The lamb is marinated with olive oil, shallots, rosemary and porto, pan fried and finished in the oven. Served with baby squash and zucchini sautéed with shallots, butter and little real maple syrup, the starch is couscous with red bell pepper and coriander.
My Mom’s recipe and one of my wife’s favourites, the ribs are braised in a tomato based sauce and served on a bed of basmati rice. The left over sauce is great for BBQ’ing chicken or anything else for that matter.
This is simple to make and pretty yummy to eat. Brown some beef, onions, garlic and the pepper tops, toss in a few herbs like thyme and oregano, add a little cooked rice stuff and back. Things don’t get much simpler than that. This is a big pepper and more than enough for one person along with a side salad.
Penne with hot Italian sausage, hot pepper, grape tomatoes (that were about to go bad) tomato sauce and yellow pepper, finished with Parmigiano-Reggiano.
My New Years resolution is to stop loitering around the meat counter like some guys do around the power tools at a hardware store. I will stop loitering … A massive prime rib with scalloped potatoes and boiled carrots. I’m still getting the hang of scalloped potatoes but I’m getting better, still not like Mom used to make.
Well, it was a Chinese food Smorgasbord, pardon me for mixing metaphors. We were invited to David Janes’ house along with his friend Doug and family. We all brought a few dishes which turned out to be too much good food. Dishes included peanut chicken, sweet and sour pork, sesame chicken, mixed vegetables in Thai red curry sauce, Asian spiced flank steak, Singapore noodles, chicken fried rice, Vietnamese spring rolls, Italian cream puffs (for desert). All the food was excellent and there were more than a few comments, including myself, that the food rivaled many an outing to authentic Chinese restaurants. Happy New Year!
What to do with Christmas turkey leftovers? For a change of pace I made turkey quesadillas along with a simple turkey vegetable soup, it was all very tasty. I wanted to do something different from turkey pot pies, stew, sandwiches and hot open faced sandwiches, ad nauseam.
This is a fairly traditional southern dish, think Cajun, with shrimp, a yard bird, okra and filé powder to name the key ingredients. I kind of like this recipe and approach by J. Michael Spector – Gumbo Recipe
Served with a mound of basmati rice.
This isn’t as weird as it sounds, and far exceeded my expectations, I used about half a bottle to make this stew (I drank the other half of course) along with a little white wine and some veal stock. The sauce was velvety and very tasty, better than most of the Guinness stews I’ve ever had. We served the stew over a bed of rustic mashed potatoes. There is just a hint of bitterness from the chocolate in the stout, simple superb. This is going into high rotation at our house.
Sweet and Hot Sausage fried up with fennel, red and yellow bell peppers and tomatoes served on fried polenta. So simple and easy.
