Web Chef Review: Haskapa Juice
Haskapa Juice is ever-so-tasty and full of antioxidants too! It is made from Haskap berries that are a dark purplish-blue in color, and similar to blueberries, but larger and more elongated in shape. The inside of the berry is deep crimson in color with flavor likened to blueberry, raspberry, cranberry & elderberry in taste. The Haskap berry originated in Siberia, but also grew in the rest of Russia and in Japan. Now, they are...
Web Chef Review: Rancourt Winery 2012 Malbec
This bottle of Rancourt Winery 2012 Malbec is an amazing, exciting wine. Malbec is quite a rare grape here in the Niagara Region or in all of Canada for that matter. There are only three producers of a single varietal Malbec wine in Niagara area – using only one type of grape in their wine and in this case, it is Malbec. Malbec is similar to a beaujolais or pinot noir, except it is lighter in color and fruitier. A beautiful...
Web Chef Review: Napa Jack’s Chipotle & Honey Rub
It’s spicy, it’s sweet, it’s savory – Napa Jack’s Chipotle & Honey Rub is outstanding, to say the least… Napa Jack’s Chipotle & Honey Rub contains Chipotle pepper, brown sugar, orange peel, honey and other spices. The Chipotle is smoky & spicy, the honey sweetens it up, and the supporting herbs & spices round out the flavor. This fantastic spice rub from Wine Country Kitchens...
How to Bake Meatball, Broccoli & Enoki Mushroom Pizza with Roberto’s Gluten-Free Crust + Video
Now, we all enjoy pizza but unfortunately some of us have a problem with gluten in our food, and this recipe for How to Bake Meatball, Broccoli & Enoki Mushroom Pizza with Roberto’s Gluten-Free Crust is the answer to that problem. You may have never thought of it before, but meatballs are a great addition to a pizza, especially when you may be out of other more traditionally used meats. In my opinion, every pizza could use a...
Web Chef Review: Harvest Barn Local Niagara Rhubarb
If you love this fruit, you’ll have to pick up some Harvest Barn Country Markets Local Niagara Rhubarb! Aside from the fact that we are able to get the freshest, tastiest rhubarb from our Niagara-on-the-Lake Harvest Barn Country Market, the rhubarb we got there was at its optimum point of ripeness. These bunches were perfect for cooking as in stewed rhubarb, rhubarb pie, rhubarb tarts, rhubarb fritters and we kind of enjoy it...
Web Chef Review: Harvest Barn Country Markets Ontario Mushrooms
Pick up some fresh Harvest Barn Country Markets Ontario Mushrooms, and cook something amazing up this week. Mushrooms are a compliment to almost any food. As we know, sauteed mushrooms on steak is so perfect. Mushroom soup is just what the doctor ordered when nothing else will do, and mushrooms in a salad is a necessity at our house. We are so fortunate to be able to use the wonderful Ontario Mushrooms offered by Harvest Barn Country...
Catch Kimberly for Pancake Tuesday on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’
Tune in to Newstalk 610 CKTB at 7:50 am for Pancake Tuesday with web chef, Kimberly Turner, on Tim Denis in the Morning. Whether you like your pancakes lightly & fluffy, flat like a crepe, filled with berries, chocolate chips, nuts or bananas, they are a perfect breakfast food. For the pancake-loving soul, you can top these bad boys with spreads, syrups, honeys, butters, sprinkles, whipped cream, fruit & treats galore. Vegan...
For the Love of Celery
We don’t often think of Celery as a versatile food, but the tender leaves are lovely used in nearly all savory foods – either fresh or dried. Celery salt is actually powdered, tender celery leaves combined with salt. Celery seeds used for flavor are the seeds of wild celery, which is grown specially for the seeds, which are intense in flavor, and should be sparingly used in bouillon, stocks, pickles, seafood dishes &...
National Noodle Day: Oodles of Noodles
Every culture, past & present, has an ethnic love of noodles. Such noodle dishes include lo mein, spaetzle, pastas like linguine & penne, dumplings and more. These dishes make up one of the richest & largest categories of the world’s cooking history. There is no doubt that Italy has made the greatest contribution to noodle history. Pasta, the Italian word for noodles, has become part of our every day language, as...
How to Make 3 Unique Recipes for Cucumbers
Don’t know about you, but cucumbers are one of my favorite vegetables. This year, our harvest was plentiful. Unfortunately, we only have three more left from our plants. If you’re wondering what we’re doing with our last 3 cucumbers of the season, then read on, for these 3 Unique Recipes for Cucumbers may just be that something different you’ve been looking for. Sauteed Cucumbers: I love cucumbers raw, but did...
Bake Up Some of that National Biscuit Month…Mmm
Oooh, ahhh, ohhh…It’s National Biscuit Month, and we need to bake some up ourselves. What a pleasure it will be to celebrate then, to eat biscuits. I could eat biscuits at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Just beautiful, buttered, light biscuits fresh from the oven slathered with syrup, homemade jam, or even like the Southerners do, with a tasty cream gravy! Mmm…my mouth is watering already! Nobody could beat my...
Stimorol Sensations Gum Commercial is Hilarious
What happens to you when you unwrap a piece of gum and start chewing it? Find out what happens to this guy…lol Who wouldn’t want a gum to transplant them to a tropical island getaway…? …To an river of fruit juice, tropical fruit chunks raining down, parrots flying… You’re probably wondering what the HECK I’m talking about, aren’t you? lol Check out the commercial ad below for Stimorol...
Web Chef Review: Robin Hood No-Bake Nanaimo Bar Mix
If you’ve never heard of Nanaimo Bars… …Then, you are missing out on a Canadian National Treasure! It’s ridiculously rich & delicious, and making them is a bit of a fussy business, but the good thing is, they are no-bake sweets! Now, this dessert square is full of a chocolatey crumb base, a layer of creamy deliciousness, then a layer of milk chocolate melted on the top to make a shiny creation. I want to...
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