Web Chef Review: Ontario Sweet Cherries at Harvest Barn Country Markets
Ontario Sweet Cherries are at Harvest Barn Country Markets this season. Just feast your eyes on this basket of sweet, locally grown cherries from Hunter Farms in Niagara-on-the-Lake. They are so clean and glossy, deep red – almost black, have the stems on to keep them fresh longer, and are they ever sweet & delicious. It wouldn’t surprise me to know that these cherries were picked fresh this morning. This is only one...
Web Chef Review: Ontario Blue Potatoes at Harvest Barn Country Markets
Ontario Blue Potatoes are at Harvest Barn Country Markets! Although I have never used blue potatoes, I made a point of getting them at my Harvest Barn Country Market in Niagara-on-the-Lake. I’m excited about using these blue potatoes – perhaps for a potato salad of some kind. They are purplish blue on the outside and the inside is also a gorgeous blue color. I understand that when you cook them, they retain that pretty...
How to Cook Plantain Tostones: Cinco de Mayo Fiesta
This delicious recipe for How to Cook Plantain Tostones is a traditional Caribbean and Latin favorite. Now, it will become a favorite of food lovers everywhere. With the sweetness of the cooked plantain and the salty overtones, these Tostones tease your palate in a delightful way. How to Cook Plantain Tostones: Perfect for appetizers or accompanying your entrées. Tostones are delicious when using them as the bread slices in a tasty...
How to Make Delicious Flour Tortillas: Cinco de Mayo Fiesta
This recipe for How to Make Delicious Flour Tortillas is so simple and quick you will be wanting to make them every day. How to Make Delicious Flour Tortillas: Do enjoy the experience, as nothing compares with your very own homemade tortillas and they enhance all your dishes as an accompaniment or an integral part of Mexican cuisine. Type: Bread Recipe Prep Time: 10 – 15 min Rest Tim: 50 min Cook Time: 2 – 4 min each per...
How to Cook Spicy Lemon Zest Pork Chops + Video
When you use this recipe for How To Cook Spicy Lemon Zest Pork Chops you will be surprised at how exceptionally fresh these chops taste because of the lemon zest, which kicks up the flavor of any food. As well, the tiny piri piri pepper adds that little bit of spice that wakes up your taste buds. How to Cook Spicy Lemon Zest Pork Chops: Since these chops I’m using aren’t too thick, they cook in no time. This is just what...
Web Chef Review: Drogheria Himalayan Pink Salt
I want to share with you my Mother’s current favorite salt – Drogheria Himalayan Pink Salt. The reason it’s her favorite? Well, because it’s pink of course! It has a beautiful light pink color to it with a peach undertone on a whole. Upon closer look, they range from light pink transparent chunks of salt through to some that are red in color because of iron oxide present. This salt came from the Himalayas in...
How to Cook Bubble & Squeak: Cabbage, Bacon & Potato Casserole + Video
If you’ve never heard of Bubble & Squeak before, it’s so named because of the sounds it makes in the pan when you cook it. Traditionally speaking, this is an old British dish made in a cast iron frying pan with cabbage, potatoes & bacon. How to Cook Bubble & Squeak: This cabbage, bacon & potato casserole is my version of bubble & squeak for this occasion. It’s like a baconator-lasagna of sorts....
A Celebration of Vinegars: National Vinegar Day
National Vinegar Day is a great day to experiment in your kitchen with this sour substance. Generally speaking, vinegars are the result of fermentation, and almost any liquid can be used in fermentation during the initial stage. They yeast action converts the sugars to alcohol. During the next stage, bacteria convert the alcohol into acetic acid. Vinegar can be made from grains or fruit. The various vinegars can be rich, mellow or...
Happy National Peanut Day
This is National Peanut Day! Peanuts are very healthy & delicious. As well, peanuts are incorporated in a plethora of food products, which we enjoy daily. When you see a peanut in its shell, it is just a plain looking, dry, little thing…but when you crack that shell, the most amazing aroma is emitted. Then comes the taste — Ohhh, the taste…so very good. And then, another one & another & another —...
How to Cook Chipotle, Smoked Paprika & Pistachio Crusted Pork Tenderloin + Video
Here’s my recipe for How to Cook Chipotle, Smoked Paprika & Pistachio Crusted Pork Tenderloin. Pork tenderloin is for dinner, but how to kick it up to levels unknown? This dish is beyond delicious, was inexpensive to create, provided you’re set up with the spices, and it was a quick meal. The dinner took me about 30 min to prepare from start to finish. A gorgeous crust accompanied by moist, tender & juicy pork that...
How to Make Bread Crust Date Butter Tartlets
One of my very favorite desserts or treats, since I was a little girl, is butter tarts. Now, I don’t prefer them with nuts at all, and love them with raisins, but want to give you a great option, especially wonderful for Holiday Cooking. Something you may not know, or may take for granted, is that butter tarts are thought of as a typically Canadian dessert. You never know who is going to show up unexpectedly at your door during...
How to Bake Sweet Cornbread Muffins from Scratch
For some strange reason, I haven’t baked cornbread in quite some time. Not that I don’t love it, it’s amazing, especially when I bake sweet cornbread from scratch. However, tonight, I wanted that same comforting soul food recipe flavor, without the long 45 minute bake-time. So, to solve my problem, I decided to bake sweet cornbread muffins, as it cuts the bake time in half. Try these out. They are fantastically...
How to Cook Fiddlehead Ferns
For a very short time, late in the Spring, you may be able to find fiddlehead ferns at your grocer or in your favorite produce market. They are basically an edible fern sprout that is coiled and hasn’t actually opened up into a leaf yet. Fiddleheads look like a coiled snail, almost, and taste like a cross between spinach and asparagus, to me anyway. They are widely popular and used in Eastern Canada. Fiddleheads are a known...
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