Matty Matheson: A Cookbook

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Matty Matheson is the funniest and most illustrious person on YouTube, the host of Viceland’s It’s Suppertime! Once the veggies are cooked perfectly, add the butter and let it bubble and froth with all the mirepoix.

Clean the shellfish either by rinsing with cold water in buckets in the sink or leaving in a bucket with salted water and cornmeal in it overnight. I have the Italian beef (braised roast with pickled veggies served as a sandwich) marked to try soon. Killer recipes: I could just list every dish in the book, but stand-outs include molasses bread in an apple juice can; roti; burn your tongue Caesar salad; fingerling potato supreme; oxtail and mirepoix pierogis; green curry beef ribs; Nashville hot halibut sandwich and molasses cookies stuffed with dulce de leche. Divided into two parts, Matheson tells first the story of his family life and the food cooked by his grandparents, parents and in-laws. Just before ending he still shares with you 11 delicious desserts, like his wife Trish’s Chocolate Chip Cookies and Creme Caramel.What sets this apart is the authenticity that is Matty Matheson, as a human being and a professional chef. Grampy often went out on patrol with his dogs for thirty days or more at a time, surviving on what he could kill and carry on his dogsled. When we would go to Prince Edward Island and my parents and Grampy would come back from the wharf with freshly boiled and chilled lobsters, we knew it was gonna be a long night of eating until we were sick of eating lobster! I've read some that have had an autobiographical aspect, but this book has a great storyteller and chef behind it, with lots of neat family recipes added.

While Matty's first book was almost a history lesson on his life, this new cookbook is more centered on creating a love for cooking at home. Matheson says that ‘I’ll admit that maybe my first book was selfish because I didn’t worry about people cooking from it’ and it’s certainly true that some of the recipes were unashamedly restaurant territoy. Nanny and Grampy loved to make these kinds of staples, and there was always enough to give away and to last until next fall.Nanny Matheson passed away when I was young, so we never really got to know her, but by all accounts, she was fun, smart, hardworking, and a great cook. In early 2019, he launched of his self produced web series Just a Dash on his YouTube channel which now also features a Home Style Cookery that includes recipes from the book such as The Inedible Seven-Layer Dip (and no, that’s not a typo, just typical Matheson humour).