What better way to ring in the New Year than the most epic seafood boil ever? For this boil, we bought lobster, clams, shrimps, mussels and assorted vegetables (potatoes and corn on the cob).
Category: Main Dish
Green Curry Crab with Garlic Naan Bread
A delicious green curry made with a homemade curry paste and coconut milk. For the curry paste, I threw in shallots, garlic, Thai chilis, cilantro, lime rind and leaves, galangal, as well as fresh homegrown basil into a Vitamix and blended together. Separately, I heated up the coconut milk before mixing in the paste. For…
Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf
Sticky rice in Lotus Leaf Wraps (Loi Mai Gai) is a tasty dimsum dish consisting of sticky rice, Chinese sausage and vegetables served steamed in a lotus leaf to enhance the fragrance of the rice. Although most online recipes feature wrapping the raw ingredients, my personal preference is to cook the ingredients first to ensure…
Smoked St. Louis Style Spare Ribs
BBQ sauce recipe from famous pitmaster, Aaron Franklin made of rendered homemade bacon fat, organic onions, garlic, ketchup, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, smoked paprika, mustard powder, salt and pepper whipped up in my Vitamix. I started with 2 racks of spareribs, made my own spice rub and BBQ sauce and then slow smoked these…
Homemade Smoked Bacon
The product of love….. 2 lbs of organic pork belly, cured in the fridge for 5 days, smoked in the barbecue with apple wood chips for 4 hours, carefully sliced, pan fried and ready to eat.
Spicy Korean Pork Bossam
Korean dinner tonight of spicy pork shoulder, pork belly and green onion alongside purple grain rice, lettuce and perilla leaf wraps, with a pork kimchi dashi broth. Wife and friends loved this dish.
Peking Duck with Pancakes
This Peking Duck dish took a total of 5 days to prepare including smoking, roasting, poaching, frying and curing.
No Yeast Pizza Dough
I made a no yeast pizza dough for these pizzas. All high quality organic ingredients, including our own home grown basil thanks the AeroGarden in our kitchen. My wife’s favorite Hawaiian pizza
Ultimate Lobster Roll
Picked up 4 lobsters today and made lobster rolls stuffed with butter-poached lobster tail, claw and knuckle meat, mixed together with celery, basil, green onions, avocado and fresh Ontario corn served on a slice of toasted egg bread. My wife nicknamed it the Charles Lobster Roll.
Samgyetang (Gingseng Chicken Soup)
Samgyetang (Ginseng Chicken Soup in Korea) is a traditional soup for body health. It consists primarily of a whole young chicken stuffed with garlic, sticky rice, jujube and ginseng. It’s also what my wife requests to eat at least once or twice a month saying it’s her most favourite comfort food.
Cooking with Charles 