Category Community Kitchen

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

Finally, winter is almost behind us and we are looking forward to Spring, Snowdrops, daffodils, forsythia and pussy willows are all heralding the warmer weather in my garden. With recession in the wind, something has been brewing in my mind.…

So glad the snow storm we had in later December and early January is in the past. At our January Ikebana meeting one of the members, Yvonne Yole, brought a plate of her Christmas baking since she was unable to…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This year will be an exciting one in anticipation of the coming Winter Olympic next year 2010! The Richmond Olympic Oval had a grand Opening Ceremony on December 12, 2008 and it is enormous and huge, beautiful,…

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.

Fall is sure upon us with colder crisp air, lovely, colourful, autumn leaves, and days getting shorter.  Bundle up and enjoy the season. One of my golf friends invited me to the Beth Tikva synagogue for a laughing and yoga…

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 would like to share my favourite zucchini bread with you. One year my husband planted three…

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.

Summer is here on the calendar but hopefully it will come. Spring was so wet and cold, the flowers are slow in coming. Our Sogetsu Ikebana group had our yearly outing , and we went to visit the Rose Garden…