Send us a text This episode is dedicated to the art of baking beautiful pies and tarts, just in time for the holidays! We welcome Laura Klynstra, author of The Homemade Pie Cookbook, to share tips and ideas for kicking our baking game up a notch. We get straight into asking Laura all our many questions about achieving the perfect base for our holiday desserts. Whether you love to use butter, shortening, or even lard, the important thing is to leave your fat a little chunky to create tho...
Send us a text This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, we do one of our favourite things: explore an ingredient we've never used before. This time it's the Tamarind fruit. Erin uses it to make four fun recipes: Tamarind Spiced Muffins - these required a second batch, as the first time around we didn't love them. But you can count on Erin to get back to the kitchen and sort out this recipe. We LOVED them! Tamarind Chicken Wings - hoo boy, did we love these wings. They're now making a regula...
Send us a text This week on the show, Heather makes a family-favourite, a Tourtière Canadienne. This delicious French-Canadian meat pie is something we enjoy at Christmas, but you can make it any time you like. Heather combined a couple of recipes -- one from the cookbook, Eat Alberta First (Karen Anderson), and a recipe handed down to her by her mom. This recipe, which you can find on our website (link below!), makes two full pies. If you don't want to eat two full pies, you can prep o...
Send us a text In this episode Erin and Heather chat with Chef Colleen Cackowski, co-author of the book, The Diabetes-Free Cookbook and Exercise Guide. Colleen shares her approach to creating delicious and satisfying type two Diabetes-friendly recipes, and her tips for introducing changes to our diet that can contribute to healthy blood sugar levels. We also try one of the recipes from the book - Dijon Salmon with Capers. This recipe is so easy you can add it to your busy weeknight dinn...
Send us a text This episode is a joint effort to give you two ideas for pull-apart style yeast breads, one sweet and one savoury. Heather brings the pumpkin pull-apart bread using a fold method to create a loaf that easily pulls apart to reveal a gooey pumpkin filling. Erin makes savoury garlic pull-apart dinner rolls baked in a cast iron pan. This one will impress your dinner guests - it's so pretty! We had some ideas for improvement. The garlic buns were really big and we ...
Send us a text Introducing a new episode format for season 6: Food for Thought! This one is a foray into Kitchen Witchery, just in time for Halloween. In the Food for Thought series we are talking about whatever we feel like getting into -- it might be a news story, history, trend or science -- always with some connection to food. It's not a deep dive, but just enough for you to sound interesting at your next family dinner. Kitchen witchery (see also kitchen divination) is the pra...
Send us a text This is a fun one! Erin tries her hand at making mochi ice cream for a birthday celebration, this week on Three Kitchens Podcast. Mochi ice cream is a Japanese dessert made of a small scoop of ice cream encased in a soft, chewy, sweet rice cake called mochi. The mochi provides a unique, stretchy texture, while the ice cream offers flavour and creaminess. Think of it like a dessert dumpling. You can choose the ice cream flavours you love the most, and surprise your friends...
Send us a text This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, we welcome Renu Bhardwaj, a UK-based food blogger and author of Celebrate Diwali: Recipes, Activities, and Crafts for the Entire Family. Celebrate Diwali includes crafts, celebration tips, and of course, recipes: delicious, accessible Indian dishes that blend tradition with a modern, family-friendly approach. Renu shares her memories of learning to cook alongside her mother, and the dishes that take her right back to those regular fami...
Send us a text Welcome to the first episode of season 6 of the podcast! We're starting off with a tiny little Turkish dumpling called Manti. Heather takes on the challenge of filling and folding these itty bitty tasty morsels, which are served with a garlic yogurt sauce and drizzled with chili butter. The dough for Manti is easy to make and rolls out nicely. That's a win because it needs to be very thin (about 3mm)! After cutting it into small squares (2 - 3 cm) and then placing a tiny ...
Send us a text This is our final episode of Season 5 of Three Kitchens Podcast! We can hardly believe another season is wrapping up. We go back to the beginning to give the super quick version of the history of Three Kitchens. Then we look back on this season, the top most downloaded episodes (according to audio stats), and some of our favourite moments along the way. See below for all the links! Big thank you to all our amazing guests of Season 5, and everyone who has tuned in, w...
Send us a text This week on the podcast, we're trying what is known as the unofficial national dish of the Philippines, Chicken Adobo. Let's get right into it. In Filipino cuisine, adobo refers to both a cooking method—a very acidic braise—and the class of dishes produced by that method. In the recipe we try, vinegar serves as the key ingredient in the marinade (which also becomes the sauce). The vinegar of your choice (in this case, two types) are combined with garlic, soy sauce and ba...
Send us a text This week on the podcast, Heather tries a recipe for Ginger Beef, the western Chinese dish originated in Calgary, Alberta. It's always high on our list of dishes to order when we eat Chinese, and we almost can't believe we've never tried making it at home. Let's put the recipe to the test and see if it's as good homemade as it is at the restaurant. According to our research, Ginger Beef was created by chef George Wong at his restaurant The Silver Inn in the early 1970s. C...
Send us a text This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, we’re diving into Canadian food history with special guest Kesia Kvill, a Canadian food historian with a passion for community, sustainability and youth mentorship. Kesia is a Community Engagement manager at a heritage organization in Edmonton, Alberta. She’s been a chief curator at the largest living history museum in Canada and started her museum career as a demonstration volunteer at an agricultural museum before getting her first museum ...
Send us a text This week, Heather uses a kabocha squash from her Odd Bunch subscription box to make kabocha korroke -- a Japanese croquette -- with a tonkatsu dipping sauce. Kabocha is also known as a Japanese pumpkin. It's a small squash with orange flesh that can be cooked like you would other types of squash. Korroke are typically deep fried, but Heather tries baking them. The squash is steamed, mashed and mixed with sautéed onion and bacon before being breaded with Panko crumb...
Send us a text In this Three Kitchens episode, Erin finds a new type of pancake for us to try! It's a Chinese scallion pancake, a fabulous addition to the rather long list of pancakes we've made here in our kitchens. And a great way to use a bunch of green onions (scallions). Be sure to scroll down to find links to lots of other pancake recipes we've tried in the past! This is a savoury pancake made with a dough, rather than a batter, and a savoury filling. But don't worry - the d...
Send us a text This episode is a replay of S3, E7, with an all new updated intro! We've got a recipe that's going to help you stretch your grocery dollars AND teach you a new skill or two. Erin's teaching us how to chop up a whole chicken into 11 pieces. Cutting up.a whole chicken is a skill that saves you money on the price per kilogram that you're paying for meat—by as much as HALF! And by doing the work of breaking down the chicken ourselves, she's showing us how to use the ba...
Send us a text This week we're helping you get ready for Easter with a fun baking project! Erin takes on a sponge cake with a pretty Easter design. Are you ready to try it, too? A sponge is a cake is a light cake that gets its texture from beaten eggs. When making a designed sponge cake, you separate some of the batter and colour it. Then you pipe the coloured batter onto the bottom of a pan in the design you want, then fill the pan the rest of the way with plain cake batter. When you f...
Send us a text This week, Heather is flexing her creativity to create a Cream Egg Cupcake. It's a take on the popular Easter treat, the Cadbury Creme Egg, in cupcake form. They turned out pretty well, after some brainstorming on the approach in the first half of the episode! Plus, Erin and Heather chat about ways to zhuzh-up boxed cake mixes (because sometimes that's handy, right?). At Three Kitchens, we're all about trying something new. Usually we prefer to have a recipe to follow, bu...
Send us a text In this episode of Three Kitchens Podcast, we welcome Kerrie Penney, host of Secret Heart Broadcasting, a podcast that explores heartfelt stories, personal experiences, and the connections that shape our lives. Kerrie is passionate about sharing the voices of her guests in an authentic and meaningful way. She brings with her a special recipe from her childhood—Tomato Macaroni Soup. This comforting dish was a staple in her home, lovingly made by her mom. It was never writt...
Send us a text This week's episode is all about a pretty dessert square that requires absolutely zero decorating skills - just the way we like it around here! Erin makes a grapefruit shortbread square, but - plot twist! - she uses a pomelo instead of grapefruit (and a little lime zest). Here's what Wikipedia tells us about the pomelo: Pomelo is the largest citrus fruit. It is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit. It is a ...