This is a fast and easy Saturday night meal or weeknight meal. It's delicious, healthy, and doesn't take long to prepare, best part, you wont leave the table feeling stuffed. The chickpeas are canned but they are treated so simply with just a few ingredients. The flavor has been enhanced by the addition of olive [...]
I love the weekends (okay who doesn't?!), but it's not just the idea of having a few days off. Saturday's give me the opportunity to take a leisurely stroll through my favorite grocery stores (yes I do more than one). The kids are grown up and gone away, I'm out of my wife's hair for a few hours, [...]
I got a new cookbook, two actually (from friends of ours from Delhi). This recipe comes from one of the books called "Anjum's Indian Vegetarian Feast" and featured a recipe called Best ever Bombay Potatoes and it came with a variation (and you know how much I love to vary recipes) which included cauliflower. Truth [...]
Here's a great easy to make recipe that can be made fresh or from a leftover roast you may have - chicken, beef, pork etc. This particular one is made from fresh finely sliced beef and chopped mushrooms. Again, I vary this recipe greatly depending on what mood I'm in or what inspires me in the [...]
Who says bbq's have to be informal dining only?! Here's what we had for dinner last night. Spicy Chicken with Jewelled Quinoa. So simple, and with just a little creativity on the plating, we elevated it from "flip-flops" to "sandals" while we dined - ahem! The spicy chicken rub is just a regular spice rub with [...]
A really good alternative to chicken is turkey. The problem is we always tend to think of a whole turkey, 15 lbs of raw bird that needs to be dressed, stuffed, baked and sliced. Well a really simple alternative to whole turkey is turkey breast. This recipe uses a boneless skinless turkey breast which has [...]
I will admit, I'm not the best when it comes to eating vegetables. Oh yes I know, their good for you and all. I make my dad eat them and my family but personally, give me meat and I'm happy. So when I come across a recipe that satisfies my inner-meatie(?), I want to share it [...]
I've been making this pizza for a number of years and have seen many variations on the theme. In Italy, where simple and fresh is the premise of any dish, in France, with a béchamel sauce as a base and here with many different additions in many different pizza locations. This is one of my [...]
As a budding young Chef, this was one of my favorite dishes to make for my family for breakfast on the weekends. I think I saw it made for the first time on The Galloping Gourmet - Graham Kerr, remember him (that's how small a bud I was when I first made this). I liked [...]
Okay I couldn't resist one more Irish dish. This is a classic taste with the combination of sweet cabbage and salty corned beef. Layer them like you would a Napoleon pastry and voila, you've just brought country food to the city! The addition of some heat takes it up a few levels but layering like [...]
