I’m still out of commission on the cooking front, so this week’s Meal Plan has a lot of quick and easy dishes my husband and son can prepare. There are great specials on beef this week at Loblaws, so our Easter Sunday dinner is going to be roast beef tenderloin with all the yummy side dishes. We will be making use of the leftover beef for dinner on Tuesday. The recipe of the week is going to be Thursday’s Garlic Butter Shrimp Linguine. It will be posted Monday morning. Let me know if you give the recipe a try, and please feel free to ask if you have any questions about the other meals. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2018
The Route to Success
A Recipe as a Road Map
I always think of a recipe as a road map. It is your starting point, Point A let’s say, and the actual dish is your destination, Point B. Like any road map, there are many different ways to get from Point A to Point B. It’s just a guideline that you can follow exactly, or you can make a detour and take the scenic route and still end up with dinner on your plate. The point is, you can change the recipe to suit your needs. It’s not carved in stone. No one is going to pop up in your kitchen and rap your knuckles because you don’t like peas so you left them out. (Psst: I really hate peas. I usually substitute green beans or edamame when a recipe calls for them.) When reading other cooking blogs or browsing recipes on an app, I often read comments from people along the lines of “My husband hates onions. Can I leave them out?” Well, of course you can! Unless the recipe is for something like French Onion Soup, in which case I would suggest you just take a pass on that one. Continue reading
Mexican Seasoning
This is a great all-purpose Mexican inspired seasoning mix that you can use for everything from tacos to roast chicken when you are looking for some warm Mexican flavours.
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
This is my version of chicken tortilla soup. It is by no means authentic Mexican. It’s a great way to use up leftover chicken and it’s real comfort food on a cold or rainy day. Continue reading
Comfort Me, Food!
My week hasn’t gone the way I planned, as clearly evidenced by my Wednesday blog post ending up getting done on Friday night. I had a lot of work to do, meetings scheduled, and meals to cook. And none of it got done according to plan, because I, your faithful blogger, am experiencing technical difficulties. My hardware is not working right. I am not even writing the same blog post I had originally planned, but I will get back to it at a later date. All because I am stuck in bed. The worst part of having my schedule messed up was my son missing his chosen birthday dinner because of me. (Although if you check this week’s Meal Plan, you will see I am hopeful of a second, more successful attempt, on Thursday.) Continue reading
X-Rated Food 