Thai menu from northeast Thailand (Issan)
Wimaan Thai Restaurant, 1063 West Broadway, Vancouver. For the third Thai banquet in our UBC ‘eating’ course we went to Wimaan Thai Restaurant which featured food from north-east Thailand, the […]
Thai menu from northern Thailand
For the second Thai banquet in our UBC ‘eating’ course we went to Baan Wasana Restaurant, 2143 W41st Ave, Vancouver. It featured a menu of typical dishes from northern Thailand. […]
Thai menu from central Thailand
Salathai Restaurant, 102-888 Burrard St, Vancouver For the first Thai banquet in our eating course we went to Salathai Restaurant and ate our way through a menu featuring typical dishes from […]
Exploring the Wineries of Cafayate, in the Northwest of Argentina
November is spring in Argentina, and we were there November 2008. The northwest of Argentina is the most amazing region with this post focusing on Cafayate, one small town in that area […]
Stay-at-Home Wine Tour of South America
Our instructor, Lynn Coulthard, started our wine tour of South America with a sparkling Torrontés, a cool region wine from Patagonia in the south of Argentina. The sweet sparkling wine, akin to Asti […]
Eat like an Aztec: Tortilla Soup Recipe
Tortilla soup / (Sopa azteca) This soup contains many ingredients that were a gift from Mexico to the world: tomatoes, chiles, avocado and corn in the form of tortillas. The recipe […]
Harvest Overload: Curried Carrot (or Squash or Pumpkin) Soup
This is for my brother Rob, who will be eating squash for the next three months! Perfect for a fall or winter menu. Serves 4-8 depending on whether the soup […]
Fall menu from the Burgundy region of France
From my UBC ‘Cooking with Wine’ class: the menu for a seasonal fall feast, featuring specialities from the Burgundy region of France. • To start, raw trout marinated in lime […]
What to do with pounds and pounds of Italian prune plums!
What do you do with a hundred pounds or so of plums? I made Plum Butter! Despite the name this recipe contains no butter, and is in reality a very […]
Spanish Tapas Class No. 3 at UBC
We had an interesting combo of tapas for our last ‘Spanish Tapas’ class with Chef Eric. The first tapa on offer was Fried Manchego Cheese, which sounded so odd that […]
Albatz Travel Adventures 