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.
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.)
Put the coffee in a blender.
Add a few spoons of brown sugar (Or stevia, we use a diabetic friendly type of brown sugar)
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.)
Lastly add 1 tray of ice cubes.
Blend that up until you have a good consistency, pour into a cup and serve.
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 is my take on a Sloppy Joe, just more healthy fun, and much more tasty.
This is fun, easy and very tasty!
Ingredients
3 Onions
3 Green Peppers
Garlic
Ground Beef
Pepper
Salt
Worcestershire Sauce
Spaghettis Sauce
Apple Cyder Vinegar
BBQ Sauce
Your choice of hot sauce
Big burger buns
Cooking
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.
In a oiled frying pan start frying up that mix.
Add in your ground beef, breaking it up making sure its very chunky.
As it cooks down its going to reduce.
Add some pepper.
Add some Worcestershire sauce.
Add some spaghetti sauce.
Add some apple cyder vinegar, not a lot but it does help with taste and works with helping your blood sugar and blood pressure.
Add some BBQ Sauce, your favorite flavor.
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.
Mix this all in good, and cook until done, be careful to make sure the meat is well cooked.
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!
This is our butter chicken video, one of the older videos, and honestly it was one of my favorites, who doesn’t like butter chicken, it tastes amazing, and you can make it hot, but you don’t have to, and I think anyone who likes Indian food will tell you they love butter chicken.
I would always encourage you to try to make this if you never had it before, as it is one of those dishes that is simply amazing!
A few things to note, when marinating the chicken you can add some plain fat free Greek yogurt, and when it comes to salt there is a low or no sodium salt you can use and it does make a difference.
Phase 1 Marinating the chicken
Ingredients for phase 1
Boneless chicken thighs
Salt
Garlic Powder (or minced garlic)
Ginger Powder (Or minced ginger)
Onion Powder (or minced onion)
(You can optionally add plain Greek yogurt)
Phase 1
Cube up the chicken thighs.
add the above spices and yogurt if your going to use it.
Let this marinate between 20 minutes to 24 hours.
If your going to add some hot peppers or spice the longer its marinated the hotter its going to be and the better flavor youll have!
Phase 2 Gravy part 1
Ingredients for Phase 2
2 Onions.
Extra virgin olive oil.
A whole garlic.
Garam Masala.
Phase 2
In a large frying pan put the heat on with some extra virgin olive oil let it heat up.
Chop up the onions and garlic.
Add the onions and garlic and we want to get the onion caramalized.
Mix in the garam masala mix.
Mix everything
Phase 3 Cooking the Chicken
This is simple and easy just fry up your chicken, get it fully cooked, you don’t want to be eating bad chicken.
Phase 4 Finishing up
Phase 4 ingredients
Rice wine vinegar
2 cans of crushed tomatoes
Half a box of butter
Red pepper flakes
Whipping cream
Phase 4
In your pan with the carnalized onions, add some rice wine vinegar.
Add in 2 cans of crushed tomatoes.
Take this portion and add to a blender or food processor to make smooth and then replace back into the pan.
Chop up the butter into smaller sticks and add it into the gravy and make sure the butter is melting down.
Put the cooked chicken in.
Add some red pepper flakes.
Add some whipping cream in.
Make sure to keep stirring.
This is basically it, there are other spices you can add, and you can make keep improving this, and this is a yummy base for making an amazing meal!
I would serve this with rice and some nan bread, and honestly it is an amazing meal! Enjoy Bon Appitite.
Mac n Cheese Casserole is a great meal, very simple fast and easy, it tastes great and it is a different meal that should please and fill you!
Mac n Cheese is great on its own, and adding to it can be wonderful!
Phase 1 Noodles
Cook your bag and choice of noodles as directed on the package, we like using elbow macaroni!
Phase 2 Ground Beef
For the beef you can use steak or any other type of pork, but then again you can use any type of pork if you want, but you can also use ground meat as well, if you don’t have a food processor then just buy it already ground, I find by choosing your meat to make into ground meat you have a much better quality and all, so it will be more rewarding.
Take your meat and grind it up in the food processor then put it in a oiled pan and add salt pepper and some spices you like and cook it until done.
Phase 3 Tomato Sauce
You can use 1 can of tomato sauce and 1 can of crushed tomatoes, salt pepper and any other sauce you may choose I also added 2 onions a whole garlic that was also put in the food processor mix it well and cook until its bubbling and your set, take it off the burner.
Phase 4 Mix 1
Take a baking pan you can cook with, maybe like a cake pan, and start by putting your cooked and drained noodles and line the bottom with that, and then the meat and then your tomato sauce you just cooked, and mix it all up good, were almost done folks.
Phase 5 Cheese Sauce
Take a frying pan and cut up some butter and a bit of oil so the butter doesnt burn, once the butter is melted, take a half a cup of flour and stir it well so there are no clumps, and this is very important no one wants to bite into a meal and taste clumps of flour, then add 1 and a half cup of milk mix it well, then start adding 2 types of cheese, bit by bit until the cheese is melted in keep stirring so nothing burns once thats finished were very close.
Phase 6 Mix 2 The Final Mix
Now lets take the cheese sauce and pour it on top of the casserole , and now…
Phase 7 Baking
Now make sure your oven is preheated for 375, then bake for 20 minutes, once the 20 minutes is over, your done, but let it set for 10 to 20 min, and your done!
Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai is an amazing dish, easy to make with a bit of work at the start, but it is amazing and also very easy to make into a pure vegan dish if you wanted.
This is an absolutely amazing meal, tastes so amazing and very rewarding to eat, and you will be proud of yourself!
Phase 1 Spaghetti Squash
To start preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and get yourself a very sharp knife and cut your squash into quarters.
Clean out the center of the seeds and garbage like you would a pumpkin.
Put it on a baking tray and lightly oil the tops and bottoms of your squash.
Bake it at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
Once done put it on a cooling tray, and leave it cool off for 30 to 60 minutes, there is no rush on this, as it stays very hot and will burn you.
After the squash is cooled off enough take a fork, maybe 2 and pull the insides apart, like your pulling pulled pork, it will look like spaghetti noodles, very amazing once you see this for the first time.
Put the noodles in a container and set aside.
Phase 2 Chicken
Take 1 chicken break cook it up with pepper, ginger, and if you have low or no sodium salt you can use that too.
Once that is cooked up cut your chicken breast into small pieces.
Remember this is not the main part of the meal, so its not a big deal here, if your looking for a vegan option just leave it out.
Phase 2 veggies
Ingredients
Ginger
Green Peppers
Onions
Cucumbers
Radishes
Peanut butter
Spinach
Hot sauce – you can replace this with another type of sauce or dressing if you are not into heat
Dice your veggies up and then start to fry them with your spinach being last make sure you have the amount of sauce you want, you can use more than 1 type if you want.
Finally put in your spaghetti squash mix it up nice and good.
And now your ready to serve this delicious healthy meal!
Orange chicken is a great and healthy meal, very easy to make and is a crowd pleaser!
It does take some time to prep for, and unlike the meal you order from your favorite Chinese restaurant this isn’t deep fried so tends to be a lot healthier, and yeah it packs a punch and tastes amazing!
For the chicken you can go with a whole chicken, chicken breasts or chicken thighs, any would be a great choice!
Phase 1 Broccoli
Cut your broccoli to just heads and cut it down to the size that you want it to be. take a frying pan and put some water in it, enough to cover your broccoli and start to simmer it until the broccoli is nice and soft then drain it and rinse in cold water so that it stops cooking put it into another container with cold water and set aside.
Phase 2 Chicken
Cut your chicken to small bites, pepper it, (if you want salt use that, but we recommend you use Lo-Salt or a low sodium alternative.) and put in corn starch mix together well, in a frying pan with some extra virgin olive oil fry the chicken up until fully cooked then drain your broccoli again and cook it a bit more with the chicken and then set aside.
Phase 3 Orange Sauce
Ingredients
2 cups of orange juice
2 table spoons of corn starch
3 cloves of garlic
2 table spoons of ginger
A splash of rice wine vinegar
Some honey to taste
Some soya sauce (We like sweet soya sauce)
The orange rind from 1 orange
In a pot on a burner set to medium high add each ingredient one by by one stirring after adding aside from the orange rind, do not add that yet but take your time and stir each ingredient in so that its incorporated once done, cook down for another 5 to 7 minutes until it reduces, then take it off of the heat.
Now mix in the orange rind and stir again, then pour it over your chicken and broccoli mix, now stir in the sauce with the rest of it, and your done, this is best served with cooked rice, you can go all fancy and make some stir fried rice if you wanted to as well!
We hope you like this and enjoy it, and some take aways, is that we don’t need salt (I don’t use any unless its a no or low sodium alternative, honest is a good replacement for sugar, its natural and better for you.
Rinse your rice, cook it and let it sit in the fridge over night for better results.
Chicken thighs offer more fat and better flavor, however chicken breasts are far more healthier, and some times you can get a whole chicken cheaper and would work better, you do have options, so take some time and think about it.
This is one of our earliest videos we filmed, it is quite old, and we will eventually be re making another video!
Donair is an Atlantic Canadian meal, one of our must haves and favorites, it isn’t the healthiest thing in the world, but you can make it healthier with a bit of work!
If you go to Canada and you order one, and the sauce isn’t sweet, then it’s not a donair, if you are in Atlantic Canada at any time you must try it, it is our cultural dish and honestly one of the best things you will ever eat!
When it comes to spices put a lot in, but for things like chili powder and Cheyenne powder, you want to watch yourself a bit don’t make it hotter than you want, some people can’t handle spice eh, I’m not one to measure spices out, just look at the volume of what your cooking and use your best judgement!
Ingredients
Meat Portion
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Oregino
Garlic powder
Chili Powder
Onion Powder
Cheyenne Powder
Medium ground beef or Lamb meat (you can do 50/50)
Pre heat your oven for 450 degrees
Oil a bread pan, or any pan you want to use.
take the ingredients and mix them together and beat them together very well, you want a solid meat loaf.
Put them in the bread pan, and pack it in tightly.
bake for 45 to 50 minutes.
Sauce Portion
3/4 cup of vinegar
2 cups of sweetend condensed milk
Garlic powder
Mix all the ingredients in a container that you can stick in the fridge, mix it well, and let it rest in the fridge for an hour!
Putting it all together!
Tomato
Onion
Cheese (Cheddar or Mozzarella is best, but use what works for you!
Pita bread
(optional Lettuce)
Ok we are ready to put everything together, so first, after the meat has cooled down, we are going to slice it up good, and then re fry it with some extra virgin olive oil, just to get it nice and hot and may be a bit of sear.
This is how you want it to look, very similar to this, and often this can be hard so don’t judge yourself on how perfect you have your sliced.
Take a slice of pita, put your meat on it, then cover it with a lot of sauce, and then some onions tomato and finally shred some cheese on top of it.
You can choose to bake this on 300 for 10 minutes if you wish, I don’t myself, I eat it as is, you can add some lettuce, and if your looking to serve it with something might I suggest some potatoes, often we eat this along side of pizza, and it should look similar to.
I truly hope you enjoyed this as much as I do if you ever get a chance to taste this, it is truly one of our favorite meals, and often if we have a visitor we share this with them, its one of those meals you have to try once.
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