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Green Tea & Red Bean Paste French Macarons

Green Tea & Red Bean Paste French Macarons

Macarons (French pronunciations: maka-ron), originated in France, is a meringue based goodie where the “cookie” part is made with eggs, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal (almond powder, or ground almond), and a little food colouring to spice up the colour. The filling, sandwiched between the 2 “cookies” are usually ganache, buttercream, or jam based. Macaron’s popularity rose in North

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Pinkberry vs Qoola

Ever since Pinkberry arrived in Vancouver, I’ve been pretty loyal to them when it comes to frozen yogurts. I may cheat a little here and there with the likes of Yogen Fruz to get their blended yogurts, but in the spirit of comparing yogurt with “toppings”, let’s forget about the fact that I cheat  because I cheated with someone else 🙂

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Raspberry Latte Tip

Just made myself a cup of Nabob Skinny Latte on my Tassimo.  Not sure if I mentioned that I picked up a small bottle of Lorann Raspberry flavoring oil at The Gourmet Warehouse, but I just added a TINY drop of it in my coffee.. YUM! There’s no need for those fancy syrup when you have a bottle of food flavoring

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Rosemary Rocksalt

Rosemary Rocksalt

Growing up in Vancouver in the 90s, you might remember a little bagel place called the Bagel Street Cafe, and I remember one of my elementary school classmate’s family owning one of the few in Van City. For some reason or another, they started dropping like flies (or if you’d prefer, closing down one by one), and disappearing from the city. I have

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