Tasting Plates Vancouver Summer Edition!

Alright. I'm passing on an invite I got for Tasting Plates Vancouver, the Summer Edition! It's going

Pizza Hut’s Hot Dog Stuffed Crust

This just in… well I read about it this morning, but finally have time to post about it. Pizza

 

Top Chef Canada: S2E2 – BBQ Chicken with Apple Slaw

March 21, 2012 in Entertainment, Food, TV Shows

The wining dish was Elizabeth’s BBQ Chicken with Apple Slaw….

Picture from Food Network Canada: Top to bottom: Salmon with Potato Salad, Fish Tacos, & BBQ Chicken w/ Apple Slaw

 

 

APPLE SLAW!

What a great refreshing idea! I might have to try that this summer!

 

They Draw & Cook Kraft’s $7000 Illustrated Recipe Contest

March 15, 2012 in Cooking, Food, Recipes

Krafts wants people to “make something amazing” and this is what they came up with!!!  They Draw & Cook are Recipes Illustrated by Artists from Around the World.  And these are on the site for your personal use and sharing too! You also have the option of printing these AMAZING pieces of art out. Maybe frame a few?!

 

Just like cooking…which I firmly believe is a form of art.

Here are a few of my favourites.

Sweet Bacon by Laura Mayes

Pasta Spa by Evan Thomas

Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins by Or Livneh

3-Ingredient Nutella Cookies

February 13, 2012 in Cooking, Food, Recipes

Picture from Tasty Kitchen

Saw this on Tasty Kitchen!!!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 cup Nutella
  • 1  Egg

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF.

Mix all ingredients together in a stand mixer. Place 1-inch balls of dough on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350ºF for 8–10 minutes.

The cookies will spread a lot and be very thin. Let cool for a minute or so then remove with a spatula. Cool on wire racks.

How to Poach Eggs in the Microwave

February 7, 2012 in Breakfast, Cooking

So Foodess has done it again… Poach Eggs in a Microwave!!!!

Photo courtesy of Foodess.com

 

If this is how it looks out of the water…I’m sure to try it for a quickie breakfast in the morning!

How to Poach Eggs in the Microwave | Foodess.com.

A Quote from Barack Obama

January 26, 2012 in Chewy's Thoughts

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”