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cucumber & dill tzatziki

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Jill Thomas
cucumber & dill tzatziki

From Rock Salt Restaurant and Cafe.  We serve it as a starter and as a topping or our very popular lamb gyro. Grate 1 english cucumbers onto cheesecloth with large holes on grater. Close cheesecloth and squeeze hard to remove all the juice from cucumbers. In large bowl combine well: 4 cups greek style... »

hummos

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
By Jill Thomas
hummos

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... »

carpathian chicken

Friday, April 30, 2010
By Peter DeBruyn
carpathian chicken

By Peter de Bruyn, Executive Chef Strathcona Hotel 1 pound of chicken breast, or tenders cut into 1’ strips 1 medium onion, minced 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 large carrot, minced ¼ pound of artichoke heart quarters 8oz mozzarella cheese, shredded 2 fl/oz olive oil 1oz of capers 3oz of lemon juice 26... »

veal in pasilla sauce

Thursday, March 25, 2010
By Berenice Balbuena
veal in pasilla sauce

.750 grams veal meat (ribs or stew cuts) 1/2 onion 1 garlic bulb salt 2 bay leaves water to cover Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and boil at a low temperature for an hour until the veal is tender. Remove veal from bone and set aside. Reserve stock. Pasilla Sauce: 1/2 cup... »

red salsa

Monday, March 22, 2010
By Berenice Balbuena
red salsa

Blend with hand blender: 2 roma tomatoes 2 garlic cloves 1 teaspoon of salt 1 fresh jalapeno (or less if you don’t like any spice) 5 branches of fresh cilantro 1/8 of red onion Then combine in a mixing bowl: 6 cups diced fresh roma tomatoes ¾ cup of diced red onion 2 limes... »

seared fish, green apple & coconut curry

Thursday, March 18, 2010
By Fatima Da Silva
seared fish, green apple & coconut curry

Saute lightly over medium heat: 1 green pepper -chopped 1 banana pepper -chopped 1 large onion -chopped 1 granny smith apple -cored and chopped ½ teaspoon hot chili flakes 2 Tablespoons fresh cilantro-chopped 1 Tablespoon fresh ginger -peeled & chopped 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil 2 kaffir lime leaves 1 teaspoon of ground cumin Do... »

thai green curry

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Jill Thomas
thai green curry

This recipe will work for all Thai curries including red, yellow or green.  Red curries are best with pork and seafood and green with chicken.  In Thailand they add small tender eggplants to green curry but our eggplants don’t work so I use mushrooms.  At Rock Salt Restaurant we serve green curry with halibut,... »

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