Pork ramen with a pork bone broth consisting of four different broths made over the span of the last few days, homemade noodles, a soft boiled egg, brûléed pork, pulled pork and garnished with fresh green onion and Nori/seaweed.
Category: Main Dish
Vietnamese Noodle Bowl
Saturday mornings, my wife and I will often engulf a huge bowl of Vietnamese pork bun each so I thought why not try my hand at making it myself. The best part of this dish was the fish sauce which I made from scratch (lemon juice, fish sauce, maple syrup, garlic and red chilies…soooo good)…
Szechuan Pepper Roasted Whole Chicken
Gordon Ramsey’s Szechuan Pepper Roasted Whole Chicken Stuffed With Lemon, Fennel, Onion, and Thai Basil. If only you could smell the aromatics in my kitchen right this instant. All I can say is, I’m really looking forward to lunch tomorrow!
Perfect Potato Gnocchi
An Italian-style gnocchi made with potato, egg and flour from Masterclass by Chef Thomas Keller (French Laundry, Per Se). This recipe originates from the Lombardy region in Northern Italy and is the most common. Pictured here, dressed with freshly torn basil leaves and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
Green Pea Marscapone Agnolotti
Green pea marscapone agnolotti with bacon and peas topped with a Parmesan crisp. Not bad for a midday snack, am I right? Another Masterclass recipe; this time by Thomas Keller.
Red Wine Braised Short Rib
Made using several different French cooking techniques, this recipe takes a few days to make given the ingredients require making your own chicken stock, veal stock and red wine sauce (I secretly took my wife’s favorite red wine…hoping she’ll forgive me once she tasted this) which I did. Tender and falling off the bone, this…
Crunchy Korean Fried Chicken
Interesting but little known fact. Did you know the secret to the extra crunch is achieved by frying the chicken twice…first time to drain the fat?
Lobster Ravioli
Lobster ravioli inspired by Gordon Ramsey served atop a tomato and basil sauce made with fresh organic tomatoes. Stuffing made of lobster shrimp mousse, lemon and basil. Lobster stock made the evening before (5 hour cooking time) used to create the lobster sauce (added cream and reduced until thick) and to boil the ravioli in….
Cauliflower Steak
Charred cauliflower “steak” basted in brown butter and homemade chicken stock with fresh Ontario corn, tomatoes, black olives, onions and garlic with a chicken stock butter sauce inspired by Gordon Ramsey’s vegetarian version made for his daughters.
Cooking with Charles 