Month: June 2012

Home Made Cooking

Grilled Shrimps with Garlic and Basil

Sunshine is good! Sunshine is happy! Sunshine is Vitamin D! Sunshine is BBQ!!! How easy is it to just taking whatever you want to eat, put it on the BBQ rack and let it grill? We had chicken yesterday and I had a craving for shrimps for a while now. So I took out the […]

Home Made Cooking

Broccoli Pasta with Garlic and Basil

Here’s an idea that saves me time and headaches every time I cannot think of something to make for dinner or lunch. I’ts simple, the ingredients can be easily switched and it’s healthy – Pasta with Broccoli.

Cakes and Cookies

Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

I’m sure most of you know Starbuck’s famous lemon-poppy seed loaf. I love that cake! It’s one of my favorites. While organizing my spices I bumped into a bag of poppy seeds and so I decided to make the famous loaf. I looked through my recipes and couldn’t find it, but I was still determined […]

Salads

Cucumber Salad – Fresh Lemon & Tangy Garlic

I love lemon, especially in the summer. It’s so refreshing. I like it in my drink, my salad, Popsicle…basically the more the merrier. When I first started cooking I was looking for easy alternatives to the plain ol’ salad. I wanted something different from the traditional cucumbers and tomatoes, and this is how I got […]

Baked Goodies

Mushroom Bars – Great for the indoor and the outdoor

Sometime making another pie is just boring, seriously. I know, there are a lot of combinations and options, but sometimes I feel like I want something a bit different. Last Saturday, I came up with this great recipe, it was tested, tasted, and it’s really good so I decided to share:

Cakes and Cookies

Gluten Free Almond Bites

Cookies with no flour and very little sugar, can you believe it? These cookies didn’t have a very long life, they were gone about 45 minutes after I took them out of the oven – beware! 🙂 4 ingredients in total go into these great snacks!

Home Made Cooking

Cheese Omelet – A Square pocket omelet

Is there anything more basic than an Omelet? Probably, but omelet is the easiest solution I know for lunch, breakfast and sometimes, even dinner. I came home for a lunch break and had zero time to make some food before I leave back to work so I made myself a sandwich. But, how do you […]

Tips and News

Ready to go BBQ Skewers – A Tip

I love barbequing! It’s so good and fast and easy! We used to BBQ Hamburgers and Hot Dogs most of the time because they did not require advanced preparation. When I had time, I thawed some Chicken thighs, cut into cubes, added spices and veggies, put on skewers and had a great feast when it […]