What’s your favorite thing to cook?

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

What are some of your favorite things to cook?

I LOVE making soups and stews. Any meal that is served in a bowl with a big ‘ol hunk of bread.

My ‘recipe’ for soup, has never been written down, because it’s different every time dependent on what I have in the fridge/freezer.

Start with a hot pot, add butter, and whatever meat you’re using. I don’t do meatless soup….ewww. Brown the meat all around to get the yumminess out of it.

Add your diced veggies. Mine are usually onion, garlic, carrot, cabbage, and turnip. However, soup is forgiving, you can add whatever you like best. Stir. Coat the veggies in the meat-infused butter.

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I’m pretty famous for my pork roast among friends and family, but cheese fondue, salmon, and raclette are also favourites people tend to remember.

The roast and the salmon are pretty much the easiest things to make though. Big casserole, salt, and pepper, in it, go for an hour or two, and done.

With the pork roast, I tend to serve mushrooms, brussels sprouts, and leek; I roast them together with the pork in the same casserole, and the secret of my success is the use of Japanese soy sauce and whole green peppercorn. For additional sauce, I make a mustard cream sauce.

For the salmon, I usually sprinkle it with dill and serve it with green asparagus and liquid salt butter.

None of these are a big drama to clean up, either.

During my vegetarian years, I developed a bit of a reputation for making a diabolically yummy lasagna with whole grain pasta, creme fraiche, and beluga lentils. Its secret was, again, the use of Japanese soy sauce, as well as tahini.