UBC Food Society

Between September and December, most stores will not stop selling pumpkin pies. They’re the perfect dessert to bring when invited to someone’s home for Thanksgiving dinner; one follows a meal quite nicely at any time in Autumn; and some people even consider it festive enough to celebrate with at Christmas. But why buy pumpkin pies [...]

Winter has arrived, one can feel it in their bones… (or see their breath in it). What do you do when the roads are icy and it seems like an eternal battle to get moving and get to class? The answer: Keep calm and bake muffins! Well, while we didn’t bake muffins in particular, the [...]

Our first dine-out was a success! Those of us who were able to make it and come out we all had a great time getting to know each other. Enigma was a really nice restaurant with a good atmosphere including a live band that played really awesome music. For dessert we tried lava cakes, creme [...]

The cupcake charmers met for the first time to take on some autumn themed cupcakes. Result? Successful conquest of pumpkin spice cupcakes and chocolate banana cupcakes! More pictures: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10150381068548671&type=1 Recipe  Links: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-muffins-ii/ http://www.joyofbaking.com/cupcakes/BananaChocolateCupcakes.html www.joyofbaking.com/RedVelvetCake.html   (cream cheese frosting)

At their second meeting, the $20-dine out mini club dined at the Red Sea Cafe. Here’s Aaron’s summary of the evening: A few weeks after our last meeting our group re-grouped for Ethiopian food at Red Sea Cafe, located on East Broadway at Fraser. Nobody in the regular group had tried Ethiopian before and did [...]