The Summer Garden Bounty.

The fresh garden cucumbers, carrots, peppers, and clipped farm earth grown baby micro greens with mini heirloom tomatoes. The only way to get a great salad is to start with great tasting vegetables. Global Organics and Baker Breeze farms have the quality edibles from original strains that I require to make outstanding salads and vegan entrées. The edible flowers add excitement and exotic flavours to any plate of greens. A simple dressing using one part flavoured tarragon red wine vinegar, 3 parts extra virgin olive oil, 1/2 tsp. raw honey and dijon mustard with a squeeze...

Clam Linguini

  It doesn’t get any fresher! At Zara’s Italian Deli and Fresh Pasta, the boss is always busy hand crafting a delectable selection of pasta noodles using the finest ingredients. Grandville Island is worth the visit to get the very best. Garlic/Wine Clams and Linguini. These tasty little neck butter clams sure made this quick pasta dish taste mouth-watering. Simple to do, and man does it taste scrumptious. Scrub up a kilo of clams and hold in some ice cold water. In a thick bottom sauté pan heat to medium high add tbs of unsalted butter, tbs. olive oil and a...

BC Wild Caught Sea Food.

Genuine BC wild caught seafood. How does one know for sure? If the seafood is true wild caught than it will have a barcode that will give you all the pertinent details. Where it was caught, how with pole, line or net, the date and time of the catch. Once you find a fish monger that can give you honest answers, the fish is worthy of the price asked. I usually shop at several different locations for a particular type of shell fish or ocean fish. Rock cod, sole, skate, scallops, dungeness, king crab, oysters, mussels, clams and all the seasonal stuff like spotted prawns,...

San Remo Foods

Some of my best thekitchenman cooking recipes involve the use of tasty tomatoes and for over a decade I have made BC’s San Remo my brand. If you are a discriminating cook and are looking for a good quality organic tomato, whole diced or sauced then give San Remo tomatoes a try. Their own brands of organic pastas, stuffed ravioli’s,  olive oils, balsamic vinegars which are bottled at the source in Italy. The family owned business have put together a refined selection of Italian specialty foods. The Air Dried Parma hams and Salamis that  San Remo imports is a well...

Zara’s Italian Deli

  The best thing about living in BC is Grandville Island Market. So many unique stores under one roof that after 16 years I have been coming here, I have met some very food impassioned store owners. Loris Zara’s Italian Deli is one of my favourite shops to get good authentic Italian foods. Lots of hand crafted foods to make a meal or put together a tatsy nosh for a walk about around the island. A large selection of fresh pasta and all the acoutrements to produce first class Italian foods at home is on display daily. The staff are user friendly and will help...

Sartori Discovery – BellaVitano Ba...

An absorbing Sartori discovery: The sweet, nutty, fruity flavors of our most-sought-after BellaVitano become even more desirable when blessed with a few prized drops of Modena balsamic vinegar. By gently bathing BellaVitano Gold in balsamic, cheesemaker Mike Matucheski has given it a sweet coating that burnishes the legend of BellaVitano with yet another honor from the World Cheese Awards. Awards: 2011 Wisconsin State Fair Blue Ribbon 2010 American Cheese Society First Place 2010 World Cheese Awards Silver Medal 2009 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest Third Place. the...