A Chefs Breakfast : Eggs en Cocotte

Eggs en Cocotte, a Chef's Favorite Breakfast

Cooking breakfast for restaurants was one thing I thought I'd hate but I actually grew to love it. 
Besides - when your chef says you gotta start work at 4am from now on, you either do exactly that, or you find a new chef.

Working the breakfast shift meant an earlier start time than most.  So by the time the lunch crew is waking up and just getting onto the line, you're already firing on all cylinders.  That means you end up cooking breakfast for your buds because it's the best alternative to some half-awale colleague leaving their mess on your line.

The easiest, best, and what I found was the average chefs favorite breakfast was eggs 'en cocotte'.  What is that?  Basically eggs cooked in a ramekin if you don't want to romance it at all, but they can be so much more.  Read on!

Fast Ribs in a Slow Cooker

Slow Cooking Pork Ribs - The Fast Way!

A fast dish, from a slow cooker?  This guy has gone off the deep end, you're maybe thinking.  I haven't actually - and using this unique method, you can take a dish that usually needs a bare minimum of 3 hours, and make it ready in that same three hours, but it will taste more like it's been slow cooking for five. 

Here's how...

The Day After Taco Salad

The "Day After Taco Salad"

Almost everyone loves tacos - aside from chopping a few vegetables, they have to be one of the fastest, easiest to make dishes that make a great lunch or dinner.  But how often are you left with weird amounts of leftovers, like one tortilla wrap but two helpings of beef?  Well take a look at this perfect recipe for whipping together a delicious taco salad with nothing other than your left overs. 

Kicking Butt at Scalloped Potatoes

Pulling off some tasty scalloped potatoes. A recipe so easy anyone can do it. 

Of all the time consuming and kitchen messing potato dishes you can make, Scalloped potatoes are probably the most time consuming, and messy. There are more than a handful of steps, and a few pots and pans needed to pull it off, but when you do - people will talk about it.  Just about everyone loves a good scalloped potato, so take a look at this recipe that is sure to impress. 

These scalloped potatoes make an excellent side dish for the fall and winter, especially with roasts, and daring mid-winter barbecues. 

read on for the recipe!

A Meal at Home : Thai Green Coconut Curry with Chicken

Closeup view of our green thai curry chicken dish on rice noodles

We had been craving some Thai food lately, and being in the rural area we were, our selection isn't that big. So we opted for a nice Thai meal at home. It was so delicious I thought I should share here for anyone who wants a little bit of this delicious Thai Spice in their life.

Recipe : Homemade Hot Sauce

Two jars of home made hot sauce. Mouth watering just looking at them.

Ok. We love hot sauce. So maybe in order to be more specific, we should call this recipe "Home Made Hot Sauce I" because there are plenty of delicious ways to mix one of these up.  This one was just packed full of flavour and enough heat to get you sweating in the face when you use it to dip your pizza in. 

Mouth watering yet?

The Start of Something New : Gardening

Our pathway through the garden in fall after it's been overrun by weeds. 

A big part of good food is good product. The more you know about what you are cooking, the better you will make it taste without even trying.  So why would I pass up the opportunity to grow some of my own food?