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A late morning approach to brunch or breakfast. Either way it is a sure fire delicious combination of healthy eating.
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| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 75 Minutes |
Creamy butternut squash and sweet potato soup that is nutritious and delicious, or as I like to say, nutritioulicious™!
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| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
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This recipe was created by me to enter a Caribbean Foods Competition several years ago. It was one of 2 that I entered that won.
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| Prep Time: | 5 Minutes |
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After all the meat we have been eating lately, we were in the mood for some change. Fish came to mind and we had some beautiful sea bass fillets that we just purchased from Pete. We also had some spinach and I somehow I wanted to incorporate the two. Not…
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| Prep Time: | 30 Minutes |
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A deliciously thick and succulent bisque using squash, apples, spices and sherry. The perfect autumn meal.
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| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
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Raita is a yogurt based sauce or dip. Usually, raita is very simple with either some cumin or some mint and cucumber, or pineapple pieces, etc. But this is a very flavorful raita with smoked eggplant, garlic and ginger. I had it first along with a very de…
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A delicious Jamaican Seafood Stew using a variety of fish, seafood and spices indigenous to the Caribbean. I have travelled often to that part of the world and just fell in love with Jamaican cuisine in particular. I hope you enjoy.
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This chicken stew with an aromatic coconut milk gravy is a great comfort food. This recipe is from Kerala, a state in India, where they use a lot of both fresh coconut and coconut milk in their cooking. Creamy coconut milk makes this stew very soothing, c…
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There are few things I love more than pasta and seafood. Add them together and you have made me a very happy girl. This is one of my favorite pasta dishes because it is simple and elegant at the same time. Serve it for a romantic dinner with your loved…
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| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
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This is one of my husband's favorite and his family too. When I first married my Irish husband he liked everything plain like the corned beef, roast beef, chicken soup. One day I decided to spice them all. Now they are his favorite meals. No more plain co…
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Ramblings about cooking, sewing, gardening and other assorted earthy things :D
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I'm a wife and Mom and I create what I lovingly call 'homemade chic' recipes that I share on my blog. For better or worse, I also feature my crazy stories or what is on my mind. I've been cooking in the kitchen and loving it since I was just a wee…
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Can be bitter but, if lovingly covered in oil and slowly poached for hours, also so so sweet.
This is a little late. Mainly due to having a life and spending it covered in grub.
Some of it will be memories, some of it will unjustified bile and…
Will this blog explode if I post one more chili recipe here? Probably. But that's a chance I'm willing to take. I've got a situation here.My fridge seems to be breeding poblano peppers. Like tribbles. Only greener and more tasty. I could swear (read full article)
Ingredients 8 sugar cane sticks. Approximately 6 inches long, peeled and quartered lengthwise 4 lbs. Pork tenderloin cut into 1-1/2 inch cubes 2 large red onions cut into 1-inch cubes Sour Orange Mojo Marinade Ingredients 1-cup sour orange juic (read full article)
Ingredients Makes about 2 cups, serves about 5 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 tablespoons peeled and finely chopped fresh ginger 1 cup soy sauce 1/2 cup dry sherry (sherry is optional, can substitute 1/4 cup sherry vinegar) 1/2 cup each catsu (read full article)
When life, or your brother, hands you a bushel of tomatoes: make tomato sauce ... from scratch!While slow-roasted is all the rage, sometimes there's no time for slow. Sometimes you need quick. I often need quick. Such was the case on Saturday nigh (read full article)
Now that I have chickens, I’ve been thinking how good Eggs Benedict would taste with hollandaise made using really fresh eggs. Eggs Benedict requires Canadian bacon, of course, which means I needed to refer to Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman &a (read full article)
This is the very first curry I dared to make from scratch and thankfully it turned out very well! The flavours are quite rich and not too spicy, so you could add more chilli powder to suit your taste. Serves 4 850g shoulder of lamb, cut into bit (read full article)
Before I visited Vienna, the last thing I would have associated with the schnitzel-loving city was, of all things, excellent vegetable soups. But in restaurant after restaurant, I had some of the best cream soups of my life, from ka (read full article)
Sometimes - ok, often - my fridge is a disaster; full of left-over bits of this, and unused bits of that. If I've been cooking a lot, the shelves will be a melange of monkey dishes featuring half-cups of veggies, perhaps a solo portion of meat - the (read full article)
This Spicy Mango Salad and seafood or Yam Ma-moung Tha-la will blow you away with its tastebud-awakening flavors and mix of textures. And as a bonus, and it’s healthy. Enjoy it as a complete meal by adding cooked shrimp, squid, chicken, sausa (read full article)
One of the conundrums of being a home cook is wanting to find more 'easy' recipes then being leery of them if they seem too easy. At least that's the vicious vortex I'm forever finding myself in the middle of. The truth is 'less is more' recipes give (read full article)