100 Ranger Cookies

100 Ranger Cookies; The next time you have to bake cookies for a fund raiser or birthday party use this simple cookie recipe to get your children or grand children involved.   A good from the scratch cookie starts with quality ingredients. I find great quality and prices at the local Bulk Barn Using the best products available will make the cookies you bake yummy delicious. Unsalted sweet butter and fresh ground flours. I start by making a simple butter cookie dough. Still by far still cheaper and much tastier than any store bought. Here is what you’ll...

Winter Melon Soup (Duong Qua Tong)

Year of the Horse Chinese New Year. Eight Precious Jewels Winter Melon Soup; (Duong Qua Tong) One of my favourite restaurants was a corner diner in White Rock next to my Deli. I used to dine out for my weekly fix of contemporary Asian soups. now I go to Wok’s Taste in Guelph or The Mandarin Restaurant King Street KW. When I find a new Asian Eatery I try the Egg or Spring Roll and one of the Chef’s soups. I’ve have tried many versions of this great prized Cantonese winter melon soups in my travels on the west coast. These large oval or round melon globes...

Chive and Cheddar Laced Cornbread

  t Chive and Cheddar Corn Bread Muffins. I fondly remember the first real good corn muffin I tasted back in Kitchener at the Purple Turtle Bistro. The chef used to serve them with the soup of the day. Added items like bacon, jalapenos, crispy fried capers were things that made his muffins so special. When I get a nice offering of a kitchen baked item served with a soup salad it shows that the cook care about the stuff they are serving. Use sharp cheddar and real chives or shallots for flavoring. Add different ingredients like chili flakes, herbs or a spice to make...

Valentine Fondue for Two.

Fondue for Two! It started with a road trip in Oxford county to pick up some farm fresh veggies and hand crafted cheeses. Some farms have green houses and controlled storage facilities to grow year round. I like the always just picked fresh zucchini, tomatoes, peppers onions cucumbers, okra, asparagus, potatoes, carrots broccoli cauliflower, nuts and grains are deluxe. thekitchenman shops at Victory Veg | Facebook. After lunch we stopped into Gunn’s Hill Cheese which is a cheese emporium here in the dairy capitol of Canada. Fresh right from the area farm cattle....

Pho on the Go

One of my favourite lunch meals is a bowl of good flavourful bowl of PHO. The Vietnamese street cart staple which was first introduced in 1920 at a place where one could sit to eat, instead of standing or squatting. Many new PHO restaurants are springing up everywhere here in BC. I took on a cooking position working alongside a Vietnamese Chef at the Green Papaya  who made a great tasting lemon grass broth using several different techniques that I watched and studied. Roasting some veal bones sided with an array of herbs and spices made the broth take on a more the...