Category: Poul’s Kitchen

Italian Style Spaghettis Sauce

This is a great base for spaghetti sauce, it is done Italian style, and it is tasty, use this as a base, and add from there to your own flavor.

Ingredients

  1. Quarter cup of water.
  2. A TBS of baking soda.
  3. Olive oil.
  4. A whole garlic.
  5. Chili pepper.
  6. 2 Stocks of celery.
  7. 1 Large onion.
  8. Parsley.
  9. Sage.
  10. Oregino.
  11. Black Pepper.
  12. 3 Cans of crushed tomatos.
  13. 2 Cans of tomato paste.

Phase 1 Slurry

In a cup have a quarter cup of water, and add a tablespoon of baking soda, mix well and set aside.

Phase 2 Starting the sauce.

  1. Food process the garlic.
  2. Add a good amount of extra virgin olive oil into a deep frying pan and set the heat on.
  3. Add the garlic to it and start cooking that into the oil, it will infuse it.
  4. While that cooks in the food processor add 2 sticks of celery, some chili peppers, and finally 1 large onion, process this and then put this in a bowl and save it for now.
  5. Add your spices to the pan and mix well.
  6. Add your canned crushed tomatoes.
  7. At this point you want to be constantly stirring especially while you add.
  8. Add your cans of tomato paste.
  9. Now add your veggies.
  10. At this point your nearly done and you need to make sure its cooking down some and mixed well.
  11. Lastly you need to add your slurry of baking soda, and stir a lot now, as it will start to boil over, but this extra step will help you with indigestion and other issues that a high concentration of tomato product will cause you.
  12. Take it off the stove and cool down and a bit and your ready to serve, if your like us and like to save it for later in the week, wait till it is completely cooled down and freeze.

This is it! Now you can make your own meat balls, and noodles, you can add and modify this, but this will give you a great base, and honestly having the slurry will help with anyone with stomach issues, we hope you enjoy!

Pineapple and Chipotle Salsa

This is a great and easy salsa to make, tasty, hot, and flavorful, and best yet, you can make this for a party and have a large amount, and you can be proud of this one as most people won’t make this much effort, or buy their own, this is tasty healthy, and fun!

Phase 1 Ingredients

  1. Chipotle and Adobe Sauce.
  2. 1 Large Onion.
  3. 1 Sweet Pepper.
  4. Some Cardimon.
  5. 3 Cloves of garlic.
  6. 1 Can of tomatoes.
  7. 1 Can of Pinapples.
  8. Some minded ginger.
  9. Some Tajin.
  10. Lime Juice.
  11. Mexican Oregino.
  12. Lo-Salt.
  13. Smoked Paprika.
  14. Cumming.
  15. Black Pepper.
  16. Hot Peppers.

Phase 2 Into the Food Processor

Ok there are some things that need to be processed first, after your done processing the items throw it directly into your blender.

  1. Onions.
  2. Sweet Peppers.
  3. Cardimon.
  4. Garlic.
  5. Pineapple.
  6. Chipolete in Adobe Sauce.
  7. If your using fresh Ginger, do that too.

Phase 3 Blend Blend Blend

Simply put everything into the blender, and you may have to do multiple runs to get it done, if so just put everything into a bowl after a blend, and mix everything well when its done.

Phase 4 Containers

You want to start putting this into containers, and leave it sit in the fridge for at least an hour, and your done!

This is best served with nacho chips, or you can use this with tacos too.

This is an excellent and tasty salsa, and I promise you, everyone will be impressed with you, and think you made the best salsa ever! Your welcome!

Mushroom Pork Pasta

This is an absolutely amazing meal, its not to heavy, and has an amazing taste to it, it is a dish that anyone can make and even learn to make better, this is more a starter guide, so please feel free to modify and make better!

Phase 1 Noodles.

  1. Make some noodles, what ever you want, no right or wrong here, just what your choice is, follow package directions.
  2. When done mix in 2 cups of cream of mushroom soup, add some pepper and set aside.
  3. This is where your choice comes in, you can modify or work on your own mushroom sauce, it can get costly, but if you make your own it will be much better and most likely healthier.

Phase 2 Porkchops.

  1. Cook up your porkchops, only use pepper, I wouldn’t use anything else, just pepper, cook them up until they are done.
  2. When they are done, pepper again, then cut them into small cubes, should be bite size.
  3. Set them aside for now.

Phase 3 The Mushroom Part.

  1. Chop up some mushrooms
  2. Put 2 Onions, and 3 cloves of garlic in the food processor
  3. Put the Mushrooms and onions and garlic into an oiled frying pan.
  4. Mix them up add some pepper.
  5. Add another 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup.
  6. Add the Porkchops.

Phase 4 Corn.

  1. Cook up some corn any way you want!

Phase 5 Lets Make A Meal

  1. On your plate put some of the pasta over it, crack some black pepper.
  2. Put some porkchops over top.
  3. Put some corn on the side and your done!

This is a great light meal, nothing to heavy, and should taste amazing, you can use sausages instead of porkchops if you want, you can explore different soups, or mushroom sauces, or make your own, its not that hard to do!

We hope you enjoy this meal, we sure did!

Egg Potato Salad

One of my favorite snacks or sides in the world is the Egg Potato salad, its tasty, easy to make, and we usually have everything needed to make it, you can make this a million different ways, none is wrong, and we can make this to your preference, and if your name is Quo-Fan you can even add some hot chili peppers in it, nothing stopping you.

Phase 1 Cooking and prepping

First off we are going to take 5 large russet potatoes and chop them up into small chunks, skin on, and your going to ask why would you leave the skin on, well, thats simple the reason is because the skin is rich in iron, and can help a lot of people, so lets leave the skin on.

We are going to boil these potatoes for 12 minutes, or until they are soft, everyone’s stove is different so the results are going to vary, so keep an eye on them.

Chop up 1 large white onion, if you want to be brave you can use more.

Hard boil 6 eggs, these usually take 12 minutes for us.

Take a can of pineapple and drain the liquid (In a cup for you to drink the juice is the best).

Phase 2 More prep

After the potatoes and eggs are done, let them cool for a while, they need to be cool, not hot or warm.

Once cool, add the potatoes to a large bowl.

Deshell the eggs, and chop them up into pieces and add them to the bowl.

Add the pineapple.

Add the onions.

Add lots of black pepper.

Add half a cup of white vinegar.

and add lots of mayo, (Miracle whip should be your last resort.) make sure you have enough so that it has a rich full consistency, it should have a lot of mayo.

Store this in a fridge covered for a bit and let it go cold.

This honestly is one of my favorite things to eat, and you can actually classify this as a vegan dish if you want, I love it a lot and tastes great, we hope you enjoy!

Bison Burger

Ever wonder what the best burger is? Is it Wagu, it probably is, but honestly its far out of most peoples price range, and isn’t so easy to find or afford, with out blowing your whole pay check on one meal, there is an alternative, and that is Bison, Bison is very regulated, and farmers are not allowed to do the same thing they do with cattle which means that there are no growth hormones’ or any other chemical, so bison is a lot better for you, along with the fact that it is very lean, so it one of the best tasting burgers you can get for your money hands down.

This is one reason you want a very high performance food processor, when Aimee and I want ground beef, we don’t buy ground beef, we buy steak, roast or other meats and grind it into ground beef.

Some times when you find Bison meat, its not ground for you, but rather steaks, or cubes, so if you want burgers you have to grind it yourself, and this is why having a good food processor is important, so you can make your own ground beef.

If you never had Bison before I urge you to take a moment and try this recipe as you won’t be disappointed, this is absolutely the best burger your ever going to eat.

Phase 1 Wheres the Beef

Take your bison meat and simply put it into the food processor, no spices at all, just pure meat, grind it up until its a consistency of ground beef.

Take the meat out and start forming them into patties, we like smash burgers so we just made Bison balls.

You want to leave this sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes before you cook, in the mean time oil a frying pan up and heat it up so when your ready to cook its hot and waiting.

While we are waiting for the patties to come to room temperature we shall make some sauce.

Phase 2 Sauce Me!

In a bowl pour in a lot of mayo, (don’t worry you can save this for future use to.)

put in a small amount of apple cyder vinegar

Put in a bit of ketchup

Put in some mustard

I would put some dill pickles in the food processor and then put this in too.

And give it a good mix and make sure its all incorporated.

Phase 3 Cook the burgers

Fry up your burgers on the last flip put on a slice of good quality cheese, you took your time to make such a high quality burger you want to make sure your using good cheese, don’t cheap out here.

Phase 4 Putting it together

Ok, so its time to put this all together, grab your favorite bun and lets layer.

First we are going to put some lettuce then a bit of sauce.

Your burger, and if you want some more cheese, do her up.

More sauce, tomato, onion, and lettuce and finally the bun.

Thats it folks, your friends should be jelous you have the best burger around, and I promise you, if you serve this to your friends and family, they will absolutely think your the best cook in the world!

You can add some hot sauce to your burger sauce if you want, but personally I don’t think its the best idea in the world, to me it distracts from the flavor of the meat,

Service this with some corn and some homemade French fries!

I hope you enjoy this, drop me a line if you have made this, let me know what you think!

Pink Tacos

Pink Tacos are a great healthy, yes it takes a lot of work, but its well worth the effort, and it is a big way to impress someone with your cooking skills as no one else could imagine taking the time to make, and honestly it tastes amazing!

Ingredients

  1. Cranberries
  2. 3 Cups of water
  3. Cinnimon
  4. Orange Juice
  5. Orange Peels
  6. Hot sauce
  7. 1 Jalopino
  8. Celantro
  9. Can of Mandrines
  10. Can of Peaches
  11. Can of Appricots
  12. Chunky pinapple
  13. Tajin
  14. Lime juice
  15. Fresh Tuna
  16. Salt
  17. Pepper

Phase 1 Cranberry Salsa

  1. In a pot put a bag of cranberries in on medium heat
  2. 3 cups of water
  3. Add some cinnimon
  4. Add some orange juice
  5. Add some peels of some oranges
  6. Add some hot sauce you enjoy
  7. Let simmer for 30 minutes
  8. Remove 75% of the cranberries and blend them, and then combine them and let them sit in the fridge for a while.

Phase 2 Tropical Salsa

  1. Remove the liquid from the Mandarins the peaches, the apricots and pineapples
  2. Add them to a food processor
  3. Chop 1 Jalopino (remove the seeds if you don’t like heat) and add it to the food processor
  4. Add Tajin to the food processor, process the mix, add lime juice and set aside.

Phase 3 Fresh Tuna

  1. We like using fresh tuna for this, its got a great taste and also much healthier
  2. Marinate the tuna with a bit of oil salt and pepper
  3. Cook the tuna the same way you would as a steak just sear it, you don’t want to fully cook it.
  4. Let it rest for 10 minutes, if you don’t the juices and flavor will escape.
  5. Cut it up in very small pieces.

Phase 3 Putting it all together

  1. Where going to get some pink taco shells, (if you can get pink ones, some times there is a lot of false advertising and you don’t get them.)
  2. Start by putting the tropical salsa on the bottom.
  3. Line the next layer up with your tuna.
  4. Finish it up with your cranberry salsa.
  5. Serve it.

We found this to be absolutely delicious and tasty and had so much flavor, and tasted so amazing, when we served it everyone was amazed and surprised, they were first shocked by the name we called it, but in the end, it won them over.

Corn Chowder

Corn Chowder is a simple easy meal, not at all hard, it tastes great, and so simple even a beginner can do this with out a sweat.

As an Atlantic Canadian this is a pretty staple part of our diet, I would recommend you use Russet Potatoes, as they are grown perfect for this.

Ingredients

  1. Bacon
  2. 2 cans of creamed corn
  3. 2 onions
  4. 3 russet potatoes
  5. 1 container of heavy cream (whipping cream)
  6. Celeri
  7. Black pepper

Prepping

  1. Cut up the bacon and put it in a bowl
  2. Slice up the onions, you want these to be very thin
  3. Slice up the potatoes, you want these in cubes
  4. Slice up the celery

Lets get cooking

  1. You want to use a large cooking pot for this, and your going to start by cooking the bacon on the bottom, no oil or greases, bacon produces enough of that, cook it down enough so its cooked but still to the point that its soft.
  2. Add the onion and potatoes, and start cooking them, you want them soft.
  3. Add the cans of cream corn.
  4. Keep mixing this so that its not all stuck to the bottom.
  5. Mix in some pepper.
  6. Start pouring in the milk only to the point that your getting the volume that you want.
  7. Add a lot of black pepper.
  8. Finally add the celery.
  9. Let the chowder simmer and it shouldn’t take too long, and then take it off of the heat.

Thats it, simple and easy and it tastes amazing, best served with crackers, it can be a meal on its own, or you can have it as a side dish, and should taste amazing!

We truly hope you enjoy it!

Cranberry Dijon

Cranberry Dijon is a great condiment, good to use for sandwiches, great for fish, great for a lot of things, so simple and easy, and yet so tangy and delicious and worth having in stock as if you wish to entertain, it will be an eye opener!

Phase 1 Ingredients

  1. Wine
  2. Mustard Seeds
  3. A bag of fresh cranberries
  4. Rice wine vinigar
  5. Onions
  6. Salt
  7. Pepper
  8. Honey
  9. Dijon mustard
  10. Yellow Mustard
  11. Water
  12. Hot sauce

Phase 2 Cooking

  1. In a pot add some wine and a good amount of mustard seeds, let this cook down until soft.
  2. In a food processor cut up some onion and set aside for a few moments.
  3. In a separate pot add a cup or so of water.
  4. Add a bag of cranberries, make sure the water is almost up to the top of the cranberries.
  5. Add some rice wine vinigar.
  6. Add the onions.
  7. Mix well so that its combined.
  8. Add salt.
  9. Add Pepper.
  10. Add some honey, add to your taste.
  11. Add some Dijon mustard.
  12. Add some regular mustard.
  13. Stir some more, and at this point regularly keep stirring up.
  14. Add some hot sauce, what ever you like, don’t make it to hot though, you should be serving this to others do you don’t want to burn them out.
  15. When the pot with the mustard seeds is cooking and the seeds seem like they are nice and soft mix them in with the cranberries and stir well, its important to have them incorporated well.
  16. Cook this until the cranberries get soft and start to no longer be berries and go into a sauce, this can take a while and if its not going to happen for you, remember all stoves are different, you may want to use a blender to help the process.
  17. When this is done cooking, take it off the heat and let cool, it will thicken up and your done, serve with a sandwich or some meats, and this will be an awesome meal.

I hope you enjoy this recipe, this was one of my favorites, try it out, let me know what you think!

Homemade Ice Cap

One of the best delicacies that Canada has to offer is Tim Hortons, while many of us have our own opinions of the place, and the decline of quality that has happened through the years, there are a few things that you have come to accept, 1. A long line up in the drive through, 2. The double double the co worker is going to treat you with, and the demand for an ice cap!

This is a very simple and easy recipe, just takes some time to do.

  1. Make some coffee, use your favorite blend, let it brew and when its done brewing take 3 cups out of the maker and let it cool, (Tip if its winter let it sit outside to cool down.)
  2. Put the coffee in a blender.
  3. Add a few spoons of brown sugar (Or stevia, we use a diabetic friendly type of brown sugar)
  4. Add the normal amount of coffee cream that you would use in 3 cups of coffee (this is you have left overs if you want only 1 cup of an Ice Cap just reduce it by a 3rd.)
  5. Lastly add 1 tray of ice cubes.
  6. Blend that up until you have a good consistency, pour into a cup and serve.
  7. Optional you can add some whip cream and drizzle some chocolate over it, I know my wife would love this more but she is diabetic like me so, the answer was no.

Its that easy, and simple, and this is a Canadian delicacy and its an amazing taste.

Sloppy Aimees

Sloppy Aimees is my take on a Sloppy Joe, just more healthy fun, and much more tasty.

This is fun, easy and very tasty!

Ingredients

  1. 3 Onions
  2. 3 Green Peppers
  3. Garlic
  4. Ground Beef
  5. Pepper
  6. Salt
  7. Worcestershire Sauce
  8. Spaghettis Sauce
  9. Apple Cyder Vinegar
  10. BBQ Sauce
  11. Your choice of hot sauce
  12. Big burger buns

Cooking

  1. Start by chopping up your onion, green pepper and garlic, it would be best if you had a food processor and let it do it for you, more simple and a lot quicker.
  2. In a oiled frying pan start frying up that mix.
  3. Add in your ground beef, breaking it up making sure its very chunky.
  4. As it cooks down its going to reduce.
  5. Add some pepper.
  6. Add some Worcestershire sauce.
  7. Add some spaghetti sauce.
  8. Add some apple cyder vinegar, not a lot but it does help with taste and works with helping your blood sugar and blood pressure.
  9. Add some BBQ Sauce, your favorite flavor.
  10. If you want some hot sauce this is where you add it in, if your sharing the meal, think about how other people will feel about it, you don’t wanna kill anyone.
  11. Mix this all in good, and cook until done, be careful to make sure the meat is well cooked.
  12. Lastly get your but buns ready and put some mix in until it looks like a sloppy joe, but this time make it messy!

This is a meal best served with fries and maybe some veggies, a great pick me up meal, very simple and quick to make, we really hope you enjoy!