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A trip to The Gourmet Warehouse in Vancouver on Hastings Street

May 31, 2016 by Suzie the Foodie 4 Comments

The Gourmet Warehouse is located at 1340 E Hastings Street and Clark Drive in Vancouver. It is a paradise that is over 1800 square feet, filled with foodie fun and goodness. It sounded so fantastic, I contacted the company and asked if I could come for a bit of a tour and they said yes! Check out my […]

The Gourmet Club: Baked Fennel with Lamb and Coriander

November 23, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie 2 Comments

For the third recipe of The Gourmet Club series I turned once again to La Varenne Pratique for inspiration. And continuation! The reason why I made French Tomato Sauce was so I could use it for this recipe. You could of course just use a regular can of tomato sauce instead but it worked so well in this […]

Français Tarte Aux Poireaux – French Leek Tart

November 15, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie Leave a Comment

This recipe comes from The Hawthorn Series Step by Step French Cooking which must be out of print because I can not find reference to it online anywhere! Here are some of their other little books. So cute and I picked mine up at Value Village for $2! I changed a lot of the original recipe […]

Spicy Sausage Sauce

October 28, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie 10 Comments

It has been my foodie dream to learn about sauces. When I found 400 Sauces-Dips Dressings Salsas at a thrift store, I could not wait to start testing out the recipes and truly learn all about sauce-making. Do not go light on the spiciness of this recipe. It is a very simple and basic sauce and will […]

White Wine Oven Braised Mushroom Soup

October 20, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie 6 Comments

This is a tutorial on how to take a big bunch of very sad mushrooms and make a happy bowl of cream of mushroom soup. BTW I used around 6 cups of mushrooms and about 1 cup of wine and probably 1 cup of broth. You just want to make sure that there is enough liquid and fat […]