Beef Pho’ to Go!

Pho! Pronounced Foo! I few years back I got to work with a talented Vietnamese restaurant owner and chef. The Green Papaya was the name of this restaurant that my friend operated back in Hanoi and now in White Rock. He brought all his family’s cooking equipment and experience gained from his chef father and began showing me a real passion he held for this soup recipe. I was taught how to blend and roast spices to obtain a real delicious Beef Pho’ Noodle soup. I was now being exposed to a lot of new tricks that were vague to me in the past when I was learning how to...

Italian Wedding Soup

Italian Wedding Soup; Back in Vancouver while waiting for the new Planet Hollywood Restaurant to finish construction, I took on a catering position for a very well-known off Broadway play called Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding. The 150 paying guests would first go to the church and be part of the couples ceremonies. There were play actors sitting at different tables that would interact with the wedding family. Some were real funny, some were bitter, lots were just drunk uncles and many misfits humour. It was a fun job three times a week and later after the church...

Wok Fried Pork Belly Bacon Stuffed Shrimp. One of my favourite Mandarin recipes using tasty white gulf shrimp recipe I was given from Kwong Chows in China Town. I was taken there by one of my employers who was showing me the dishes that he would like duplicated and served in his newly constructed restaurant in the Scarborough Tele-Direct Tower called Charade. We ate at several landmark China town eateries about a dozen times trying the Eight Precious Pearl Duck, Frog Legs, Vegetable Spring Rolls, Pot Sticker Dumplings and this shrimp dish Woo-Hip-Har or Wok Fried Pork...

Holiday Dips

Holiday Dips. Humus is first class found in the cuisines of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. It’s main ingredient is chickpeas and fava beans blended with sesame tahini paste, good olive oil and Turkish spices. Sided with some crusty crisp bread, some pickled radishes and olive treats and these most delicious air fried cheesy-tots. A Tasty Party Dip Indo Style Coconut Creamed Spinach. This will liven up a party. The simple ingredients are worthy of big taste. Ingredients 1 13.5oz. can full-fat coconut milk 8 oz. fresh spinach 1 yellow onion 2 cloves garlic 1...

Chocolate Chip Fondue.

Chocolate Chip Fondue. I can remember my first potato chip experience and have enjoyed eating them tasty fried tatter crisps since infancy. Where I grew up we were surrounded by the snack manufacturers and I remember all the smells as you got closer to the factory. Hostess/Frito-Lay Potato Chips. Jacks Snacks Cheese Twists Cracker Jacks, Arnolds Nut’s, Reid’s. Dare Foods for Jube-Jubes, Scotch Mints and Girl Guide Cookies Raymond’s Nuts, made Beer Nuts and Hickory Almonds. Smiles and Chuckles, made the Turtles just to name a few. Reid’s made Chicken...