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Garbanzos

Garbanzos

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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes

Garbanzos is a Spanish dish, best discription is a chickpea stew, very popular as a Tapas or a main dish on the Canary Isles. Ideal when entertaining large numbers, the recipe is for 4, but can be increased easily. As with most well flavoured foods, it c…

Wilted Spinach Salad

Wilted Spinach Salad

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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes

I absolutely love wilted spinach salad. I guess it helps that bacon is one of my favorite foods ever (except for when I occasionally watch Charlotte's Web with my kids and feel guilty). Anyways, this salad goes well with almost any main course, or you c…

Pork Chops With Caramelized Apples & Pecans

Pork Chops With Caramelized Apples & Pecans

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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes

I don't think that there is any two foods as complementary as pork and apples. This is a dish that brings the two together, complemented further by pecans and a sweet reduction made up of butter, cinnamon and brown sugar. This is actually a very easy dish…

Wasabi Cheesecake

Wasabi Cheesecake

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Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 60 Minutes

Wasabi cheesecake is probably the first you've ever heard of! Interestingly, this experiment of mine turned out better than I thought - like another fusion food! I added lemon initially but I felt that the wasabi did not seems to go well with it, so I lef…

The perfect hard boiled egg, every time!

The perfect hard boiled egg, every time!

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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes

Today's post is a back to basics cooking lesson, How to boil an egg. The perfect boiled or hard boiled egg is when the egg is cooked all the way through and the yolk is golden , there shouldn't be a grey/green ring around the yolk. To me if a hard boiled…

Salade Mechouia

Salade Mechouia

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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes

I was actually born in Tunisia and thanks to such my Mother learned how to cook quite a few amazing dishes from Tunisia. I left Tunisia when I was about 2 years old so never really had any recollections. Salade Mechouia is a favorite during the summer mon…

Spicy Garlic Shrimp Stir-Fry

Spicy Garlic Shrimp Stir-Fry

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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 10 Minutes

Here is a real tasty stir-fry that takes ten minutes to prepare, ten minutes to make and will definitely be one you'll make again. Shrimp is fantastic in this dish and is a great way to swap another protein in if you are sick of chicken, beef and pork. We…

Classic Pumpkin Pie

Classic Pumpkin Pie

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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 60 Minutes

Avocado, watermelon, pumpkin - these are a few of my absolutely favorite foods. Pumpkin is a highly flexible fruit (yes, it's a fruit, not a vegetable!). It can be made into bread, muffins (see my recipe at http://www.ecomeg.com), gingerbread, cookie…

Mini Bagel Tuna Melts

Mini Bagel Tuna Melts

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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 5 Minutes

Kids love eating miniature foods, so these mini bagel tuna melts are perfect to get their appetites going. They are simple to make and they can choose the options they like such as: pickles, celery, hardboiled eggs, carrots, etc. Top them off with lots…

Fish N' Chips with Lemon Thyme Dip

Fish N' Chips with Lemon Thyme Dip

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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes

Fish n' Chips is a popular take away and street food that originated in the UK. It is made with deep frying a fish in a batter or bread crumbs and deep fried potatoes. According to some internet source, the first fish n chip shop was opened in London by a…

Stuffed Tofu with Ginger Soy Dressing

Stuffed Tofu with Ginger Soy Dressing

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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 10 Minutes

Tofu, or bean curd, which comes from the Japanese word tōfu, which itself derived from the Chinese word dòufu, which originally means "bean curdled". It is a soft white food, made by coagulating soy milk and pressing the curds into blocks. There are ma…

Spaghetti with beef, mushoom sauce and bits

Spaghetti with beef, mushoom sauce and bits

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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 60 Minutes

My mom taught me how to prepare this dish because many people really admire her unique ability to cook and experiment foods as her own recipe. This was the dish that a lot of our neighbors and friend keep on asking us to prepare most of the time because o…

Thai Peanut Salmon

Thai Peanut Salmon

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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes

This has been my favorite recipe yet. It is easy to prepare and a fresh take on salmon. My boyfriend and I agreed that we should have this meal once a week. I served the salmon over jasmine rise and grilled tomatoes and red onions. If you want to save you…

Caribbean Lobster Ceviche Don Q Limon

Caribbean Lobster Ceviche Don Q Limon

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Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 120 Minutes

“Cook for people with love is the most important ingredient” is the leitmotiv of Dominik Wirz, Executive Chef of Hilton Ponce Resort in Puerto Rico. Today we have his delicious recipe for Caribbean Lobster Ceviche Don Q Limon… Dominik’s innovativ…

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes

This is the recipe that my great grandmother brought with her from Ireland in the late 1800’s. It’s a very, very common, everyday recipe. It’s uncommon, however, to those unfamiliar with the peasant lifestyle and the lack of extra ingredients. It’…

Recipe for Pav Bhaji Pizza

Recipe for Pav Bhaji Pizza

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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 25 Minutes

Pav bhaji : According to wikipedia... it is a fast food dish native to Maharashtrians and is popular in most metropolitan areas in India, particularly in the Maharashtrian city of Mumbai & Pune. (पाव भाजी, also transliterated as pao bhaji an…

Tailor Made Spaghetti

Tailor Made Spaghetti

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Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 10 Minutes

In 1958, at the age of 19, my zio Giuseppe Manto (Uncle Joe) parted with Sicily, I recall always hearing about zio Giuseppe, even though I had never met him. When he left I had not been conceived yet, but I heard my parents talk about him as if he had b…

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