Summer is far upon us! In celebration of the season, the Dairy Farmers of Canada has partnered up with chefs to come up with easy awesome recipes that utilizes the goodness of Canadian dairy products and local, in-season berries! One such recipe are these delicious, chocolatey Strawberries & Cream Whoopie Pies created by chef Julian […]
Cold winter weather always calls for a nice, cozy cup of hot chocolate don’t you agree? We took a short trip to the island, and while it wasn’t exactly wintery weather, it was still mighty cold. So Hitman took me to a place in downtown Courtenay called Hot Chocolates for…wait for it….Hot Chocolate!! Now Hot […]
Here’s just some more pictures from the rest of the food I ate in Kyoto. This will be quite the wordless post. Sorry~ This is from the food department at Daimaru 大丸 department store. Fujiya 不二家 here in Canada is mostly known for their milky caramel candy. There they have complete restaurants (which I’ll get […]
If you like crabs and prime rib, this is the buffet for you folks. Pretty Sis and I went down for a visit to our lovely aunt and uncle down in the States. Now when my parents went down a couple times ago aunt and uncle had taken them to the Snoqualmie Casino for their […]
I’m sure McDonald’s is a guilty pleasure for a lot of people. I personally enjoy them once in a while (perhaps more than once~!) and I honestly have no ill-will towards them. After all, you KNOW what you are putting into your body when you go there. And as long as you indulge within reason […]
Update: This restaurant has closed. I had a day out with Miz Brown Sugar in Downtown and we were planning to have lunch too. Since Miz Brown Sugar was vegan, I was left with the task of finding a suitable restaurant. I actually didn’t realize how hard it was to find a vegan restaurant in Downtown. […]
Time for Dine Out again! I thought I’ll quickly churn out this post while there’s still some time left for those of you that are looking for reviews before choosing a restaurant. This time, Mom chose Seasons in the Park as she really enjoyed it last time and it was close to Pretty Sis’ birthday. […]
Finally blogging this restaurant. As you can kind of see, there’s snow on the ground. This is from that deep-freeze period of Dec-Jan earlier this year. It wasn’t that the restaurant wasn’t good and I didn’t want to recommend it. On the contrary, Steveston Seafood House was excellent. I just felt that I didn’t take […]
Today was a sort of family day. Dad was getting cataract surgery done at VGH so Mom and I drove him down there. When we dropped him off, we had about an hour to kill, so we thought of going somewhere. There really isn’t much around the W. Broadway/Oak area, so it took us quite […]
