Chilli & Garlic Prawn Pizza with Zucchini & Mozza   This is what happens when I’m hungry – I took 1 picture of my dinner. I saw this recipe on Pinterest a while back and finally made it. You can find the original recipe here, but as usual, here are my tweaks. Here is what the recipe calls for (and here are my tweaks..the

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Lemon Cookies with Lemon Icing I made these cookies about a month ago and the recipe and pics are finally up. At first I was looking for a cookie that would compliment my lavender food oil and what goes better with lavender than lemon? My idea was to make the icing lavender  but after paying with 2 batches of icing, and

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Pear Phyllo Crisp There was a while that I went through a phyllo phase… If you go back a few posts, I made some Chicken Pot Pie w/ a phyllo top and well that comes with a price – left over phyllo. With that said, I’ve made apple turnovers with them (something I made way back in high school) and there were still loads

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8 course tasting menu at Hakkasan, a Contemporary Chinese Cuisine Restaurant in Richmond, BC. Food were good. it’s got a bit of a fusion feel to it. Visit their site for the latest tasting menu offerings.  Food: 3.5 out of 5. Good, but nothing to really rave about.  Ambiance: 3 out of 5 – it’s not like your typical Asian restaurant and it’s located

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Balsamic Honey Pulled Pork Sliders! I’ve always wanted to try and make pulled pork from scratch and I decided to give this Better Home recipe a try. One big adjustment I made with the ingredients though, is the honey. I replaced that with Agave Nectar instead (this is what happens when you’re allergic to honey).  The other sub I made

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