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| Kevin | Thu 9:07 am (8 hours ago) |
Despite the fact that it has been a little warmer out lately, I have still been craving soups and I recently realized that it had been a very long time since I last made one of my favourite soups, a broccoli and cheddar soup. The broccoli and cheddar flavour combination is a really good one that I never tire of reinventing but this soup has to be one that I keep coming back to again and again.Broccoli and cheddar soup is pretty ...
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While I was enjoying my chicken satay with spicy peanut sauce my mind wandered to the fusion Korean/Mexican that I had been experimenting with recently and I wondered how a Thai/Mexican fusion would work. I had a bit of leftover satay along with some peanut dipping sauce and the first thing that popped into my head was quesadillas. I figured that the chicken satay and peanut sauce along with some cheese would form the ...
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I have been trying to make some room in my freezer lately and in doing so I have been coming across all sorts of interesting things that I had forgotten about. Most recently I found some panang curry paste which is essentially a red curry paste with peanuts in it. The first thing that I think of when I think of the panang curry paste is always the spicy peanut sauce which ...
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Even after making the migas last weekend I still had some corn tortillas left over from taco night so I threw them into the freezer. This weekend I was determined to finish them off and I knew just what I wanted to do to use them, huevos motulenos. Huevos motulenos is another Mexican egg and tortilla breakfast that is very similar to huevos rancheros. At their base, huevos motulenos are the fried tortillas, eggs, black beans and cheese. From there common ...
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I have been enjoying the spinach and feta flavour combination a lot lately and I thought that it was about time that I branched out and tried something a bit different. Palak dal is an Indian dish consisting of spinach and lentils and it has been on my to try list for a while now. This dish is pretty much just the spinach and lentils along with some warm Indian spices and some chili heat. The lentils could be served as a side or as salad ...
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After waiting for a long month my new batch of kimchi was finally ready and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it to start. After the success of the kimchi egg salad sandwich I wanted to try a chicken version and as luck would have it I had just stumbled across a container filled with leftover cooked shredded chicken in the freezer. I pretty much just used the same recipe substituting in chicken for the egg. I ...
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When I think about which cheeses that I have in my fridge the most often, goat cheese is definitely up there and I am always looking for new way to enjoy some. Not too long ago I came across this recipe for a baked goat cheese marinara on Culinary Cory that sounded so good that I just had to make it right away! You just cannot go wrong baking cheese until it is nice and warm and melty and I liked ...
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It seems that I have not been doing too many desserts recently and I had been craving something sweet. I always enjoy using fruit in desserts and one of the quickest, easiest and most rewarding ways of using fruits in a dessert has to be in the form of a crisp or a crumble. They are pretty much as easy as; prep the fruit, mix the crumb topping, pour them into a baking dish and bake. ...
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Lasagna has to be one of my all time favorite meals. Although the classic lasagna will always hold a special place for me, I am always interested in trying new and different ways of making lasagna. I recently came across this recipe for a chicken, roasted butternut squash and feta lasagna on Cook Sister! that sounded amazingly good. I had tried a roasted butternut squash lasagna before so I knew ...
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I had a bunch of corn tortillas left over from taco night and I knew just what I wanted to do with them. I remembered bookmarking several Texmex style breakfasts that called for day old corn tortillas over the last while and when I searched for them migas was the first to come up with this recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Migas translates to crumbs and is a dish that consists of scrambled eggs, corn tortillas, onions, peppers, tomatoes and some cheese. ...
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When I first discovered Korean cuisine, the first dish that I tried was bibimbap and it has been my favorite ever since. Whenever I make a Korean style meat such as the dak bulgogi (Korean BBQ chicken) I try to make sure that I will have enough of it leftover to use to make a bowl of bibimbap. Bibimbap is a mixed rice dish where pretty much anything goes so it is a great way to clean out the fridge ...
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I had some leftovers from taco night and the first thing that came to mind was along the same vein, burritos. The tacos were on the smaller side and there was no way that the leftovers would fill a mighty burrito so I would need something to fill them out a bit. Rice is a perfect filler for burritos and I figured that the freshness of some cilantro and lime brown rice would be a perfect fit. ...
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During the summer I found out about the Kogi taco trucks in California that serve Korean/Mexican fusion dishes that sound really tasty. Given that Korean and Mexican cuisines are both among my favorites I was immediatly intrigued and I since I figured that I would not be getting the chance to try out he Kogi trucks any time soon I decided to try reproducing one of their dishes at home. I started with their short rib tacos and ...
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I had been craving some Korean cuisine for a while and it was finally time to satiate it. When I think of Korean cuisine I generally think spicy but a lot of the BBQ meats such as bulgogi (Korean BBQ beef) and kalbi (Korean BBQ short ribs) are actually marinated in mixture that is on the sweet side. I had been wanting to try a chicken version of the bulgogi but I also ...
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I do not make stuffed chicken breasts all that often but with the recent success of the spinach and feta stuffed chicken I looking forward to trying again and I had the perfect recipe in mind. I recently came across this recipe for a roasted red pepper, pistachio and feta stuffed chicken by Peter of Kalofagas that sounded so amazingly good that I just had to try it. The chicken is stuffed with so many of my favorite flavours including the roasted red peppers, the ...
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With all of the great omelettes that I have been enjoying lately, I just had to try one with my favorite spinach and feta flavour combo. I was first introduced to the spinach and feta flavour combo in spanakopita, a Greek spinach and feta pie, and I have been reinventing that flavour combo in different dishes ever since. Now it was time for an omelet version! I stuck pretty much with the basics from the spanakopita filling with the ...
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When I think of Thai food I tend to think of all of the wonderful curries so it was only natural that when I was enjoying the Thai inspired chicken noodle soup recently that I thought of trying a Thai curried soup. The only question was; What kind of Thai curry paste did I have in my freezer? After a few minutes of searching I hit the jackpot when I found 2 tablespoons worth of frozen ...
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Bacon, caramelized onions and sauteed mushrooms are among my favorite foods and when I saw a spinach salad on The Pioneer Woman that contained all three it, immediately made it to my meal plan. This salad is just packed with flavour! Not allowing any ...
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In general I tend to favour savoury breakfasts to sweet ones but it seems that it is easier to find recipes for the sweet ones so I am always on the lookout for new savoury ones to try. The other day I came across a post about shakshuka on Nosh and Tell that reminded me that that particular savoury dish had been on my to try list for a while. Shakshouka is a breakfast where eggs are poached in a tomato and pepper sauce. ...
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Sometimes it seems like I am in a never ending battle to clear space in my freezer. I am constantly trying to use things from my freezer to make some more room and then the next time I look I am out of free space again. This weekend I was looking through my freezer and I came across a stash of tomatoes that I had roasted during the summer when they were in season. I had roasted them up hoping to get the ...
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The other week while I was enjoying the exquisite caramelized pear and gorgonzola omelette with bacon and pecans I thought that apples also go well with gorgonzola. I just bet that an apple version would also be amazing! My thoughts drifted a bit then and I was thinking about how caramelizing the apples in the butter and brown sugar reminded me of apple pie. Then I had a ...
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During the summer when I was experimenting with green tomatoes I tried making a fried green tomato BLT that I really enjoyed. While I was slicing the green tomatoes for the pickled green tomatoes I thought that a pickled green tomato BLT would be the perfect place to start trying them when they were ready. Flash forward a few months and I was finally ready to try it out. The pickled green tomatoes worked really well in the BLT ...
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During the summer I was exploring green tomatoes and while I was researching them I came across the concept of pickled green tomatoes. I had never even heard of pickled green tomatoes before but since I really like cucumber pickles and I had recently discovered that I liked green tomatoes I just had to try making some. After a bit of searching I found this recipe for pickled green tomatoes on about.com: American Food that sounded like a good place to start. ...
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With Valentines day coming chocolate has been on my mind and in particular I was remembering the molten chocolate cake that I had made last year. I just had to make something as decadently chocolaty this year! After searching through my bookmarks I decided to go with chocolate pots de creme or chocolate cream pots. The chocolate cream pots are essentially a chocolate custard with the following simple ingredients; cream, sugar, chocolate and egg yolks. The recipe is a ...
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It seems that the spinach and feta quesadillas that I made last week simply wet my appetite for my craving for the Greek spinach and feta flavour combo. Next up on my list of things to try using this flavour combo was something a bit more challenging, chicken breasts stuffed with spinach and feta. I don't make stuffed meat dishes like this too ...
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Sauerkraut comes in such large jars and I sometimes worry about picking one up because I just know that I will have that half used jar sitting in the fridge taking up space for months afterwards. Last week I could not resist trying the sauerkraut cabbage roll soup and that meant picking up one of those jars of sauerkraut. While I was enjoying a bowl of the soup it reminded me that it had been a while since I ...
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It is always nice to come across a tasty new food and my latest discovery is this shrimp po' boy that I came across on Ezra Pound Cake. This was the first that I had heard of the po' boy but you really can't go wrong with a spicy grilled shrimp sandwich all smothered in a tangy mayonnaise based sauce. A po' boy is a sandwich from Louisiana that is served in a baguette. Po' boys can be filled with ...
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So, you thought that I was just going to use that balsamic vinaigrette on salads eh? Though I will be using it on some salads the primary reason that I made was for these balsamic roasted brussels sprouts. After the success of the maple dijon roasted brussels sprouts it got me to thinking about other dressings that would work on brussels sprouts. One brussels sprouts dish that I always enjoy is ...
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Although store bought salad dressings are convenient, it is also really easy to make them at home and I do it all the time. Scattered throughout my salad posts you will find quite the array of salad dressings but they are not all that easy to find hidden away in a recipe for a salad. I thought that I would try focusing on a few salad dressings both to give them the attention that they deserve and to make them easier to find.Out ...
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It seems that I could not stay away from the kimchi for too long... A new idea hit me that I just had to try; a kimchi egg salad sandwich. Egg salads generally consist of mashed hard boiled eggs in a mayonnaise based dressing along with anything else that you wish. Since kimchi went so well in the hot cheesy kimchi dip that I recently made I was willing to bet that kimchi and mayo would be another great flavour combination ...
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I have really been into the Greek style spinach and feta combo with fresh herbs such as dill and mint ever since I discovered spanakopita, a Greek spinach pie. I have been remaking those flavours into various different dishes with one of my more recent creations being in the form of a spinach and feta lasagna that was a real hit. I have a fairly long list of different ways that I want to try using the spinach and feta ...
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It is probably time for a little break from kimchi. :) Speaking of fermented cabbage, my second favorite form of fermented cabbage is sauerkraut though I never seem to know what to do with it. Sauerkraut is of course great in reuben sandwiches and it goes really well in my favorite pirogies but it always comes in such huge jars and I often seem to be stumped with how to finish the rest of the jar. Needless to say, ...
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I have been on quite the kimchi craze lately! I am always looking for new ideas for ways to enjoy kimchi and recently a reader suggested something that I could not pass up on, a kimchi dip. I had not even contemplated using kimchi in a dip but it sounded like a great idea! A quick search of the web for kimchi dip recipes did not turn up anything that inspired me so I had to come up with my own. Since I discovered ...
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I have been enjoying some really great omelettes lately! The omelettes that I have been making have been packed with flavour and in fact with the ingredients in them they have been looking a lot more like pizzas. The thought of a pizza like omelette was perfect because the kimchi, bacon and shiitake mushroom pizza that I had made earlier in the week had disappeared way too quickly and I was left craving more. I immediatly ...
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It seems that I have not posted a proper side dish in a while... I assure you that that is not because I have not been making them. :) With brussels sprouts still in season I find that I have been using them a lot for side dishes and one of my favorite ways to use them is in a roasted brussels sprouts au gratin. I had been craving the creamy cheese covered brussels sprouts for a while and it was time to ...
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+Lettuce+Wraps+1+500.jpg "Dak Bulgogi (Korean BBQ Chicken) Lettuce Wraps")
+1+500.jpg "Spinach and Feta Stuffed Chicken with Pan Sauce on Spanakorizo (Greek Spinach Rice)")
+1+500.jpg "Gigantes Plaki (Greek Baked Beans)")
