Recession Recipes

I really enjoy a good salad. Meat is an easy way to bulk up a salad, but another trick is adding roasted butternut squash as a topping. It adds a nice sweetness to your salad, as well as some beautiful colour and perhaps more importantly, another way to squeeze in an extra serving of vegetables.
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Ever since we came back from Tucson, I feel like my diet has largely consisted of Asian food and beer. I’m addicted to this new Sichuan restaurant, Yun Nan Garden in Asiaville (Carlo’s term for Vegas’ China Town), and I dream about their spicy and tongue numbing food ALL the time. When we weren’t eating [...]

King Ranch Casserole is considered to be a Texan staple, and I loved going over to friends’ houses when I was growing up and eating it there since the dish wasn’t in my mum’s English recipe repertory. For those of you who have never heard of King Ranch Casserole, it is basically an enchilada-style dish, [...]

Last year Carlo and I went to Tom Colicchio’s Craftsteak at MGM and ordered their seasonal tasting menu. The dinner one of the best meals I’ve had in a fancy restaurant on the Strip, and what you would imagine the food would taste like if you are a big fan of Tom on Top Chef.
While [...]

I’m pretty traditional when it comes to stuffing, and I’ll be the first to admit that my favourite stuffing–hands down–is the Pepperidge Farm herb stuffing “fancied” up with some sauteed onions and celery. It is what I grew up on and it still embodies the taste of the holidays to me.
However, I’m also pretty open [...]

I just “celebrated” my 8th month anniversary of being unemployed. While I knew that it was going to be hard to find a job, I had no idea that it would be as exhausting as what it has turned out to be. Thankfully, cooking–and by default this blog–has become my unemployment therapy.
I’ve always enjoyed cooking [...]

There is nothing better than cooking up a huge vat of soup over the weekend and having an arsenal of lunches in the fridge so you barely have to cook during the week. This Winter Minestrone is packed full of vegetables, but isn’t some sissy soup. Instead it has nuggets of carrots, lots of greens, [...]

We both really like middle eastern food, and one of our favorite cookbooks is from the restaurant Moro in London, which melds together Middle Eastern, Spanish and Moroccan food wonderfully. As we’ve been trying to eat more vegetables lately, I searched through it for some good, moreish veggie recipes, and found one for Turlu Turlu, [...]

On Friday night, Carlo and I had a quiet night at home with a nice bottle of wine and we spent the evening cooking together. Our original menu included some bbq ribs, but upon defrosting the frozen ribs, they smelt a bit suspect so we quickly defrosted a pork tenderloin to grill instead. The [...]

Here is the recipe for the Plum and Walnut Crisp that ended our meal with my parents last week. I had planned on serving homemade ginger ice cream with the crisp, but despite my best efforts with my brand new ice cream machine, the ginger custard would just not freeze. I think I will have [...]