The CBC

The CBC; I love a good wrap. Chicken, Bacon and Cheddar is a good combination and makes a most satisfying lunch or light dinner entrée. I’m  starting with some BBQ grilled creole seasoned chickens along wrapped with some double smoked apple wood bacon that was first crisped over the grill then wrapped in aged cheddar and then grilled to a golden brown perfection. This adds so much more flavour when you char the cheese. A few leaves of butter lettuce and some spinach tucked inside, drizzled with a mandarin orange honey dressing and wrapped up together in a fresh soft...

Skinny Sexy and Smart Mango Chevre Tarts...

Skinny, Sexy and Smart Mango Chevre Tarts. Peel and cut even strips of 2 fresh mango over a bowl into a sieve. Collect all the juices and add juice from one lime. 1 heaping tbs. of marmalade into the juices. Add 1/2 cup cream cheese and 1/2 cup goat cheese. Mix and blend together using a spatula. The juices and the marmalade should be enough sweetener. Once blended keep to the side. In another bowl add a cup of Anna’s cookies gingersnap crumbs and a cup of ritz or graham cracker crumbs. Drizzle a few tbs of melted butter over the crumb mix and form into small ping...

Springy Flower Salad

Springy Flower Salad. Back when I was learning about the many edible and medicinal herbs and flowers with Rachel MacLeod at the Kiln Farm. I was being shown all the varieties which we would pick as they were growing and then turn into the salad of the day. It was a lot of fun and very neat as each week I would be introduced to a new flavour. Chocolate Curry Flower, Opal Basil, Dandelions and Clover. Nothing makes a food plate jump out at you more then one presented with some eye dazzling edible flowers. I like lavender, thyme, dill, cilantro, day lily, zucchini squash...

K-Paul’s Shrimp Creole. 1

K-Paul’s Shrimp Creole. 1 When you have friends coming for dinner, it’s a nice change to make a recipe that is actually simple to do and can be done with very little prep and cooking time. Your guests mouth’s will water when they start to smell the aromas coming from the kitchen. Ingredients 1 ½ pounds medium shrimp peeled and deveined 1 tablespoon Louisiana Cajun seasoning 1 tablespoon clarified butter oil ⅓ cup churned unsalted clarified full fat butter ⅓ cup all purpose flour 1 cooking onion chopped ½ bell pepper chopped 2 ribs celery chopped ¼...

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...