{"id":397,"date":"2005-11-02T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=397"},"modified":"2005-11-02T08:01:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T08:01:35","slug":"contestchef_at_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/contestchef_at_\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest-Chef At Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fall book season&#8230;lots of Canadian cookbook authors are traveling across the country to promote their latest offerings.&nbsp; &nbsp;Here in Vancouver, we&#8217;re lucky enough to most of them coming through, and they&#8217;re always happy to indulge me with an interview, even if I make them work a bit.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Last week Chef at Home Michael Smith visited my Vancouver condo, rummaged around in the fridge and pantry, and came up with a great dish for me to cook.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/chef_at_home_michael_smith_with_the_fini.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chef_at_home_michael_smith_with_the_fini\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Chef_at_home_michael_smith_with_the_fini\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/chef_at_home_michael_smith_with_the_fini.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> He had me cut up some chorizo sausage, then brown it in a heavy-bottomed pot.&nbsp; Then I added some chopped onion and red bell pepper.&nbsp; When the veggies had softened, I added a can of chicken bouillion and 3 cans of water, and then slowly stirred in one cup of cornmeal and a healthy wallop of freshly ground cumin, a bit of salt and pepper.&nbsp; Then I kept stirring the mixture until it thickened.&nbsp; He also had me working on a salsa made with fresh avocado, tomato, bell pepper, cilantro and hot sauce.&nbsp; Delicious!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/chef_at_home_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chef_at_home_1\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Chef_at_home_1\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/chef_at_home_1.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> The good news about these visiting cookbook authors is that they always leave a couple of cookbooks behind for me to give away.&nbsp; So, if you have a favourite dish that you just whip up without a recipe, tell me about it in the Comments section below, and you could win one of two copies of Chef at Home.&nbsp; Contest closes November 11th.&nbsp; Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fall book season&#8230;lots of Canadian cookbook authors are traveling across the country to promote their latest offerings.&nbsp; &nbsp;Here in Vancouver, we&#8217;re lucky enough to most of them coming through, and they&#8217;re always happy to indulge me with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/contestchef_at_\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}