I’ve always got a weakness for chicken tenders… I’m going to try this recipe and get back to you guys on how it tastes!
Asparagus phyllo bundles with brie and thyme: recipe here
Raspberry Latte Tip
Just made myself a cup of Nabob Skinny Latte on my Tassimo.
Not sure if I mentioned that I picked up a small bottle of Lorann Raspberry flavoring oil at The Gourmet Warehouse, but I just added a TINY drop of it in my coffee..
YUM! There’s no need for those fancy syrup when you have a bottle of food flavoring at home :)
Honeydew Mint Ice Pops | hungrygirlporvida.com
Nice and refreshing for the up coming summer months!
Oh this is an amazing idea… a Chocolate Bar Cake! You can find the Recipe here.
Rosemary Rocksalt
Growing up in Vancouver in the 90s, you might remember a little bagel place called the Bagel Street Cafe, and I remember one of my elementary school classmate’s family owning one of the few in Van City. For some reason or another, they started dropping like flies (or if you’d prefer, closing down one by one), and disappearing from the city.
I have a love hate relationship with bagels, mostly because once I have 1 or 2, I’ll be addicted for a few weeks. Once upon a time, I’ve gone as far as having 3 bagel with cream cheese a day - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I love bagels, but i hate that I get addicted to them.
Fast-forward to February, with the help of Twitter, I discovered Rosemary Rocksalt. I started following them thinking that it’s a place I can buy, well, rosemary flavored rock salt. It wasn’t till I checked their site out that I learned they’re a bagel shop, opening shortly, on the North Shore on 17th and Lonsdale. While following them, I got a DM stating that since I’m one of their first 1000 followers, I’ve earned a bagel sandwich when they open! Unfortunately, they were still renovating and won’t be opening till Spring (probably a good thing for me since I frequent the North Shore quite a bit).
About a month ago, they sent me a coupon code to redeem my bagel sandwich. All I can think of is - YES! THEY ARE OPENED!
I finally paid them a visit last week during my lunch break from work and THEY WERE BUSY!
I asked the girl behind the counter which of their 5-7 *I think i was 5-7) sandwich she’d suggest for my freebie and she suggested the Montreal Smoke Meat or their Lox & Cream Cheese. Since I’ve had Montreal Smoke Meat before, I thought I’d give their Lox and Cream Cheese a try.
Next thing is the choice of bagel, and well Rosemary Rock Salt of course, how can you not try their namesake bagel? Boy am I glad I picked it. I think that alone with some plain cream cheese would be amazing! The Lox & Cream Cheese goes for $7ish and I grabbed a tea (whole leaf Jasmine that smelt amazing) to go with the sammy.
And without further adieu… Oh there are capers in the middle, of all those smoke salmon!
I will definitely swing by again in the next little while and probably find myself a Bagel Anonymous to go to as well.
Oh and side note to those coffee lovers out there, they serve 49th Parallel coffee at Rosemary Rock Salt!!! I heard their coffee’s amazing from my coffee obsessed uncle in Ontario!
Visit Rosemary Rock Salt! Follow them on Twitter @RoseRocksalt
Chilli & Garlic Prawn Pizza with Zucchini & Mozza
This is what happens when I’m hungry - I took 1 picture of my dinner. I saw this recipe on Pinterest a while back and finally made it. You can find the original recipe here, but as usual, here are my tweaks.
Here is what the recipe calls for (and here are my tweaks..the ingredients are good for 2 medium sized pizza)
- pizza bases either ready made or you could try the Jamie Oliver pizza dough recipe (I used ready made President’s Choice Blue Menu Multi Grain thin crust))
- tomato puree (Just a jar of pizza sauce found in the Pasta sauce isle)
- 250gm mozzarella ball (I used Kraft’s shreaded pizza mozzarella, used the whole bag for both pizzas)
- cream to cover the ball and soak (about 125ml) (I omited this since I used the shreaded pizza mozzarella)
- zucchini, sliced thinly with a potato peeler and then shredded - 3 per small pizza (I misread the recipe and bought 1 Zucchini only and used a potato peeler to slice and shred)
- 6 – 8 prawns per pizza ( I bought a package of frozen whole prawns, defrosted it and shelled it)
- 1 clove of garlic and a small green chilli per pizza (the green chilli was wayyyy too spicy for me, so I just sprinkled some chili flakes)
- olive oil
- juice from half a lemon
- (I had some frozen calamari in the freezer from my Cioppino days)
This pizza was delicious! Don’t over sauce the pizza when you sauce it. I wonder if the lack of Zucchini made this more of a seafood pizza than a Zucchini pizza. I loved it, my boyfriend loved it, and his mom loved it too.
I wish I took more picture, with my actual camera instead of the camera off my Blackberry Torch. This picture really doesn’t do it justice, I guess you’ll have to see the pro shots from the original recipe’s page.
Om nom nom!
Banana-Coconut Bread: Whole wheat flour and coconut milk make a healthy base for this tasty treat. via bhgfood
A Macaron Recipe with tips on how to get that perfect bite!
I can’t not reblog this since I might need it in a few weeks!
