Pasta meals, like this Tortellini with Sausage meal, probably shouldn’t be made too often with the high carbohydrate and sodium amounts, but life is short and moderation is everything. I love the process of cooking: the planning and preparation, on through to cooking and sitting down to eat. Some days, I enjoy complicated or time consuming steps, and other times,…
Frog Eye Salad is a fruit salad which a tendency to make people give me a worried look, like I’ve lost my mind. Maybe so, but that’s more than this blog can cover. Once they’ve tried it, though, most really like it. It is not a universally loved food, but it is love by many, liked by most of the…
Every cook should have a lasagna recipe ready for whenever the mood or need strikes. It actually took me many years to put together one that wasn’t complicated AND that the kids loved. There are some odd flavours added to some lasagna recipes, like nutmeg and fennel seeds. No. Just no. I’ve made them. None of us liked them. Even…
Almost every culture and time period has a “Chicken Noodle Soup” – a pot with chicken (or other fowl) and vegetables, with most including pasta, or even rice (though then it’s a Chicken and Rice Soup, of course). It’s long been thought of as a treatment, or even cure, for the common cold. In reality, it provides nutrition that people…