recipes from our kitchen
Serve this pizza right off the stone Never frozen, no takeout or delivery, this deluxe pizza is made from scratch. Making pizza at home doesn’t have to be intimidating. Granted, it involves some planning and preparation but what recipe doesn’t. Prepare the pizza in stages…
A tasty alternative to beef If you feel like a hamburger and want to change things up a bit, you might want to check out this recipe for turkey burgers. Ground turkey is a a good alternative to ground beef, but it needs a little…
The Humble Mushroom Lightly washed, dried and sliced. Cooked in oil until beads of moisture start to appear. Flipped over one by one as colour starts to appear on one side and finished on the other side. The humble mushroom is then packed with flavour.…
Fork Tender You will probably want to leave your knife in the drawer when it’s time to to eat these braised pork chops. You actually won’t need it because you can cut them with a fork. Lean pork doesn’t really have a lot of fat…
Drum roll please….one of my favourite dishes is being pulled out of the oven, pork tenderloin wellington. Juicy tenderloin with the subtle aromatics of thyme wrapped in a buttery blanket of puff pastry. Kim put this on the menu a few years back and to…
This beautiful leafy garden plant has an edible stalk that is similar in appearance to celery, but unrelated. Rhubarb is a vegetable too, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. Being very tart, it really isn’t something you might want to eat raw. Although…
Chicken wellington is a delicious blend of chicken and herbs baked in pastry. Imagine, tender chunks of chicken mixed with baby spinach, chopped red onion, garlic, mushrooms and herbed cream cheese. Take that chicken mixture and wrap it in a blanket of puff pastry and…
Make your own pizza sauce, It’s easy and better There are a lot of pizza sauces out there. Some are pretty good and some are pretty bad. If you’ve ever bought a “pizza kit” you will know what I mean. That dual pack of cardboard…
Let’s start with the stock The thought of homemade chicken soup takes me back to my childhood. Mom would have a huge pot of soup simmering on the stovetop filling the whole house with that familiar aroma. Every once in a while, sneaking a little…