The best Canadian Cooking, Food & Wine books: Reddit reviews

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Edmonton Cooks! A collection from many of edmontons resturant favourites. It's great and has a wide variety of eats. You could buy it locally from lots of the resturants when it first came out, so you can still probably find it of you wanted to support a specific business

https://www.amazon.ca/Edmonton-Cooks-Signature-Recipes-Citys/dp/1927958520

Not fashion-related, but there are some pretty cool gift ideas in the Home & Lifestyle sale areas. Got Matty Matheson's cookbook for $10; it's currently $21 on Amazon.

Shoutout to Jen Fisch, author of The Easy 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook (Amazon link). This is a modified version of her cream cheese muffin recipe. I would definitely classify these as a fat bomb, breakfast, or dessert!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup almond flour
• 5 Tbsp butter, melted
• 2 eggs
• 2 Tbsp cream cheese, softened to room temperature
• 2 Tbsp heavy cream
• 3/4 Tbsp baking powder
• 2 Tbsp all-natural peanut butter
• 1 Tbsp Hershey’s dark chocolate cocoa powder
• Liquid stevia (to taste)(I didn’t measure how much I added, but would guess 1/4 tsp or so. Even if you don’t like sweets, I’d recommend a little bit to offset the bitterness of the cocoa powder)

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare 6 regular sized muffin cups by greasing bottom and sides with 1 Tbsp of melted butter.

2. In small bowl, cream together cream cheese and heavy cream until well combined. Add eggs and remaining 4 Tbsp of melted butter. Mix well and set aside.

3. In medium bowl, mix together almond flour and baking powder. Add cream/butter mixture to flour and blend with a hand mixer until batter is smooth.

4. Add peanut butter, cocoa powder, and stevia to muffin batter and continue to blend with hand mixer. Batter should be thick, dark, and smooth.

5. Divide batter evenly into 6 prepared muffin cups, using a rubber scraper to get all the batter into the tin.

6. Bake for 13 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Transfer to a wire wrack to cool. Serves 6 (in case that wasn’t obvious, haha).

Macros per Muffin:

Cal - 290

Carbs - 5.3 g

Protein - 8 g

Fat - 27 g

Fiber - 2.8 g

Net Carbs - 2.5 g!

Last year my wife ordered some keto cookies for my birthday and they were delicious. I can't remember if they were etsy or Amazon though.

Other gifts to consider could be some really dark chocolate bars such as 92% Ghiradelli, Macadamia nuts, pecans, or go away from food directly with the Easy 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook. My sister in law got me in for Christmas and I love how easy the recipes are.

What /u/Bobbyanalogpdx said. Also they want ingredients that are nearly impossible to find or reasonably prepare for some things. I'm not restaurant scale so I can't make crazy stocks for everything.

A personal favorite of mine is Joe Beef's Art of Living. Nice, hearty French Canadian cooking. Achievable bills of materials. Well written; would recommend.

My two favorites are Matty Matheson and Snoop Dogg

I have an earlier edition of The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook. I really like the saucy chicken, creamy vegetable soup, and the raspberry cordial. Also the poetical egg salad sandwiches and shortbread.

There is an Anne inspired cookbook!

https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Green-Gables-Cookbook-Charming/dp/163106374X/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f95cd2b9-6b15-4bad-aa5a-d0c1b5a06d9c

I have not made anything in it yet but it is so sweet.

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To track macros I use MyFitnessPal but another popular one is CarbTracker.

As for books - If you are looking for recipes you can find examples all over. Easy 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Cookbook though is something I got as a gift last year and love the easy recipes.

Check out this book, we use it all the time, meals are easy and delicious.

The Easy 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes for Busy People on the Keto Diet

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939754445/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_FaoCCbDH4N4D6

then for days that you don’t want to plan, Grill up a steak or chicken, bake a fish. Breakfast for dinner is always good.

This is a great Canadian cookbook with many regional favourites.

https://www.amazon.ca/Feast-Recipes-Stories-Canadian-Road/dp/0147529719/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519869015&sr=8-2&keywords=canadian+cookbook

Buy a good vegetarian cook book. Go through and cook all of the recipes that appeal to you.

My favourite book is the Rebar: Modern Food Cookbook

https://www.amazon.ca/Rebar-Modern-Cookbook-Audrey-Alsterburg/dp/0968862306

There are a lot of good ones and some crappy ones. Just find one that you like.

>Two friends. Five months. One car. Ten provinces. Three territories. Seven islands. Eight ferries. Two flights. One 48-hour train ride. And only one call to CAA. The result: over 100 incredible Canadian recipes from coast to coast and the Great White North.

Link to learn more about book: https://www.amazon.ca/Feast-Recipes-Stories-Canadian-Road/dp/0147529719

> Cool, have fun with it!

Thanks, I'm sure I will. Perhaps a tad too much fun. It's only been a couple of weeks, but I'm already feeling like perhaps I'm drinking a little too much of it. It's just something about each sip of each type, noticing the flavours, nosing the glass before, during and after...

And it's more than just the drinking of it. These past couple of weeks, the topic of whisky is rarely far from my mind. I keep thinking about what to buy next, reading different articles and reviews, I just ordered a book on the subject, and I'm thinking on getting a few different glasses to complement my Glencairn... Yeah, it's safe to say I'm getting quite hooked.

As someone who usually dives deep and headfirst into new hobbies this is nothing new, and I'm really loving learning new things about a new topic like this. I haven't really been this obsessive since I got into home theatre and DVDs back in the late 90s. Fun stuff.

Thanks again. The reddit whisky subs and everyone in them have been great. It's part of what's made this so much fun so far.

I LOVE Rebar Modern Cookbook. A vegan/vegetarian cookbook created by Rebar, my all time favorite veg restaurant.

The book style isn't my typical go-to - I like the bright colourful, pics of every recipe type. However! I bought this book because of how much I love the restaurant, and the cookbook is just as divine. Everything I make from here always turns out amazing.

http://www.amazon.com/Rebar-Modern-Cookbook-Audrey-Alsterburg/dp/0968862306

I highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.ca/Northern-Cookbook-Eleanor-Ellis/dp/0888301782

In my experience, moose steaks are delicious, bear... is... gross. Maybe it was poorly made.

I had moose steak the way the cosmic entities decreed, cooked in bacon fat, salt and pepper in a cast iron pan.

The bear was in bearburger form. And it tasted like garbage, and not in the nuoc mam good kind of way, like licking a dumpster.

source: Rebar: Modern Food Cookbook

Yield - one 8" x 8" pan

The base

1/2 cup butter (unsalted and softened)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1/3 cup smooth peanut butter

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

3/4 cup rolled oats

1 cup unbleached flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

4 oz (120 g) of chocolate, cut into chunks (chocolate chips should do just fine)

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 8"x8" pan and set aside. Cream together butter, sugars and peanut butter. Add the egg and vanilla, mix well.

2. In a separate bowl, combine the oats, flour, baking soda and salt. Add this to the peanut butter mix from step 1. Stir well. Fold in chocolate chunks. Spread in the prepared pan, bake 25 min. Set aside to cool.

Icing

1/2 cup peanut butter

2 tbsp soft butter

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 cup icing sugar

1/4 cup heavy cream

3. Prep the icing by creaming together the peanut butter, butter and vanilla. Blend in the icing sugar. Stir in the cream until you achieve a nice spreadable consistency (use more or less than a 1/4 cup, if needed).

4. Ice the cooled squares, and decorate with additional melted chocolate drizzled over the top. Divide into squares and serve.