Kev's Kitchen

Toasted Chili Oil

Quite often, a good hit of heat puts just the right finishing touch on a dish. This is that hit of heat. If you like…

Baked Eggplant

Sure it may look a little like bacon and if you cooked it longer at a lower temperature or put it in your dehydrator, it’d…

Umami Crispy Kale

Chances are, you’ve made kale chips before, though with just something like lemon juice, olive oil and salt. Seeing some of the kale chip creations…

Fresh Tomato Sauce

The technique for this tomato sauce was shared with me by a friend who’d whine like a child with a skinned knee if I neglected…

Mushroom Soup

If you’re looking for something light and low-fat, this isn’t it. This is a rich, calorie-dense soup and it’s perfect for a cool evening. The…

Chicken Livers

Chicken livers are rich, flavourful, incredibly nutritious and somehow still inexpensive. If you’ve had them before and didn’t enjoy them because they had a chalky…

Hot Sauce

When gifted a bag of garden fresh peppers, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to experiment with fermented pepper sauce. I’ve been fermenting a…

Egg Foo Young

While deciding what to create for the site this week, I couldn’t believe I’d never recorded my egg foo young recipe. You can use corn…

Grilled Squid

The two most important points in grilling squid are to have the grill as hot as possible and the squid as dry as can be.…

Milk Stout Mussels

After writing and testing over 250 recipes for this site, how is it possible this is the first time I’ve posted a mussel dish? Steamed mussels…