Ground Chicken Ginger Garlic Lettuce Wra...

Ground Chicken Ginger Garlic Lettuce Wraps. Say that three times fast! That’s how fast this can be assembled. The fresh ground chicken can be the centre of any good recipe. I like to mince fresh thigh meat with a sharp knife adding small chunks of peeled ginger at the same time. Garlic, pepper, fennel bulb and onion added as you mince all the ingredients together. Leave little chunks and add potato or daikon radish to the mixture for more filler. Fresh ground sea salt, cayenne pepper, cumin, coriander seeds with a dash of allspice. On high heat Sauté all the...

Lake Erie Perch and White Fish

Chatting with a chef friend in Ohio we got talking about the Lake Erie perch quality. My friend was living across Lake Erie Ohio state and returned back to his home town in Sandusky Ohio to retire just like myself returning back home from BC. We both were resort chefs and I met him on Peelee Island years back. Checking out all the eateries he’s retraced upon returning found that most have lost that loving feeling of cooking from scratch. We were comparing Lake Erie fish and chips mostly. The one thing we both found is that so many restaurants today are not cutting...

Toasted Krabi Salad Sandwich

Toasted Krabi Salad. The many times that I have eaten a California roll from my favourite Japanese or Korean take out in the local mall has always been a good tasty lunch item with a stir-fry. I asked the cook why his California Rolls tasted so good and he explained he uses premium kamaboko.  Ah! Meanwhile after a short search on the internet found that TNT sells the good surimi kamaboko. So I made a nice krabi salad adding some mayonnaise, old bay seasonings, lemon, lime, worcestershire and a shot of tabasco celery salt, pepper. Chopped some green onions and celery...

Seafood Chowder

Seafood Chowder. This is one great chowder to enjoy on a cold and damp night. Small portions of clams, salmon, cod, petit mussel. A few creamer potatoes, butter, cream white wine, shallots, fennel some lobster infused olive oil. Ingredients 1 cup fish stock 12 mussels, rinsed well in cold water, 6 oz good-quality bacon, diced 6 Tbsp butter 1 large yellow onion, finely diced ½ medium bulb fennel, finely diced 2 medium stalks celery, finely diced Sea salt and cracked black pepper to taste 6 cups (1.5 L) milk 2 cups (500 mL) cream ½ cup (65 g) flour 3 medium yellow-fleshed...

Maple Sugar Apple Butter Coffee Cake

Maple Sugar Apple Butter Coffee Cake. This recipe would have my mother bringing out her retro pyrex clear glass baking dishes, 5 sizes with a pyrex glass rolling pin and dough bowl. I still use it today and my moms recipe to make this most scrumptious coffee cake. Ingredients needed; Cake: 3 cups sifted flour 1 cup maple sugar. 1 cup Wellesley Apple Butter 3 teaspoons fresh baking powder 3 teaspoons fresh ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 1/2 cup whole milk (I use buttermilk or yogurt also) 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (very soft) 2 teaspoon pure maple or vanilla...