Pad Thai Laos Stew

Cooking authentic in Lao and Thai culinary traditions needed lots of rehearsals to get the flavours balanced. A good selection of needed ingredients require research information on available sources .Different locations in the many provinces add ingredients from their origin. Simple street food dishes are always made to order using the freshest ingredients and served to you as a VIP guest.  The Laos cuisine is a personal favourite and will give you a food rush that will make you smile from ear to ear. The simple Pad dishes are first class and all served with quality and...

Wild Forest Mushroom Truffle Cream Soup

Wild Forest Mushroom Truffle Cream Soup.. While cleaning out my condiment pantry, I found some of my foraged dried wild forest mushrooms that I picked several years back. I didn’t realise how much I still had left. Beside that was also a small tin of imported Italian dried truffle flakes with lots of residue intact. With these ingredients I started to prepare some mushroom truffle and tarragon cream soup with parma-bacon crisps to intensify the flavours. A quick chop of celery, onion and shallot, some unsalted butter into a sauté pan while the mushrooms soaked in a...

Ceviche Lettuce Wraps

Ceviche Lettuce Wraps, is food dish that originated in Peru, typically made from fresh raw fish and shell fish cured in fresh citrus juices, most commonly lemon or lime, and spiced with ají, chili peppers or other seasonings, including chopped onions, salt, and coriander and topped on rice paper wrap. Make your own flavours and enjoy the crispy goodness by first setting up a condiment tray with all the fillings. Remember to keep it well chilled. The emphasis on detail is to impress. We started the ball rolling with a most delicious house margarita . Perfectly executed....

Nick’s Romaian Bread

Perfect bread requires a passionate baker. The more time we spend at home the more we need to eat well and stay healthy. A good loaf of bread is the best thing to have in your pantry. No matter where you are in this country finding a good loaf like this one and you’ll have to make your way to Steveston BC. Come and say hi to Nickolas and treat yourself to one of the best loafs made with a century old starter and a wood fired oven that is so seasoned from the thousands of loafs he has produced over the years.

Welcome To Mary’s Garden

For over 20 years being thekitchenman I would get most all his seasonal fruit and vegetables from Mary’s Garden. No spray produce and fruit fresh from the farm field and orchards. Just picked produce arrives hourly from the pickers. The berries are in full swing and had this seasons first nugget peas, lettuce, potatoes, cukes, carrots and cherry tomatoes. One very well run garden market store. Happy 53th Year  

Pig Tails thekitchenman Way.

Pig Tails thekitchenman way from scratch. To some these pig tails are a culinary masterpiece and would  Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands Ivan Pavlov from just looking. Others, probably would be hiding their utter disbelieve that some would actually eat one. Hey, I put the sewer in connoisseur and am proud of it. I am thekitchenman.           The question is, could you eat the rear end of a pig? If you answered no! Than I suggest you leave the page now. On the other hand if you answered why...