Sweet & Sour Chicken with Fresh Pineapple
I’m in Jasper! I’m here doing some cooking shows for the Pajama Party, but it’s more like Christmas in November with the snow coming down and a frozen lake. And all the dancing and martinis last night. (Unfortunately for everyone here, I dance like Elaine on Seinfeld.)
So I’ll leave you with this recipe for sweet and sour chicken with fresh pineapple, which is one of the recipes I did recently for Co-op, from the series I’m doing to illustrate how inexpensively you can feed your family when you cook from scratch. Everyone in our house adores sweet & sour chicken, but the take-out stuff is battered and deep fried, with a day-glo sauce that sort of freaks me out.
But wait – speaking of chicken, guess what? I’m going on a trip across Canada this May on the Rocky Mountaineer! There is a connection, really – in the form of a contest – Maple Leaf is giving away TWO MORE trips for 2 on the same train! Which means YOU could come with Mike and I – we’re scheming already to leave W at home and have our very first trip away together. Anyone wanna babysit? If you’re not coming, that is.
I’ve always wanted to go on a train trip across Canada. (Western Canada is probably enough for one go.) This trip is billed as the “most spectacular train trip in the world”, and you get the entire package – it includes flights to Calgary (if you don’t live here already), accommodation at Fairmont hotels in Calgary and Vancouver (where we finish the trip) and Kamloops (in the middle of the trip – you don’t sleep on the train). We get 2 days on the Rocky Mountaineer to experience the “First Passage to the West”, breakfasts and lunches on board in the Gold Leaf Dining Room (prepared by their four on-board chefs), and $500 in spending money! Which covers some pretty fab dinners wherever we like (or some pretty fab shoes at Fluevog in Vancouver and some hot dogs from a stand).
It all happens on May 10-13. How am I involved? They’re not paying me, but I get to go on the trip. Pretty awesome, I think. (Look, they even put me on their website!) You can read all the fine print here, and learn about the Rocky Mountaineer here, and most importantly, because this is how you get the chance to actually go, enter the Prime Taste of the West contest here.
I’ll post the links under free stuff too. Good luck! I want to see some of you on board!
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