Food and Drink

In this easy dessert, a fine mix of B.C. summer fruit is baked topped with a buttery, crumbly topping

This colourful, cool — and somewhat retro — dish featuring shrimp, boiled eggs and local summer vegetables is perfect for warm summer evenings.

Chilled salmon is served with a tangy-sweet chutney yogurt sauce and a curried rice salad — a perfect meal to make in advance when it's hot out.

Fire up the BBQ: These tender pork side ribs are slathered and served with cola barbecue sauce.

Fresh fillets of sockeye salmon and lingcod, chopped, seasoned and formed into patties, are grilled and set in buns with complementary ingredients.

When you overdo it at the farmers market, it's a fine time to make vegetable soup

If you need an unpretentious, classic, everyone-will-enjoy dessert to bring to a potluck, family gathering or other get-together, you can't go wrong with a good bundt cake.

This tasty lamb stew is rich with B.C. wine and a range of just-picked local summer vegetables: spring onions, snap-top carrots, shelling peas, nugget potatoes and some tender young leaves of chard.

Here’s a recipe for pancake mix that you can quickly turn into batter by mixing some wet ingredients.

Marinated and grilled portobello mushrooms are topped with cheese, and then set in buns with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomatoes and onions