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Spice Up Your New Year’s Bash

End 2011 with a bang by splurging on dishes that are sure to heat up your New Year’s Eve party. The last bash of the year is traditionally when you pull out all the stops, especially when it comes to the menu. However, rather than dining on the same ol’ boring party recipes, kick it up a notch by serving spicy versions of traditional New Year’s Eve foods. SPICY SHRIMP Ingredients: 2 pounds peeled and deveined large shrimp 6 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup water 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes Juice from half of a lemon Kosher salt Black … Continue reading →

Beef Curry

Since it’s still cold weather over the other side of the world, I’ve been trawling through my crock pot recipes for favorites to share with you. Here is one for Beef Curry. HINT. You could use round steak in this recipe and reduce the cooking time but I prefer to use the cheaper cuts. Thought the cheaper cuts of meat like chuck steak and gravy beef will take longer to cook, they are also full of flour so worth it and you’ll be helping your budget as well. Beef Curry Ingredients 16 ounces of chuck steak, or gravy beef, cubed … Continue reading →

Spice Up Boring Beef

Ground beef can be boring, but it’s affordable, which is why I often save a space for it in my shopping cart. Most cuts of beef are a bit blah on their own. However, if you look at a specific cut of meat as a blank canvas, and use spices and other ingredients as the paint that covers it, then you can serve edible masterpieces at every meal. Here are a few easy recipes to get you started: MEXICAN PIZZA Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef 3/4 cup chunky salsa 2 tablespoons finely chopped pickled jalapeno peppers 1 package thick or … Continue reading →

Spicy Vegetable Tagine

If your family thinks vegetables are bland and boring I suggest this recipe will help them get over this attitude. Mick is a big fan of meat and once would not have considered anything meatless a meal but he loved this. An advantage of this recipe is that it is wheat and gluten free as well as dairy free. Hint Don’t just cook up enough for one meal cook a huge pot of it and freeze the rest for quick meals. Vegetable Tagine Ingredients 1 tablespoon light olive oil 1 small aubergine sliced 1 Spanish onion sliced 3 cloves garlic, … Continue reading →

Combining Meat and Cheese

When I’m looking for a quick meal to serve on a busy weeknight, I often turn to my initials—-MC. When my family members see MC on the dinner calendar that hangs on our refrigerator door they instantly know that we’ll be dining on two favorites: Meat and cheese. I have a seemingly endless variety of recipes, which feature a combination of meat and cheese, that are fast, tasty and nutritious. Some of my family’s favorites are: CHEEZ-IT MEATLOAF Ingredients: 2 pounds ground beef 1 cup crushed Cheez-It crackers (you can also use a generic version of cheese crackers) 1/4 cup … Continue reading →

White Ham

My young daughter absolutely loves ham, but strangely enough she wouldn’t touch my pork chops until I convinced her that they were nothing more than “white ham.” Now she’ll eat them without complaint. It could be because I top them with her favorite raspberries and pair them with mac and cheese, but I’m not going to overanalyze the situation. If you are looking for a dinner that is a breeze to make and will be eaten by grown-ups and kids alike, then try these tasty recipes: PORK CHOPS WITH RASPBERRY SAUCE Ingredients: 4 pork chops Salt and pepper 1/4 cup … Continue reading →

My Love of Meatloaf

My dad makes a killer meatloaf. When he pulls it out of the oven it’s not swimming in oil nor is it dehydrated and crusty like decade-old fruitcake. Rather, it’s a perfectly juicy blend of meat and spices glistening with a glaze of his secret tomato sauce. I left home after graduating from high school and have never been able to find a recipe that came anywhere close to my dad’s famous meatloaf. Boston Market’s meatloaf is quite tasty, as is the version served at The Machine Shed, but they don’t include all of the extras my dad puts in … Continue reading →

Dairy Free Recipes

It’s a pain having some sort of allergy and being unable to find recipes to suit you. Recently Angela asked for dairy free casseroles. Okay, so one isn’t a casserole here, but they are both dairy free recipes that are simple to make and of course they’re gluten free. As always, if you don’t have gluten free problem then substitute plain flour for the rice flour. Skewered Beef Ingredients 1 small onion diced 2 teaspoons sweet chili sauce 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon dried basil 2 teaspoons turmeric 1 pound beef thinly sliced 1 punnet … Continue reading →

Saturday Steak Night

Growing up, Saturday was always steak night at our house. Rarely did my parents ever serve steak on any other night. There were a couple reasons for it being that way: First, my dad worked long hours during the week and the weekend was the only time he could fire up the grill and cook steaks for our large family. The other reason had to do with the fact that steak is not cheap. Purchasing eight steaks more than once a month was simply not in the budget. So, one Saturday per month we splurged, and each of us got … Continue reading →

Comfort Food for Cold Days

With all due respect to the residents of Florida, 39 degrees as a high temperature in January is a heat wave compared to the daytime high of 9 degrees that we suffered through today. I was born and raised in Hawaii, but now live in Wisconsin, so I understand that all things are relative in the weather department. I also know the power of a warm meal on a cold day… regardless of how you define “cold.” The following recipes are among my favorite “comfort foods.” They can take the biting sting out of an icy day with minimal prep … Continue reading →