Roulade shaping
I was making chicken roulades stuffed with smoked pork loin and Gouda this week and was concerned with them keeping their shape. I pounded out the chicken breasts between pieces of plastic wrap until they were quite thin, then put…
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Juicing an old lemon
I needed some lemon juice for a recipe but I only had an old lemon in the fruit bowl that had become very stiff. I remembered reading something about heating an old lemon to juice it so I put the…
Pork sirloin
I’ve been buying whole pork loins lately: they come with a lovely pork loin for about two thirds and sirloin for the last third. The loin is very nice but the sirloin on these pieces is jagged and just isn’t…
Double Smoked Pork Loin
I had enjoyed double smoked bacon when I worked at a German butcher shop during high school but haven’t seen it much since. It was my monthly or quarterly bacon prep and I was smoking a pork belly and a…
Savory Bacon
As a huge fan of Saveur magazine I was thrilled to see they ran a piece on making your own bacon at home a few years ago. Of course I have my own recipe I enjoy so I forgot about…
Grocery basics cross border comparison
I was in Niagara Falls New York on the weekend and stopped into Tops Markets. While wandering the aisles I noticed prices were about the same as Southern Ontario; that is until I started looking at staples. By staples I mean…
Big Green Egg Grill Extender
After a few sausage smoking sessions with my Big Green Egg and the Plate Setter I was happy with the results but found I was only fitting about fifteen sausages on the grill at one time. Since it was a three…
Frugal Grocery Shopping
We’re dealing with two issues at home that have made a realignment in our grocery shopping: a limited budget and a desire to buy only Ontario produced food. I should say up front that organic is not a target: we’re…
Preserving the easy way
I’m new to the whole food preservation game: curing and smoking meat has been my main activity in this area. Strawberry season is in full bloom in Ontario and I picked up two flats at our local farmer’s market; twelve…