Need to escape the chill of winter? Warm up your days with these tasty winter dishes!

Let the holidays begin!

Find some great recipes for Christmas and New Year!

What’s in season

Try one of these tasty recipe ideas using oranges.

Cookies

Here are great cookies ideas to help make the holidays extra sweet and special!

Lemons

If there’s one fruit you should always have on hand, it’s lemons. From their zest to their juice, they enhance so many recipes and make everything a little brighter!

Potato Latkes

Celebrate Hanukkah (December 25-Jan 2) with a traditional classic! These crispy potato pancakes are a welcome dish all year.

Grill time!

Warmer weather means it’s time for backyard burgers, tender kebabs, sizzling steaks, BBQ ribs, cold refreshing drinks and gatherings of family and friends.

Chicken Piccata

Chicken Piccata are chicken breast cutlets coated in flour, fried and served with a sauce of butter, lemon juice, white wine or broth and capers. Simple ingredients, but the result are great, delicious, and tasty!

Slow cooker (crock pot)

Slow cooking allows flavors to steep and blend together. It circulates heat and liquid so food stays moist.

Breakfast

Whether it’s a special occasion, or just the weekend, one of these breakfast ideas will be the best part of waking up!

Love my garden

I love gardening so much, it makes my world beautiful. I have a vegetable/herb garden, flower gardens, fruit trees and berries. When I am outside I feel happy, too bad we don’t have nice weather all year but when we do, we are gardening! 😉

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Same tasty salad, different way to cook

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I make this salad once in a while, we love octopus ink, this rice salad is easy, quick to make and really flavorful! Usually I fry the vegetables and then cook all in a rice cooker but this time everything was made in my instant pot, even easier and still delicious! Read more

Mongolian beef and eggs fried rice

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Mongolian beef and eggs fried rice. Some tips: cut the meat into strips (into even slices, about 1/4 inch wide), against the grain. Do not overcook, quickly searing the meat in batches. I usually use 500g flank steak or New York strip steak; 1/4 cup cornstarch; vegetable oil with little bit of sesame oil; bell peppers, green onions, large onion. For...
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Fish sauce Caramelized Wings

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Caramelized wings is a Filipino inspired dish of chicken wings (1 kg) cooked in a mixture of honey (1/2 cup), fish sauce (3 tbsp), garlic (4 cloves, minced), 2 pcs birds eye chillies , finely chopped (I used hot pepper flakes), lemon juice (half of lemon) until it caramelized.  First, in a non-stick pan add oil and chicken wings...
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