruits, cheeses to spreads of different kinds in it. Ingredients: 1 chicken breast per … Read more

Strawberry, Rhubarb and Coconut Cake

This delicious summer cake is made extra good with fresh strawberries and rhubarb straight from the garden or the farmer’s market. Ingredients: 190 g (1 1/2 cup) flour 40 g (3/4 cup) sliced coconut, or shredded if you prefer 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar 1/4 teaspoon fine salt 225 g (1 cup) … Read more

Spinach and Mushroom Frittata

Summertime means easy access to fresh produce and this year we have our own kitchen garden with lots of veggies to use in our cooking. We have spinach and kale which are pretty easy to grow, as well as onions of various kinds, strawberries, peas, potatoes and a bunch of herbs and spices. This frittata … Read more

Eating in the dark

We just had an amazing and very different dining experience. You might have heard of the concept of dining in a pitch black restaurant where the servers are blind or vision impaired. There are several of those restaurants around the world and we have one in Vancouver as well. We had been debating if we … Read more