Chive and Cheddar Laced Cornbread

  t Chive and Cheddar Corn Bread Muffins. I fondly remember the first real good corn muffin I tasted back in Kitchener at the Purple Turtle Bistro. The chef used to serve them with the soup of the day. Added items like bacon, jalapenos, crispy fried capers were things that made his muffins so special. When I get a nice offering of a kitchen baked item served with a soup salad it shows that the cook care about the stuff they are serving. Use sharp cheddar and real chives or shallots for flavoring. Add different ingredients like chili flakes, herbs or a spice to make...

Valentine Fondue for Two.

Fondue for Two! It started with a road trip in Oxford county to pick up some farm fresh veggies and hand crafted cheeses. Some farms have green houses and controlled storage facilities to grow year round. I like the always just picked fresh zucchini, tomatoes, peppers onions cucumbers, okra, asparagus, potatoes, carrots broccoli cauliflower, nuts and grains are deluxe. thekitchenman shops at Victory Veg | Facebook. After lunch we stopped into Gunn’s Hill Cheese which is a cheese emporium here in the dairy capitol of Canada. Fresh right from the area farm cattle....

Pho on the Go

One of my favourite lunch meals is a bowl of good flavourful bowl of PHO. The Vietnamese street cart staple which was first introduced in 1920 at a place where one could sit to eat, instead of standing or squatting. Many new PHO restaurants are springing up everywhere here in BC. I took on a cooking position working alongside a Vietnamese Chef at the Green Papaya  who made a great tasting lemon grass broth using several different techniques that I watched and studied. Roasting some veal bones sided with an array of herbs and spices made the broth take on a more the...

Mexican Snappy Ceviche’

                Snappy Ceviche’ What a great quick nosh using fresh peices of whitefish fillets, sliced calamari and cut up gulf shrimp soaked in fresh squeezed key lime juices, chopped cilantro, chopped tomato, minced onion, sea salt and hot sauce with a splash of iced Tequila. I like to serve it on crisp Boston lettuce cups. Serve immediatley! Si! thekitchenman.ca

Movie Catering Trailer Kitchen

This is what the inside of one of my 45 foot mobile kitchen’s looked like. This one had a huge fridge, several ovens and held a thousand  gallons of water made with its own water purification plant, solar panels and butane cooking fuel. This work horse of a unit could be be set up in an isolated area running fully operational for 60 hours before needing off site fuel services or satellite refueling. This is what my boss expected my three kitchen’s to look like every day at start up because you never knew who would drop in to ask for some grub! FYI, if you...