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[Recipe] Nutella & Fig Jam Pie Pops – Happy Pi Day!

Posted in Baked Goods, Chocolate, Dessert, Home Cooking, Joyce, Pie, Recipe, Special Occasion, tagged baking, Fig Preserves, Nutella, Pi Day, Pie, Pie Crust, Pie Pops, recipe, Valentine's Day, Vista D'oro Farms & Winery, White Valentine's Day on March 14, 2016| 5 Comments »

Happy Pi Day, everyone! Today some Asian countries also celebrate White Valentine’s Day, so I want to take this opportunity to share the recipe of the pie pops I made for Mr. this Valentine’s Day. The filling is fig preserves with Nutella. I really like the combination of fig and hazelnut and chocolate, and the flavours turned out very well. Just have to watch the ratio of fig preserves to Nutella – fig flavour is a bit on the subtle side so Nutella could be overpowering if there’s too much of it.

Pie Crust Recipe

Make one portion of my simple pie crust recipe
You can make the dough ahead of time and store it in the fridge for 30 minutes or more. Just make sure to let it rest in room temperature for a bit so it’s soft enough to roll. Otherwise, the pie dough would be too cold to roll and the dough will crack.

Fig & Nutella Pie Pop Recipe

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[Wines] A Tour Along the Langley Passport Wine Route

Posted in Drinks, Food Bloggers, Joyce, Langley, Media Events, Travel, Wine Pairing, Wine Series, tagged Backyard Vineyards, Blackwood Lane Vineyards & Winery, Domaine de Chaberton, Fort Langley, Fort Wine Co., fortified wines, fruit wine, Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery, Langley, Langley Passport Wine Route, Merlot, port wine, Sauvignon Blanc, Siegerrebe, Syrah, Township 7 Vineyards, Vista D'oro Farms & Winery, walnut on October 15, 2013| 1 Comment »

Before we took a brief break for our holiday in the Mediterranean, I was invited by Jelly Marketing to experience the Langley Passport Wine Route. It is a new program that encourages visitors to check out the seven wineries in Langley. Yes, there are indeed 7 wineries in Langley. I knew about 5 of them prior to this tour — in fact, I visited 3 of them just three years ago — so some were new to me and I was quite excited about visiting them. Especially after our wine getaway in Oliver this summer (see Part 1 and Part 2 here), I was keen to find out what’s available much closer to home.

Beginning of the Langley Passport tour

The premise of the program is quite straightforward. You pick up a copy of the passport at any of the participating wineries or partner hotels in Langley, then you take your time to visit each winery, get a stamp after each visit, and then you will be entered into a draw for some great prizes. Don’t worry, you don’t have to visit them all on the same day, because that would be quite irresponsible to ask you to drink that much in one day. Well, we did on the tour, but we had the luxury of travelling on a coach bus.

First stop, Township 7. Manager Jason gave us a background on Township and explained each wine in detail. We tried 2 whites and 4 reds, including a barrel sample of the Black Dog, which is a wine club exclusive with limited availability (only 118 cases).