A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I received a giant paella pan for my birthday one year and once the pan was seasoned properly, it was ready for a big batch of seafood paella. I like the recipe on the back of the Matiz Paella rice
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I adore coconut shrimp! I’m all about crunchy texture and coconut shrimp completely hits the mark! As good as the coconut shrimp is on it’s own, it’s a must to have a sweet chili sauce to dip them in! I
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So yesterday I picked up some cod for supper and mentioned to the Hubby that they also had some nice looking clams. He said we should go pick some up and I could make clam chowder. That got me to
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I am quickly becoming a fan of Rick Stein and all his shows. He’s not scared of spicy heat, he loves dishes packed with flavour, his recipes consist of more than just salt and pepper. I watched an episode of
Read moreWhenever weather turns cool, I get a craving to make a big pot of something. Soup, stew, chili, something along the lines of hot and hearty. I actually tried to make this earlier in the week, but I had used
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Both the Hubby and I, luckily, love calamari (or octopus). We love it battered and fried, done with garlic butter, done in tomato sauce, pretty much any way we’ve had it, we like it. So when we saw a bag
Read moreSo I made a fish curry out of the bumbu chili paste I made earlier today and got the thumbs up not only from the Hubby, but also from myself. It was so good that I went and got a
Read moreI finally went this weekend and bought a couple calendars. One for the kitchen and one for work. The kitchen one was appropriately all about (hot) peppers. Although there were a couple other food related ones, I picked the chili
Read moreThe best thing about living on the coast is the availability of fresh goods. From the fish and shrimp you can buy right from the fishermen to the big farmers markets full of fruits, veggies, and flowers. Yesterday we took
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I had a bit of leftovers from our crab boil the other day and wanted to use it all up. Note that I just used the water stock from the crab boil itself so you do NOT need to add
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