Championship Bone Broth Soups

Championship Bone Broth Soup.   I find the better one eats the better one feels. Soup is a great way to take in the needed nutrients and proteins. Using a variety of vegetables like sweet potato and bok choy you can achieve great tasting soups. It all starts with a good bone broth. I like to get a roaster filled with beef, chicken and pork bones that I frozen from past meals. I add onion, carrot, celery and roast in a 300 hundred degree oven for 4 hours. The liquid gold is well worth the effort. Here is some vegetable facts. A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye....

Spot Prawn Cherry Tomato Bisque

Spot Prawn Tomato Bisque. I roasted a load of ripened heirloom tomatoes that I canned at the height of the season. So much taste in old strain tomatoes. To make the broth I added some raw honey and apple cider vinegar and further reduced a litre of crushed roasted tomatoes down in a pot on the stove left on simmer. I also roasted off the spot prawn shells and added it to the pot for the flavours. I added a splash Sapphire Gin, pinch of fresh ginger and some fine chopped basil and cilantro, sea salt pepper and unsalted butter. Added some 35% cream and the a few whole spot...

Brome Duck Confit

Confit of Brome Duck Once venerated as a preservation method, cooking and keeping duck in its rendered fat results in meltingly tender, moist, and extremely flavorful meat which can be used in a variety of simple preparations. Sear the duck legs in a hot skillet or shred the meat and add it to salads, or, perhaps best of all, make duck rillettes. Just remember the duck must be salted a day before you plan to cook it. 3 tbs kosher salt 4 large cloves garlic, smashed with a knife 1 large shallot, peeled and sliced 6 sprigs thyme Coarsely ground black pepper 4 duck legs with...

Chinese Pot Sticker Dumplings

Chinese Pot Sticker Dumplings Throughout the world, there are dumplings everywhere but nowhere is the dumpling more popular than in China. And of all the assorted dumplings available, the simple pot sticker is the most common. Originating in Shanghai, the two Chinese characters that illustrate them, “wor tip,” translate as pot stick. In other areas of China such as Beijing and Guangzhou they are translated as “little dumpling. “A bit of folklore suggests that these dumplings were created by accident when an Imperial chef, making dumplings, forgot them on...

Camp Fire Chicken and Hot Biscuits.

Camp Fire Chicken and Hot Biscuits. I spent lots of time at resorts and lodges throughout my career doing fireside cooking for the guests. I worked the many different positions as I was learning how to cook. My favourite form of preparing food is using a natural wood and charcoal fed fire. I found I did some of my best recipes when I had simple cooking utensils and an outdoor heat source. I started as a young cub scout which procured my interests to anything done with fire. There is something about fire that brings out the best in all foods. I found that the manifesto for...