Flaky Pastry Apple Strawberry Roll

Flaky Pastry Apple Strawberry Roll Keeping a few small blocks of puff pastry in the freezer comes in handy when you need a quick dessert. This simple recipe is just too quick to pass up. It’s always good finish off a dinner with a home-made treat. I use apple butter and cinnamon to give the filling some added flavour punch! Just a squeeze of some lemon juice and a teaspoon of sugar is all the flavouring needed. You will need; One square of puff pastry rolled out on a disposable plastic cutting board.[ This makes transfer to the baking sheet and the clean-up super quick...

100 Ranger Cookies

100 Ranger Cookies; The next time you have to bake cookies for a fund raiser or birthday party use this simple cookie recipe to get your children or grand children involved.   A good from the scratch cookie starts with quality ingredients. I find great quality and prices at the local Bulk Barn Using the best products available will make the cookies you bake yummy delicious. Unsalted sweet butter and fresh ground flours. I start by making a simple butter cookie dough. Still by far still cheaper and much tastier than any store bought. Here is what you’ll...

Ginger Bread Christmas Cookies

Ginger Bread Christmas Cookies. One of the first cookies that I remember my great aunt would bake was gingerbread men. Every Christmas she would make a full array of seasonal holiday cookie treats. I like the taste of ginger and find that the use of ginger as that secret ingredient found in some cookies is most satisfying to the taste bud. When I was baking Xmas cookies in mass amounts for a well-known restaurant group the Christmas baking was done hands on following colonial era recipes. Each batch of dough was hand crafted and the cookies that came from the dough batch...

Slow Roasted Kahlua BBQ Beef Short Ribs

Slow Roast Kahlua BBQ Beef Short Ribs. At one time these small joints of beef bones were cheap and used mostly for making stock or roasted brown sauce. Now they have are extremely expensive and have become a prime short rib menu item. Braised or slow crock pot done they are hard to make a bad meal with. Most restaurants just chop up season and deep fry them like chicken wings or pork rib bites. thekitchenman likes to brine the small portions in bourbon, scotch or rum to break down the tissue and the sugars when BBQed low and slow for several hours. The choice is yours to...

Beef Goulash.

Beef Goulash. The prices of groceries are rising rapidly and stretching your food dollar requires some easy recipes that pack good protein flavour and feed the whole family keeping within a budget Home comfort food that will make a nice meal alongside a crisp salad. I like using steak trim from the butcher which usually is a mixture of different cuts of beef. Stewing beef should have some fat marbling to add flavour and a achieve a more tender beef. Best time to teach the young ones survival in the kitchen and here is one of the first meals I was taught how to serve....

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Almon Custard

Pumpkin and Almond Custards This a great dessert to serve anytime. The mixture of all the ingredients complement each other and the use of other sweeteners add a more modern approach other than egg and cream versions. Good if you’re a vegan!… These ingredients are available at most good grocery or organic co-op stores in the bulk section. Life is too short to eat mediocre dessert! You will need; 2-14 oz can full rich coconut milk 2 1/2 tsp real almond extract 2 tsp. agar [Agar is a gel derived from red algae. Though agar is widely used as a food additive] At...