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...

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...

Here is the original version of this dish. I have added to it over time - different vegetables, shirataki noodles as well as pickled...

Sometimes you want a quick curry and are not in the mood for long simmering stocks and carefully gauged layering of spices. This curry...

One of my friends recommended shirataki noodles as a miracle food for diets and I bought some without having any idea what they were,...

Of my many recent diet-centric dishes, this salade Niçoise not the kindest on the hips because the salad is surprisingly high in...

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...

As mentioned in my birthday bash recap post, necessity beat out beauty as far as presentation was concerned but this was a truly...

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...

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...

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...

Encouraged by the easy success of my Spanakopita Pie, I started to imagine a harvest version, full of layers of fall vegetables in...

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...

This was, if I say so myself, an absolutely brilliant munchie. This recipe came about because I wanted the cheesy goodness of nachos but...

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....

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...

This recipe is quite simple but got big wows, despite the fact that (as illustrated above, I hacked at it without sharpening my knife...

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...