Menu du jour olympic : 53 Recipes


  • Recipe Olympic Fever
    Olympic Fever
    It's been a whirlwind kind of a week. Vancouver is buzzing with locals, visitors, and athletes here to celebrate the Olympics. I've been having a blast. Aside from watching the games from home (no way I'm ready to cough up $200 dollars for a[...]
  • Recipe Olympic Snafus
    Olympic Snafus
        The 2010 Olympic Games started off inauspiciously with the tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luge slider.  That same night, at the Opening Ceremonies, the hydraulics of the torch failed leaving the torch inside BC Place[...]
  • Recipe Olympic Poutine
    Olympic Poutine
    My oldest and dearest friend from our days growing up in Montreal, Roberta, now lives in Florida. Her eldest daughter Whitney wrote and asked for some advice on making poutine. Here are her results. I did two batches of fries: one thick cut to[...]
  • Recipe Olympic Cookies
    Olympic Cookies
    Thursday, it was 50 degrees.  Friday, we heard a "warning" that we might get a foot of snow.  Monday morning, we woke up to this: As a result, we had an unexpected snow day!  After I rearranged the syllabi for the two[...]
  • Recipe Olympic Fever 2010
    Olympic Fever 2010
    Yay! I know it's been a while, but that's just because I've been busy finishing up my final semester of nursing school! I can't believe I'm graduating on April 30th! It seems like only yesterday I entered university with wide-eyes and a[...]
  • Recipe Olympic dreams dashed
    Olympic dreams dashed
    I think I've mentioned before that we regularly go to a supper club of sorts in the city. Once a month at a specified restaurant and you learn about wine pairing with 6 different dishes. It's a blast, and I'd say 9 times out of 10 the food is[...]
  • Recipe Olympic Stir Fry 2008
    Olympic Stir Fry 2008
    Can you imagine winning 11 gold medals? Accomplishing what no athlete before you had done? Forever being known as the first athlete to reach that pinnacle of success? Wow. Talk about standing out in a crowd! Tonight's culinary[...]
  • Recipe Olympic Pita in Manhattan
    Olympic Pita in Manhattan
    Olympic Pita (58 West 38th Street; New York, NY 10018; Telephone: 212.869.7482), provides proof positive that a restaurant in Manhattan can provide good, wholesome, food without being expensive. Olympic Pita, at its Manhattan location[...]
  • Recipe Quarky Olympic cheese cure
    Quarky Olympic cheese cure
    I have always said that cheese is the best cure to make a person feel great and it looks as though doctors in Austria agree. When World Cup downhill skiing winner, Lindsey Vonn hyperextended her shin last Tuesday during training, Austrian[...]
  • Recipe Quarky Olympic cheese cure
    Quarky Olympic cheese cure
    I have always said that cheese is the best cure to make a person feel great and it looks as though doctors in Austria agree. When World Cup downhill skiing winner, Lindsey Vonn hyperextended her shin last Tuesday during training, Austrian[...]