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Score A Pair Of Tickets To The Lower Mainland Feast Of Fields

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We’re a proud sponsor of the kickass outdoor roaming feast that is going down this Sunday, August 29th from 1-5pm out at Wellbrook Winery on Delta’s Bremner Farm. We have two tickets to give away to whoever can relate for us in the comments below their best food experience so far this summer. It could be as simple as scarfing back barbecued salmon on a beach or feasting in some far secluded field. The more you can make our mouths water the better…

If you don’t win, there are still a few $85 tickets left to purchase online.

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  2. The most fun a foodie could have had by far this summer was at the Vanfoodster one year anniversary party at Canvas Lounge. Richard put together a list of some of his favorite restaurants and for one evening, Coast served up delicious crab cakes, Nimby greeted us with fabulous burgers grilled to perfection, Atithi had amazing Indian pakoras and other goodies, Bonchaz created an assortment of their scrumptious sweet buns, Vancouver Brownies gave us rich, chocolately brownie assortment, Kafkas Coffee a cooling pour-over coffee, xoxolat some rich tasty basil-infused dark chocolates, Cake Tease had their toffee cupcakes specially created for the evening, and the wine and sangria flowed as well!

    Sum

  4. Best food experience so far this summer? Sharing a half dozen gorgeously ripe, but sadly damaged in the trip home from the market, peaches with my partner while leaning over the kitchen sink. We laughed and moaned while the juice dripped from our elbows and chins and our hips bumped as we each reached for the last one.

  5. It was my first secret supper to ruin all secret suppers of my future!!! A gorgeously sunny Sunday in Mount Pleasant, in someone’s (swallowtailsupperclub.blogspot.com’s) yard containing a smoker, a spit, a barbecue pit, happy strangers, and chefs cooking as if for friends and competing for their vote. (BBQ contest!) Smoked tur-duck-in-cor-quail-con, sausage stuffing, Serbian pig on a spit, Serbian plum brandy, cheese-stuffed bread, Rumrunner apple cider, ceviche, wine, ribs, beer, steak tacos, cookies with chocolate melty and smoky from the grill. I died. The end.

  6. I can’t think about an ultimate summer meal without thinking about the farmers market. I always go to the one on Main Street and this year I found the perfect summer lasagna recipe. Layers of béchamel mixed with fresh herbs and fat ribbons of pasta separate layers of juicy heirloom tomatoes, ever so slightly bitter summer squash, and sweet onion. I paired it with a crisp Okanagan sauvignon blanc and a salad of baby greens. To top the whole thing off – a vanilla cardamom peach pie with peaches fresh from the growers themselves.
    That was a perfect summer meal.

  7. So far the best food experience has been in our garden plot at the community garden – when the raspberries were ripe, and my 5 year old daughter was picking and eating, picking and eating, and they were warm as jam.

  8. The neighbour’s old apple tree leans over the only space remaining for cherry tomato plants this year. Summer takes its time. The plants straggle, but the apple tree rocks; more juicy fruit than ever falls and crowds the tomatoes’ dirt.
    The scrawny vines haven’t even flowered. Maybe too much shade.
    “Want me pick up the apples?” The neighbour is apologetic about the spilled bounty on my side of the fence, or maybe he’s sorry about my skinny plants. I’ve mostly given up hope for tomatoes and have let softening apples pile around their stocks.
    “Naw, they’re fertilizer,” I answer, scuffing the apple-sauced soil. Another falling red one just misses me.
    The recluse tomatoes begin to slouch clusters of green marbles. But even as the tree drops the last of its fruit, the tomatoes fail to ripen.
    And then this week, a hint of orange… Pink… Finally, two ripe scarlets.
    They succumb, rolling onto my palm, I pop one in my mouth. Slight resistance and then: A ruby-Fuji squirt. Apple-tomato sass.
    It’s a tiny harvest, just enough every day now after work for one or two juicy sloshes of cider-spiked cherry grapes, an apartif before entering the house.

  9. So hard to narrow it down, but what comes to mind is this week’s wonderful, deliciously sweet corn, picked earlier the day we ate it, from Rondriso Farms at the Surrey Urban Farmers Market. It made the most amazing crunch, my daughter kept eating and eating just to make that crunching sound! Simple but delightful.

  10. My dad and 4 friends were visiting me from California for a few days so I wanted to treat them to a memorable trip to Vancouver Island. I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to go to the Sooke Harbour House. I called what I thought was the Sooke Harbour House but turned out to be the Harbour House in Victoria and made reservations. When we arrived Thursday afternoon for lunch at the Sooke Harbour House we were surprised to here that the Sooke Harbour House only serves lunch on Sundays. This was very disappointing since we were all looking forward to the opportunity to eat at such an acclaimed restaurant. Frédérique Philip (the co-owner of the Sooke Harbour House) told us that we weren’t the first party to make that mistake. She told us to wait a moment while she went to talk to the chef to see if there was something they could throw together for us.

    Moments later she welcomed us into their gorgeous water front dining room. We had the whole place to ourselves! As we sat with anticipation, Frédérique brought us out a sheet with a list of 2 dozen ingredients printed on it. The list included items such as smoked tuna belly, quail, kid, clams, pasta, sockeye, and fresh garden vegetables. She instructed us to pick 3 or 4 of the ingredients and the kitchen would prepare a dish just for us.

    As we received our meals, every person in our party had a completely different dish. Half way through our meal, Sinclair Philip joined us in the dining room. He got quiet a laugh after telling him our experience of making the reservation at the wrong restaurant. he was very happy to have us and even gave us a tour of his wine cellar after our meal. The food was incredible and was only rivaled by the amazing hospitality Frédérique and Sinclair showed us. Made for the most amazing gastronomic experience of my summer!

  11. Going to our favourite Italian restaurant (La Quercia) with out of town company. We feasted on house cured meats and olives, spicy pork cheek spaghetti and parmesan soufflé (to die for!). Our night was topped of when we offered the chefs glasses of our 2000 Caymus Magnum, which they incorporated into our pan seared (to perfection) quail. A night to remember!

  12. We just moved this summer from a one bedroom condo to a house with a ready-made garden. Best food moment(s) has been discovering the many treats the previous resident left behind – sunchokes, potatoes, garlic, cherry tomatoes, raspberries… the list goes on and on. We had a great dinner tonight full of our garden’s bounty and are looking forward to many more!

  13. My partner and I had a wonderful supper to finally introduce our parents to one another when mine were out visiting from Quebec. My sister brought lettuce from her garden and my inlaws brought other greens and cherry tomatoes from theirs. Our garden provided some baby potatoes, chives and sunchokes to our main course, and my parents had brought out some ‘real’ maple syrup for our ice cream for dessert, along with raspberries also picked from our garden. Since we had just moved into our new house we didn’t have any ‘real’ furniture to speak of, so I put a large piece of plywood over some sawhorses to make a table we could all fit around outside. We ate, drank, laughed and translated from English to French (and back again) over a great meal that everyone had contributed to. One of my favourite nights of the summer!

  14. There are the infamous dinner parties with the summer-themed dishes and patio atmosphere. But I must say sadly, that my most memorable experience of the summer, if not my life, would be in a city other than Vancouver. The place I’m thinking of is at Quartino’s in downtown Chicago. Visiting a friend out in Northwestern, I was able to explore Chicago to it’s finest. And luckily, being blessed with his interest of food as well, was able to find this incredible place. When you walk in, there is ambiance of a dimly-lit room with wooden floors and oak-tables and chairs. White table clothes hide underneath small sharing plates and a bottle of olive oil with a sprig of rosemary and dimly lit candles. With old italian movies playing in the background, it and italian movies playing in the background, it suits to be a place of romance and laughter. Families and friends sharing smiles over small dishes of honest food. A glance over at the kitchen, there is a large display of cured meats and cheeses in front of the heat of the kitchen. Starting with a caprese salad, so straight forward, no bullshit. The tomatoes were still firm, but yet just held the mozzarella together along with a little bit of s&p and balsamic. I couldn’t wait for the next dish. Then came the cheese fondue with this… bread that I simply could not get enough of. Nothing taking over the bread, like rosemary or oregano would in a foccacia, but just the flavor of the yeast and the cheese.. oh! Followed by a tasting of salumi, cheese, spuntini and olives. I could not ask for a better combination of food over great conversation. But no! Eggplant Parmigiana with the most amazing tomato sauce just sang through, and more bread to mop it all up. It was so good, that when the bussers wanted to take the plate away, my friend actually grabbed it back from him with his hand, armed with a piece of bread. Before we could finish the dish in front of us, we would order another from the waitress, always having food in front of us. Seared Sea scallops with white wine, caper berries, lemon were absolutely divine and cooked to perfection. The steamed clams were a instant table lover, people even drinking the broth from their plates! (Given we had a couple glasses of wine already. Which by the way, their motto is: “where wine is cheaper than water”. Not completely true, but after laughing with friends over good food, does it matter?) Finishing the meal with a mushroom risotto which was nearing our limit of our stomachs. But my friend urged that we must get the desserts, which one has to ask the server for the menu as it’s not with the dinner menu. Adding onto the idea that the dessert was a secret and only known by locals, it all came true when I bit into the Zeppole with a dip of honey. It was so good that I nearly laughed out of disbelief and nearly choked on the powdered sugar on top. But the italian donut would not be justified by just being dipped into honey, but would only be given justice when dipped into the dark chocolate sauce with grand marnier and some other flavours I know of, but can still not identify. That about sums it up… the most memorable food experience I’ve had yet. Great food and wine, and better friends, anything better than that? (I know the contest is probably over and that this is long, but just speaking my mind =D)

  15. On a hot summer day, there is nothing better than sitting in a backyard feasting on barbequed on charcoaled barbequed meat. I received a phone call on a Friday from a guy who I hadn’t met but had corresponded with some time ago on some dating site . Well on an impulse he decided to have a barbeque on Saturday. Well being adventurous of spirit, I thought, what the heck and jumped on the bus, the Canada Line, the Seabus, the North Van transit and voila I arrived. Well this was not your ordinary barbeque as there was a huge spit of meat that had been roasting for 4 hours and on it, not one, but three different types of meat – pork, lamb and beef which was succulent, tender and of course, had the smokey flavor that only barbeque had. And accompanied with potato salad, dessert and some excellent wine, this improntu get together really hit the spot as I had just gotten off the plane 2 days ago and had nothing in my cupboard. Sometimes the best meals are those spontaneously planned, but always shared with good company.

  16. Nicely done all. Ian’s tale takes it. Congrats. Thanks for the reads.

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