There’s a lingering assumption in home cooking that fresh chicken is inherently better than frozen. For high-quality, professionally frozen products, that assumption is out of date. Here’s the case for making frozen chicken your weeknight default. Freshness Depends on When It Was Frozen, Not Whether Chicken that goes from processing to IQF freezing within hours […]

Launching a retail brand for the first time means making hard choices. We could have put twenty products on Fortinos shelves. We chose five. Here’s the thinking behind the shortlist. Chicken Souvlaki — The Signature If Glacial Treasure had to be introduced to Ontario with one product, this would have been it. Souvlaki is the […]

Some products are one-trick. Lemon Pepper Chicken Breast is not one of those. It’s arguably the most versatile item in our Glacial Treasure lineup, and if you buy one package at Fortinos this week, you’ve got the foundation for at least ten different meals. Here are ten of them. The Ten Ideas Sheet-pan dinner: bake […]

Chicken souvlaki gets more attention in Ontario, but ask anyone Greek what they order at a proper taverna and pork souvlaki will be in the answer. It’s the traditional souvlaki — richer, more forgiving on the grill, and in many families, the version that showed up at every Sunday dinner. Our Glacial Treasure Pork Souvlaki […]

You can trace every skewer of Glacial Treasure Chicken Souvlaki back to a specific kitchen in Greece. Anastasia Dikeos grew up making souvlaki the way her mother and grandmother made it. Olive oil. Fresh lemon juice. Garlic. Oregano. Salt and pepper. Not a recipe from a book — a recipe from decades of watching, tasting, […]