Creamy Southwest Pasta with Spicy Chicken A recipe for a creamy pasta with the addition of your favourite spicy barbecue sauce, cajun chicken breasts and crunchy vegetables. This dish looks restaurant-quality and comes together in under an hour, using modest ingredients. ...
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Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp Scampi This is my rendition of the classic Italian dish. This comes together in minutes and easily impresses. Don’t skip the butter at the end in the interest in saving calories because at 40 calories (or 10 calories per person) you can’t beat the richness and flavour it adds. ...
Jalapeño Marinated Grilled Chicken
Jalapeño Marinated Grilled Chicken It's officially summer!!!! That means BBQ! I had the most beautiful bone-in chicken breasts and a couple of fresh jalapeño peppers too. Yup... You guessed it; marinade!!! The key is to not over-marinate the chicken (an hour to 4 hours max, otherwise the meat will break down too much). Now this ...
Spicy Caesar Salad with Shrimp and Eggs
Spicy Caesar Salad with Shrimp and Eggs This salad is inspired by one of my favourite Swedish dishes. If you've ever been to Ikea then you already know which one! I absolutely adore the open-faced shrimp sandwich with eggs. To switch it up I went with my spicy Caesar salad dressing and oh man was this good. I mean you have the cold ...
Marinated Flank Steak
Marinated Flank Steak This winter sucked and now we have snow on Easter weekend? What is going on? We had a brief reprieve of the cold last week and my family capitalized on it and barbequed, without a parka! I’m not one to advocate writing off red meat, there are tons of vitamins and huge protein; I just advocate portion control which is key to a ...
Carbonara Pasta Salad
Carbonara Pasta Salad I had the most bizarre realization the other day, you could even call it an epiphany; I've never considered a use for lettuce beyond a salad. I fully acknowledge this is a recipe for a salad but it's a PASTA salad, not a salad salad. Here the lettuce gives a fresh crunch, meant to compliment the creaminess of the dressing ...
Cajun Seafood Salad
Cajun Seafood Salad My love affair with Tex-Mex has been reignited this summer. I love the contrasting textures and flavours; creamy avocado, crunchy and creamy fresh corn, crunchy, spicy jalapeños cooled down with fresh tomatoes and my favourite ranch dressing. I've taken a very healthy salad and added spicy protein to make it a complete ...
Fish Tacos
Fish Tacos Here they are... my obsession... literally, I talk about fish tacos all the time. They're delicious. The fish is lightly coated in Cajun spice. Then there's the creamy guacamole to cool it right down. And as if that's not enough... enter Mango Salsa... You have crunch, sweet tang and of course the heat from the fresh ...
Pan Pizza
Pan Pizza Sadly, even though I have learned a lot about cooking from my mother, I don’t have any family cooking keepsakes. My mother did however buy me this cast iron skillet which I plan to hand down to my children one day! So I thought this would be a fun recipe to highlight this great kitchen tool. This recipe is more about the method, ...
Lemon/Soy Flank Steak
Lemon/Soy Flank Steak I officially love flank steak! This is another yummy marinade for you; it’s lemony (yum!) and has a hint of Asian flare (double yum!). Flanks steak used to be considered a cheap cut of meat but then all of a sudden people clued in to how great it is and now it’s expensive, so unfair!!! Originally posted on May 04, ...
Vermicelli and Snow Pea Salad
Vermicelli and Snow Pea Salad Despite the strong ingredients, the best way to describe this warm pasta salad is delicate. The heat from the noodles mellows the garlic and helps the noodles absorb the vinaigrette. The vermicelli (also known as rice sticks) was available in the Asian Foods aisle in my regular grocery store. Since the vermicelli are ...
Honey Sesame Chicken
Honey Sesame Chicken Here is another recipe I shared almost 3 years ago to the day; it's crazy how fast time goes by!!! I’m still on my Chinese food takeout kick and it’s awesome! This comes together in literally minutes and it’s healthy and so good! This tastes like it should be fatty but it’s not!!! ...