Recipes
Mexican Street Corn Salad
The best part of summer is all the delicious fruit and vegetables that are available to us. You can’t beat the freshness! While it’s already September, we are lucky to be able to enjoy [...]
Grilled Peach Salad
With peaches in season, we just can’t get enough of the juicy fruit. They are perfect for snacks and always welcome for a picnic. They are great on their own, but grilling the peaches brings [...]
Peach-Tomato Burrata Salad
Impress your guests with this gorgeous tomato, peach and burrata salad that makes the most out of late summer's garden bounty. Peach-Tomato Burrata Salad 1 burrata cheese (or fresh baby bocconcini)Whole cherry tomatoes and slices/wedges [...]
Garden Tomato Bruschetta
When tomatoes are in season, Italian should be on the menu! Make the most of the crown jewel of your garden with this delicious bruschetta. This recipe can also be added to hot, cooked pasta [...]
Caprese Naan Pizza
This is one of my weekly go-to’s in the summer. We pick up fresh naan at the market and make it our weekend pizza, so simple! Do not skip salting your tomatoes, this helps some [...]
Hibiscus Simple Syrup
A delightful, simple syrup infused with dried hibiscus petals becomes a delicious sweetener. A simple syrup is typically made with 1 part water to 1 part sugar. Once you start making simple syrup you [...]
S’mores Cones
One of the best parts of summer has to be s’mores. Who can resist the combination of ooey gooey marshmallows and melted chocolate? While graham crackers are the norm to hold everything together, make these [...]
Watermelon Gazpacho
The summer has been exceptionally hot this year. The last thing anyone wants to do is to turn on the stove or even the bbq. Easy meals are key and especially ones that require little [...]
Strawberries
The strawberry perfectly illustrates the convoluted, often arduous, journey many fruits and vegetables have taken to our plates. How this odd little fruit, indigenous to most of the world for thousands [...]
Rough Puff Pastry
Almost all my favourite desserts involve pastry: my mother’s apple pie with its crisp shortcrust; cream-filled, chocolate-covered choux pastry buns; the simplicity of tarte citron with melt-in-the-mouth buttery pâte sucrée and the crisp, delicate [...]
Hibiscus Gin Sour
Dried Hibiscus flowers are turned into a simple syrup then combined with Park Distillery Gin, Chambord and lemon juice creating your new favourite summer sip, the Hibiscus Gin Sour. Mount Engadine Lodge A short [...]
Corn Dogs
Stampede is in full swing and one of the best things about it is all the great food. From the mini donuts to the crazy concoctions and let’s not forget the corn dogs, there [...]
Apple Hand Pies with Apple Caramel Sauce
Apple Hand Pies with Apple Caramel Sauce are perfect for picnics and summers in the backyard, serve warm with vanilla ice cream or a spoonful of crème fraiche. Use any apple variety, a combination [...]
Chili Palomita
The Chili Palomita combines Park Chili Vodka, Cointreau liqueur, grapefruit juice, simple syrup and lime juice offering a playful spin on both a paloma and a margarita. Enjoy this tasty cocktail all summer long. [...]
Barbecue Short Rib Chilaquiles
Barbecue Short Rib Chilaquiles are made easy using lime flavoured tortilla chips and salsa con queso. Local Calgary chefs Connie DeSousa and John Jackson season Canadian Beef short ribs and braise them in a [...]
Dutch Oliebollen
Today’s modern doughnut dates all the way back to the 1700s when Dutch settlers first introduced “olykoeks” or “oily cakes” to Manhattan, known as New Amsterdam at the time. Traditionally served on New Year’s [...]
Élan Bourguignon and Spaetzle
I’ve never understood the point of hunting, so it’s from the height of hypocrisy that I admit I’ve always wanted to cook and eat moose meat. While visiting family in Dawson Creek at Christmas, [...]
The Shaft
If you like coffee, you will love The Shaft, a tasty cocktail with a caffeine kick! Awaken your senses when you sip this cocktail made using Park Distillery Espresso Vodka, Kahlua, cold coffee and [...]
Fennel
I’ve often wondered why fennel isn’t more popular than it is. Certainly, it’s more common now than in recent years, but I find many people are still somewhat intimidated by this lovely vegetable. It [...]
Black Pepper Brie
Learn how to make Brie at home with Roland Schmidt-Bellach, Co-Owner of Changing Seasons Bed & Breakfast in Nanton, Alberta. Roland teaches cheese-making classes out of his Changing Seasons Bed and Breakfast in Nanton, [...]
Celery and Celery Root (Celeriac)
Celery gets an undeservedly bad rap. David Lebovitz has said, rather harshly, I think, that ‘it’s like eating green water held together with a lot of fibres.’ It’s either considered a sad dietary punishment [...]
Winter Squash and Oyster Mushroom Risotto with Squash Puree
Risotto Creamy butternut squash and earthy, luscious mushrooms are combined to create a robust side dish or main vegetarian meal. Culinary couple Brit Hart (Bricks Wine Co., Vin Room, J. Webb Wine Merchant) and [...]
Pineapple
With a paucity of anything remotely local or seasonal this time of year, we look to the tropics to lighten our hearts as well as our stomachs. A pineapple in February is a celebration, [...]
Sausage Roll Wreath
Bake up something special this Christmas with this festive Sausage Roll Wreath. Mix up a classic English style pork sausage mixture from scratch, then envelop it with a rich, buttery store-bought puff pastry. Made [...]