Thanksgiving Pumpkin Almon Custard

Pumpkin and Almond Custards This a great dessert to serve anytime. The mixture of all the ingredients complement each other and the use of other sweeteners add a more modern approach other than egg and cream versions. Good if you’re a vegan!… These ingredients are available at most good grocery or organic co-op stores in the bulk section. Life is too short to eat mediocre dessert! You will need; 2-14 oz can full rich coconut milk 2 1/2 tsp real almond extract 2 tsp. agar [Agar is a gel derived from red algae. Though agar is widely used as a food additive] At...

Bread and Butter Pickles.

Bread and Butter Pickles. The season for small pickling cucumbers are ready for old family recipes. This year I will be doing extra canning duties because of the current situation. Time to make as many condiments and side entrées ease the food costs having to buy and because you can prepare using such good ingredients. This retro Rockton’s Fair Cook Book is just chock full of Blue Ribbon winning recipes. Later I will be posting the ones I have tried and found to be rewarding for the effort like this most excellent Bread and Butter Pickles recipe. I learned to love a...

Almond and Cherry Dutch Baby

Almond and Cherry Dutch Baby. The Cherries are coming on strong here in Ontario Farm Country. I love cherries and once cooking for Ann Margret she told me her secrets to beautiful skin is adding pure cherry juice to your diet. I’ve eaten them from my aunts farm since I was a kid and must say my 73 year old face is still looking youthful if I must say. While looking through my dad’s old recipes that he made for summer weddings and BBQ’s, I found this old German Dutch Baby recipe. I remember how it tasted so good and my dad made it in minutes. It reminded...

Calamari Squid and Shrimp Salads.

RRRRRR! Billy! Calamari Squid and Shrimp Salad. Cold seafood salads make a nice light lunch. Also make a good share plate. I try to find the best items like fresh micro greens and garden veggies. Option is to make a creamy hot sauté seafood salad dressing or make individual cocktail shooter salads. Ingredients needed are; 2 lbs. squid, cleaned and cut 4 oz. cooked small prawns or shrimp 4 cups of a good salad green mix with some fresh veggie sprouts and shoots 6 grape tomatoes halved. 1 cup sliver sliced red or green pepper 1/2 cup sliced Nero or green olives 1/2 small...

Zesty Orange Asparagus

Zesty Orange Asparagus. Blanche the asparagus in a cup of some fresh squeezed orange juice. Chill down in an ice water bath. Squeeze of some fresh lemon juice, 2 oz of water and a tbs of washed orange peel zest and simmer till aldente, [slightly crisp to the tooth]. Chill down in an ice water bath. Segment an orange and lay out on a plate in a crescent shape for best presentation. Toss the chilled asparagus in some white balsamic vinegar, light extra virgin olive oil, dash of sesame oil, and fresh ground white pepper, a little sugar and a sprinkle of toasted rice salt....

Wild Leek Pesto Penne

Ramp up your Pasta or Salads. Foraging Season is coming on this spring and finding some new places to search is my goal. This culinary wild leek is making good dishes taste so much better. It’s what most culinary foodies and the top chefs are twittering about. I will check out some sources as I travel to the Ontario river watershed. I just talked to a friend grower who is going through the stages of a long wet winter. Start up is ongoing and have been hit with frost here is turning up a limited supply. I will check out some more known sources as I travel to the...