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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Chocolate chip olive oil cake

Another olive oil cake! I used a bundt pan and instead of flouring it, I used cocoa powder (same effect).  Essential ingredients: olive oil, lemon zest, orange zest, orange juice and milk. The orange glaze is made from orange juice, sugar, lemon juice.   









Ingredients
2 eggs
2/3 cup caster sugar
2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
1/2 cup olive oil
1 1/2 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup orange juice

Directions
1)  Preheat the oven to 350F. Lightly grease a shallow 8 inch round cake tin and line the base with baking paper.  Whisk the eggs and sugar in a large mixing bowl until well combined. Add the orange and lemon zest, then gradually stir in the olive oil.

2) Stir in the sifted flour alternately with the milk and orange juice.  Stir the mixture gently for 30 seconds with a wooden spoon.  Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into the prepared tin.  Bake for 40 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the center of the cake.  Leave to cool in tin for 5 min before turning out onto a wire rack. 

Friday, April 23, 2010

Eateries

Eateries

Blueberry-lemon bundt cake

Recipe from Martha Stewart (.com), the cake part, I altered it by adding an additional tablespoon of lemon zest, and the juice of 1 large lemon.  For the glaze I used Joy the baker's recipe (almond milk, since I don't have any buttermilk).  I have 2 cakes pictured here, as the first cake didn't cook properly, due to the baking pan. Don't use the paper disposable one, use a regular metallic one.  I stayed away from the silicone type since it's so flimsy.  I only took a shot of the done cake, as the other ones still turned out fine.  This cake is very moist and has a good combination of both the blueberry and lemon.  Though I prefer lemony flavoured things in the first place.  

Cafe Koi


I'm trying to find a good jazz spot in Calgary that is not The Beatniq.  I love the Beatniq but cover charge is too much for my liking.  I don't drink so a place that serves food is a wonderful alternative for me.  Thursday nights at Cafe Koi is open mic Jazz night.  It says it starts at 8pm, but didn't really start until maybe 8:30ish.  I think next time I'll plan to go a little later maybe about 8:30ish, we were there at 7:30 for supper.  The food was a little slow to come out, but I think it's good because then you have time to enjoy the music.  Open mic is not restricted to an age group, there was an 11 year old boy in a fedora who played the piano and sang.  No classics, but still, what a brave kid!  
The interior is pretty modern, black, very comfortable for such a small restaurant.

We ordered the Ginger beef and the Roasted garlic hummus with flatbread.  The portions were on the smaller side, but both tasted fantastic.  
There are a lot of bowls. Each bowl has rice in it or noodles if specified. 
(I apologize my picture quality went down when my battery died in my dSLR)  
I'd definitely come back again, but only on Jazz night!  
Ginger Beef
 
Roasted garlic hummus 
 
 The Tiger claw bowl is a yellow curry with prawns and rice on the side. 

Shinobi salmon bowl: curry with Thai salmon.
   
Seoul food: seasoned sirloin beef with the signature chili maple sauce on top of veggies.  The rice tasted pretty fantastic with the sauce.  
  

Firecracker Parfait, it looks very large, but most of the glass contained large pieces of fruit. 
 
Coffee Cake, was sort of hidden by the massive sphere of vanilla ice cream.  Not a huge fan of vanilla ice cream, but I enjoyed the coffee cake, soaked with maple drizzle. 
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Pfanntastic Pannenkkoek Haus


Dutch pancakes! Pretty much crepe texture and absolutely delicious.  
I had the bacon, onion, cheese and shredded potatoes for the savoury, and we shared the Saskatoon berry with whipped cream.  The portions are huge, as you can see it takes up the entire plate. They are thin but filling. 

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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Manuel Latruwe Belgian Patisserie


Part II: April 8, 2010   Belgian Waffles! Strawberries and whipped cream, chocolate sauce and maple syrup.

 Part I:

I've been dying to try this place since I heard the review from John Gilchrist on CBC a while ago. 
I hear the Belgian waffles are to die for, but today what caught my eye was the pizza.  Pear/Gorgonzolla! 
I am a huge fan of pear pizza. Ever since I had it from Miro Bisto in Lethbridge (It's been off the menu for a long time, quite sad), pear has been one of my favourite pizza toppings.  This thin crust gourmet pizza was absolutely delicious.  Took a little while to get to us, but at least we got an apology.  The pizza was topped with some salad with walnuts. 


We followed this delicious lunch by choosing 2 desserts from the many fine looking choices in the display case. 

 
 
Black Forest
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