Christmas cookies!

Hellooooooooooooo everybody, how are you 'cause I am fine! It is.......CHRISTMAS BREAK!! I am making lots and lots of Christmas cookies with my mom. I think that she is the best German-Christmas-cookie baker ever! Did you know that my mom is a pastry cook and used to work in a fancy hotel? She had to stop when she was pregnant with me......so really, I worked there, too! Tee hee, hee. Would you like to know the kinds of German Christmas cookies that we make? OK!
Lavender Shortbread, Chewy Lebkuchen (Soft German spice cookies), Vanilla Kipferle (Shaped like moons), Cranberry Pumpkin Seed Biscotti, and Spekulatius (Dutch spice cookies). This time of year is Soooooo delicious!

Hello, I am back!

Hello! I know that it has been a long time but I just have not had the time. My mom just had her birthday and yesterday we made East Vancouver Cream Cake instead of Boston Cream Cake and it was sweeeeeeet.
And now at 6:41 pm I am making naan bread, and also I learned about yeast. P.S. There is yogurt in the naan bread I make.

I'm back!

Sorry I haven't written in a long time. My mom wasn't feeling well and she needed my help lots. But I have all kinds of new ideas so I'll be back soon! Bye for now!

Making dinner with Mom

Yesterday I helped my mom make pork & vegetable stir fry and quinoa for supper.  Quinoa looks like tiny round noodles, but it's way healthier. We put 'gai lan' in it, too. I don't know what it's called in English, but it's a green vegetable, that we eat at Dim Sum. I like the leaf part better than the stem because it's juicier. Mom let me bash the lemon grass with a meat tenderizer so that it smells and tastes more like lemon. She then cooked pieces of pork and showed me how it looks when it's done.

 Also, I wanted to tell you about a cool cooking show for kids. It's on Sunday mornings at 11:30 on channel 5 (Knowledge Network) and it's called 'Taste Buds'.

  Tomorrow it's my dad's birthday, so we will bake his favourite lemon cake. I can't wait!

Hi! This is Bella

Hi, this is Bella here. I am going to tell a little bit about me. Well, you should know... I eat alot. I love to invent new recipe ideas and write them in my cookbook. I am creative, and I loooooooove my dad's Beer Can Chicken. From my ancestors to my parents = we have cooking in our blood! Bye for now!

Welcome to Bella's very own blog about FOOD!

Hi! This is Bella's mommy here to introduce my daughter.
Bella is a bright & loving girl who is passionate about many things in life....among many = FOOD! She is only 8-years-old, but already loves to invent yummy & healthy snacks, drinks, desserts....pretty much anything edible. She is growing up in a family of fellow foodies, chefs, gardeners, etc. Bella also loves to discover new and yummy places to eat in our amazing city of Vancouver, BC and the surrounding area. She is inspired by Jamie Oliver and his work all around the world.
Bella is so excited about good food, that she can't wait to share her experiences with you. She wants to write about and show you her favourite flavours, restaurants, dishes, ingredients..... and hopes that you may discover more of your own, too. If even just one child learns to love new vegetables, or she inspires one family to experiment with healthy flavours, then she will feel that she has succeeded!
From now on Bella will be blogging and I will simply oversee.
Guten Appetit!