DiYVR: What Vancouver's Got Cooking

		DiYVR is a weekly spotlight on all things handmade, done-by-oneself, crafted and hacked around Vancouver, featuring profiles of makers, event announcements, exhibits and general DIY fun. Know someone or something we should cover? Email me!

For all the talk of making and doing-oneself, there's an awful lot of nothing said about cooking. Nay, cooking seems to occupy a niche all its own. That's all well and good, but just because we eat the results doesn't take away from the fact that when we take two ingredients and combine them to make something new, we're totally DIYing.

As a maker of an admittedly less practical sort, I'm intimately familiar with the doing involved with cooking. Mostly because I've avoided cooking pretty much forever. Unless it's waffles or cookies, I consider cooking to be about as enjoyable as getting my right foot run over by a tractor.

But this summer my kid started eating "solid" food – conveniently timed with the start of farmer's market season. And you know what? I love pureeing food for him. Sure, this is the most basic of basic cooking, but I'm actually learning how foods are prepared. So far I've transformed farmer's market bounty into weeks' worth of food for the baby, and in the process I've started eating better, myself. (Some verdicts: He loves blueberries and he's pretty keen on carrots. Not so much with the broccoli, zucchini and apricots – which just makes my challenge all the more satisfying.)