10 inch or 13 inch - That is the Question

With over 12 different flatbreads to choose from, deciding which pizza to order is never an easy ordeal. Next step - 10” or 13”? Generally, we recommend a 10” for one, and a 13” to share. This simplified recommendation doesn’t truly answer the sizing debate but two guests, Keo and Stan, shed some light on this difficult choice while dining at the Vancouver RMF earlier this month.

Curious to know whether the price increase over the 10” was worth the extra money, Keo and Stan calculated the exact area increase of a 13” pizza from a 10” – answering the very question that boggles customers when faced with how much pizza to order. With only a borrowed pen and a scrap piece of paper, Keo and Stan calculated that a 13” pizza is a 69% increase in area to a 10”, with a price increase of 63%. What does this mean? It is in fact better value to “upsize” to a large pizza to take full advantage of value for money. Also, a 13” flatbread has less crust and more of the good stuff – yummy, all natural toppings. Better yet, a half-and-half can only be ordered on a 13” pizza which offers guests the chance to enjoy a couple of different flavours. And, if you’re just not hungry enough to finish one off, left over pizza is never wasted and can be taken home in a biodegradable pizza box made from potatoes!

Recipe - Organic Greens with Basil and Blackberry Salad Dressing

Customers have continually been asking us for the recipe for our amazing salad dressings.  So today is you lucky day - here is the recipe to one of our most popular salads - basil and blackberry dressing - have fun and enjoy!

8 cups of organic greens

1 tsp crushed garlic

2/3 cup fresh blackberries or thawed frozen

2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

2/3 cup olive oil

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

3 tbsp liquid honey

5 big pinches of salt

3 big pinches of pepper.

Place all the ingredients (except the salad greens) in high bowl and use a hand blender to mix together.  Once blended, pour into clean recycled bottle and refrigerate.

Just before serving pour over mixed greens.  For added flavour add chopped tomatoes, brown mushrooms, mango chunks, roasted red bell peppers and seasonal sprouts.  Serves 6. Yum, yum.

Beeswax Candles Are Awesome!

We've been working with Canarvon Elementary after school club to help teach kids about sustainable alternatives to everyday things, and we've been teaching ourselves a thing or two on the way as well.  The first week we made beeswax candles as a healthier and green alternative to paraffin candles.  Rolling the beeswax was super fun and easy and smelled so good, I reckon anyone from 5 years up cold do it with a little help.  The kids got really creative with decoration and we had hearts, spirals, stripes, all sorts of things.  Great success.  Plus they got to take their candles home and tell their mums and dads why they are sooo much greener than paraffin candles.  Isabel and Suz doing their thing for Rocky Mountain Flatbread Education Society.

Some of the Facts About Bees Wax Candles:

100% pure beeswax is non toxic, clean burning and hyp0-allergenic.  This is because the negative ions attach to the positive ions that hold in dust, smoke, odor, molds, germs and bacteria.  Once attached, the positive ions and weighted down and this drops both the ions and the contaminants to the ground to be swept or vacuumed away!  Soooo cool.  And they burn 3 x longer than paraffin candles.

Some of the Facts About Paraffin Candles.  

Traditional paraffin candles which contain petroleum burn soot and toxic compounds that are carcinogenic and can lead to poor air quality and increased allergies.

The artificial vanilla fragrance, found in many scented candles, is actually piperonal, which is a lice killer.  Breathing these synthetic fragrances damages the receptors in our nasal passages that detect scent, diminishing our ability to smell!  Evil stuff.

Gr. 7 Exshaw Students Create Eco-Cleaning Kits

The latest story from the Rocky Mountain Flatbread Education Society... The Responsible Entrepreneur program was implemented at Exshaw school in December and it was a success, thanks to the Gr. 7 students and Anne-Marie. The Gr. 7 class worked hard and long to create Nature's Non-Toxic Cleaning Kits. The students created the name, produced the environmentally friendly cleaning supplies, packaged the product and used their magnificent sales skills to sell all of the kits for Christmas in one day. Nature's Non-Toxic Cleaning Kits included environmentally friendly laundry soap, window cleaner, all-purpose cleaner, abrasive tub and tile cleaner and lavender laundry bags. The Gr. 7's donated half of the money earned to the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley.

Did you Know?If we replaced a 48 oz bottle of petroleum based laundry soap with a natural product in every household we would save 96,000 barrels of oil every year, enough to heat and cool 5,500 houses in Canada each year.

The Responsible Entrepreneur program teaches kids how to develop a business in a way that enhances a positive contribution to society while minimizing negative impacts on people and the environment. The students learned about the 3 P's to think about when developing a business, People, Profit and Planet. Special thanks to Canmore's local businesses that made this happen: Home Hardware, Sobeys, The Lavender Store, Safeway, The Great Canadian Dollar Store, The Rocky Mountain Soap Company, Polar Pin, Nutters, Mountain FM and The Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company.

Join us for Dine Out 2008

Hello all! So January has come and December is to only be remebered by that nagging feeling of unpaid credit card bills finding there way to you via Canada Post. Don't be glum chum, Rocky Mountain Flatbread is excited to be a fresh new participant in a yearly Vancouver tradition. Dine Out 2008 begins on Jan 16th and lasts through Feb 3rd. The Staff at RMF are busy preparing and array of dishes to entice your taste buds. From Salads to Curry Lasagna, there will be options to please all of our guests (including pizza and dessert of course!). We are filling up fast as Vancouverites seem to know where to go when they've heard good things. Our 3 course offering will be exceptionally priced at $15 with optional wine pairings for those of us who enjoy the vino. And remember...Sunday and Monday are family nights and later bookings are recommended as the restaurant becomes family friendly from 5pm to 7pm. Come and enjoy a unique Dine Out 2008 experience at Rocky Mountain Flatbread . Hope we see you!

Good Bye To Lindsay Loo - At Least For A Little While

Lindsay-Loo, undoubtedly the most familiar and most well-loved face of the Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co., has left us to catch up with her family back home in the Philippines. It is with heavy hearts we see her go - but have no fear she will return to us in three months - and we will count the days until she returns to her second family here in Vancouver.

Going home to a beautiful new-born niece, Lindsay has packed her bags full of gifts she picked up at the Natural Pod Toy Sale held at the RMF in the winter of 2007, including the coveted Ergobaby carrier and the Organic Bamboletta Blanket Doll from Bridget’s wonderful line.

Aside from catching up with her family and a 30-Day Bikram yoga challenge, Lindsay plans on developing her own children’s line, Lindsay-Loo. Inspired by the green revolution, and the ever-growing demand for quality, beautiful and mindful children’s products, the Lindsay-Loo line will feature natural children’s accessories, including hand-painted wooden jewellery.

Aside from being an exemplary server, providing friendly and knowledgeable service to every customer who walks through our door, Lindsay has been a great friend to each and every one of us and will be thoroughly missed.

Counting the days till her return… TOO MANY!

"Recycle, Recycle, Recycle!"

Isabel and I (Suz) have been working with the brilliant and talented Grade 5 teacher Suzanne Lapierre and her students at Lord Tennyson School on their latest campaign - "recycling." Recycling is a simple way to save trees, sea creatures, precious metals, water and lots of carbon - yet it is still not being done by most of us. 75% of all of our trash can actually be recycled - paper, yard waste, food waste, metal, glass and plastics are all ending up in our land fills.  So the Grade 5s have taken this issue to heart and are educating fellow classmates on easy ways they can reduce trash created at school.  This month the Grade 5s are focussing student's attention on litterless lunches!  This is one of the very important projects being facilitated by Rocky Mountain Flatbread Education Society to encourage "responsible citizenship" amongst our young leaders of today.  Go Grade 5ers go!