The Day After…

Day After Thanksgiving Soup
Makes 4 servings
Shopping List:

1 tablespoon olive oil
2 carrots, peeled and finely diced
2 celery ribs, finely diced
1 medium onion, peeld and finely diced
3 (14.5-ounce) cans chicken broth
1 cup corn kernels
2 cups diced roasted turkey
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 lemon, juiced

TO MAKE:

In a heavy saucepan heat olive oil over medium-high heat.
Reduce heat [...]

Feeling Blue…

Blue Cheese Coleslaw
Makes 6 servings
Shopping List:

135 gr or 1 cup crumbled blue cheese
2 lemons, juiced
80 ml or 1/3 cup low fat mayonnaise
salt and black pepper to taste
6 stalks celery, thinly sliced
4 green onions with tops, thinly sliced
450 gr or 1 (16 ounce) package shredded coleslaw mix with red and green cabbage and carrots

TO MAKE:

Lightly mix [...]

Did You Know?

Stuffing can moisten dry meats or soak up the juices from fatty meats. Since Roman times, it has also been used to introduce an element of surprise at dinner. The French approach to stuffing was noted as being ‘de trop’ in Kettner’s Book of the Table in 1877. Apparently, their cork-shaped stuffing balls tended towards [...]

What… No Pumpkin Today?!

Broccoli Rabe
Makes 4 servings
Shopping List:

450 gr or 1 pound broccoli rabe, trimmed
75 ml or 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
5 gr or 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese

TO MAKE:

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
Cut an X in the bottom of the stems of the broccoli rabe and place in [...]

Chocolate caliente…

Halfway through the Chocolate Festival and still no chocolate recipe? Of course not! This is a recipe I remember from a trip to Barcelona with my two sisters, 3 months before I got sick. All though at the time the signs where already there… [something you only realise afterwards].
BTW, this is not a recipe to [...]

International Pumpkin Recipes #3

Roasted pumpkin and garlic soup
with parmesan croutons
Makes 8-10 servings
Preperation time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
Cooking time: 1 to 2 hours
Shopping List:
For the stock

15 ml or 1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 chicken carcass, roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped, including skin
2 carrots, roughly chopped
1 celery stick, roughly chopped
45 ml or 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 bottle Muscadet [or [...]

International Pumpkin Recipes #2

Italian Pumpkin Ravioli with Sage Butter
Serves: 10-12 as a starter, 4-6 as a main course [makes about 10-12 large ravioli]
Prep time: 1 hour 30 minutes [or 1 hour if using ready-made wonton wrappers] To Cook: 50 minutes
Shopping List:
For this recipe, you can make your own pasta dough, as below, or you can use frozen [...]

Revenge of the…

I not only like to you give recipes, I like to read them too. One of the websites in my RSS feed is Craving for… which directed me to this one.
Enjoy the Revenge of the Brussels Sprouts! Spooky!!!

International Pumpkin Recipes #1

Pumpkins and squashes are used in many countries. In North American they bake pumpkin pies during Thanksgiving while the Italians adore using them in risottos. Further east, in India, the popular Kaddoo [or West Indian pumpkin] is the favoured variety mainly used in braises and curries. The Vietnamese and Chinese use squashes in soups, the [...]

Did You Know?

Mushrooms are not universally adored. Some people are not keen on the taste or texture of funghi, while others suffer from an irrational fear of mushrooms, called mycophobia.
Perhaps the fear isn’t so irrational – although fatal poisoning from mushrooms is rare, some of the most poisonous and most delicious species belong to the same genus.

Thanksgiving is on its way…

Turkey Salad
Makes 6 servings
Shopping List:

350 gr or 2½ cups cooked turkey meat, chopped
60 gr or ½ cup finely chopped celery
½ fresh jalapeno pepper, diced
20 gr or 1½ tablespoon sweet pickle relish
60 ml or ¼ cup low fat mayonnaise
60 ml or ¼ cup plain non fat yogurt
1 gr or 1½ teaspoons dried cilantro
2 gr or 1 [...]

Did You Know?

The liquid inside a coconut is the coconut juice, not the milk. Coconut milk is produced by steeping grated coconut meat in boiling water, leaving the mixture to cool, then straining it. Coconut cream is produced by the same method but using less water.

A Taste of Autumn #2

Sweet Potato Pie
Makes 8 servings
PREP TIME 30 MIN
COOK TIME 1 HR 50 MIN
Shopping List:

450 gr or 1 pound sweet potato
115 gr or ½ cup butter, softened
100 gr or ½ cup white sugar
100 gr or ½ cup white sugar
120 ml or ½ cup evaporated milk
2 eggs
2 gr or ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 gr or ½ teaspoon [...]

A Taste of Autumn #1

Hungarian Goulash
Makes 8 servings
A good basic recipe that can be adjusted to taste. Hungarian goulash should be a flexible recipe, and you should taste it and adjust it when it is almost cooked, to suit your own taste.
Shopping List:

80 ml or 1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 onions, sliced
22 gr or 3 tablespoons Hungarian sweet paprika [edelsüss [...]

Did You Know?

That most stereotypical of student staples, baked beans, are derived from a traditional dish from New England which dates back to the 19th century. Traditionally, Puritan families in and around Boston baked navy beans (also known as haricot beans) with spices and molasses in the oven; the resulting dish was crowned ‘Boston baked beans’. Boston is [...]

Best Of Both Worlds…

Cajun Chicken Lasagna
Makes 12 servings
Shopping List:

450 gr or 1 (16 ounce) package lasagna noodles
450 gr or 1 pound andouille sausage, quartered lengthwise and sliced
450 gr or 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cut into chunks
6 gr or 2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
0.7 gr or 1 teaspoon dried sage
60 gr or ½ cup chopped onion
60 [...]

Did You Know?

French writer Alexandre Dumas included a recipe for Norfolk dumplings in his Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, declaring, wrongly, that they were named after the Duke of Norfolk because of his taste for them. It is thought that Dumas was purposefully misinformed by a prankster: early evidence of the good-natured rivalry between the countries.
Recipe for Norfolk [...]

Indian Summer…

Marinated Mushrooms
Makes 6 servings
Shopping List:

235 ml or 1 cup water
680 gr or 1 1/2 pounds fresh mushrooms, stems removed
60 ml or 1/4 cup olive oil
2 gr or 2 teaspoons thyme
6 gr or 1 teaspoon salt
45 ml or 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
8 gr or 3 teaspoons minced garlic
1 gr or 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
6 gr or 4 tablespoons [...]

Fresh from the Garden…

Homemade Tomato Soup
Makes 6 servings
A quick and easy recipe for real homemade tomato soup like no other you have had before, just like my late Granny used to make it.
Shopping List:

720 gr or 4 cups chopped fresh tomatoes
40 gr ot 1 slice onion
4 whole cloves
475 ml or 2 cups chicken broth
30 gr or 2 tablespoons [...]

Festive BBQ…

Caribbean Lamb Kebab with a Tasty Dressing
Makes 6 servings
Shopping List:
For the marinade
175ml or 6fl oz pineapple juice
60 ml or 4 tablespoons malt vinegar
115g or 4oz molasses sugar
salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the kebabs
750g or 1lb 10oz lamb neck fillet, fat trimmed, cut into 3cm or 1¼in cubes
2 large red peppers, seeds removed, cut into [...]