A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
One of my first experiences with Vietnamese food was Vietnamese spring rolls and beef cubes with lime juice. It was a great introduction into the cuisine! Bo Luc Lac (also known as shaking beef) is simple, but delicious! The first
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I wanted to make a quick supper tonight, and something that didn’t require a lot of chewing as the Hubby visited the dentist today. So I whipped up a batch of goulash. Note this is American-style goulash, not to be
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A trip to the butchers this weekend inspired me to make rouladen for Sunday dinner. I love anything that comes with gravy and rouladen is not only stuffed with delicious bacon, but this recipe produces enough gravy to satisfy anyone.
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I wanted to make beef wellington for Christmas dinner, but due to the storm that rolled in and dumped a metric tonne of snow on us, we moved dinner to mid-January. We were at a local deli (before Christmas) and
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I generally decorate my Thanksgiving table with mini pumpkins, and this year I also had a kuri squash from a friend’s garden. I decided to do a take on my butternut squash soup and do a beef, navy bean, and
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With it being harvest time, the markets are full of the most amazing looking vegetables. When I saw a bag of fingerling potatoes, they were coming home with me one way or another. The first meal with them I made
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This is an old school recipe, kicked up just a notch. Nothing too crazy, though. I still wanted to keep that “old school” reminiscent flavor, but add more than just seasoning salt. Birdseye is actually my mother-in-law’s name for this,
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I love biryani. When it’s good, it’s stellar, and when it’s not, it still tastes more than edible. We have a restaurant near the border that we stumbled upon, that makes the most amazing biryani. It’s moist, seasoned, just the
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We picked up some low carb wraps, which means finding something super yummy to fill them with. I had a roast in the freezer, so decided on some Mexican shredded beef stuffed wraps. Looking at various recipes they didn’t seem
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Hubby sent me a link with a slew of low carb soup recipes and going through them I was inspired to make a hamburger soup that was a combination quasi taco and cheeseburger soup. The spices are quite simple and
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