Month: March 2013

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 […]

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Brown Mashed Potatoes with Nutmeg

Mashed potatoes are my favorite side dish. The only thing I don’t like about this dish is the fact that you have to peel the potatoes; I just don’t like the process that’s all. However, when you think about it, there are so many dishes using unpeeled potatoes so I thought to myself, why not […]

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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 […]

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Chicken in Cranberry Sauce by “Summer Fresh”

When “Summer Fresh” sent me their complete new line up of cooking sauces I didn’t think it’ll make my life so easy when it comes to quick dinners for the kids. This time I had thawed chicken thighs in the fridge, and I didn’t really want to work hard or fry them like I would […]

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Vegetarian Poutine – Fresh Cut Fries in Mushroom Gravy

Try and Google “Canada’s National Food” and the first result you’ll get is Poutine. What is poutine you ask? Well, in case you didn’t know poutine is basically a dish consisting of fries topped with gravy, so the way I see it it’s wet fries 🙂 not a very photogenic dish if I may say […]