Herb and Garlic Cheese Scones

Here is a recipe to my Herb and Garlic Cheese Scones!

Ingredients:
4 cups unbleached all purpose flour (plus 2 table spoons)
2 tablespoons baking powder
1.5 table spoons Kosher Salt
250g pound of cold unsalted butter
1 cup whipping cream
450 g old sharp cheddar (1/2 cm cubes)
2 tablespoons dried oregano
2 tablespoons dried parsley
2 tablespoons garlic powder

3 table spoons melted butter for brushing on top

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

1. add 4 cups flour, baking powder and salt to electric mixer with a paddle attachment. Add cubed cold butter and mix until pea sized.

2. Add wet ingredients and mix until dough balls form.

3. Put 1 tablespoon of flour onto needing surface and put the other tablespoon of  flour in the bowl with the cubed cheese herbs and garlic powder.

4. while needing the dough add in the cheddar, garlic and herbs.

5. roll into a 3/4 of an inch thick roll and cut into circles  cut circles in half on the diagonal and put on a baking sheet with parchment and brush with butter. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Oreo crusted Chocolate Chip Cheesecake (No diet!)

First of all I am on a diet so I am not making this for myself but for a lunch to feed the homeless here on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Ingredients:

Crust:
300g box of oreos (take out 4)
4 tablespoons melted butter

Filling:
8 oz (3 packages of cream cheese)
1 cup Cane sugar
3 tablespoons unbleached all purpose flour
3/4 whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 extra large eggs
1 cup chocolate chips (semi sweet)

1. grid up oreos in a food processor or a blender until a fine mixture add melted butter and mix. Press the mixture into a pop up pan.

2. add soft cream cheese, flour, sugar and vanilla to an electric mixer. Mix well and add wet ingredients quickly. Mix but do not over mix add in chocolate chips and mix until distributed evenly. Add to pan on top of cookie crust.

3. put into pre heated 425 degree oven for 10 minutes then turn down to 250 degrees and bake for 45 minutes or until bake through.

White Cosmopolitan

WHITE COSMOPOLITAN Adapted from Daniel

2ounces absolute vodka (any vodka will do... I'm going to try grey goose next time)

1 ounce St.-Germain elderflower liqueur

½ounce freshly squeezed lime juice

1ounce white cranberry juice

1orchid or edible flower, for garnish. (As you can see from the picture above I couldn't find round ice cube ball dishes so I used regular ice cube tray with tulip petals)

1. Shake the liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.

2. Add the garnish and serve.

Yield: 1 serving.

Note: For the garnish, freeze the flower in an ice tray. Fill the tray halfway with water, freeze, and add the flower. Fill completely with water and freeze again. (Spherical ice trays, necessary to replicate Daniel’s large ice ball, are available atwww.momastore.org and other online retailers. You can also just float an unfrozen flower in the drink.)

 

The actual white cosmo from Daniel on the Upper Eastside

Its very chic and beautiful! When I was there

I had FOUR with my 8 course vegetarian tasting menu...

LOL

Roasted Garlic and Artichoke Pesto

Ingredients list:  

• artichoke hearts
• extra virgin olive oil
• pine nuts
• garlic
• parmesan cheese (pre-grated and not grated) 
• red pepper flakes
• dried oregano
• kosher salt
• fresh ground pepper

Recipe:

• 3 cm by 9 cm slice from a block of parmesan cheese
• 1/8 cup pre-grated parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 4 tbsp of pine nuts
• 8 cloves of garlic roasted and pealed
• 1 tbsp dried oregano
• 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
• 3 artichoke hearts (cooked)
• kosher salt (to taste)
• fresh ground pepper (to taste)

Instructions:

1. Prepare the artichokes by cutting off the steam and 2 cm off the top. Spread the leaves open.
2. Bring large pot of  salted water to a boil. Place 3 prepared artichokes in the water and turn down to a simmer and cover for around 30 minutes (or until leaves come off easily).
3. Prepare the garlic for roasting. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Peal 8 cloves of garlic and wrap in foil. Place them in the oven for 25 to 35 minutes.
4. In a food processor or a blender add pine nuts, red pepper flakes, oregano and slice of parmesan. Grate until fine and remove and place into a small bowl.
5. Add roasted garlic and olive oil into the blender or food processor and mix throughly. Then add grated parmesan.
6. Remove artichokes from water and remove all leaves to get to the heart. Place all 3 hearts in the blender or food processor with the oil, garlic and grated parmesan. 
7. Add the pine nuts and parmesan and spices mix and mix throughly together. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Serve hot or cold over pasta.

The best pork chops

The best pork chops

Recipe:

2 pork chops with bone
4 tablespoons Tequi-Lime sauce 'Chef Ann Kirseboom's' (Found at fine grocers /Whole Foods)
3 medium organic carrots
2 stocks of organic green onion
1 tablespoon organic butter
1/2 chopped green beans (Organic if you can find them!)
Fresh ground pepper to taste
1/2 cup organic white wine

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

1. Melt butter in a frying pan on high heat (in an oven safe pan)
2. season pork chops on both side with ground pepper (while butter is melting)
3. When the pan is searing hot place pork chops in the pan. Sear on each side for about 2 minutes (or until browned)
4. Put white wine in the pan to deglaze and place a lid on the pan (oven safe) and place pan in  the oven for 20 to 30 minutes (depending on the size of your chops)
5. Starting boiling a pot of water for carrots and beans to blanche. Slice the carrots in semi thin rounds.
6. Place beans and carrots in boiling water for about 5 minutes until semi soft (blanched).
7. Remove from heat and strain water out.
8. Chop green onion. (thin slices)
8. When the pork is ready remove from oven and let sit on a chopping board with foil on top for 5 minutes.
9. Take the pan with juice and put on the stove on medium heat. Place blanched carrots, beans and the green onion in the pan. Stir lightly and add in the Tequi-lime sauce. Mix for 2 minutes on medium high.
10. Put the pork on a place and drizzle the vegetable mix with sauce on top.

Enjoy!

This is yummy!!

A total favorite in this household.

Its quite easy and very tasty.

Lemon dill Halibut

Lemon dill halibut

Recipe:

2 whole fresh organic lemons
4 tablespoons organic honey mustard
6 stems organic baby dill
1 teaspoon organic butter
2 pieces of fresh halibut (serving for 2 people)
Fresh ground pepper to taste


1. Squeeze juice from the organic lemons into a medium bowl.
2. Add the organic honey mustard and mix together.
3. Remove the dill from their stems and mix into the liquid.
4. sprinkle fresh ground pepper on to each halibut piece and place in the liquid to marinate for 1 to 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

5. Place halibut in foil along with the extra marinade and 1/2 teaspoon of butter on top of each piece. Close up the foil and place on a baking sheet. Put in the oven for 35 minutes and serve.

Enjoy this yummy and healthy halibut dish!

Very easy and very tasty.

Scratches/Mud fever

What an EXHAUSTING DAY! I spent 5 hours at the barn. Snow was falling off the roof of the indoor so that means it was not a good day to ride. So I lunged at the trot for 25 mins in the Passoa rig. Then it was to tend to the scratches I mentioned earlier that my mare spent 6 days in the vet clinic for.

These things are resilient! My mare has not been in turn out for about 6 weeks now she is walked for 40 minutes a day and ridden for 1 hour. Her legs are washed and scrubbed twice daily and her legs are ice booted. Then she is wrapped up all the time. We realized our scrubbing was not as good as it could be and we were using the wrong soap but now we are on track.

Syd gets walked 20 minutes in the morning after getting her legs scrubbed. Then wrapped all fours in regular standing wraps.

She then gets ridden for 1 hour mix of walk trot canter mostly walk because she is still a rehab horse.

Then the night routine goes by icing for 20minutes and then scrubbing very well (usually requires tranq). Then scratches cream is applied followed by poltice from the hoof to the hock. Then plastic wrap is put on over the poltice followed by disposable standing wraps and vet wrap on top (starting at the hoof to the hock). The night routine from start to finish including riding takes about 4 hours. But we really need to beat these scratches!

They are nasty things. All routines and information from above have been guided and approve by our team of vets

Syd is on the mend!

Happy Oscars night!