Tag: Easy

Home Made Cooking

Almond Portobello Pasta

Pasta is always my go-to dish. Why? Well, two reasons: 1) The pasta I have at home is always Gluten-Free, which means that it is rice pasta, which means it’s less likely to give that ‘heavy’ feeling after eating it, and we like that. 2) There are so many options for pasta. You can add […]

Home Made Cooking

Kasha with Noodles – A Buckwheat Delight

Loving buckwheat is really an acquired taste, it has an earthy taste to it and not everyone likes it, but if you do you’re lucky. Not only hat it’s a healthy dish but it’s also easy to make, tasty and goes well with a variety of combinations. Kasha is basically buckwheat. I believe this next […]

Home Made Cooking

Thai Curry Chicken “Summer Fresh” Style

I love going to Thai restaurants. They are the kind of restaurants that use great spices in their food, something I miss dearly here in Halifax 🙂 I like it when the food is just a little bit spicy. Not too spicy to make your mouth burn but just spicy enough to make you crave […]

Home Made Cooking, Salads

Garlic Marinated Eggplant Slices

I know it’s a matter of taste, like everything else, but I think that this is one unique vegetable that not everyone likes but honestly, I don’t see a reason not to like it. I’m talking about eggplants of course, I personally love eggplant salad, stuffed eggplant, fried, roasted, just bring it on. It usually […]

Baked Goodies

Cheese and Olives Savory Scones

Saturday morning. I wake up, make myself a cup of coffee (that is, if my dear husband didn’t already make one for me), go over my emails, Facebook, Instagram, check to see that the kids are still somewhere around and then I start feeling hungry. But really, I have no desire to make something too complicated and […]

Cakes and Cookies

Chocolate Cake Ice Cream Cones

Well, summer is most definitely over by now. It’s colder in the evenings and even during the day. I had some ice cream cones left from the summer but of course no ice cream. While I agree that ice cream is a great thing regardless of the season I wasn’t planning on buying a bucket […]

Cakes and Cookies

Coconut Cake with Chocolate Chips

I love coconut, who doesn’t  And this is exactly why I was so happy to find this old recipe I had in my old recipe bag. I have a plastic bag at home, a really old one and it’s full of recipes, the old fashioned ones – the hand written ones 🙂 It’s actually quite a […]

Home Made Cooking

Breaded Turkey Meatballs

I like my food simple, I really do. Not because I’m lazy or because I want it ready fast, but because I think that this is the best kind of food the simple food. It goes well with everything, every time and anywhere. And this is exactly what these breaded meatballs are. My mom used […]