#bob blumer

[simplybeautifuleating]

Cinnabon French Toast with Grand Marnier

Cinnabon French Toast with Grand Marnier

For the home chef intent on taking their cooking to the next level, Flavorbomb, the new cookbook by Canada’s famed “gastronaut” and Food Network star Bob Blumer, is the perfect rogue guide to help food reach its maximum flavor potential. More than just a collection of recipes, this magnificent hardcover is filled with decades worth of tips, techniques and strategies to help give the reader the…

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[judemackay]

Sweet & Savoury

A wedge of salty Gorgonzola cheese, sweet honey, and spicy walnuts create this sweet and savoury dessert from one of my favourite cookbooks, Surreal Gourmet Bites, written by Canadian chef Bob Blumer.

Bob sprinkles a mixture of sugar, salt and cayenne pepper over walnut halves that have been tossed in a scant amount of canola oil.  Oven-roast the prepared walnuts at 350 ° F for 10 minutes or until brown.  Cool to room temperature.

Sandwich a piece of Gorgonzola cheese between two “cosmically perfect” walnut halves. Place the little bundle of Sweet and Savoury sassiness into a hollow walnut shell.

Drizzle each walnut sandwich with honey just before serving.

[dishnthekitchen]

In My Kitchen September 2014

In My Kitchen September 2014

Sometimes things just don’t progress as you would expect them to; the way they’ve always happened year after year. I’m speaking right now about the seasons here in Canada, specifically Calgary. The kids have all gone back to school and the leaves were just beginning to turn yellow. We enjoyed a lovely weekend of football and outdoor activities….and then it was over. Calgary has already been…

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[lamiahossain]

Portrait of Bob Blumer in Toronto, 2014

[judemackay]

Carrot Cake Shooters

Inspiration for this week's Winter Spice Gastropost mission comes from Canada's surreal gourmet, Bob Blumer.  In his fourth cookbook, Surreal Gourmet Bites, Bob creates itty, bitty gastronomic works of art, including shooters of "liquid carrot cake."

His Carrot Cake Shooter recipe  includes the following winter spices - cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves - in addition to pure vanilla extract and walnut oil.  

WHAT YOU NEED

1 quart store-bought or homemade fresh carrot juice

½ cup heavy cream

¼ cup sugar

3 tablespoon pineapple juice

1 tablespoon walnut oil (optional)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

¼ teaspoon ground allspice

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

12 carrot tops, sliced off ½ inch below the greens (for presentation)

WHAT TO DO

In a medium pot over medium-high heat, reduce the carrot juice by half.  This should take about 20 minutes.

Whisk in all remaining ingredients (except the carrot tops).

Serve in a pony glass and garnish with a carrot top.

I digressed from Bob's recipe,  substituting  a carrot top for a vegetarian wrap, as well as some hot chili  sauce.  HELLO 2013!!!  

[banannato]

Summer in Toronto has been such a busy one so far... and though I have many more food pics to post on my trip to New York this past weekend, thought I'd add in some food shots taken back in May at Toronto's Taste.  This was an annual event held by Second Harvest, where all proceeds went to feeding hungry families in Ontario.  It was a food lover's dream to taste all kinds of food, local wines and beers as well as coffee and sinful desserts from some of Toronto's most prestigious restaurants and well renowned chefs such as Lynn Crawford, Mark McKewan, and Bob Blumer (pictured here) to name a few.  

[dunkarooba]

Lady: (leading Bob Blumer into the washroom while he wears a blindfold) You can leave it on if you want the extra challenge.

Bob: I know where it is, thank you.