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Salted Caramels
Maybe it’s because I live close to the ocean. My partner has a sailboat, and on windy days, the feel of a light salt spray hitting my face (and I do mean a light one: I am a fair weather boater)...
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Dulce de Leche
After last week’s “road trip in the rain”, seeking out some of Vancouver’s best chocolate covered fleur de sel caramels, I am hooked. And once I have rehydrated myself, and my well-salted taste buds...
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Saucy Chocolate
I still remember my first taste of Hot Fudge Sauce. It was in a Tin Roof Sundae at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour, in the Lougheed Mall – the same mall where my mother sold shoes at the Hudson’s Bay...
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Perfect Chocolate Ice Cream
Now that the weather is finally taking a turn for the hotter, it seems an ideal time to haul out my faithful Cuisineart tabletop ice cream maker. Okay, who am I trying to kid? I make ice cream all...
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Bacon Chocolate
Big smiles broke out on my family’s faces when I mentioned I was going to have a go at making some of this. Bacon and chocolate are two of their favorite taste sensations and as we had just finished...
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Life, Love and Strawberry Ice Cream Sodas
I have been working every Sunday since September, with a group of teen acting students, on a play close to my heart: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. The play is one of the most oft-produced in North...
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Chocolate Macarons
I was leafing through the beautiful pages of a new chocolate book given to me by my thoughtful partner, over a cup of coffee, looking for inspiration and new chocolate challenges. The photography in...
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Summer Savours
I am having one of those sense memory experiences. They seem to happen for me a great deal in summer. It must be the warm air tickling my skin and nose hairs, and rustling up odors and sounds that...
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Long Love and Commitment…and Chocolate
This weekend, I am heading off to a celebration of long-lasting love and commitment. Two dear friends are celebrating their recent marriage after having been together for many years, and this to me...
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Caramelized White Chocolate
I first heard about caramelized white chocolate Last January, when I had the good fortune to attend the Ecole Chocolate Graduate Luncheon in San Francisco. There, we were treated to samples of...
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