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Tocador – Cocktails and Cuban Inspired Eats in Mount Pleasant

Posted in Cocktails, Dinner, Hang-Out with Friends, Joyce, Late night, Latin American, Neighbourhood Gem, Restaurants, Tapas, Vancouver, tagged , , , , , , on November 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Cuban inspired restaurant in Vancouver? You don’t see many of them around, but there’s one right in Mount Pleasant. Tocador opened just last year and it’s all about the cocktail menu and share plates. I actually had the pleasure to interview one of its co-owners, Guy, a few years ago. This time, I was invited to sample the menu at Tocador.

Cocktails

First of all, let’s talk about its cocktail menu. It’s two pages long! One page is full of the classics, such as Negroni, Mojito, Hot Buttered Rum, Manhattan and Mai Tai. The other, is a list of original cocktails created by the team at Tocador. The two owners both started out as a bartender so it only makes sense that they pay a lot of attention to the cocktail menu. They infuse a lot of their liquors so you would see something like mango butter infused rum, red bell pepper infused mezcal and paprika infused tequila.

The Escocesa, for example, uses beet infused Dewars scotch.

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[Recipe] Fresh Peach Pie

Posted in Baked Goods, Dessert, Home Cooking, Joyce, Pie, Recipe, tagged , , , , on September 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Now that summer is behind us, it’s time to celebrate the bounty of fall stone fruit such as peaches and apples. With our trip to the Okanagan, we of course bought some gorgeous peaches. And what do you do when you have a lot to go through? You can freeze them, canned them, give them away…for us, we made pie!

Recipe

I have shared the Simple Pie Crust Recipe with you before and sure enough I used it for my crust. The recipe will make a double crust for a 9in pie, plus some depending on how thin you roll it.

Peach Pie (Before)

Ingredients

For the filling, we used:

  • 2lb Fresh Peaches (roughly 5 large peaches)
  • 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons All Purpose Flour
  • 2-3 tablespoon Unsalted Butter
  • 1/8 teaspoon Salt

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[News] Tomorrow: Pirate Pak Day returns for its 7th year

Posted in Burger, Dessert, Dinner, Joyce, News, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

If you have been keeping track, you would know that we are just one day away from White Spot’s annual Pirate Pak Day. Tomorrow, and tomorrow only, August 13, 2014, White Spot will once again make available its popular Adult Pirate Paks.

Unleash your inner child on this day and indulge in classic Pirate Pak items including the Legendary Burger, Bacon Cheddar Bigger Burger and BC Chicken Burger. For each Pirate Pak sold, White Spot will donate $2 to Zajac Ranch for Children. To-date they have raised close to 269,000 for Zajac Ranch through this initiative!

The special edition “Adult Pak” is only available on August 13 and starts at $11.99. (more…)

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[Giveaway] Win 1 of 3 $25 Gift Cards to #CelebrateBC with White Spot

Posted in Burger, Contests, Dinner, Eat Local, Joyce, News, Seafood, West Coast, tagged , , , , , on July 25, 2014| 46 Comments »

[UPDATE: Our partner has generously donated another $25 gift card so we are now giving away 3 White Spot gift cards! Deadline has been extended to Monday, August 4, 2014]

Summer has officially started, which means our local farms are also busy harvesting. BC produces a huge variety of fresh ingredients — cherries, blueberries, apples, peaches, corn, cheese, salmon, tomatoes, etc. — everything is so close to home! Earlier this week White Spot launched its new Celebrate BC summer menu to celebrate exactly that, featuring local ingredients and select wines from farms and vineyards around the province.

Available until September 7, the Celebrate BC menu offers six seasonally-inspired creations:

  • Prawn & BC Brie Flatbread
  • Candied Salmon Spinach Salad
  • BC Beet, Brie & Bacon Bigger Burger
  • Gala Apple & BC Brie Chicken Burger
  • Lois Lake Steelhead with Warm Crispy BC Potato Salad
  • Legendary Burger, Caesar Salad & Fresh BC Blueberry Pie Combo

To make sure you get to try these items, we are giving away three $25 White Spot gift cards. Yes, three chances of winning!

3 ways to enter

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Celebrate #BCVeggieDay on March 20

Posted in Culinary Events, Eat Local, Food Trucks, Healthy Eating, Joyce, News, Pop-up, Salad, Vancouver, tagged , , , , , on March 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

March 20 will be declared BC Veggie Day in a special proclamation to celebrate the annual springtime arrival of locally greenhouse grown vegetables from BC’s 42 greenhouse growers located throughout the Lower Mainland. There will be a celebration party at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 11am to 2pm on that day.

BC Veggie Day on March 20 (Photo from BC Veggie Day website)

BC Veggie Day on March 20 (Photo from BC Veggie Day website)

I’m quite excited about this campaign because this is very close to my heart. Watching the campaign video and familiar faces of local growers brought back memories of my work in the greenhouse vegetable industry, marketing and educating the public about this industry. It opened my eyes about greenhouse vegetable production, the zero use of herbicides, pest control using an integrated pest management program, the extended availability of product, and the superb quality of product thanks to the perfect climate inside a greenhouse. I learned that greenhouse vegetables are just as good as organic and you don’t have to pay a premium for them.

At the Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza on March 20, there will be a pop-up greenhouse filled with plants and “good” bugs from the Bug Factory, a farmer’s market, live entertainment, a first ever pop-up restaurant by Earls and food trucks Verinicey Pankoras and Mangal Kiss. For more information, visit bcgreenhousegrown.com.

I will see you there!

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