comox shellfish festival
May 30, 2010 by Jill Thomas
Celebrate and experience a truly authentic taste of the West Coast. The festivities start on Saturday June 9th with a gourmet nine-course dinner and continue at Comox Marina Park, on Sunday June 10th. For the dinner, nine of BC’s top chefs will gather in historic Filberg Lodge to prepare this sumptuous feast, for 200 guests, [...]
spot prawns & vodka gazpacho
May 30, 2010 by Fatima Da Silva
Is anyone else having fun with the spot prawn season? We increased our daily spot prawn order at Bistro 161 because my staff and I can’t control ourselves when we are around them. We tend to eat a couple pounds of these fantastic BC treasures before we serve them to the guests. I am even [...]
hummos
May 26, 2010 by Jill Thomas
Hummos has been on my restaurant menus for 12 years now. It was one of the first things I ever learned to ‘cook’. I first discovered it when I was doing ‘craft service’ (supplying snacks) on for a television production I was working on in the early nineties call Missing Treasures: The Search for our [...]
field to fork dilemma
May 26, 2010 by Jill Thomas
I recently returned from Tunisia. My husband and I go to a different country every year for one month. When we arrive in a foreign city, we seek out monuments, ruins, forts, churches and mosques. One by one we check off these touristic testaments to empire, war and devotion in our guidebook. We travel to [...]
spot prawn bisque
May 26, 2010 by Bradford Boisvert
Ingredients: 2 ounces butter 1/2 pound prawn shells 1/2 cup minced onion 2 cloves garlic minced 1 Tablespoon paprika 1 Tablespoon tomato paste 2 Tablespoons brandy 1 ounce short grain rice (raw) 2 fresh bay leaves 1 1/2 litres shellfish or fish stock 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper juice of 1 lemon 8 ounces whipping [...]
more about spot prawns
May 23, 2010 by Bradford Boisvert
It is that time a year again. Spot prawn season has arrived. I will be featuring lots of spot prawns on the menu at Amuse Bistro this week. As the prawners pull up their long lined traps and head back into Cowichan Bay you can rush down to the docks to greet the freshest catch [...]
spot prawns, flat bread & edamame
May 20, 2010 by Jill Thomas
Ingredients 1 pound shelled edamame beans 2 Tablespoons chopped garlic 2 Tablespoons butter 8 oz goat cheese 1/4 cup whipping cream 2 Tablespoons sour cream 1 Tablespoon lemon juice salt and pepper to taste 3 Tablespoons of minced red onions several pieces of flat bread Method Blanch edamame beans for 30 seconds in boiling water [...]
