Recipes

  • brussels sprouts

Brussels Sprouts

By |October 1st, 2021|1 Comment

I’ve always thought everyone should be as delighted as I am by these miniature cabbages; so cute, so tasty, so versatile, but we all know the trouble with Brussels sprouts. You had an unfortunate [...]

  • clumpy honey granola

Clumpy Honey Granola

By |September 16th, 2021|2 Comments

We have a lot of great honey in Alberta, particularly on the prairies — Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba account for almost 80 per cent of our national production, and bees provide vital pollination to [...]

  • sweet chili chicken thighs

Sweet Chili Chicken Thighs

By |September 1st, 2021|0 Comments

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 [...]

  • peaches

Peaches

By |August 4th, 2021|0 Comments

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, [...]

  • shish tawook

Shish Tawook Chicken Kabobs

By |July 28th, 2021|1 Comment

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 [...]

  • sloppy joes

Sloppy Joes

By |July 13th, 2021|2 Comments

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 [...]

  • pavlova

Pavlova

By |July 2nd, 2021|0 Comments

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 [...]

  • spatchcock chicken

Grilled Spatchcock Chicken

By |June 28th, 2021|2 Comments

We are back for another summer of grilling with AMA's Backyard BBQ team in support of local farmers, ranchers, and businesses. This summer we'll be sharing some unique and popular ways to grill Alberta [...]

  • fried rice

Spam and Pineapple Fried Rice

By |June 24th, 2021|1 Comment

This Spam and pineapple fried rice recipe is a delicious way to repurpose leftover rice. Add in juicy pineapple cubes, some staple items from the pantry or freezer and you can turn those leftovers [...]

  • greens

Greens

By |May 30th, 2021|0 Comments

By Ellen Kelly Thanks to the relatively recent onslaught of hydroponic baby-this and micro-that all tidily provided in little plastic clamshells, we no longer have to do without greens for endless months. Don’t get [...]

  • ginger not beef recipe

Ginger Not-Beef

By |May 21st, 2021|2 Comments

Most food trends are fleeting, generally (these days) driven by social media; Instagram triggered the unicorn Frappuccino® — and a thousand swirly purple unicorn foods after it — and TikTok recently brought us a [...]

  • butter paneer

Butter Paneer

By |May 10th, 2021|2 Comments

Most food trends are fleeting, generally (these days) driven by social media; Instagram triggered the unicorn Frappuccino® — and a thousand swirly purple unicorn foods after it — and TikTok recently brought us a [...]

  • welsh rarebit

Welsh Rarebit

By |April 2nd, 2021|2 Comments

Ale and Stout Canadians love their beer — and we in the prairies are particularly lucky to have close access to some of the best barley in the world. And lucky us — not [...]

  • rhubarb

Rhubarb

By |March 23rd, 2021|0 Comments

By Ellen Kelly I seldom disagree outright with the inimitable English-cookery writer Jane Grigson; I quite enjoy her acerbic wit and opinionated stance on pretty much everything. But we part ways when it comes [...]

  • ramen

Ramen

By |February 25th, 2021|0 Comments

Story by Chefs Kaede Hirooka and Jonathan Chung, Respect the Technique As the cold winter months of Alberta drag on, nothing beats a steaming hot bowl of Ramen to warm you up. We have [...]

  • chef trent mardi gras shrimp

Mardi Gras Shrimp

By |February 12th, 2021|0 Comments

Recipe By Chef Trent Bochek In the spirit of Mardi Gras, we are turning up the heat with a Mardi Gras Shrimp recipe. Starting with the cajun holy trinity of onion, bell pepper and [...]

  • lamb shank

Braised Lamb Shanks

By |February 2nd, 2021|2 Comments

Stews & Braises Photos and story by Julie Van Rosendaal Low and slow has been the way to go this winter. With more time to make some long-simmered stews and braises. Few cooking techniques [...]