Beef Goulash.

Beef Goulash. The prices of groceries are rising rapidly and stretching your food dollar requires some easy recipes that pack good protein flavour and feed the whole family keeping within a budget Home comfort food that will make a nice meal alongside a crisp salad. I like using steak trim from the butcher which usually is a mixture of different cuts of beef. Stewing beef should have some fat marbling to add flavour and a achieve a more tender beef. Best time to teach the young ones survival in the kitchen and here is one of the first meals I was taught how to serve....

The Wurst Oktoberfest Sausages.

Back while I was visiting Waterloo County and the Mennonite area General stores I came across a vendor at St. Jacobs that had some of the Wurst Oktoberfest Sausages and the original festival honey mustard. He claimed his Grandfather and Mother were making these little bangers and selling them at the Berlin Farmers Market before becoming Kitchener Ont. Over the years I have gained many sources to get some great artisan sausages. Sausage Meister’s are usually found on farms and have a seasoned smoke house on the premises. Because it’s not inspected and the...

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...

The Knotty Pine Cinnamon Bun

Knotty Pine Cinnamon Bun; Back in the 80’s I was shown by Jill Jacques this treasured recipe for the restaurants most delicious Cinnamon Buns. Now years later I still remember these pillow soft secret caramelized Cinnamon Bun as being a quintessential Knotty Pine experience. In the early 1950’s, the Kofe-Bar changed owners from the Graham’s to the Jacques and after a few years went from baking a couple dozen to a staggering amount per day as the bakery’s reputation grew in popularity and became one of a Mrs. J’s signature bake shop...

Berries are Good! K

Ever wonder why there are so many birds that like to eat berries? A bears survival cravings are the same as humans and love the taste and the energy from eating the fresh picked berry fruits. The main reason for the birds take on a seasonal berry feeding frenzies is to build fat cells and immune system. Fat Cells actually up-regulates gene expression for fat oxidation (fat burning) and down-regulates gene expression for fat storage. The oxidation of fatty acids increases further, directly through the release of adiponectin. The overall effect is that fat cells begin to...