Picked up these “Heritage” beans from Pilot Coffee House at Propaganda.
I like this Classic <—> Adventurous scale. I am definitely on the more dark, rich “coffee” flavours rather than light and floral mango or whatever :)
Picked up these “Heritage” beans from Pilot Coffee House at Propaganda.
I like this Classic <—> Adventurous scale. I am definitely on the more dark, rich “coffee” flavours rather than light and floral mango or whatever :)
It’s @duchesscosmo o’clock. Locally made, refreshingly tangy & not too sweet, and available for delivery in Vancouver.
Went out for a bike ride along Arbutus Greenway. Beautiful sun and a stop at Beacoup Bakery on the way back, plus all the cyclists waiting for the train at Union.
I got sent this Azerbaijani Country Life Vlog video blog by @florence_ann and ended up watching the entire 45 minute video.
Yesterday’s lunch at Laksa King was a bowl of laksa, a bowl of mohinga (Fernando got a picture of it), and an order of roti canai
I made a chocolate cake to use up sourdough starter discard.
It’s not a pretty cake, and making an entire sheet cake to use up a little sourdough is perhaps overkill, but I’m happy with how it turned out.
One of the few times I’ve stayed somewhere else on #bowenisland. Up on Eagle Cliff, looking out to Strait of Georgia and across to UBC. Wind and whitecaps.
My parents are moving today. Third move in 47 years they’ve been in Canada.
Dude Chilling Park in the fall
I should log my epic sandwich from yesterday’s lunch. Sourdough from Tall Shadow breads, polish mayo, pickle slice, Roma tomato, havarti, and salami.
Spicy udon bowl for lunch today. Onions, ginger, garlic, some diced red peppers & carrots I had laying around. Diced Roma tomatoes. Miso. Soy Sauce. Samba Oelek. Rice vinegar.
Managed to stop in at the new Radpower Bikes Vancouver showroom right before closing. Snagged a rear rack & basket for Rachael’s new bike.
When we went for brunch at Forage yesterday, I also bought some of their sourdough starter. Looking forward to waking it up!
Rachael won an overnight stay prize pack from VanMuralFest and the Robson BIA. Finishing our downtown adventure with a nice breakfast at Forage.
I’ve been stuck not really reading much. Gave up on the book I was on, and bought Sue Burke’s Interference.
I loved the first one, and have been happily reading this before bed.
#book #scifi
a multilingual database, currently 130,000-items strong, of the ingredients, techniques, authors, and section titles included in more than 5,000 European and U.S. cookbooks.
– A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It, Atlas Obscura
The data on this site is super interesting. Whatever is running the site is not great. It’s some sort of out of the box Microsoft thing including default loading animations.
But! It aims to be a sort of Wikipedia. I’ve signed up to be a contributor and I hope that this can be built on and be licensed for re-use.
I did a search for “Vancouver” and found only one entry, so my used cookbook collection may be able to add a handful more. It does say it only wants pre-1940 cookbooks, but it’s unclear why.
It provides a bird’s-eye view of long-term trends in European and American cuisines, from shifting trade routes and dining habits to culinary fads. Search “cupcakes,” for example, and you’ll find the term may have first popped up in Mrs. Putnam’s Receipt Book And Young Housekeeper’s Assistant, a guide for ladies running middle-class households in the 1850s.
Yes! Super interesting to me. Looking forward to see how this evolves.
(From the Gastro Obscura section of A.O.)
Ride out to our usual bench at Burnaby Lake was pretty cold. Got to get gloves and other gear sorted to keep #biking.
The new Rad Mini in white has slightly smaller wheels, and of course no extended rear rack.
Pulled out some old achiote and made a turkey thigh stew plus did a trial run of savoury waffles I’m going to serve tomorrow.
Had these “screw buns” from Dinesty Dumpling House last night, which came with sweetened condensed milk for dipping. So pretty, so tasty!
I wrote a blog post about joining Social.Coop. It’s a co-op that runs “user-controlled social media” in the form of a Mastodon server. If you’re on Mastodon, please let me know, I’d like to follow you there!
Check out @rachaelashe’s work at The Art Shop upcoming pop up “Wood Paper Scissors: Raw Materials in Art”. Opening is Oct 23rd, runs until Nov 3rd. The space is on East Hastings, next to Strathcona Brewing and Prototype Coffee.
Our new Rad Mini got delivered today! It looks cute and small compared to my Rad Runner, plus a few upgrades: it has gears and a bike computer screen, and an improved front light vs the Run
This will primarily be Rachael’s bike, but I’ll borrow it on occasion ;)
I have a cute little like green Bodum charcoal BBQ that we can take to the park at the end of the street. But charcoal is a bit of an ordeal so doesn’t get used often. What about a Scottish made gas pizza oven???
The Ooni: youtu.be/7kzenzsML…
#cooking
I just found out the mystery cheese we bought the other day is Braided Armenian String Cheese. Tomorrow is going to be a good day!
Today was actually a pretty good day. Except! I got another flat in my back tire!