Community Kitchen

TRI-COLORED MOCHI (Baked)

I thought perhaps this is a pretty Easter-like delicacy to serve around Easter. So colourful!

CLODHOPPERS

Finally, winter is almost behind us and we are looking forward to Spring, Snowdrops, daffodils, forsythia and pussy willows are all heralding the warmer...

MARASCHINO SQUARES

So glad the snow storm we had in later December and early January is in the past. At our January Ikebana meeting one of...

OCHA: JAPAN’S NATIONAL DRINK

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This year will be an exciting one in anticipation of the coming Winter Olympic next year 2010! The Richmond Olympic Oval...

ALMOND CRESCENTS

Christmas is around the corner now and those of you into baking will be looking for recipes to add to your cookie plates.

I have so many but these are my favourite, so here they are.

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

Fall is sure upon us with colder crisp air, lovely, colourful, autumn leaves, and days getting shorter.  Bundle up and enjoy the season. One...

KABUCHA SALAD

What fantastic September weather we have had, making up for the miserable August. Here’s hoping for more Indian Summer to come! I had a...

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI LOAF CAKE

What a wonderful July—so many hours of sunshine! Writing this in early August so I’m hoping the summer weather continues over this month. I...

Community Kitchen

Whenever we have visitors from Japan, they always bring us gifts and I’m always in a quandary what to send back with them. I heard they like our Maple syrup since they use it for a lot of their cooking and they were happy, although it was quite heavy.

Community Kitchen

Summer is here on the calendar but hopefully it will come. Spring was so wet and cold, the flowers are slow in coming. Our...