Cross-cultural recipes. Mains and Entrees.
A taste of fresh, a hint of green and a lean towards the garden with gluten free Kale Quinoa Giardino Burgers. A guest post from the sisters Bernardi, Consuelo & Natasha, who love great food and forward fashion. Consuelo…
Take a couple of bottles of good, full bodied apple cider, a pork picnic shoulder, a good spice rub and a few hours in the oven and you've got juicy, tender Cider Braised Pulled Pork. Nothing says winter to quite…
Exploring my Roma roots with some good Gypsy comfort food, hearty Romanian Style Goulash. A rich beef and tomato stew heavy with Paprika, it's slow food to warm your soul as nights get longer and the chill of fall fills…
Maximum Mexican — Mexican Blackened Chicken with Jalapeno Black Beans & Rice and Caramelized Pineapple Salsa finished with Cilantro & Lime. When I pine for long white sand beaches of Mexico, I recall a flavour and make it my own.…
Green mustard, fresh and colourful and perfect with fish. Why does lemon get all the fish action when you have Maille's Fines Herbes Mustard just waiting for you on your grocer's shelves?! Mustard gets a great deal of play in…
Yes. I said beer and wings in the same sentence, I mean what goes better with beer than wings? And what could be better on a summer's eve with Beer Soaked Asian Buffalo Wings than Lime Cilantro Buttered Grilled Corn?!…
In a catering kitchen, we're not bound by static menus, each event we do has its own unique flavor, covering the globe from one side to the other. One day I could be making a French Rillette, the next a…
A Food Gypsy original, also the winner of Taste of Home Canada's Burger-Off Contest, The Lamburghini tastes every bit as good and it sounds; now available in the convenient slider size. Originally submitted to Taste of Home Canada's "Burger Off"…
Dad is a meat n' potatoes kind of guy. On Father's Day years ago Mom created a burger with all of Dad's favorite proteins which quickly became legend, even appearing on the menu of his local watering hole. "The Ollie…
Leaning decidedly French, a big pot full of Lentil Sausage & Bacon Casserole, a one pot meal that takes two pots to make, but who's counting?! Inspired by a couple of links of mild veal-herb sausage, this can be make…
Cooked low and slow, until they're fall off the bone tender, Moroccan Inspired Lamb Shanks is comfort food at it's midwinter best. Warmly spiced and heavily sauced with rich, meaty intensity. There was a time when farmers couldn't give shanks away, but now with a resurgence of…
The making of foie gras is a simple, though messy process. The fattened liver is soft and breaks apart easily, so each step must be handled with care and precision. Unless you've attended culinary school or worked in the industry, chances are you've…