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Culture Days Program

For all you locals, this is my schedule for Culture Days.  These are mini mini cooking demonstrations - say 15 minutes.  We can talk as long as you like after that.  I will have all the demos ready to go and will do whatever the group at the moment wants.  No sense scheduling times and having registration, etc.  It is purely 'drop in'!



Saturday    1:00 - 4:00pm
       How to Cook with a Plank  

       How to Roast a Red Pepper (and then what do you do with it)

       Handy Kitchen Gadgets

       Blind Spice Test

       How to Carmelize Sugar and Make Caramel Sauce

       How to Set a Table





       























Sunday   11:00am - 3:00pm
        Handy Kitchen Gadgets

        How to Roast a Red Pepper (and then what to do with it)

        How to Cook with a Plank

        How to Set a Table

        Blind Spice Test

        How to Carmelize Sugar and Make Caramel Sauce
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These Scones Were Amazing!

Today I had my Boys in the Kitchen cooking class.  Oh me, oh my. What should we make?  One bowl apple cake from Grace at Sense and Simplicity?  My wonderful almond cake?



Well, I settled on my White Chocolate and Saskatoon Berry Scones that I am now selling at the Farmer's Market.  Well, let me tell you...these boys can make my scones any day.  Look how wonderful they are!  One lad was 10 years and the other 12 years.  Neither adept in the kitchen at all!  Just goes to show you, anyone can cook if they want to!



White Chocolate and Saskatoon Berry Scones



2 cups all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon baking powder

2 tablespoons sugar

5 tablespoons butter, cut in small squares and chilled

1 large egg

2/3 cup whole cream

3 oz white chocolate

1 cup saskatoon berries



Preheat the oven to 400F.



Whip the egg until foamy and add the whole cream.  Set aside.



Mix flour, sugar, salt, baking powder.  Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or your fingers until the size of rolled oats, small peas and all sizes between.



Add chocolate and berries to the flour mixture and toss to coat.  Pour in cream mixture.  Mix to moisten with a spatula or fork.  Knead the mixture 5 or 6 times to bring it together in a ball.  Turn onto a floured counter.  Pat into a circle.  Cut into 6 pieces.



Bake on a parchment lined baking pan for about 20 minutes.
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The Red Hook Lobster Pound Truck and a Tale of Three Lunches