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...

Deluxe Seafood Crispy Birds Nest

Deluxe Seafood Crispy Birds Nest. Back in Toronto in the 80’s Kwong Chows near Kensington Market was where I was taught this dish by chef Kingsley Chung. I tried to master this dish over my career and I must say do a fine job. The all-important gravy that comes from perfect timing using a super-hot wok is the key.  All the seafood and ingredients I use are premium quality. Fresh peeled shrimp, nice plump scallops, some ultra-tenderized squid, and perfect slices of ling cod. The done to order crispy basket is made fresh by using packaged rice noodles forced into hot...

Italian Pool Hall Sub

Italian Pool Hall Sub. When I was younger, playing 8 ball was a favourite past time at the resorts. Over the years where ever I was working I would seek out a billiards table and bang around a few balls to sharpen my pool playing skills. Lots of the staff like playing pool. Back in Galt there was this one billiard hall counter canteen that made a mighty fine deli sub. It was this ground up pickled condiments that made this sandwich stand out to me. I now make this sandwich using my favourite fresh baked Italian style crusty roll or fresh bake focaccias loaf. From the...

Crab Cake Watermelon Salad

Crab Cake Watermelon Salad I like to go shopping to the market when looking for some good fresh seafood and the Asian markets here sure do have a lot of good bargains when the seasonal crab supply is plentiful. The Dungeness Crabs are coming in at $10.50 a pound and are fresh caught and shucked of their meat if you wait around. It sure saves doing it at home sure makes a nice treat. Cracked cold crab claws are most delish but I like tasty crab cakes more. Once you have your supply make sure the rest of the ingredients are fresh. Let’s start with; 1 lb fresh shucked crab...