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I know, I’m excited too! I mean, how often can you use the words “Victoria” and “budget” in the same sentence?! So it’s that time of year again – time to start planning various Holiday events. Office parties, family get-togethers… for this article, I have chosen three local venues that I can personally recommend for [...]

Tea cocktails, eh? After a few times hearing this new concept, I had to look into it. I am a big tea drinker and thought, sure! Why not? The first place that came to mind was Silk Road Teas, which is a tea shop and aromatherapy spa in Victoria. I contacted Daniela, the owner of [...]

One thing I’ve been talking a bit about lately is my apprehension over baking. This might sound silly to many of you aficionados out there, but given that only one of my many apartments over the past several years abroad had an oven in it (and that was only for a couple of months), baking [...]

This year my family decided to take a little getaway to the Okanagan. Although I haven’t spent much time in the Okanagan, I am very familiar with the reputation the area has for being renowned for it’s vineyards and amazing wineries. One day last week my Mom, Dad, partner Brendan and I piled into the [...]

While the biggest drawback to brunch is that one often must get up early to make it happen, the biggest advantage to brunch is cocktails in the noontime and naps in the last hour or two of daylight (at least this time of year) after everyone goes home. With brunch, it’s possible to make an [...]

One year we deep fried our holiday turkey.  It was wonderful, crispy, dark brown, moist, delicious, I could go on… Plus the bonus that it only took 45 minutes for a 12-lb turkey. Instead of a rub, I opted to inject the bird with some flavour instead. I didn’t want to taint the entire batch [...]

By no means is the cookie swap limited to the winter holiday season! No sir! It is the greatest excuse to get people under one roof and exchange bars, squares and cookies. So much so that I am often surprised when folks have never heard of such a thing or become nervous when asked if [...]

image with permission from and thanks to foodieprints.com I remember my first foray into food fundraising. I was six years old and it was the Girl Guides who got me. Door to door, I went, tote a plate of cookies, offering neighbours samples and then asking them to kindly fill in the order sheet. I didn’t [...]

We have all been there, or maybe just me…? It was 48 hours before a bridal shower that I promised I would throw months ago (honestly, can I really be held responsible for something I promised to do months ago?), and I remembered that people like food. Not only do they like food, they expect [...]