Food

– by Lara Gladych – This is the last in a six-part series of profiles on some of the Saanich Peninsula’s wonderful restaurants and pubs. I’m having an early lunch with my husband and two of my kids at the Charles Dickens Pub, and am still taking in the new reality of kid-friendly pubs in […]

This October, SHOAL Activity Centre is launching a new feature – Cookbook Lunches! On Tuesday, October 27, 12 noon – 2 p.m. with Chef Angelo Prosperi-Porta, award-winning Chef from Sooke, appearing as guest speaker at a buffet lunch that features not only a recipe from his newest book, HONEY – Everyday Recipes for Cooking and

– by Jennifer Bowles – There is an art to creating a salad that doesn’t taste like rabbit food. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean fried chicken and a half block of cheese on a bed of head lettuce qualifies as salad. Focusing on taste, texture and wellness; my girlfriend ‘Angie Pangie’ is the

– by Steve Sheppard – Victoria B.C. – The leaves crunch pleasurably beneath my Birkenstocks (no socks on of course) and there’s a certain comfort I feel sipping my hot, chocolaty tasting Americano with my favourite sweater on as fall approaches like a freight-train leaving summertown. Nothing beats autumn on Vancouver Island, it’s like the

– by Carolyn Herriot – Cool and refreshing salads are perfect for hot weather when no one wants to get caught up in the kitchen preparing laborious meals. Here are three simple salads that keep well refrigerated and are handy to have around for al fresco eating and picnics. Cinco De Mayo Coleslaw Makes 4