Maple Sugar Apple Butter Coffee Cake

Maple Sugar Apple Butter Coffee Cake. This recipe would have my mother bringing out her retro pyrex clear glass baking dishes, 5 sizes with a pyrex glass rolling pin and dough bowl. I still use it today and my moms recipe to make this most scrumptious coffee cake. Ingredients needed; Cake: 3 cups sifted flour 1 cup maple sugar. 1 cup Wellesley Apple Butter 3 teaspoons fresh baking powder 3 teaspoons fresh ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 1/2 cup whole milk (I use buttermilk or yogurt also) 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (very soft) 2 teaspoon pure maple or vanilla...

Flavoured Butters

Flavoured Butters When thekitchenman needs to add some sizzle to the steak he uses a range of different sauces and flavoured butters to get that optimum level of good taste. These next recipes are the ones that I use and once you add these to your cooking repertoire your next meal at home will be taken to another level. Onion Sauce This is a béchamel sauce flavored with sweet onion. It is a lovely silky sauce for delicate-flavored foods and perfect for baked-in-cream dishes. 4 cups chopped or sliced sweet onions Salt 5 tbs butter 1/4 cup flour 2 cups milk Freshly ground...

Butter Chicken thekitchenman Way

          Butter Chicken thekitchenman Way: 1968  and Vancouver was exploding with new restaurants and places for me to sharpen my cooking skills. I began a new job at Hotel Vancouver with good recommendations from the Banff Hotel chef. I became first cook breakfast and was happy to get some cash coming in along with a top notch job. My shift at the hotel started a 4-30 am. I worked for some time doing breakfast buffets, banquets and resided on trendy Beach Ave. I also worked a part time job at the English Bay Fish and Chip kiosk. It was a fun job...

Deluxe Seafood Crispy Birds Nest

Deluxe Seafood Crispy Birds Nest. Back in Toronto in the 80’s Kwong Chows near Kensington Market was where I was taught this dish by chef Kingsley Chung. I tried to master this dish over my career and I must say do a fine job. The all-important gravy that comes from perfect timing using a super-hot wok is the key.  All the seafood and ingredients I use are premium quality. Fresh peeled shrimp, nice plump scallops, some ultra-tenderized squid, and perfect slices of ling cod. The done to order crispy basket is made fresh by using packaged rice noodles forced into hot...

Italian Pool Hall Sub

Italian Pool Hall Sub. When I was younger, playing 8 ball was a favourite past time at the resorts. Over the years where ever I was working I would seek out a billiards table and bang around a few balls to sharpen my pool playing skills. Lots of the staff like playing pool. Back in Galt there was this one billiard hall counter canteen that made a mighty fine deli sub. It was this ground up pickled condiments that made this sandwich stand out to me. I now make this sandwich using my favourite fresh baked Italian style crusty roll or fresh bake focaccias loaf. From the...

Crab Cake Watermelon Salad

Crab Cake Watermelon Salad I like to go shopping to the market when looking for some good fresh seafood and the Asian markets here sure do have a lot of good bargains when the seasonal crab supply is plentiful. The Dungeness Crabs are coming in at $10.50 a pound and are fresh caught and shucked of their meat if you wait around. It sure saves doing it at home sure makes a nice treat. Cracked cold crab claws are most delish but I like tasty crab cakes more. Once you have your supply make sure the rest of the ingredients are fresh. Let’s start with; 1 lb fresh shucked crab...