Lucky Season Hotpot Restaurant, Richmond Hill, ON - tasty multi course Chinese dinner with lots of lobster!

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Was in Toronto for the Easter long weekend to visit family and to shop for wedding related stuff, so in-between the frantic pace of dress fittings and power-shopping (ladies, you know what that is.. its shopping with a mission which means hitting up several malls a day), we interspersed it with tasty food with the familia!  On one of the nights were were in town, we had a lovely dinner at Lucky Season Hotpot Restaurant. It was previously Lucky Season Cuisine, but is under new management (and slight change of name) with pretty good food and service. On to the feast… and lobsters!

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Pork, jicama and veggies lettuce leaf wrap recipe - can be made with chicken, beef, tofu...

Posted by Its spring! And with the weather (finally?) warm enough to put our flowers, herbs and veggie plants out without fear of a freak snowstorm (then again this is Alberta and we have super fickle weather), it also means its usually getting a bit warm to want to cook in the kitchen. So here's a quick and refreshing recipe that's perfect for when its warm out!Jicama, also known as a Mexican yam/turnip can be found at most Asian or Carribean grocery stores. Its getting so popular that I actually found it at a regular grocery store! The outside waxy and thick fibrous skin is inedible and needs to be peeled off (I hacked it off with a sharp knife as my potato peeler wasn't cutting it (literally!).  Inside is a white, slightly sweet interior. Jicama usually is eaten raw or can be sautéed - regardless if you cook it or not, it retains a crisp refreshing texture similar to biting into a juicy unripened pear and a good source of potassium and vitamin C.  This recipe I was inspired to make after noshing on some lettuce wraps at Congee Queen in Toronto.

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Premiere Ballroom & Convention Centre for Chinese dim sum, Richmond Hill, Ontario - yum!

Posted by Nope, I wasn't scoping this place out for the wedding. Previously this opulently decked out space was used for weddings and graduations, but under new ownership is a tightly run ship of dim sum deliciousness! (they still do weddings but I"m here for hte dim sum!)  Its a little strange to sit under a nice open ceiling, with ornate gold finishes, murals of French duchesses and dukes while you're having dim sum as it feels like you're having dim sum in a fancy hall in Versaille - its not a bad thing!

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Making a fondant Bubble Guppies themed cake smashing cupcake!

Posted by Kimchee's little girl was turning one, and for her celebration, I was baking a cupcake cake for her to smash, smoosh, and generally enjoy making a big tasty mess :D  I borrowed a girlfriend's silicone cupcake mold and used for the first time in my life - prepared cake mix.  It wasn't bad at all and definitely sped things up time wise, but I found the cake-mix cake very soft and easy to shear so had to be ultra careful with it when unmolding and decorating…

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Sabor - delicious seafood and vino in the heart of downtown

Posted by Its been a while since we hit up Sabor Divino, now with its name truncated to just Sabor.  We went back several times last year and when the downtown construction got to be a bit much, we meandered off to other restaurants for dinner.  (You can click here for a previous review - we didn't take pics of things we already tried this time around)After it expanded to take over a small spot next door to open up its vino-tapas based Bodega, happy to say the food is still top notch at its parent restaurant, name truncated or not... onto the food!

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