Recipes

I love cooking when I have the time, but trying to come up with a meal plan every single week which can be suitable for myself, my husband AND my 15 month old daughter can take its toll! So I thought I would start to document the meals I make on a weekly basis as a record for me to look back on but also hopefully to give you guys inspiration if you find yourself in the same predicament. I now order all of my food shops from Ocado. Ocado is an online supermarket which is delivered to you. I...

A simple and flavourful slow cooked beef and barley with melt in your mouth beef; pure comfort food in a bowl! Beef and Barley Soup ingredients 1 ounce dried mushrooms 4 slices bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces 1 1/2 pounds Ontario Corn Fed stewing beef such as chuck, round, brisket, cut into 2 inch pieces 1 cup onion, diced 1 cup carrot, diced 1 cup celery, diced 8 ounces mushrooms, quartered or sliced 2 tablespoons garlic, chopped 1 teaspoon thyme, chopped 2 teaspoons smoked paprika 2 tablespoons tomato paste 4 cups beef broth 1 cup pot barley 2 bay...

Vietnamese Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup (Canh Kh Qua Nhi Tht) How do you pronounce bitter melon in Vietnamese? I pronounce it is with a silent K as in Canh O Qua. How do you know it?During Tet (Chinese/Vietnamese Lunar New Year) one of the main side dishes that is served during this celebratory occasion is Canh Kho Qua. This stuffed bitter melon soup ismade by coring bitter melon and filling it with a mixture made of ground pork, bean thread vermicelli noodles, wood ear mushroom, along with other seasoning and aromaticsthen cooking it a savory pork, chicken or vegetable broth.Bitter...

Can you buy healthy food at Dollar General? Heres why you should try, plus a list of whole, real food they carry. This is not a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Did you know you can buy real, whole food at Dollar General? You dont need to shop at expensive health food stores to buy real food. And you dont always need an Aldi, Costco, Trader Joes or Whole Foods to eat simple whole food on a budget. You can actually buy a lot of inexpensive staples at Dollar General. Why You Should Buy Groceries at Dollar General...

Green garlicalso called young garlic or spring garlicmay look like scallions. But they are the immature, spring version of the cured bulbs available year-round. Harvested when young, green garlic looks like scallions (a.k.a. green onions). The bulb has not yet begun to separate into cloves (photo #1). At this stage in its youth, the whole plant is edible. It has a sweeter, milder flavor than fully cured garlic bulbs/heads (photo #4). If left in the ground to to grow, the bright green tops die off after the bulbs underground have rounded out into the bulb/head. When the mature heads are...