Ingredients
Sweet Chili Chicken Thighs
Sweet Chili Sauce is typically made from a combination of chili peppers that have been minced, chopped or pureed, then mixed with ingredients like vinegar, salt, sugar, and garlic. There are many recipes on [...]
Award Winning Sauces
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Pan Sausage & Pierogi
A couple of generations ago, casseroles were the weeknight meal of choice when you needed to get dinner on the table with a minimum of dishes to do afterward. Skillet and sheet-pan meals are [...]
Barbecue on the Go
Calgary’s iconic Tubby Dog has found a way to pack a barbecue party into a bag and make it delicious. Starting with a package of their famous The Uke house-made sausages (now available in [...]
French 50 Bakery
Hidden Gem: French 50 Bakery Sometimes you have to hunt a little for a true hidden gem and French 50 Bakery (and freshly-launched café) is just such a treasure. Operated by husband-and-wife team Brad [...]
Eat Your Wine
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Brews and Barbecues
Prairie Dog Brewing Prairie Dog Brewing is a family-owned-and-operated craft microbrewery and barbecue restaurant that relishes in bringing people together over brews and barbecues. The team consists of Laura Coles, Gerad Coles, Tyler Potter, [...]
Crispy Chicken Schnitzel
A couple of generations ago, casseroles were the weeknight meal of choice when you needed to get dinner on the table with a minimum of dishes to do afterward. Skillet and sheet-pan meals are [...]
Let’s Taco ‘Bout It
As Calgary starts to re-open and cautiously return to a new kind of normal, a unique crop of eateries beyond ghost kitchens are popping up. Canelo’s Ice Cream is the brainchild of retired pro [...]
Peaches
Peaches are part of the rose family, related to almonds, plums, apricots and cherries. They’re all drupes; in other words, fruit with flesh surrounding a hard shell containing a seed. This isn’t essential information, [...]
Wrap and Roll
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Shish Tawook Chicken Kabobs
Shish Tawook (also spelled tawouk or taouk) is a traditional marinated chicken dish, popular in Middle Eastern cuisine. It's made by cubing chicken breasts or boneless thighs, marinating, skewering and grilling until done. The [...]
A Real Treat
Real Treat Organic Cookies A Cochrane-based cookie company is quietly making waves in the food world as it has taken home two prestigious awards this past spring. Real Treat Organic cookies took home the [...]
The Irony of it All
I like meat. I just can’t cook it. Over the past decades a landfill or compost heap no doubt owes its existence to the cuts of meat I have ruined, burned, crisped, turned into [...]
The Little Cafe that Could
Off the beaten path, tucked in between Calgary’s Bow River and the Trans-Canada Highway, sits Angel’s Cappuccino Café, a favourite hangout with the locals that has been a solid fixture for 15 years. What [...]
Dog Slinger and Mustard Wrangler
Shop Local More than any other, we’ve welcomed this summer with wide open arms, almost running to catch it and ensure it doesn’t slip away. While we are still facing uncertain times, we can [...]
Buttermilk Fried Chicken Sandwich with Siracha Mayo
A buttermilk chicken thigh is the heart of the fried chicken sandwich. Cooked until crispy, then served on a soft bun with a homemade sauce, shredded lettuce and sliced pickles makes an easy, tasty [...]
The Rise of the Fried Chicken Sandwich
In 2015, American food writer Helen Rosner wrote an article for Guernica Magazine called “On Chicken Tenders,” an unapologetic ode to the humble chicken strip, the “king of all perfect foods,” as she describes [...]
Sloppy Joes
A couple of generations ago, casseroles were the weeknight meal of choice when you needed to get dinner on the table with a minimum of dishes to do afterward. Skillet and sheet-pan meals are [...]
Backyard Bounty
If you’re lucky enough to know someone from the East Coast, you may have had the pleasure of a seafood boil. Thanks to Calgary’s new Backyard Boil, you no longer need an exclusive invite [...]
The Truffle Club
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Global Grill
A delectable collection of Calgary's best international meat dishes COVID-19 may have made international travel impossible, but thankfully, Calgary brings the world to devout meat eaters as the home of countless international restaurants, markets [...]
Not Your Average Churro
Halo Churros Antonio Lopez landed in Canada seven years ago by way of Mexico City, ending up in High Level, Alberta. He opened a Mexican restaurant, sold it a couple of years later and [...]
Pavlova
As the daughter and daughter-in-law of Dutch immigrants, I know a thing or two about sweet treats. Speculaas cookies, boterkoek, oliebollen – the Dutch certainly are passionate about sweet indulgences. But it’s the Australian [...]