Skate With a Lemon Caper Sauce
No meat today. That’s okay because I get to treat myself to seafood. What’s that you see in the photo? It’s skate wing. First off, don’t be freaked out by trying this seafood out. It’s inexpensive ($1.99/lb), easy to cook, it’s tasty, has a tender, flaky white meat and there are no pin bones. Skate […]
Swedish Meatballs in Sour Cream Dill Sauce
I’ve had Swedish Meatballs on mind for awhile and I don’t mean since The Muppet Show last aired either! When I worked at a downtown bank, there was a diner I used to go to for lunch that had the same specials on the same day, each week. Monday was schnitzel, Tuesday was chicken, Wednesday […]
Shrimp Bisque
The first time I ever had a bisque was in the late 80’s, at Toronto’s now defunct Whistling Oyster. A bisque is a thick, creamy , highly seasoned soup, classically using shrimp, crab or lobster. It is of French origin and it’s the snobbish cousin of chowder. I saved this recipe from the Toronto Star, […]
Roasted Loin of Pork With a Fennel Seed Crust
I tried this dish a few years ago. I was trying to impress my cousin’s wife who is German and she knows a thing or two about roast pork. I had her Sunday roast pork with gravy, potatoes and braised purple cabbage. She impressed me! I have found that fennel seeds really complement the taste […]
Sardines and Such
You see them on the shelves of your grocery store. You see them in the discount bin, you have them in your cellar (a whole case), just in case Armegeddon arrives. You can now have them included in your recipe box. My first experiment with sardine tins came in the fall of 2007 and I […]
Marinated Olives
If you’re a fan of Greek cuisine, you’ll notice that we don’t include olives in many of our dishes. Rather, we like to have olives included at our table, to be included with the meal or as part of an array of Mezedes (appetizers). Olives are almost always present on the Greek table. The variety […]
Spaghetti With Asparagus and Shrimp
Having eaten rich foods over the holidays, I wanted to eat something lighter (without raiding my birds’ seed mixture). Up here in Canada, we’ve been getting some decent produce from South America (primarily Chile), due to it’s growing season being the opposite of Canada’s. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed some decent and […]
The Ultimate Cheesecake
I’ve been enjoying this recipe for cheesecake for a few years. It’s simply the ultimate, as in Tyler Florence’s Ultimate Cheesecake. Just by merely looking at the Wikipedia entry on cheesecake, I learned that there are many approaches to cheesecake from many countries , that cheesecakes were even being made in Greco-Roman times! It […]