Prime Rib

Deluxe Prime Rib For the beef to qualify it has to be free of bruises, evenly marbled steer meat, dry aged for at least 29 days and be no more than 13 pounds. A one inch thick fat cap is also required. Start by rubbing a spice mixture which contains equal amounts of kosher salt, garlic powder, beef base, ground black pepper, keens mustard powder and mild paprika. The spice rub is most important to making a tender roast. Massage this mixture all over the room temperature beef until it was well coated. Now place the roast onto a thick roasting pan and pour about a cup of...

Wok Fried Pork Belly Bacon Stuffed Shrim...

Wok Fried Pork Belly Bacon Stuffed Shrimp One of my favourite Asian recipes using tasty cold water gulf shrimp that I tried was from Kwong Chows in Toronto China Town. I was taken there by one of my employers who was showing me the dishes that he would like duplicated and served in his new restaurant Charade. We ate at Kwong Chows about a dozen times and this shrimp dish Woo-Hip-Har or Wok Fried Pork Belly Bacon Stuffed Shrimp. I tried the shrimp dish several times before I could figure out all the flavours used to make this such a tasty dish. At first, I used 12/15 size...

Bacon Wrapped Scallops.

Bacon Wrapped Scallops. Finest at Sea fish store that purvey top quality eco friendly Pacific Coast seafoods. They had a chest full of fresh live scallops oysters mussels clams in the shell. They were so delicious slurpped raw right from the ocean. Small and succulent they needed no condiment. I perchased a few dozen so I began to proceed with shucking and then wrapping those tasty morsels in some natural smoked sugar maple bacon. I fried them in a very-very hot pan moving them around till all sides were nice and crispy. A quick ketchup, lemon juice, worcestershire and...

Jamaican Cod Fritters Garlic Aioli.

Jamaican Cod Fritters with Garlic Aioli. Salted cod is a staple food for many of the  Caribbean islands. Crispy Salt Cod Fritters with Chili Parsley and Garlic. This is uncompromising in flavour and glorious with a glass of ice-cold beer. I love fire roasted bread fruit and ambrosia sour sop as sides to this staple street vendor foods. Easy to do and once you have mastered the chore this recipe will make many smiles. Ingredients 1lb 2oz dried salt cod fillets 1 fresh bay leaf 2 medium-sized floury potatoes (about 8oz each), peeled and thinly sliced 2 tbsp. olive oil 1¾oz...

Xmas Ginger Breads

  One of the first cookies that I remember my great aunt would bake was gingerbread men. Every Christmas she would make a full array of seasonal holiday cookie treats. I like the taste of ginger and find that the use of ginger as that secret ingredient found in some cookies is most satisfying to the taste bud. When I was baking Xmas cookies in mass amounts for a well-known restaurant group the Christmas baking was done hands on following colonial era recipes. Each batch of dough was hand crafted and the cookies that came from the dough batch were all slightly...