Good day, eh, and welcome to the Great White North. I’m Bob, and this is my brother Doug.
Our topic today, is, like, Great Northern beans and some great wild leeks, or ramps.
Don’t be a total hoser and take off without reading the rest of the post! (I promise I’ll stop it now…)
Continue reading Great Northern Ramp Pasta
Time for another Jamaica Discovery!!
This time, we’re taking the more obvious route, and killing it with some JERK! Instead of the standard jerk chicken, we played with some nice white fish. Continue reading Jerk Fish, with Rice & Peas (Jamaica Discoveries Pt.2)
This month’s Daring Kitchen challenge is Gumbo!
Gumbo is a stew from Louisiana that is often made up of meat or shellfish, and is thickened with a dark roux, okra and/or filé powder. I was already excited to try cooking a dark roux again (for the second time ever), but things got even more exciting when I realized I had to get a new seasoning – filé.
Continue reading Daring Seafood Gumbo
How hard is it to identify a city’s cuisine?
This is a story about how I found some Toronto food, and ate it.
Baloney!
This is another word that rhymes with macaroni, and expresses my disappointment with my first attempt at homemade macaroni and cheese.
I kinda thought this would be an easy one. I mean, who can’t make macaroni and cheese? If you can make it with bizarre ingredients from a box, you should be able to make it amazing from scratch. That wasn’t quite what happened.
Time for some Jamaican breakfast!
Back from a much needed vacation, in a warm climate with a lovely beach and lots and lots of food. Maybe too much food.
We spent nearly a week in Montego Bay, Jamaica. My goal was to have some real Jamaican food, and that’s exactly what I did. Over the next little while, I’ll be showing some of the highlights, including at least one recipe attempt.
Today’s installment begins with Jamaica’s national dish, Ackee and Salt fish. This is a breakfast dish, to the surprise of many of my fellow travellers. We North Americans aren’t really known for having fish at breakfast. It was different, to be sure.
Continue reading Ackee and Salt Fish (Jamaica Discoveries Pt.1)
A few weeks ago, while searching for Irish recipes for my St. Patrick’s day feast, I came across a recipe posted in celebration of Mardi Gras. I bookmarked it, and went along on my Irish expedition. With none of the anticipated ‘luck of the Irish’ I should naturally have, I found nothing that really piqued my interest. (Better luck next year?)
That weekend, I pulled out this recipe and decided it would be a great start to my discovery of Cajun food, with a new technique!
I should start a category for family recipe requests! This one comes, via Facebook, from my second(?) cousin.
I’ve had this recipe for many years now, but I never wrote it down. It wasn’t given to me – it was demonstrated to me, back in high school, by my high school BF’s Mom.
This dish was inspired by the combination of fennel and smokey, spicy sausage.
There’s something about the sweet licorice taste of the fennel, mixed with the salty, spicy, smokey, greasiness of the sausage.
Maybe I should have left out the greasiness part.
Continue reading Pasta with Smoked Sausage, Fennel and Arugula
Personal Challenge time!! Crème Brûlée is one of my very favourite desserts, so I had to learn how to make it!
Kitchen torch in hand, I was all set!
This combo gave me an excuse to mix three of my favourite things right now: custard, Scotch and lemon zest powder.
