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....

Lee’s Pregnant Spot Prawns

The many chefs that I have met over the years like to share they’re favourite meal with someone who has one mission in life and that’s to try something for the first time as many times possible. I resemble that in a big way. I was introduced to Chef Lee who had a humble little industrial kitchen that was handed down from his fathers father. It had one big wok and a few tables for the fishermen. Right down at the old docks at the foot of China town. Lee was in his 80’s and has been cooking since he was 11. Proud of what simple fare he cooks had a huge...

Double Delicious Shrimp Frittata

Double Delicious Shrimp Frittata In 1984 I was at the top of my game and Restaurant Mogul K Chung hired me on to head his new restaurant called “Charade”! This was one of the most stunning contemporary dining rooms during the day and at night turn social bar. The table tops were all marble and the bar was made from mahogany, marble, jade and gold leaf. The flatware was custom embroidered and sided with fine porcelain bone china. A thousand gallon marine aquarium was surrounded by lush tropical landscape. Craftsmen came from all over to paint murals, lay decorative tile...

Picnic Ham Roast.

Picnic Ham Roast. My mom would do one of these picnic hams at least a few times a month. She had this old cast iron dutch oven that she would place on a stove top burner on low. The ham pork roast would be washed and set on top of some of her home made stewed tomatoes. She would then use the juices and mix that with a half cup of brown sugar and a quarter cup of yellow mustard. That would be massaged into the ham and poured over top before the lid was closed. All I know is that around supper time the aroma of the ham filled the kitchen and some quick boiled potatoes fried...

The Caviar Bar King Fish.

The Caviar Bar; Chowder, Mussels, Oysters and Caviar..     When I was cooking at the Kettle of Fish on Pacific Ave; My cooking station was known as the Caviar bar. It was what the owner Glen Anderson and designer David Vance used for the overflow and small private dinning room. The bar was made from solid marble and beside a libations center it had a chowder steam pot and a wood/charcoal fired bbq. Caviar was sold by the ounce with frozen vodka. The chowder made to order which the customer picked the kind and the ingredients. I also bbq grilled just about...

Classic Supreme Chicken or Turkey Pot Pi...

Classic Supreme Chicken Pot Pie. Taking on a production chef positions for a convenience food manufacturers took me out of the small restaurant test kitchens and into the mega federally inspected commissary size laboratories. At the Knotty Pine industrial kitchen I stood in the early morning in front of my gas fired Vulcan ovens filled with a roasting pan preheating to 350 degrees. On top of the flat top burner sat several 20 litre pressure cooker filled with whole chickens, some chicken stock, and seasonings all waiting to be pressure cooked to a fall off the bone...