When you really want Thai food but don’t want to spend the money ordering it from a restaurant, using canned curry paste at home is your next-best best option. It’s not made from scratch, but it’s pretty darn good. It will get you really close to replicating any simmered Thai curry dish from a Thai…
Summer Salmon Burger
When you want a burger other than classic beef for a leaner eating experience, salmon burgers are a frequently overlooked choice when it comes to alternative burgers. For these patties the clean flavors of garlic, ginger, chives and coriander mixed in with some honey mustard leave your mouth with a satisfying “umami” flavor. Like all…
Blackeyed Pea Tabouli Salad
People familiar with my food know that I really love serving up bold and spicy flavors. So it’s a good idea to have this mild and refreshing Blackeyed Pea Salad to serve alongside some spicy jerk chicken or some Vegan Jollof Rice as a palette cleanser. This delivers the fresh, lemon-dressed, and parsley-packed experience of…
Pineapple Honey Limeade
Lemonade is a classic choice for a refreshing summer drink, but limeade is the citrus beverage that deserves just as much kudos in my opinion. The tartness and tanginess of fresh lime juice is quite intense, which means you don’t need to use very much to yield a good limeade. So, on it’s own, lime…
Red Pepper Tahini Dressing
When you love red bell peppers and find yourself frequently buying jars of them, you’re already on your way to making a fantastic 4-ingredient red pepper dressing. Simply grab a clove of garlic, kosher salt, and tahini. Mash the red pepper and garlic into a paste. Stir in the tahini, then thin it out with…
Maple Cornbread with Berry Preserves
This recipe for maple cornbread is inspired by my obsession with heritage cooking lately. Simply because, as a genealogy enthusiast I constantly wonder what my ancestors were eating. Or, if I was there in that time and place, I like to imagine what I would have cooked with the ingredients that were available. If you…
Curry Sweet Potato Dip with Candied Ginger
This recipe comes close to being a hummus … if only it had chickpeas. Whether you consider this a sweet potato dip, spread, hummus, or mash … it’s still something that showcases a Jamaican-inspired way to prepare this ever-so-versatile root vegetable. I’m not Jamaican but I love the country’s food. And as Neo-Soul food enthusiast,…
Oven-Dried Tomato Slices
Drying food is great for campers and hikers, but home cooks have good reason to use this cooking technique to make oven-dried tomato slices. Why? Simply because they deliver intensive tomato flavor to vegetarian sandwiches . Let’s not forget that tomatoes are technically a fruit and their sugar content is quite high. Without moisture, flavors…
Mexican Quinoa, Quick and Easy
Salsa from a jar is great for nachos, but it’s also great to use as a cooking base. Using it as starter for some Mexican rice – or quinoa – is an easy idea to serve as a side or filler item for burritos. Mexican Red Quinoa is also great substitute in meatless tacos, yielding…
Lean Collard Greens with Smoked Pork Chops
Traditional preparation of collard greens involves slowly cooking down a ham hock. The meat breaks down and the greens are infused with the pork fat that renders off. Nowadays, many people substitute the ham hock with smoked turkey for a healthier version without pork. To take the health factor one step further, I even have…