Khao Soi Curry Noodles
Khao Soi Curry Noodles is a Thai dish popular in Myanmar as well. It was served aboard the Amapura, the beautiful Ama Waterways ship which sailed us from Mandalay to Yangon. Over the 14 days of the trip downriver, we sampled many delicious regional foods (this was one of my favourites). Continue reading
One of the best cheese fondues I have ever had was at Kanatha-Aki, a place of healing and peace in Val des Lacs, a beautiful part of Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. Indeed, the photo above was taken there. A cheese fondue is the perfect meal for sharing and good conversation. Continue reading
What’s your comfort food?
For British people it might be custard or a full English breakfast of fried eggs and toast with beans, mushrooms, tomatoes and sausages. For French Canadians it might be ragoût de boulettes (meatball stew) or tourtière (meat pie). Americans might long for mom’s apple pie. And Germans for a fat wurst and sauerkraut.
But for Mexicans, it’s tamales.
Tamales are composed of masa (corn meal based wet dough) and a filling, wrapped in a corn husk (though in parts of Central America they use a banana leaf). They may be filled with vegetables, pork, chicken, beef, and even with sugar, cinnamon, cheese and raisins, pineapple, and other fruits. Continue reading
With the approach of barbeque season, it’s time to talk about burgers on the grill. A good sirloin or tenderloin of beef can be tender, juicy and succulent. But we’ve all had the experience of facing a solid mass of muscle with no hope of making a dent with either tooth or knife. Enter the meat grinder, a useful tool. American ingenuity added a bun and speeded up the production line until hamburger became synonymous with fast food.
But the average fast food burger is about as juicy as day-old chewed gum. If it ever had any juices, they have long since been either fried or grilled right out of a layer of meat flat enough to qualify for letter rate with Canada Post. Continue reading
When I was a kid, a grilled cheese sandwich consisted of two slices of white bread with a Kraft cheese slice in between, fried in butter on the stove. Basically, neither grilled nor really cheese.
But, like me, the grilled cheese sandwich has grown up. Continue reading
