Recipes

Mark Bernstein's cedar plank grilled salmon sounds delicious and easy. Check it out and let us know how you made out!

A few nights ago I wanted to use up some ripe bananas and didn't feel like using our recipes for banana oatmeal muffins or banana chip muffins. So I found this recipe for banana-nut bread on Epicurious.

This weekend I made a simple old-fashioned gingerbread from a recent issue of Gourmet. It turned out very moist, with a rich molasses flavour.

Because I'm a ginger fanatic, I added about 1/2 cup diced crystallized ginger to the batter. I highly recommend it--I don't think I would make it without the extra ginger! Although I served it with vanilla gelato from Mario's, next time I might drizzle it with a lemon glaze.

The Mastercook archive of recipes (via Sheila Lennon) has lots of links to different recipe sites. Check it out!

Whenever we go to Vietnamese restaurants, one of our favourite dishes is lemongrass pork or lemongrass chicken. We love the gentle citrus flavour that lemongrass imparts on the meat. Here's our version.

Instead of pork you can substitute chicken legs and thighs, ensuring that it's cooked thoroughly. You can also use thinly sliced beef for the skewers.

Every month I whip up some kind of chocolate treat for Roland. This month's chocolate fix is chocolate macaroons.

For this recipe you can use any texture of coconut as long as it's unsweetened. I like using long thread coconut, but medium would also work well.

Ever wonder why most pork chops are over cooked and dry? Read this article from the New York Times to find out and to learn the proper way to cook safe, tasty pork chops.

BKR's secret family recipe for Italian Tomato Sauce with San Marzano tomatoes looks great! Thanks!

We'd love to get more recipes from our readers. If you would like to submit one, please create a news item and put the recipe in it just like BKR did. Thanks!

Contributed by BKR

This weekend was one of those slow food kind of weekends. Among some of my slow food projects, I made beef tortellini. I developed the recipe from chef Andrea's cooking class in Tuscany.

This jerk chicken recipe that I learned about from The Adventures of AccordionGuy in the 21st Century looks great and easy to prepare. More on this later when I actually try it!