Peanut-Sesame Noodles with Ground Chicken and Veggies
These noodles are SO much better than most of the cold sesame noodles from takeout joints. This is also an excellent meal for those of us...
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Sep 13, 2019
Prematurely Named Perch Kofta (Make This Dish For The Sauce)
I bought perch on sale a while ago and had some left in the freezer whose time, I felt, had come. I knew from the first time cooking it...
Sep 4, 2019
🔁 Pork "Bahn-Mi"-ish Lettuce and Pickled Vegetable Parcels
Here is the original version of this dish. I have added to it over time - different vegetables, shirataki noodles as well as pickled...
Aug 12, 2019
Keema Curry
Sometimes you want a quick curry and are not in the mood for long simmering stocks and carefully gauged layering of spices. This curry...
Jul 9, 2019
Cold Szechuan Spiced Shirataki Noodles with Farmers' Market Vegetables
One of my friends recommended shirataki noodles as a miracle food for diets and I bought some without having any idea what they were,...
Jul 6, 2019
Salade Niçoise Vinaigrette
Of my many recent diet-centric dishes, this salade Niçoise not the kindest on the hips because the salad is surprisingly high in...
Jun 30, 2019
Cold Indonesian Chicken with Thai Chopped Salad, Peanut Dressing
It is really hard to come up with an interesting dinner idea when one is on a diet. I broke down and made a creanmy, calorific dip to...
Jun 21, 2019
Soba Salad with Pickled Japanese Veggies and Dried Shiitake Dressing
As mentioned in my birthday bash recap post, necessity beat out beauty as far as presentation was concerned but this was a truly...
May 19, 2019
🔁 Pork and Veggie Collard Green Wraps
I've made variations of this before, one with lettuce and one with romaine, both very successful with L. so, when I got collard greens in...
May 15, 2019
Vegetable Pad Thai
I will be perfectly honest, I was not exactly looking for authenticity here. I had a ton of vegetables in the fridge, bits and bobs left...
Feb 6, 2019
Short Rib and Vegetable Pot Pie
To say that I was pleased with myself after making this is a bit of an understatement. Those of you who subscribe to this blog know that...
Oct 6, 2018
Savory Harvest Phyllo Tourte
Encouraged by the easy success of my Spanakopita Pie, I started to imagine a harvest version, full of layers of fall vegetables in...
Feb 9, 2018
Short Rib Tacos with all the Fixings
Short ribs were on sale again so it seemed a good time to make this dish. Also, having opened a can of chilis in adobo sauce for...
Jan 19, 2018
Root Vegetable Nachos
This was, if I say so myself, an absolutely brilliant munchie. This recipe came about because I wanted the cheesy goodness of nachos but...
Mar 31, 2016
Grilled Fish Tacos with Radish, Avocado and Chilis in Adobo
Stubbie likes tacos and I have a very elaborate, labor intensive pork based recipe that I make from time to time, which L detests. L....
Mar 2, 2016
Chicken and Root Vegetable Tagine
I will admit that this is a fiddly recipe in that there are a lot of steps but most of them don't really require a lot of time - you can...
Jan 31, 2016
Seared Hamachi Tuna with Shaved Daikon, Herbs and Avocado, Ponzu Vinaigrette
This recipe is quite simple but got big wows, despite the fact that (as illustrated above, I hacked at it without sharpening my knife...
Nov 29, 2015
Pork "Bahn-Mi"-ish Lettuce Parcels
L., with great misgivings written all over his face, asked me what this dish was and I said "well, I think it will taste a bit like...
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