Category: Cooking
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Meat Craft; Perogies, Bacon, Sausage
I needed to make dinner for the family and a friend of the my daughters this evening and I didn’t want my reputation my dad kitchen skills to be tarnished, so what to do? Stop in to see Butcher Greg at Port Moody’s Meat Craft Urban Butchery to get perogies, bacon, chorizo sausage, and a…
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Roasted Carrots for a Snack
The kids decided to leave the roasted potatoes alone for a day and instead asked me to try roasted carrots. So that’s what we did this afternoon. In the pan above, which was a clean pan until we drizzled balsamic vinegar and avocado oil over the carrots and then rolled the carrots around in the…
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Oven Roasted Chick Peas
After many years of trying to convince my kids to eat some of the healthy foods we have prepared for them I finally figured it out; if I get them to help me prepare the food, they’ll eat it!! Yesterday was my turn to make dinner and rather than making another meal of food they…
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Poached Eggs on Potato Pancakes
Lunch today was made by students in the Foods and Nutrition class and served to the rest of the students in the school program. Two perfectly poached eggs on a couple of potato pancakes with a side of grated carrot and apple salad. And is there anything better than 14 % sour cream? I’m telling…
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Hasselback Potatoes
The kids have been keen to have me cook potatoes in a different ways and today they basically described Hasselback potatoes. They like to “explore” new cooking techniques and I certainly encourage them to be imaginative. So today they described a couple of new ways; one was describing something like a Hasselback potatoes while my…
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Thug Kitchen 101; Swiss Chard Tomato Spaghetti
My most recent meal from the Thug Kitchen 101 cookbook was Swiss Chard Tomato Spaghetti with Balsamic-Glazed Chickpeas. And I have to admit, it was not a resounding success. Perhaps my lack of success was because I used kale from the front yard garden and did not use Swiss Chard. I doubt it, but, I…
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Thug Kitchen 101; Skillet Beer Chili Mac
Tuesday after school my kids take art and dance classes so I get a few minutes alone in the kitchen to try some new things. This afternoon I went back to the Thug Kitchen 101 cookbook and made a pot of their Skillet Beer Chili Mac. I started out by heating up a tablespoon of…
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Maple Syrup Baked Yams
One day after school this week I made another batch of the maple syrup baked yams that I recently learned about from my new cookbook, Thug Kitchen 101. This time I had grapeseed oil but I didn’t have any maple syrup! So I subsituted a couple of tablespoons of honey in place of the maple syrup.…
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Making a Raspberry Shrub
OK, so this one goes under the heading “epically awesome”. I have recently spent time in the Burnaby test kitchen learning how to make a raspberry shrub. What’s a raspberry shrub you ask? It is basically drinkable fruit vinegar. To make a shrub, take 2 cups of fruit, 2 cups of sugar, and mix it…
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Thug Kitchen 101 Cookbook
I was wandering around the Chapters bookstore looking for a reference book I need for school and I couldn’t find it so the next best option was for me to purchase a new cookbook. This is how I happened to pick up the cookbook titled Thug Kitchen 101. It is quite an entertaining cookbook of…