Home-cooking: Simple Boiled Spot Prawn

Last Saturday was the 7th annual Spot Prawn Festival held at False Creek Fisherman’s Wharf near Granville Island.  It starts at 12pm and PS and I arrived at 1pm. The lineups were INSANELY LONG when we arrived.  Good thing we didn’t pre-purchase tickets either for the Prawn boil, cuz neither of us had the patience [...]

Toasted Marshmallow Milkshake a la Joy the Baker

We tackled another re-creation taken from the wonderful Joy the Baker.  Obviously when you decide to make this you forgo any sense of healthy eating.  So don’t even bother with it. This is one richly rich, fatty, drink.  Seriously.  We thought this would make a wonderful party drink, obviously not something to whip up on [...]

Avocado Pound Cake a la Joy the Baker

Over the weekend I was finally able to meet up with J to bake the Avocado Pound Cake from a recipe J found from Joy the Baker‘s blog.  When he brought up the recipe/idea, I immediately said YES as I am a big, BIG fan of avocado.  I also invited G along for the ride [...]

Attempts at Cooking Series: Steamed Clams in Chinese Wine

Boyfriend and I chose to splurge on a home-cooked dinner one night.  We both love shellfish, and they seem easy enough to prepare, so that’s what we had. Besides clams I really didn’t want to have to buy anything extra, but most of the recipes online call for dry white wine, which we don’t have.  [...]

President’s Choice Korma Sauce

This would be the first post ever of us doing some home cooking!! Mind you not entirely from scratch but it’s the closest to home cooking we’ve done ever. We like Indian food. I especially enjoy Korma. A couple years ago we found that Superstore’s President’s Choice has come out with a series of Indian [...]