Recession Recipes

This blog may give the false illusion that everything is always perfect in our kitchen and that our dinner is always delicious and served at 7:30 on the dot. This is not the case at all, and last Thursday night proved that some nights chaos often rules our kitchen.
I had found some really great beef [...]

My mum and dad came out for a visit last week, and I took them up to Bryce Canyon and Zion Canyon National Parks for a few days in Utah. The night before we left on our Utah road trip, I cooked dinner for my parents and Carlo. On the menu was Spicy Pork and [...]

I’ve never heard of or tasted Salmon Bulgogi before, but this Salmon “Bulgogi” with Bok Choy and Mushrooms recipe borrows the flavours of the more traditional Korean dish bulgogi with lots of ginger, garlic, chili, and sesame oil. This flavourful fish dish makes a tasty and fast weeknight meal, and feeds 4 people at $3.07 [...]

When I was back in Texas, I made some lasagna for my family for when they got off the flight from Scotland. Plane food has always tasted pretty awful, but it seems as though it has only gotten worse over the last couple of years. So I thought they deserved something tasty and comforting to [...]

One night last week, I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner that would prevent me from having to get dressed, leave the house, and go to the store. The fridge was pretty bare, with just some lettuce, a few leftover cherry tomatoes, and an avocado. I did however have some frozen [...]

We picked up some pork loin on sale a little while ago, and tossed it in the freezer. We had a hankering for some green chile stew, so Alex found a good recipe from Emeril Lagasse online. As an added bonus, it had no references to BAM! or Essence, which was great. It feeds 4 [...]

Here is another great salmon recipe with a Mexican twist, and perhaps the best recipe for quinoa that I’ve found yet. In case you have never heard of quinoa, it is a super healthy ancient Incan grain that makes for a nice change from brown rice or cous cous.
All of these recipes were published in [...]

When we were doing the shopping at Fresh & Easy last week, I saw they had mangoes as part of their weekly 98-cent produce pack specials. We’d had a hankering for some fish, and seeing the mangoes reminded me of this Spicy Fish Tacos recipe I got from Men’s Health magazine a long while back, [...]