Posted in Beverage, Cocktails, Culinary Events, Drinks, Food Bloggers, Joyce, Meat, News, Vancouver, tagged Andrea Civettini, Aubrey Pingitore, Cocktail, Cocktail Competition, Cocktails, David Robertson, Event, Fermentation, Fun, Jesse Hochhausen, liquid nitrogen, Michael Chan, Science, Science of Cocktails, Science World, Science World Class Field Trip Bursary, smoked, Sous vide on February 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Earlier this month, as media, I was invited to attend the 3rd annual Science of Cocktails event at the Science World. It was the perfect venue as the Science World was transformed into a giant lab where drinks were changing from blue to pink, bananas being sous vide in honey, popcorn was frozen with liquid nitrogen, a “toothpaste” palate cleanser, smoking herbs, vaporized gin & tonic, fermentation, a sniffing station, foodies pulling themselves up a lift… the list goes on!
Posted in Baked Goods, Breakfast, Brunch, Cheese, Cookbooks, Home Cooking, Joyce, Recipe, tagged Brunch, David Robertson, Dried Fruit Scone, New Year's Day, New Year's Day Brunch, recipe, scones, Spicy Cheese Scone, The Dirty Apron Cookbook, The Dirty Apron Cooking School on December 30, 2014| 2 Comments »
As part of our review of The Dirty Apron Cookbook, we tried the recipe of the Dirty Apron Scones. I was very impressed by how easy the recipe was, and for making it for the first time, how great the scones turned out. Are you preparing a brunch on New Year’s Day? This will be a good recipe to prepare ahead of time and just finish it off in the morning after recovering from all the champagne and drinks!
Although the recipe was easy to follow, we discovered a few things that we would suggest tweaking as you make your next batch of scones. We’ll note the suggestions at the end of the post. The recipe below is as found in the cookbook:
Recipe provided by David Robertson / The Dirty Apron Cooking School
Ingredients
Preparation
Recipe provided by David Robertson / The Dirty Apron Cooking School (more…)
Posted in Christmas Series, Cookbooks, Joyce, Product Reviews, Shopping, tagged Christmas, Christmas shopping, cookbook, David Robertson, Figure 1 Publishing, The Dirty Apron Cookbook, The Dirty Apron Cooking School on December 10, 2014| 3 Comments »
Are you looking for gift ideas for the home cooks in your life? How about a cookbook?
I recently received a copy of the new The Dirty Apron Cookbook, and I thought I’d share my thoughts just in time for your holiday shopping.
As you probably know, The Dirty Apron Cooking School is one of Vancouver’s popular and favourite place for amateur cooks to unleash their inner chefs. Owned by former Chambar Sous Chef David Robertson and his wife, Sara, The Dirty Apron offers a variety of hands-on cooking classes. The new cookbook, published in October, caters to both beginners and more experienced cooks who are looking for delicious menus and wanting to build more confidence in the kitchen. In addition to recipes of different levels of difficulty, you will also find cooking tips and tricks such as a list of basic ingredients for your pantry, tips for plating and garnishing, making stocks and brines, and a temperature chart for cooking meats.
Not spending enough time in the kitchen, I thought we would be the perfect testers, to see how easy it is to use this cookbook. So, we tried a few recipes, including:
The Dirty Apron Scones
Boeuf Bourguignon (more…)
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