Well Seasoned Blog

Beer Cured Bacon Tasting Menu ?
We LOVE the creative kitchen team at Central City Brewing Co. in Surrey headed up by Executive Chef Carl Sawatzky.  For the whole month of September Chef Carl will be dishing up his Beer Cured Bacon Tasting Menu and we are pretty excited to get our butts over there to [...]

Tomatillos have to be one of my favorite farmer’s market find of the season…each Wednesday the green-thumbed crew from Glenwood Organic Farms turn up at the Langley Community Farmers Market with fresh green tomatillos.  I stand back and watch the market shoppers who stop to check them out, some know what they are and have [...]

One of the simple joys of summer for me is the easy access to fresh herbs.  They are the one ingredient that can change the direction of a dish, the flavour profile of a cocktail or even liven up a cup of tea. I love fresh herbs, summer or winter, in my opinion they are [...]

I spend an inordinate amount of time in the backyard with my barbecue, and my theory is, if you aren’t having fun, then what are you doing it for?
Sometimes, playing with your food is a really good idea. Just for kicks, give these ideas a try.
What the heck is an ABT?
It’s a tasty barbecue treat [...]

Okay….. I know it’s not 1982 but there is something so retro-sheik about a cheese ball. For those of you that maybe don’t remember the heyday of cheeseballs then please have an open mind and give it a shot. I will admit, there have been some cheeseball tragedies – Velveeta blended with pimento [...]

Old school cocktails really are all the rage…”back in the day” the people who expertly served behind the bar mixing our drinks were called bartenders or even more recently, mixologists…now, they are actually referred to as “liquid chef’s”. Apparently, taking the same level of experimentation, creativity, expertise & finesse out of the kitchen and [...]

Monsoon Coast was started with a mission to make traditional Indian spice mixtures or ‘masalas’ simple to use and accessible to the western palate, thus striking a chord with folks who wanted to explore new flavours without overly complex cooking procedures.
From their small factory on Salt Spring Island, Andrea and her team create some of [...]

The fresh salad greens I’ve have been buying at the farmers market the last few weeks have been truly excellent but a girl can’t live on salad greens alone.  I like to mix things up a little by adding some very gourmet, buttery rich, fresh homemade herbed croutons into my salad.  The boxed croutons are [...]

Surely you remember chowing down on an over mayo’ed devilled egg or three in your day.  If you were feasting at my granny’s house there were always devilled eggs on the table….made with loads of mayo (unfortunately even occasionally Miracle Whip), green onions chopped a little too coarsely, not enough salt and a requisite sprinkling [...]

I was at the Langley Community Farmers Market www.langleycommunityfarmersmarket.com this week where I picked up 2 rather significant bags of locally grown, super fresh, in the shell sweet peas.
They don’t usually make any farther than from the bag to the mouth in the car on the way home but my husband wasn’t with me so [...]