Tag: rice

Salads

Rice Salsa in Baked Wonton Cups

When I was asked if I’ll take part in the “USA Rice Blogger Challenge” by USA Rice Federation, the answer was clear – YES. I received a few recipes for review, photos, info sheet and a great video and the task was to create something creative using USA rice. We all use rice, some on […]

Lentil Rice with Sunny Side Up
Home Made Cooking

Red Lentil Rice – Putting An Egg On It

You know how sometimes you think you know how much time will be enough for you to wind down? I thought I knew; so we booked our 10 day vacation. We drove to Montreal (16 hours!!) and from there to Ottawa and Quebec City. It was amazing, I loved it, I loved the cities, the […]

Home Made Cooking

Tbit – Iraqi Slow Cooked Chicken and Rice

If you’ve been reading my posts lately you probably know that I am now getting ready (and super excited about it) to fly out Toronto bound to participate in the FBC13 conference. Not only that the conference is going to be amazing thanks to all of the speakers and sponsors, but conference participants also get […]

Home Made Cooking

Risotto Style Rice with Mushrooms

Risotto is a delicious dish made from rice and extras. The extras can be seafood, vegetables, mushrooms or basically anything you think you’d like to add. The rice used to prepare the risotto is short grain rice called Arborio and the reason it is used in this dish is because it absorbs fluids more easily […]

Soups

Tomato Soup with Rice

My son was practically begging me for a tomato soup, but the weather wasn’t right. A tomato soup is something you eat for comfort on a cold evening or a rainy day (not to say snowy day).

Home Made Cooking

Chicken with Rice – A Whole Meal in One Pot

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just fill a pot with ingredients, let it cook and have a whole meal? I mean no side dish, no main course, the whole meal in one pot.

Home Made Cooking, Tips and News

Stuffed Collard Leaves

I wanted to make something new for our Friday family dinner. So I went to the market and decided I’ll buy Kale leaves to stuff. Well…they had no Kale leaves in the size I needed so I looked around and picked a different kind of leaves based on size only 🙂

Home Made Cooking

Stuffed Peppers – A taste of home

If there’s anything that tastes like home to me is stuffed peppers! Originally they are made with chicken in it, but I make it vegetarian, and I swear, you can’t tell the difference. True, it involves some extra work to execute this lovely dish. But oh boy it’s worth it.