Inspired by the traditional Mexican tacos served with spicy thin pork slices and pineapple, this slow cooker version features pork shoulder broken into tender bite size chunks. If you don't want to serve these as tacos, try serving the pork on top of steamed white rice instead.
This festive main is exactly how we like our holiday meals: bursting with flavour and easy to make. The seafood is best cooked at the last minute, but the dish comes together quickly once you turn on the stove. Take the time to prep the ingredients well in advance of mealtime, then get cooking about half an hour before serving.
Use E. D. Smith jam because of its deep red colour and smoothness.
This Asian-inspired sauce is delicious on noodles and in Vietnamese-style soups – or even on pizza and burgers. It's wonderful made with crimson hot peppers or Sheppard peppers. If you want to boost the heat, add six to 10 red Scotch bonnet or habanero peppers, or 20 to 30 Thai bird's-eye peppers. If you use cayenne or red finger hot peppers, they should be hot enough on their own.
Fresh porcini mushrooms are abundant in Veneto in early summer, and chefs lavish them over pizza, pasta, beef carpaccio and fresh arugula. In fall and winter, dried porcinis are perfect for risotto. Good-quality ingredients are essential to risotto, so homemade chicken stock is best, as is the region's vialone nano rice.
By Sean de Carle, winner, Beef, Lamb, Pork or Veal category.
This rich and tasty fall stew impressed us with its use of local ingredients and thoughtfully chosen side dishes: Citrus Quinoa and Honey-Roasted Carrots. Serve it with the beer you cook with.
No matter how tasty commercial ice cream is, it will never replace real homemade summer-fruit ice cream melting in your mouth. Peach, plum, raspberry or strawberry — it's not hard to make, either in one of the newfangled ice-cream machines or just in a cake pan, blender and your fridge.
You can also use two 14-inch (35 cm) round pizza pans instead of the rectangular ones, but the yield will be smaller and shapes inconsistent.
