Bread and Butter Pickles.

Bread and Butter Pickles. The season for small pickling cucumbers are ready for old family recipes. This year I will be doing extra canning duties because of the current situation. Time to make as many condiments and side entrées ease the food costs having to buy and because you can prepare using such good ingredients. This retro Rockton’s Fair Cook Book is just chock full of Blue Ribbon winning recipes. Later I will be posting the ones I have tried and found to be rewarding for the effort like this most excellent Bread and Butter Pickles recipe. I learned to love a...

I always like to know, what’s cook...

When thekitchenman and my sweetie travel across the country, we like to stay at a well known resorts or hotels, I always like to know, what’s cooking and who is cooking it today if we are staying for a few days. Asking if the chef is cooking today is always a good bet things should be stellar. After spending last spring living out of a suitcase for 3 months and traveling from BC to Ontario with plenty of stops and new cities to check out. A good Breakfast is usually the first meal that will tell you if the kitchen is up to snuff. A good selection of choices served...

Almond and Cherry Dutch Baby

Almond and Cherry Dutch Baby. The Cherries are coming on strong here in Ontario Farm Country. I love cherries and once cooking for Ann Margret she told me her secrets to beautiful skin is adding pure cherry juice to your diet. I’ve eaten them from my aunts farm since I was a kid and must say my 73 year old face is still looking youthful if I must say. While looking through my dad’s old recipes that he made for summer weddings and BBQ’s, I found this old German Dutch Baby recipe. I remember how it tasted so good and my dad made it in minutes. It reminded...

BBQ Prime Rib.

Prime Rib. My new Napoleon BBQ has just got a fired up doing a seasoning burn for the long weekend. Now its time to season the grill with some vegetable oil for another 30 minutes and repeat. To nite if the weather breaks it will be a most delicious Rib Steak I purchased at the St. Jacobs Market. The first taste from this cut was just seasoned with salt and pepper and bbq grilled on high flame 7 minutes a side moving for some good char marking. It was a 10 for quality. Thanks for the a prime cut John. Got all the ingredients including a very nice portion of 29 day dry...

Calamari Squid and Shrimp Salads.

RRRRRR! Billy! Calamari Squid and Shrimp Salad. Cold seafood salads make a nice light lunch. Also make a good share plate. I try to find the best items like fresh micro greens and garden veggies. Option is to make a creamy hot sauté seafood salad dressing or make individual cocktail shooter salads. Ingredients needed are; 2 lbs. squid, cleaned and cut 4 oz. cooked small prawns or shrimp 4 cups of a good salad green mix with some fresh veggie sprouts and shoots 6 grape tomatoes halved. 1 cup sliver sliced red or green pepper 1/2 cup sliced Nero or green olives 1/2 small...