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5 Summer Salad Dressings to make your salads pop
Summer is built for salads and what is a salad without a delicious salad dressing? Well, it's just a bowl of lettuce and some vegetables I suppose. Salad dressings are cheap and easy to buy. There's a whole aisle of them at the grocery store. But they are even cheaper...
Linguine and Clams – 30 Minutes or Less
Linguine and Clams is such a classic pasta. Featured in more movies than I can count, it is almost the quintessential Italian-American pasta dish. There is for good reason for this; it's absolutely delicious! I've been craving Linguine and Clams for a while now and...
Everything I Know About Potato Salad
Potato salad is one of those ubiquitous barbecue and potluck sides that everyone makes. And somehow, everyone thinks they make the best version of it. But if we're being honest, a lot of versions of potato salad are completely terrible. All too often it just tastes...
Chimichurri – The simple sauce that will change your life
Chimichurri is a herbaceous uncooked sauce originating in Argentina. Most typically it is used as a sauce or marinade for steak, sausages, or offal. But it works very well on seafood and chicken as well. It is believed that chimichurri was invented by gaucho's...
Everything I Know About Pasta Carbonara
Pasta Carbonara sometimes gets a bad rap. Often in restaurants what is sold as carbonara is actually nothing like the real thing. It is all too common to see a big bowl of pasta tossed in a heavy cream sauce with a bit of bacon and maybe some peas and have it labeled...
Pho Style Soup – 30 Minutes or Less
The other day I challenged myself to make pho in under 30 minutes. Generally, the broth alone takes at least a few hours so this was no small feat. What I came up with is a close approximation to pho, but I wouldn't call it pho exactly. For that reason, and in the...
Everything I Know About Roast Chicken
A well-cooked roast chicken is one of the rare pleasures in life. Crispy, buttery, golden skin, with tender, flavourful meat hidden below the surface. What could be better than that? But roasting a chicken isn't something that people are just able to do. Its...
5 Kick-Ass Summer Potato Dishes
I think it is pretty obvious at this point that summer is finally here. The sun is shining, the temperature is way up, and the days are almost at their longest. You know what that means...Potatoes!! You don't want the same old boring mashed potatoes this summer, do...
Cod with White Wine and Parsleyed Potatoes – 30 Minutes or Less
I don't eat enough fish. It's not intentional, and it's not that I don't like fish. It just isn't something I often think about. Also, I am wary of buying fish in the supermarket because of a few bad experiences. But, yesterday I decided to go for a drive to the fish...
Everything I Know About Barbecue Sauce
In Canada when we think of barbecue sauce we generally only think of one thing. It is sweet, sticky, and thick. This is one of many types of barbecue sauce that is out there in the world. I'm here to tell you that if you are limiting yourself to just this one style...