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Sabich is a Middle Eastern sandwich of fried eggplant, hard-boiled egg, hummus, tahini, salad, and a spicy mango Amba Sauce all cozied up in a pita flatbread. When Heather stumbled across it while browsing Pinterest, she knew she would be making sabich for a Three Kitchens episode. And we're so glad she did!

Heather takes us through all the recipes she made in order to create her sabich:
mango amba sauce, hummus,  tahini sauce, a quick Middle Eastern salad, and a homemade pita bread. It sounds like a lot of work, but if you plan ahead and make the amba sauce in advance, it really isn't too time consuming.  And you WILL want to make this sauce. It is delicious on burgers, or as a dip scooped up with pita chips.  Of course, you can always use store-bought pita if you're pressed for time (but you may not want to once you've made your own). 

Apparently, the ingredients in a sabich are based on a traditional quick breakfast of Iraqi Jews. To that we say, that sounds like our kind of breakfast! We're confident this combination of flavours will win you over too.

Episode Links
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~ Amba Sauce Recipe
~ Hummus Recipe
~ Sabich Sandwich Recipe
~ Pita Bread Recipe
~ Calgary Stampede
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In this episode of Three Kitchens, Erin went back to her roots with a recipe for Norwegian Lefse that her Great Grandmother had written on an envelope. Unfortunately, Grandma didn't include instructions so Erin had some work to do (scroll down for the recipe)!

Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flat bread made with potatoes. A large batch of lefse could be dried and stored for the long winter.

There are many ways to enjoy lefse, and one of these is with a slice of Julesylte - a type of pressed cooked meat, in this case pork, that is usually served during Christmas. You may not be surprised to hear Sarah and Heather were a little unsure about this idea of pressed meat (it involves boiled pork and gelatine!), but they were ultimately won over.

Add a dollop of spicy homemade mustard and you've got a delicious snack. Erin walks us through making all three of these recipes in this episode.

There was a lot to talk about with this tour of Norwegian cuisine! If you want to jump right in, recipes begin at about the 6:50 minute mark. Enjoy!   

Episode Links
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~ YYC Bread Stories
~ Lefse Recipe
~ Pressed Pork Recipe
~ Mustard Recipe
~ S2.19 Flaky Phyllo Spanakopita
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We were thrilled to welcome a special guest to Three Kitchens Podcast this week, Julie Strauss, host of the Best Book Ever Podcast. She's also an author, a mom, and an avid home cook, and she fit right in so well we should call this episode Four Kitchens.

We all cooked two recipes this week. We asked Julie to share one of her favourite go-to recipes for a busy week night for us to try and we shared one with her as well. We made Julie's go-to choice of Crockpot Carnitas and also Sarah's go-to General Tso's chicken.

These are two very different recipes, but they're both delicious and worth trying if they're new to you. Listen to this fun episode and learn how to make and serve these recipes. Maybe they'll become one of your go-to meals!

And don't forget to check out Julie on the Best Book Ever Podcast where she gets to know interesting people by asking them about their favourite books. 

Episode Links
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~ Best Book Ever Podcast
~ Julie's Crockpot Carnitas Recipe
~ Sarah's General Tso's Chicken Recipe
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In this Three Kitchens episode, Sarah serves up a big bowl of congee - a classic Chinese rice porridge often enjoyed for breakfast. It's the thing her family requests when they're feeling under the weather, or when they're craving something warm and cozy on a cold day. We've decided it's not just for breakfast, or cold days. We'll take Sarah's congee for any meal, on any day!

Congee can be made and served many different ways, but come along and learn to make this dish Sarah's way, with leftovers and whatever you've got handy in the fridge.

For this congee, she starts with leftover rice, adds ginger, garlic and shredded BBQ pork ribs, and tops it off with homemade chilli oil and crispy kale chips.  The method is very similar to making a risotto - add lots of broth and stir, stir, stir! See below for Sarah's rib recipe and her modifications to the congee. 

This recipe makes a lot, which is perfect because you're going to want to dip back in the pot for more. 

Episode Links
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~ John's Breakfast and Lunch
~ Milk Ice Cream Shop
~ Cookbook: To Asia with Love by Hetty McKinnon
~ Congee Recipe
~ Pork Rib Recipe
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Join us for a love story this week on Three Kitchens Podcast.

Bacon jam is like a fun little meet cute of crispy bacon and caramelized onions. Add a dash of bourbon and it's a full-on crush. Now, put this dark, smoky bacon jam on a beautifully crisp twice-fried chicken sandwich and it's true love forever. A marriage made in heaven - or, in this case, in your kitchen! 

Heather takes us through her adventure in frying chicken using the Korean method. It is first brined overnight and then fried twice. It's the perfect way to enjoy bacon jam, but this condiment is also delish on grilled burgers, on a salad, with your breakfast... And Erin has plans to use it to top a baked brie. We say yes, please to all of that. 

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~ Maple Syrup Harvesting
~ Bacon Jam Recipe
~ Fried Chicken Sandwich Recipe
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In this Three Kitchens Podcast episode, guests from the Calgary Fire Department (CFD) give us all some valuable kitchen fire safety tips and allow us a glimpse into what it's like to cook and eat at the fire station.

Carol Henke, Information Officer for the CFD, is a wealth of knowledge about all things fire safety. Kitchen grease fires are more common than you might think. Do you know how to handle one in your kitchen? Carol walks us through it, provides other safety tips, and her own personal stories of eating at the fire hall.

Then we have a few firefighters tell us their experiences with planning meals, shopping and cooking for a hungry crew.  If you've ever wondered  who does the cooking, what they're eating, and what happens if firefighters have food on the stove when they get called out to an emergency, be sure to check out this episode. Their stories are a fun and insightful peek into the firehall kitchen. 

And finally, we whipped up a sweet treat to thank our guests. We've got a No Bake Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake portioned and delivered in jam jars. It's a fun twist on a classic Canadian dessert. The jam jars make it easy to transport and it looks cute too! 

Episode Links
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~ Calgary Fire Department
~ Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake Recipe
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We've been seeing beautiful baked goods made with ube - a purple yam -  popping up in our Three Kitchens Podcast Instagram feed. These purple-hued goodies inspired Erin to try making the ube halaya (the purple jam used as the base for ube baking), and using it to make  muffins and cookies. 

As you might imagine, this sparked a lively discussion, more research, and plenty of confusion. Is what we find in our grocery stores really ube? Or is it a purple yam, or maybe a sweet potato? What we know for certain is that the muffins and cookies Erin baked were as delicious as they were beautiful to look at!

Come along with us down the rabbit hole of conflicting information about the ube trend. But mostly, join us for the delicious purple baked goods! Because at the end of the day, we're here for the food. 

Episode Links
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~ InFarm Vertical Growing Systems
~ Purple Jam Recipe
~ Muffin Recipe
~ Crinkle Cookie Recipe
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By now our listeners know Sarah loves making dumplings. And the whole Three Kitchens Podcast gang - kids included -  love to eat them, so when she says she's making Nepalese Momos, we are here for it.

Momos are savoury dumplings, steamed and usually served with a sauce or in a soup. Sarah made hers with a flavourful chicken filling and a sauce of tomatoes, szechuan peppers, onions  and turmeric. And because she likes to get creative, she coloured her wrappers for a show stopping and delicious dish. We loved them and we think it's safe to say you will too. 
 
Remember, you can make these with dumpling wrappers from the grocery store if you don't want to make your own.  The magic is in the filling and the sauce! 

Other fun stuff in this episode
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Erin introduces us to an app designed to help everyday people fight food waste in their local communities by connecting them to restaurants and grocery stores with surplus meals and ingredients. Consumers get great food, store owners no longer throw away delicious surplus, and we all contribute to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and reduce waste. Genius, right? It's called Too Good To Go and the link is below. 

Episode Links
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~ Too Good to Go App
~ The Himalayan
~ Momo Filling Recipe
~ Momo Wrapper Recipe
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It's our first anniversary! A whole year has passed since we started recording our conversations about food and home cooking. It has been so much fun,  and we're taking a minute to remember some hilarious moments and favourite episodes.

Join us as we listen to and laugh along with clips from past episodes. 

We also have a few recipe updates for you - Erin has an improved version of the one pan chicken dinner from episode 1.10;  a few additional tips from Sarah for the Ondeh Ondeh Cake (episode 2.22);  and a final answer on which empanada dough recipe is the one we love (hint: it's Francis Mallmann's Beef & Onion empanada recipe from foodandwine.com).

Thank you for listening! Here's to another fun year of cooking! 

Episode Links
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~ 1.1 BAO Chicka Bow Wow
~ 1.2 Whisk Mayo Like Your Life Depends On It
~ 1.9 Not to be Confused with Macaroons
~ 1.11 Rum Challenge
~ 1.21 Date Night
~ 2.6 Diwali: This Lunch was Lit!
~ 2.11 Persimmon Puddin'
~ 2.12 Hey John, Here's your Roti
~ 2.13 Wow 'em with Wellington
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Piri Piri Oven Baked Chicken

5 Cloves Garlic
1 Sweet Red Pepper
1 Jalapeño Pepper
6-8 Chicken Pieces (legs and thighs, bone-in)
1/4 Cup Olive Oil
2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
1tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Chili Flakes
Pre-heat oven to 425F

Mix together the oil, vinegar, salt and chili flakes in a large bowl. Dice garlic and peppers coarsely and add to bowl along with the chicken pieces. Mix together with your hands and get everything coated nicely.

Place chicken in a cast iron pan, skin side up. Distribute the peppers around the chicken pieces. Pour the remainder of the marinade from the bowl over everything in the pan.
Place in oven and bake for 20 minutes. Give the peppers a quick stir and then bake for another ~25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. 

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It is almost Easter and Heather has upped her baking game for Three Kitchens Podcast with a recipe for Paska Ukrainian Easter Bread, with a side of dried apricot jam. She did her best to bake all the love, positive thoughts and good wishes she could muster, while working with this beautiful, but time-consuming, bread recipe.

The end result was certainly worth the effort. It's a slightly sweet, soft and fluffy egg bread that goes perfectly with the apricot jam and a cup of tea. Maybe you'll want to bake Paska for your Easter celebrations, and we hope you'll join us in keeping the Ukrainian people in our hearts this Easter. 

Episode Links
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~ Cô Trâm Kitchen
~ Paska Bread Recipe
~ Apricot Jam Recipe
~ Ukrainian Fine Foods
~ Kalyna European Food Market
~ Heritage Bakery & Deli
~ Baba Jenny's Ukrainian Food
~ The Perogy Guy
~ S1.18 The Better Babka
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