Food

I'm partial to the spicy stuff.

Love Chicken Madras (favourite to cook cause it makes the house smell delicious for days)

Same with jerk chicken...Think I'll have this tonight....

-Sockeye salmon steaks
-Scalloped potatoes (with lots of cheese and more than one variety)
-Pork k'bobs with onion, green,red and yellow peppers,carrots and mini tomatoes. (for appitizers)
-carrot-raison-apple salad
-home made mushroom soup
-nanaimo bars and fruit salad for desert.
-beer or Gala Apple/Strawberry cider to drink.

Chicken Madras??? Do tell.
Nummy No1

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here's is a recipe for Chicken Madras. I cheat and buy Patak's Madra's paste (jarred) and add tomatoes.

It's really easy to make....the longest portion is the simmering (40minutes) but the house smells wonderful and I'm just about droolin when it's finally ready....

Beer Can Chicken, simple, stuff and oooo soooo good, take a whole thawed chicken, rinse the insides, and apply a good spicy rub, insides and under the skin anywhere you can get to. Open a can of beer and drink about 1/4 push the open cavity of the chicken over the open can of beer. Fire up the Barby on one side and place foil on the other side, then on the foil lined side place your chicken and beer and cook on low for about an hour. Makes the best moist chicken ever.

Two things that out Atlantic Canada members will understand:

25 years ago, I was in Halifax and ran across Digby clams (breaded and fried) - what I wouldn't give for a big plateful of those! It's been that long, and I can still remember them.
And DONAIRS? I think they have them in Ontario, too - but they never made it out to BC - what's up with that?

Victoria has Donairs. I don't like them so I have no idea if they're on in Vancouver yet.....

Got the best Donairs in Canada ten feet away from me....

Don't eat them though...

What? Why not? Donairs are fantastic.

I think it's the bread, I found they tasted best, the next day warmed up in the microwave. Otherwise, they are blech and soggy. Yes, it's the sogginess, I don't like soggy.

Soggy is bad.

I don't like soggy bread either...something about it reminds me of regurgitation or something like it...

I had a Helluva time trying to find a good donair after I moved back west. Once I crossed the NewBrunswick line, they were harder to find and the quality was, well...Yuck.

Upon reaching Edmonton and Kelowna at the time the response was usually "what's a donair?" That's changed a bit in more recent times but they have nothing on what's made out east here. Dammit now I'm hungry!

I'd eat tofu. So many ways to cook that stuff, and I recently found out how this awesome restaurant near my place makes it. Before that, I wasn't a big fan, but now it is my favourite food.

Take a package of extra firm tofu. Freeze it for about a day, defrost it in boiling water for 15 minutes (all while it's still in it's original package), remove it from package, cut it up into slabs, place a heavy weight on the slabs for about thirty minutes or so to remove most of the water, cut tofu into cubes, marinade for about an hour in whatever sauce you like, dust it with something like nutritional yeast or corn starch, or whatever, then shallow fry or deep fry the hell out of it...

Healthy, extremely inexpensive, tasty, and easy to make (the entire thing is done in steps where you don't need to pay much attention - except the frying part, obviously).

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For a nice, healthy snack, take a blender and a block of soft tofu, and something to flavour it with (like some strawberries, honey, or whatever else). Toss everything in the blender, and blend until it is all goop. It's like this pudding/jello/mousse hybrid. Good stuff.

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If not tofu, it would be whatever kind of grain I could get my hands on, tossed into a spice/coffee grinder to make a meal (which is like cream of wheat). Very cheap, very healthy.

Game hens indirect grilled, corn on the cob, baked potatoes and grilled apples with raisins. Served this during summer to break in my new barrel smoker. Not a deep south barbecue competition quality one but will do for me and a few friends.