Best customized pancake recipes... eggnog, lemon ricotta, carrot cake, pumpkin pie fruit and more pancakes! Part 2 of Breakfast and brunch series!

Posted by One of my favorite items for breakfast or brunch is pancakes! Well, so are Eggs Benedict, and we covered how to poach eggs and make Hollandaise sauce in part one of the Breakfast and Brunch series.  And if you haven't figured it out, I really love eggnog.  I portion and freeze eggnog so I can have it year round in my sweet potato casserole recipe, or to add randomly to stuff when I'm baking and in the mood for more eggnog-y goodness!  So when my girlfriend and husband suggested and did add eggnog to their pancake mix instead of milk... they're geniuses in my eyes!

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Meat and Bread Vancouver, BC - tasty awesome sandwiches all from scratch!

Posted by While in town for a wedding last year, me and by boyfriend hunted down Meat and Bread to try out their all in house made sandwiches.  It also doesn't hurt its been featured on Diners Drive-Ins and Dives on Food Network… There's 2 locations, the original one on Cambie, and one on Pender Street.. we went to the one on Cambie.  onto the foooood!

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Eggs Benedict with Hollandaise sauce recipe and how to poach eggs! Part one of Breakfast and Brunch series!

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LG's wicked ham, avocado, cheese eggs benny on a mini croissant

I love sleeping in.  I love breakfast food... so it makes sense that I love sleeping in and having the best of both worlds: brunch! One thing I enjoy having for the sit down brekkie or brunch is eggs benny.  The softly poached egg that you get to poke so the yolk mixes with the Hollandaise sauce and you sop it all up with the toasted English muffin or roast or croissant (if you're feeling particularly indulgent!)... and if you add in anything else like cheese, avocado, smoked salmon, ham, bacon, leftover Peking duck, you can really bring it over the top!  The pics are of Eggs Benedicts our talented LG test kitchen whipped up for a potluck brunch!!

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Kintaro Ramen Vancouver, BC - still one of the best places to grab a bowl of ramen and their cold ramen bowl is killer in the summer!!

Posted by Last summer, during a visit to Vancouver, depite it being hot out, I was craving ramen.  I know, you're supposed to slurp away at a steaming hot bowl of rich, savory broth and soft handmade noodles on a cold winter day.  But I had a craving.  We headed out late hoping to beat the heat and when we sauntered inside the un-airconditioner-ed.. we discovered we weren't the only folks who had a hankering for their excellent bowls of ramen who would brave the steamy heat coming off of the vats of soup stock simmering all day long.  In the winter, its the perfect food to warm up to.. in the summer, I was going to try their cold ramen... I showed up in a swimsuit and beach wrap so I wouldn't have to sweat buckets inside... and many patrons took note to dress lighter next time when they saw me.. not sweating buckets lol!

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Chantilly cream recipe - or chocolate, coffee, spiked... super simple and delicious to add to scones, fruit, cream puffs, desserts.. or morning coffee lol!

Posted by I've always loved the taste of Chantilly cream, but have never bothered to make it ask I thought it would be fussy, take too many ingredients.. and I hate finicky fussy recipes.  Until one day, I looked it up and was literally: That's it?  The basic Chantilly cream recipe involves 3 ingredients and I discovered you don't need to follow some of the fussy steps some recipes out there call for... as long as you have good quality ingredients and a half decent mixer (or are prepared to whip it and whip it good for a good long time until it feels like your arm falls off).. its as easy as dumping it all in and within a few minutes.. nom!!!

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