From Me to You Gourmet

From Me to You Gourmet Meals with a personal touch ... designed with health in mind, using locally sourced ingredients. Fr Customized menus to suite you & your family's needs.

Perhaps you'd like our Personal Chef Service to prepare & deliver a week's worth of gourmet meals to enjoy at your convenience--all packaged and labelled with detailed instructions for re-heating and serving. Keep some of our gourmet entrées in your freezer, ready to pop in the oven when unexpected company arrives. On vacation and want a vacation from cooking too but have the touch of home. We can

take care of the shopping and cooking and deliver to your location (or pick-up). Please note: you will need a working kitchenette with stove & oven...all food is either frozen or preserved except for the baking & pastries. All meals designed with health in mind. Upon consultation, determination for individual or senior portions will be discussed. We have a client consultation form that will help us to identify your favourite foods, dislikes, allergies, sensitivities and dietary needs--from low carb and low fat to sodium free, vegetarian, child or senior friendly and more. This info helps us to prepare a customized menu for your household or event. Among our services, we also provide fresh grown pesticide-free garden vegetables, fruits and herbs (seasonal), gourmet preserves and baking goods & pastries.

08/29/2026

🥒Zucchini Corn Fritters (aka: Croquettes or Lutkeas🇺🇦) 🌽
By Baba Tillie Koczwara
A wonderful way to use up your zucchini and have the fresh taste of summer with corn. Baba always made these in the summer. Always a staple in the freezer for a fast nutritious side or meal for the busy weekday. (Recipe in comments)

🥒Zucchini Corn Fritters (aka: Croquettes or Lutkeas🇺🇦) 🌽 By Baba Tillie Koczwara Cooking the corn:🌽 Husk 4 corn cobs💧 I...
08/29/2026

🥒Zucchini Corn Fritters (aka: Croquettes or Lutkeas🇺🇦) 🌽
By Baba Tillie Koczwara

Cooking the corn:
🌽 Husk 4 corn cobs
💧 In large pot bring water to boil at high
🧂 1 Tbsp of course salt
🌽 Boil corn for no more then 5 minutes
🌽 Remove corn & shock in cold water
🌽 Set aside to cool to room temperature

Making the Lutkeas:
🥣 In medium bowl mix together:
🥒 1 medium zucchini, shredded
🌽 4 corn cobs of kernels
🧅 1 med red onion or sweet onion, diced
🌽 2 small stalks of celery, diced
🫑 1 lg sweet pepper, orange or yellow, diced, optional
🌶️ Jalapeño or Chili Pepper, diced, optional
🥚 5 eggs
🥚 5 Tbsp Sour Cream or Greek Yogurt

Mix together well and break up the corn.

🥣 3-4 heaping Tbsps Baking Powder
🧂 2 tsps Seasoning Salt, to taste
🌯 1 tsp Black Pepper, to taste
🌯 3 heaping tsps Garlic Powder, to taste
🌯 2 tsps Paprika, to taste
🫙 1-2 Tbsps Dry Ranch Dressing Mix (see notes)
🥣 8-10 Tbsps Flour, add 1 Tbsp at a time mixing well between additions until desired thickness is reached

Mix well

🌿 2 heaping Tbsps dry di****ed or 4 Tbsps fresh finely chopped Dill W**d
🧀 2 heaping cup of shredded cheese, optional

Mix well

🍳 Preheat skillet at Medium heat
🧈 Melt a couple pads of butter or Olive Oil, adding more between batches
🥒Drop zucchini mixture into skillet and brown on both sides.
🥒 About 1-2 minutes on each side
🥒 Put fried lutkeas aside on paper towel to cool.

🥒 Best served hot or at room temperature.
🥒 Top with sour cream or Dill dressing or Tzatziki
🥗 Served with a side salad

Happy Zucchini Day!!So many things you can do with zucchini… 🥒 make zucchini noodles🥒 zucchini breads and muffins🥒 put i...
08/29/2026

Happy Zucchini Day!!
So many things you can do with zucchini… 🥒 make zucchini noodles
🥒 zucchini breads and muffins
🥒 put it into soups, pasta and rice dishes
🥒 stuffed zucchini
🥒 bake, fry, BBQ
🥒 make relish, zuc-pineapple, pickles
🥒 I’m sure much more

08/27/2026

Stopped off at a favourite eatery in West Kelowna… Pepper Pot Grill!!! OMG…never a disappointing moment!! Accidentally ordered this wonderful burger…not at all what I expected! Perfect name for it… the Cardiac Burger 🍔. I thought I read, beef patty smothered between cheddar cheese slices… not grill cheese sandwiches!! 🥪 🤣🤪😂😋 Love their sign decor too…

Stopped off at a favourite eatery in West Kelowna… Pepper Pot Grill!!! OMG…never a disappointing moment!! Accidentally o...
08/27/2026

Stopped off at a favourite eatery in West Kelowna… Pepper Pot Grill!!! OMG…never a disappointing moment!! Accidentally ordered this wonderful burger…not at all what I expected! Perfect name for it… the Cardiac Burger 🍔. I thought I read, beef patty smothered between cheddar cheese slices… not grill cheese sandwiches!! 🥪 🤣🤪😂😋

Looking forward to a yummy salad!😋😋
08/25/2026

Looking forward to a yummy salad!😋😋

Bought myself a project trying to help an orchardist in Summerland! He wasn’t able to pick the peaches on time because h...
08/24/2026

Bought myself a project trying to help an orchardist in Summerland! He wasn’t able to pick the peaches on time because he was evacuated… along with the rest of the orchardist, farmers, etc in Summerland. I thought I had more time with the peaches but this wasn’t the case! They didn’t show signs of being over ripe like they were when picking. By the time I got home (15 minute drive) more than half were juicy or needed to be worked on immediately.

I probably should have videoed some of it explaining why I was separating and cutting everything differently; but I was too frustrated! The end result is, I have some peaches for the following possible projects: Canned Peaches (only 5 quarts), frozen peaches for smoothies, sliced peaches for pie filling, cubed peaches for preserves or Peach Salsa, jamming peaches and discard (pits & skin) for Peach Simple Syrup. We will see what gets done or is simply frozen for later…

🍑 Canned Peaches🫙By Ruth ZellaINGREDIENTS:🍑 Peaches or Nectarines, peeled, sliced🍚 Sugar💧 WaterLight Syrup:Ratio for wat...
08/24/2026

🍑 Canned Peaches🫙
By Ruth Zella

INGREDIENTS:
🍑 Peaches or Nectarines, peeled, sliced
🍚 Sugar
💧 Water

Light Syrup:
Ratio for water to sugar is 2 to 1:
💧 6 cups Water
🍚 3 cups Sugar or honey
💧🍚 In large pot, dissolve sugar in water over medium heat. It does not need to boil.

DIRECTIONS:
🫙 Fill jar with fruit… up to the ring bottom ridge
💧🍚 Pour simple syrup over the fruit in the jars
🫙 Leaving 1/2-inch headspace
🫙 Wipe rim with damp paper towel
🫙 Place lid on and screw ring finger tight
Water Bath:
🫙 Add tap hot water to canner so that the jars will not be shocked
🫙 Place jars on a rack. The jars cannot touch the bottom of the pot.
💧 Make sure the water is just below (about 1/2-inch) the rim on the tallest jar (Some sites recommend that the water be an inch over the jar tops. I was not taught that so I follow my family expert canner’s knowledge.)
🫙 Cover with lid at low-high ( #8 is my stove top heat)
⏰ Water bath times:
* Pints for 15-minutes
* Quarts for 20-minutes
🫙 Remove from heat and let cool with lid off for 10minutes
🫙 Remove jars from canner and set aside to cool. Wrapped in a towel overnight.
🫙 In the morning, unwrap and let cool to room temperature
🫙 Check to make sure jars have sealed before putting away in a dark cool location for storage.
🫙 Don’t forget to label…
🍑 Fruit should be left to infuse for at least 2-months before serving

NOTES:
🫙 Simple Syrup Ratios:
* Extra Light Syrup… 3 cups💧to 1🍚
* Light Syrup… 2 cups💧to 1🍚
* Medium (Standard) Syrup: 1 cup💧to 1🍚
* Heavy Syrup: 2 cups💧to 3 cups🍚
🍯 Sugar can be substituted with honey… same ratios. When using honey, the flavour is different and the colouring will turn darker faster.
🍋 Lemon juice (from the bottled Realemon) can be used to help keep the colouring of the peaches naturally. We never do because we find ours stay a golden peach colour but some canners do (keep in mind, this will alter the taste):
* Pints: 1/2 tsp lemon juice per jar
* Quart: 1 tsp lemon juice per jar

08/24/2026

🍑 Canned Peaches🫙
By Ruth Zella
A perfect treat in the cooler days of autumn and winter. Taste of summer in a bit and you only need 3 ingredients. We like to use a Light Syrup to can our fruits. I have included the other ratios at the end of the recipe. (Recipe in comments)

08/22/2026

The start of something wonderful!! Though its 36C (96.7F) outside, the fall is creeping in at my favourite fruit stand… the Peach King in Keremeos! Check out those sweet pumpkins! There is a little… a lot… of everything happening! 😋🍑🍎🍐🍉🫐🍇🌽🫑🧅🌶️🥒🥔🥕🧄🍅🍒🍆🍠🌿

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