Tag: local food writers

Cream and Sugar, yes please!

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Cream and Sugar

Cream and Sugar

Here is a sweet new blog I recently discovered, called CreamandSugar.ca. They have a creative concept, not to mention a fabulous title,  where two bloggers, with two different lifestyles, from two different cities collide under one URL sharing their love of food.  One blogger is from Edmonton, who brings the sugar, and the other is from Vancouver, and brings the cream. Sweet.

I just saw the heavenly looking post titled salted white chocolate oatmeal cookies – I know what I’m baking next!

And I particularly love Cream’s “solo suppers beyond cereal” series, and Sugar’s “dinner for two and a half” series.  Brilliant posts, and their titles are catchy. The fun dual content, great photos and array of recipe ideas makes this food blogging tale of two cities worth bookmarking…

PS. These ladies Facebook and Tweet too!

#10 & #11 Finding Tiny Bites & Casual Baking in Vancouver

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To wrap up the long weekend, and double up on my blogs (in lieu of missing yesterday, due to giving thanks) here are a couple more quality sites to add to the Vancouver food blog repertoire in my blog or bust challenge include TINY BITES and the CASUAL BAKER.

#10 – Tiny Bites is a blog lead by one, Karen Hamilton, with two additional contributors. Karen is  a women after my own heart, as her blog encourages local tourism and helping Vancouverites decide what to ‘bite’ on. The blog is another award-winning site in the food blogging community – check it out!

Screen shot of Tiny Bites food blog

Tiny Bites food blog

#11 – Casual Baker, is sweet blog written by Sheena, a Vancouver women with a self proclaimed penchant for sweets – bake on my fellow foodie! Her blog is simply baking, since 2006, and covers an array of recipes, handy to have in your shortcuts toolbar as a cookbook in your virtual library (She even has a recipe index – convenient!). Her stories paired with the recipes are great, sometimes including music video YouTube links and other fun-interesting parallels.

Her photography is rustic reflecting the baking and recipes; looking oh so tastefully homemade. I would definitely support this casual baker if passed in a farmer’s market.

Casual Baker food blog

Casual Baker food blog

#9 – Good Life Vancouver

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Good Life Vancouver web shot

Good Life Vancouver home page preview from today.

 

There are so many ways to find new information these days, it is quite overwhelming, and all of the blogs I share with you I have found through a variety of resources. But tonight, as the rain beats down here in North Vancouver, and I search for a festive dessert recipe for my Thanksgiving weekend, I write to you about a Twitter foodie blog find for today’s Blog or Bust post #9.

Good Life Vancouver is a blog that covers Vancouver and beyond – it is a large site that is well designed and fun to poke around on. The navigation bar includes fun headers like Cook, Dine Out, Drink, Events, Taste, or Travel, making it easy to find what you want fast.

The author, Cassandra Anderton quotes in her ABOUT page that she is a “freelance wine, food and travel writer and broadcaster.  Cassandra appears regularly on Breakfast Television, can be heard on The Shore 104.3 and has been published in The Vancouver Sun, Western Living, BC Wine Trails Magazine, Vancouver Magazine, Northwest Palate, EAT Magazine and Concierge Quarterly….”

As a local food & wine guru, Cassandra is clearly abreast of the ‘Good Life’ in Vancouver and shares to us all. Thanks Cassandra – great site!

By the way, I just found the recipe I want to make: Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake from Martha Stewart… Stay tuned!