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It has been a while since my last book giveaway. Are you ready? Quinoa is one of my favourite foods, it is healthy and very versatile. Since quinoa is not exactly a grain, but rather a seed, it can be used in many cooking applications. It can be easily used in appetizers, smoothies, salads, main dishes, read more »
Bread is one of my favourite things to make at home. Though I usually buy bread, homemade just taste different. The smell and taste are amazing. As I was searching for a good sandwich loaf recipe online, I came across this recipe, Whole Wheat Loaf with Oats and Pecans from the Kitchn (cookbook recipe from read more »
Italian cuisine is one of my favourites, I love the flavours and ingredient combinations. I can cook pasta…and that’s about it. It is time to try something else other than pasta. To the cookbooks! Unless I have a lot of time, I am always looking for recipes that require simple ingredients and instructions, that way read more »
2012 has been a BIG year for Yummy Workshop. Although the blog is only a bit older than a year, we feel like we have accomplished a great deal. We did our first cookbook review + cookbook giveaway, author interview, sold our goods at various local craft markets, etc. Aside from those, we now have read more »
It’s that time of the year to eat your heart out! I wish everyone a very happy holiday and a wonderful new year! Cheers!
Time for another soup recipe, like I have mentioned in my previous post on Easy Vegetable Beef Barley Soup recipe, I love homemade soups. They are very comforting and healthy, especially warming in this cold winter weather. If you like soups as much as I do, you will probably love this cookbook too: 300 Sensational read more »
Feels like forever since wrote a restaurant experience post here. I was quite busy preparing for the Baker’s Market and the Make It! craft show. They all went very well, and we already have some supporters. We will be doing another market near Christmas time — super excited! I will be posting more details as read more »
I am very excited to announce that we will be making our debut at the Make it! the handmade revolution in Vancouver. The 4-day event will feature over 140 amazing craft, food, arts, and more vendors! It is a great opportunity for finding unique gifts. For more information about this one-of-a-kind market, visit their website here. The admission read more »
Here comes part two of the interview and the Peanut Butter and Quinoa Granola recipe. The first part of the interview can be found here. It was the first time I made granola with quinoa. As I was browsing through the book, I saw this recipe, in which I have every ingredient in my pantry read more »
This is Yummy Workshop’s FIRST cookbook author interview — another milestone! I am very honoured to have interviewed Camilla V. Saulsbury, author of new book, 500 Best Quinoa Recipes published by Robert Rose. Camilla has written several cookbooks and besides interest in cooking, she also holds a PhD degree in sociology, specializing in food studies. read more »
I always choose to go eat at places close to home (Richmond, BC) when I don’t want to cook or just want a fast meal nearby. This sushi restaurant never really caught my attention, other than the fact that it used to be another sushi restaurant that went by a different name. That day, I read more »
This is the perfect time for a giveaway, because it is the first anniversary of Yummy Workshop! Time passes by so fast, I have about 50 posts on my blog so that makes about one post per week? I actually don’t have a timeline for posting, I just write whenever I have time and feel read more »
I don’t recall when I received a $20 gift certificate from Prestons, but I remember all I had to do was to “like” their Facebook page as part of their marketing campaign to receive one. I wanted to use it many times but never got a chance until recently when I had dinner with my read more »
If you enjoy reading my blog, you probably know that I have passion for both food and photography. I never learned about food photography, all the photos you see on my blog are just self-taught — went through many instances of trial-and-error to achieve the results. Reading the feed from my Twitter account, I learned read more »
Adesso Bistro is a restaurant located in the west end of downtown Vancouver. Being me, I am constantly looking out for good deals for restaurants online. I was interested in trying out Adesso because they have very high online ratings. They specialize in modern Italian and Mediterranean cuisine. I love Italian so I was looking read more »
My cousin introduced me to this restaurant a while ago. She recommended that I “have to” try their pies. Of course, as an enthusiastic baker, it automatically went on my list of restaurants to go to. She also has her own list of Gastown restaurants to try as Gastown is a pretty vibrant foodie place. read more »
Chinese are obsessed with all sorts of dumplings, we have them pan-fried, steamed, or even in soups. I like to make my own whenever possible. That way, I am in control of what goes it and its seasonings so they can be quite healthy and delicious. Compared to store-bought ones, of course I prefer my read more »
I recently learned about the Food Blogger’s Meetup Group in Vancouver, it seems like a good opportunity to meet and eat with other foodies in town. In my first meetup, we dined at Catch 122. One day as I was reading some tweets from my Twitter account, I saw this tweet about a free entree. read more »
This recipe was taken from a cute Japanese baking cookbook. I just love the rustic quality of the design and photos of the book. The format of the book is like a journal with lined pages inside. The author has a “website”. There’s not much information on there, so I am better off just reading read more »
My impression of Moii Cafe is that it is a cutely odd place — does that even make sense? I visited the place with a group of friends and a coupon. It is located in Kitsilano on West Broadway. The cafe is very small and their specialties are crepes, coffee/tea, and drinks . They don’t read more »
I am very excited to post my first recipe from Julia Child in celebration of her 100th birthday! I was asked to participate in JC100, a campaign created by publisher Alfred A. Knopf to celebrate what would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday in August by cooking her recipes. One of her recipes will be read more »
Besides baking, I also love making soups because they are super easy to make and of course they taste much better than their canned counterparts. For me, there is really no reason to buy canned soups when it is so simple to make and it is much healthier. Unless of course if you are taking read more »
I visited this restaurant with some friends a while back, I was pondering if I should write a post about it because it has been…a while since we went there…like more than a month ago. I decided that I should still write about it because I think it is worth post on my blog — read more »
The Indulge n’ Dance event happened last Saturday and I wasn’t in the shape to write about it until today. Nothing is worse than catching a cold in this unpredictable Vancouver spring weather. Anyways, the event was organized by Social Bites. The even featured seven pastry chefs where they each prepared treats to be served read more »
Bistro 101 has been around for a long time, but I have never been until recently. Bistro 101 is located just outside of Granville Island, in the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts. Their dishes are all prepared by students for their culinary arts program as part of their practicum. They also have Bakery 101, where read more »
There has been a lot of talk about amazing foodie opportunity. If you haven’t heard about, more details to be found here. Richmond, BC (my home) is recruiting a full-time food blogger! Today (the last day to apply), I have finally applied to the 365 Days of Dining Richmond, BC. There are more than a thousand applicants, but read more »
I am writing another restaurant located at the Alexander Road of, otherwise known as the “Food Street” of Richmond. Shanghai food is another one of my favourite Chinese foods of all times, I like it because it is mild tasting (although Cantonese dishes are also more mild) and it can be found almost anywhere in Richmond! read more »
I’ve heard so much about how difficult it is to make macarons, as a baking enthusiast, I’ve set out to tackle this baking mission. It started out, of course, unsuccessful, I wanted to strangle the person who invented this evil dessert (just kidding). At my fifth attempt, they finally look like good macarons. I can’t say read more »
It’s about time that I write a post about one of my favourite Chinese foods, Dim Sum! They are like little delectable treasures. Some say that they are the essence of Cantonese Cuisine — I agree to some extent. My family and I love Yum Cha (usually a weekend brunch), so we are always looking read more »
Last night I went to the Food Swap Barnaby event, it was also their first event ever. I had lots of fun and swapped a lot of goodies. The Food Swap Burnaby is an event where you can swap home made food such as jams, baked goods, preserves, etc. with what other people brought. It read more »
I got the chance to visit this sort-of-new restaurant in Richmond, Hong Mi, located on No. 3 Road. I actually visited twice, once for lunch once for dinner. I totally forgot the prices for these, and they don’t have a restaurant website, but I remember that it wasn’t very expensive. The restaurant is quite big read more »
I tried this recipe from the book “Ricardo: Meals for Every Occasion”, by Ricardo Larrivée a Canadian celebrity cook/chef from Quebec. I personally enjoy his shows in Food Network Canada, but why I decided to buy the book was because of its design and photography. It is very Canadian in style and has interesting illustrated read more »
I went to this restaurant a while ago with a couple of friends with a group buying coupon. Hapa Umi is kind of new, located at Waterfront downtown Vancouver. I’ve actually never visited their izakya (Japanese bar) locations before. There are three Hapa Izakaya locations: Yaletown, Kitsilano, and Robson. By contrast, Hapa Umi is a read more »
I originally planned two DineOuts this year, but I was only able to go to one which was at Pier73. It is located in the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel. I was trying to stay frugal so I chose the $18 menu at Pier 73 (in Richmond hence easy to go to for me and my read more »
I live in the area of No.3 and Francis Road in Richmond, so I always pass by this new cafe called Nooch located on No. 3 Road and Granville Ave. The location is actually very convenient for people who take public transit or walk as it is close to bus stops and the Canada line read more »
I went here with two friends before Christmas last year — I can’t believe I didn’t get to this blog post until now! Anyways I had a good experience and a nice chat with my two friends. I believe there is another location in West Vancouver but we visited the one on West Georgia in read more »
A while ago, I made this white chocolate mousse from a recipe found in a weekly Chinese food magazine from Ming Pao Daily Newspaper. That particular issue featured chef Corbin Tomaszeski’s demonstration of his Irish Cream dessert recipes. One recipe that caught my eye was the white chocolate mousse. If you watch Food Network Canada, read more »
It’s Chinese New Year soon! Nothing is better than homemade deep fried goodies and one of my favourites is the deep fried sesame cookie balls. Its name is “kai kou xiao” in Mandarin pinyin, meaning “laughing mouth”. Being brought up in a Cantonese family, they were always known as “siu hau jo” in Cantonese which read more »
Remember my trip to Las Vegas last month? Here comes part two! We stayed at the Treasure Island hotel where we had two buffet meals there (a lunch and a dinner). We chose to go there twice was because we had a $50 credit towards the restaurant and another buy one get one free coupon. read more »
Indian food is another one of my favourite foods! When booking our Xoxolat class, we were asked if we would also like to book a three course dinner after class at Atithi for $15 (only for Xoxolat chocolate tasting class participants). Read about my previous post on Xoxolat chocolate 101 class here! I was curious, read more »
As we can see, cocoa is planted mainly in Africa, Mexico, and South America. There are soooo many kinds of chocolates that I didn’t know about. That was what I learned from this class. Xoxolat (pronounced sho.sho.la) is a specialty chocolate store that carries the a wide variety of imported chocolates as well as chocolates read more »
It is the new year and I wish everyone a wonderful year! My new year resolution is to live a more balanced lifestyle (ie. more exercise) and to improve my cooking skills. What is your new year resolutions?
Yay! I finally got to try this Malaysian restaurant. I love South East Asian foods because their dishes are usually so flavourful with a variety of bright spices and herbs — sooo good! On this day, I went to with my friend for lunch. There are four locations of the Banana Leaf restaurant: on Broadway, read more »
Yummy in Las Vegas! Just shortly before the winter holidays, my mom and I went to Las Vegas for a 4 days, 3 nights trip. Besides just checking out the different hotels and attractions, of course we had to have buffet. Just editing and uploading the photos of food reminded me of all the yummy read more »
It is that time of the year again, this recipe is one of my favourites. The colour is also perfect for Christmas. It might be hard to find raw pistachio nuts so you can also substitute with other nuts. I have tried making this recipe with almonds but my favourite is still pistachios (it might read more »
Wow…I’ve neglected my blog for a long time. The recipe that I am going to write about here is another Japanese recipe that I’ve made back in fall (it is winter now ). Anyways, I found this recipe on a Youtube video here. The video is Japanese and the video quality is not the best read more »
Continuing my Japanese recipe of mini doughnuts, this is also a Japanese recipe which also happens to be chocolate. In Japan they call it “pu-rin” for pudding, but it is more like a custard. I found this recipe from a Japanese website called “Kyou-no-ryouri” which means “Cooking Today”. It is also a cooking TV show read more »
This was not the first time that I visited this Japanese restaurant. They offer a pretty good variety of authentic Japanese dishes — not only sushi. They have a nicely designed website too, click here. This day, I went with a friend. “Tsukiji” is actually the name of the famous Japanese fish market. The restaurant read more »
Haven’t updated my blog for a long time. After my last Cookshop experience, my other friend and I decided to try the French cooking. Everything tasted pretty good, I thought. We were divided into groups where each group was responsible for different dishes. Here was the menu: Olive tapenade on crostini Bouillabaisse – Classic French read more »
I bought a mini doughnut pan last year during a trip to Japan from Muji (a large chain retail store). It looked too cute I had to buy it — that is what usually happens when I shop in Japan. A little recipe booklet was also included with the silicone pan. So I decided to read more »
