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May Recipe of the Month: Spring Mix Risotto with Ramp Pesto
May 8, 2018
Foraging season has begun and ramps, or “wild onion”, are beginning to sprout up all over. Growing in large patches where the sunlight breaks through the forest’s tree canopy, you can almost find them from smell alone. The aroma of onion and garlic is fairly pungent on these tender spring onions. If you go out ramp hunting, make sure you follow foraging procedure by only picking five percent of what’s available (or what you can process within three days, as they go off quickly).
Stratford Admin
May 8, 2018
Alumni, Faculty/Staff Posts, School History
Alumni Feature: Victoria Allman (Class of 1995)
May 4, 2018
After being awakened to global food at the Stratford Chef’s School, Victoria Allman wanted to go out and taste the flavours she had been studying in their own countries. Victoria became a private chef, cooking her way around the world on yachts. This has allowed her to not only study what paella is but how it is made in Spain by authentic local cooks. Victoria has been lucky enough to visit 52 countries – cooking and eating her way through the cuisine of each. Victoria currently works as a Yacht Chef for Motor Yacht Odessa.
Stratford Admin
May 4, 2018
April Recipe of the Month: Chinese Pork Steam Buns
March 28, 2018
These pork buns are a staple on any Dim Sum menu, and can also be quite filling. I recommend hosting a Dim Sum pot-luck party to disperse the labour of all the little bites, but they also make a great meal on their own with some sautéed Chinese greens drizzled with Oyster sauce alongside.
Stratford Admin
March 28, 2018
Alumni, Faculty/Staff Posts
Alumni Feature: Corbin Mathany (Hudson’s on First, Duncan, British Columbia)
March 27, 2018
Corbin Mathany, Executive Chef of Hudson’s on First in Duncan, British Columbia, graduated from the Stratford Chefs School in 2012. He was also recently featured in an issue of Boulevard Lifestyle.
Stratford Admin
March 27, 2018
Faculty/Staff Posts, JHGWIR
Jen Agg: W5 Interview
March 12, 2018
In October 2017, we were lucky to partner with Digiwriting Book Marketing to host Appetite for Words Festival: A literary festival with a culinary twist. Joining us that weekend to promote her book I Hear She’s a Real Bitch was Toronto’s own, Jen Agg. Notorious for calling out “bro culture” in the restaurant industry, she is blazing a new trail for women in kitchens.
Stratford Admin
March 12, 2018
Faculty/Staff Posts
March Recipe of the Month: Leeks Vinaigrette
March 3, 2018
This recipe is adapted from Paul Bertolli and Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Cooking, although there are innumerable variations on this French bistro classic. This dish is at its very best with thin baby leeks, but can absolutely made with larger leeks halved lengthwise.
As dreary March gives way to spring, you might even consider adapting this recipe to early asparagus, making sure to blanch the green spears ever so lightly, and dressing them in the vinaigrette rather than marinating them, so that they retain their brilliant green colour.
Stratford Admin
March 3, 2018
Alumni, Faculty/Staff Posts, Guest Chefs
Alumni Feature: Ryan Donovan (Richmond Station, Toronto)
February 28, 2018
Ryan Donovan, Co-owner of Richmond Station in Toronto, graduated from the Stratford Chefs School in 2005. He returns every year with Richmond Station Chef (and fellow SCS Alumnus), Carl Heinrich, to close out our Canadian Guest Chef dinner series.
Stratford Admin
February 28, 2018
Faculty/Staff Posts, Food History
Creating a Menu from a Book
October 4, 2017
It is not particularly easy to tease a dinner menu out of a work of fiction, even when cooking and sharing food figures prominently in the story itself. Five Roses, by Alice Zorn is an engrossing story of the complicated relationships and histories between four women living, loving and working in St. Henri, a working-class neighbourhood in Montreal.
Stratford Admin
October 4, 2017
SCS Mannequin Challenge
September 21, 2017
Video credit to Terry Manzo
Stratford Admin
September 21, 2017