June 22, 2004
Summer Sipping
Brad Stanton of Blue Water Cafe, and Jay Jones of West Restaurant are two special mixologists. They're on their way to New Zealand to compete in the World Cup of Cocktails. Here are their summertime cocktail recipes. BC Raspberries, used in Brad's recipe, are in season right now, early for 2004, and to get more info please visit: www.bcraspberries.com
Recipes:
June 15, 2004
Sustainable Seafood
A Citizen's Guide to Seafood. The Sierra Club has come out with a pocket guide to sustainable seafood choices.
To check out the Citizen's Guide to Seafood, or even download it online, go to the Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter's website at www.sierraclub.ca/bc
The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California also offers a download of a sustainable seafood guide called Seafood Watch, Choices for Healthy Oceans. You can find it here: http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
June 10, 2004
Live from Van Dusen
Early Edition Host Rick Cluff and I did a cooking demo at the Van Dusen Garden Show's Gourmet Gallery. Here are the recipes we did for the folks in the audience:
One of the recipes Rick and I made calls for fresh Fraser Valley Strawberries. You can find out more about them at www.bcstrawberries.com And if you'd like to keep the flavour of strawberries on your plate year-round, then there is plenty of advice for preserving strawberries on the Bernardin canning website, www.homecanning.com/can.