Thekitchenman Cucumber Relish/ Ball Park...

When I get to feed an up and coming ball club. We have a great number of baseball parks here in South Surrey BC. I like watching the little slugger’s try and hit that ball clear out of the park. After a hard hitting and running to home plate has my team ready to chow down on some Grape Kool-Ade and a platter full of steamed All Beef Nathan’s Ball Park Franks. I make this awesome relish that goes with these most delectable tube steaks. Here it is: When hand washing, you will be able to detect any bruising or impurities. I have lectured to my staff and friends...

Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

        My aunt Marie was quite a baker and she would tell me that her style of baking was mostly the old fashioned no recipe scratch method. As I grew older watching my aunts bake I would make rehearse making some of their baked goods from some of these handed down recipes. They were always well received by friends and this fresh fruit cobbler was my favourite. I still make this simple dessert and find it hands on friendly to prepare. This cobbler recipe is particularly good with strawberries and rhubarb, but you can use any fruit combinations....

Bread and Butter Pickles

        Bread and Butter Pickles   Back when I was a young lad I had a paper route and lots of chores to tend too for making some pocket money. One laborious task was helping weed and water my mom’s extensive garden. The water nourishment for sustaining this garden was collected from rain and the winters melting snows which filled a small in ground pond. Before my mom would utilize that source she would haul pails of water from a stream that ran through our back yard property. This was a daily chore I hated the most. To make this task a little...

Toby Creek

                    I was now involved in the Panorama Resort project working for the past two years plus with just a few weekends off and doing the required resort duty manager day and fire duty was fiisicaly draining me down. The third summer was upon us and the mighty Toby Creek was flowing from its glacier tributary to Lake Windermere like raging bull rapids in some sections and a strong current snaking along a flat stretch in another spot. This creek had a world-wide reputation as a first class river too rough water...

Panorama Resort

Panorama Resort Lots of things were happening for me as I became more adapted to my profession. I was offered the job of as the executive chef to a soon to be resort owned by Calgary entrepreneur Allan Graham and The Cascade Group. This was a very rewarding position and I had lots of interviews and did several food presentation trials before being accepted. The resort operations manager was Robert Rutter hired especially for his expertise on this project from Spinney’s Support Services in Abu Dhabi. The resort manager was Rodney Darwin from The Gloucestershire House in...

Black Rock Resort in Ucluelet, BC

        Wild Pacific Trail Uchlet BC. I must say that when Cathy and I slipped away for a little weekend getaway the last time we thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Black Rock Resort in Ucluelet, BC . BC Ferries have weekend getaway packages and this quick getaway hit all the right notes. Reserved Vancouver to Vancouver Island ferry trip to Sidney or Duke Point from Horseshoe Bay or Tsawwassen, economical cost, great next door proximity to the infamous Long Beach, and the Wild Pacific Trail. What a grand spot to walk the low tidal pools and see the...