The holidays are around the corner, and if you have an aspiring chef at home (or you just love to cook like we do) here are a few ideas for things that are probably on their wish list too!
Such a fun addition to the kitchen. Who doesn’t want a wood smoke infuser? This cool tool will add a smokey flavor to your food and drinks quickly and easily. Although it comes with a few samples, there are more available here.
Let’s be honest, we all want a sous vide cooker. With the sous vide method, you vacuum seal your food, immerse it in a a water bath a a set temperature for an assigned amount of time and it cooks thoroughly and evenly. Most people also sear their meat after sous vide cooking. To give it color and a crust. You can attach the cooker to a large pot, or you can invest in a sous vide food container. You can use zipper bags with your sous vide, but using a vaccum sealer is much easier.
Yum, sushi… Here’s something new to us, the Sushi Bazooka. There are several great places to shop for sushi grade fish in Lethbridge, Nakagama R Co downtown has great fish and exceptional service too.
Like Lego? Like to play with your food? How about A silicone mold so you can do both! These seem to be oven safe. I’m not a baker, not would I want teeny tin block man cakes, but I suppose someone might.
We really like the idea of the instant pot. Rice cooker, slow cooker and pressure cooker all-in-one. We’d be happy if Santa left this under our tree.
Is there anything we missed? Let us know if the comments below!
8 Rhubarb Recipes You Need to Try (and so do I!)
The rhubarb is ready (and we have LOTS in the LE kitchen). But what am I going to do with all of this rhubarb? Here are some recipes to help you and I both bust our rhubarb stash! Because I’m baking impaired, I’ve tried to add recipes that are beginner friendly or don’t involve much (or any) baking!
First things first, be sure to clean your rhubarb well, remove the leaves (they’re poisonous) and if your rhubarb has a tough outer skin, peel it! Remember too, rhubarb can be frozen! Cut it into 1 inch chunks, put it into a freezer bag, and it will keep for a year (or until next year’s harvest is ready). Continue reading
Com & Eat – Taber, Alberta
Sometimes you find an establishment that really knows what they’re doing, and today we found a great example of that, COM & EAT Mobile Concession & Catering in Taber, Alberta. They’re really establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the food truck scene in Southern Alberta, serving up, “authentic and delicious Vietnamese cuisine with a modern flair.” Their menu is concise, with the right amount of variety. They serve up the basics, fresh food, full of flavor for fair prices.
We started with salad rolls, very fresh, made with both chicken and shrimp loads of cilantro and a splash of basil. These have the right noodle to other stuff ratio, though the wrappers didn’t fare too well during the walk home. The only comment I can make, and it’s not negative, is that they could have used more fresh basil (that’s simply a personal preference). Continue reading