Pineapple and Mango Salsa

Pineapple and Mango Salsa I love to cook using lots of spices and herbs that bring out the best of flavours in my personal recipes. I found that once you roast and blend some chosen spices like cardamom, anise, fennel, cumin, coriander and turmeric you have a good flavourful lite spice mixture that has no burning heat until you add some spicy hot peppers like cayenne or red/green chilies. Making a tasty salsa to dip corn chips or grilled pita breads in is simple to prepare and with little effort. Just use some different spices that add a little character...

Rhubarb Fruit and Berry Cobbler

Tasty Rhubarb Fruit and Berry Cobbler. My aunt was quite a baker and she would tell me that her style of baking was mostly the old fashioned scratch colonial method. They were always well received by friends and this fresh fruit cobbler was my favourite. I still make this simple dessert when the first rhubarb along with the first berries appear and I find it is hands on friendly to make. This cobbler recipe is particularly good with strawberries and rhubarb, but you can use any fruit combinations. Banana, Peanut Butter and Mango, or Back Raspberry and Kiwi. You will...

Rum Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosted Brown...

Rum Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosted Brownie. Here is a quick and delicious dessert that can be made quickly and by adding the apple butter it tastes moist and refreshing. Use other sweeteners in place of white sugar adjusting recipe to fit your tastes. The frosting can be made lighter by adding in more rum and some marshmallows. You will need for the brownie; 1 1/3 cups fresh flour 1 teaspoon fresh baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup unsalted butter  … 1 cup fry’s cocoa 1 cup sugar 1 cup apple butter 1/2 cup walnut pieces 3 eggs 1 teaspoons vanilla How...

Maple Bacon made with Angus Beef Belly!

Can you say charcuterie hand crafted Maple Bacon with out drooling! The thing about this Maple Bacon is that it is naturally cured using beef belly! That’s right! Bacon made from Range Fed Angus Beef. You will notice this hand-crafted pepper maple bacon aroma and the taste is superior! thekitchenman, purveyor of fine foods is very proud to be one of the first to offer this most delectable treat. It takes that sophisticated BLT to a whole different...

Future retro recipes

Wayne Conrad Serbu Some of my future retro recipes will be available from a new source. A good friend who was moving his mother found this treasure. The 1815 7th. publishing of The Complete Confectioner. The original owner of this book was a famouus British confectioner candy maker. William Henry Howard. Publisher Frederick Nutt. The book is filled with such interesting recipes, all using the most natural ingredients. The book has several hand drawn plates and diagrams showing the old fashioned way of making candy, biscuits, fruit wafers and filled chocolates. I can hardy...

Roasted Heirloom Beet Salad with Zesty O...

Roasted Heirloom Beet Salad with Zesty Orange Dressing. I love making this fresh young beet salad. It’s so tasty and makes for such a beautiful presentation. The young tender beets are just arriving here at the market. Grab a few bunches… of the different varieties and follow these simple recipe directions. Here is what you need; 2 lbs. of mixed coloured beets Preheat the oven to 350°. Wrap the beets in foil and roast for about 1 1/4 hours, or until tender. Let cool, then peel the beets and cut them into irregular chunks and bite size crudité...

Apple Strawberry Flaky Roll

Apple Strawberry Flaky Roll Keeping a few small blocks of puff pastry in the freezer comes in handy when you need a quick dessert. This simple recipe is just too quick to pass up. It’s always good finish off a dinner with a home-made treat. I use apple butter and cinnamon to give the filling some added flavour punch! Just a squeeze of some lemon juice and a teaspoon of sugar is all the other flavouring needed. You will need; One square of puff pastry rolled out on a disposable plastic  cutting board. [ This makes transfer to the baking sheet and the clean-up super...

Roasted Tomatoes with Chicken, Olio and ...

Roasted Tomatoes with Chicken, Olio and Garlic. The recipe itself is quite simple. It’s the ingredients that make it special Italian. You will need; 1 cut up and seared chicken breast, set a side. 1 pound of fresh sweet cherry or grape tomatoes. 2 cloves of minced garlic. 1 Tbs. of sliced Spring onions. 1 cup thick sliced mushrooms. 4 tablespoons of good olive oil. 1 tablespoon of unsalted butter. 4 tablespoons of aged balsamic vinegar. 1/2 teaspoon sea salt and fresh ground pepper. 4 tablespoons of grated Reggiano Parmesan. 2 tablespoons...

Garlic/Wine Clams and Linguini.

Garlic/Wine Clams and Linguini. These tasty little neck butter clams sure made this quick pasta dish taste mouth-watering. Simple to do, and man does it taste scrumptious. Scrub up a kilo of clams and hold in some ice. Follow directions and blanche off your linguini noodles. Try and time it so you can add it right to the clam mixture when it is cooked al dente. In a thick bottom sauté pan heat to medium high add tbs of olive oil and a tbs of minced garlic. Stir and do not scorch. Add in a cup of cut up roasted tomatoes, some fresh basil and a...

Korean Style Marinated KFC

  Korean marinated KFC. It’s a little bit of prep work, but well worth the effort.       This style of doing chicken alfresco first requires a 24 hour soak in a favourable lemongrass fivespice, cilantro and coconut milk brine. Just add the ingredients, stir together and add some chili’s if you like it piquant! Some prefer using butter milk and kiwi fruit, some like yogurt and  mango. I like the tasty finish that fresh coconut milk and lemongrass bring to the flavour table!   After the chicken parts marinate over night, remove as much...