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Baked Pasta with Cheese-stuffed Eggplant and Meatballs
This one-dish meal is very easy to assemble, tastes amazing, feeds many when you've got a budget and best of all it heats up great for future meals. You could freeze it if you wanted to. I used the following veggies because that's what I had in my fridge and what was...
Haciendo Salsa Pomodoro (Making Pasta Sauce)
Cuál es el secreto para una buena salsa para pasta? Mantenerla simple y utilizar ingredientes frescos, lo que incluye hierbas frescas. What is the secret to a good pasta sauce? Keeping it simple and using fresh ingredients, which includes using fresh herbs....
Eggplant Parmesan
Eggplant Parmesan This is a delicious, hearty and comforting dish bursting full of flavour. In addition, it makes for an excellent vegetarian option. This will soon be a monthly-made meal! 4 Eggplants (Choose firm eggplants that are medium size with deep, shiny, and...
Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
I really like to have a decent, delicious, filling vegetarian dish on my menu. I find it's such a nice change, especially for a lunch. This recipe is quite versatile, easy to prepare and packed full of good nutrients and most importantly FLAVOUR!! Stuffed Portobello...
Ricotta Farfalle
For beginners, this is an excellent pasta dish to prepare because the pasta is easy to cook and although there's a lot of complex flavours it isn't time sensitive like other pasta dishes. I use an Italian sausage that isn't spicy because I can add chilli flakes later...
Chicken Cacciatore
I learned to make this in Belize. I was bored with my repertoire and needed to add some variety. But because of lack of ingredients I was limited to just how "exotic" I could get on that small tropical island. I was flipping through my cookbooks which I shipped down...
Essentials to Your Anti-Inflammatory Pantry
There are some essential ingredients you should have in your pantry to not only help you cook amazingly delicious food but contribute to over-all good health. Some ingredients help combat inflammation, some help reduce it. Some have many benefits above and...
Baked Calzone
I like making calzones. It's fun to twist the edges over and make these pillows of pizza. You don't need the same quantity of ingredients as you do in a pizza and individualizing them for each person is nice too. I portion my dough into 8oz, roll...
Garlic Shrimp with Bacon Risotto
I didn't always like risotto. In fact in my younger years I hated it because I was used to rice. Having been born in Colombia my mum cooked several Colombian dishes, especially rice, and I liked the way rice wasn't thick, but rather dry and...
Braised Beef Brisket
This is a most succulent beef dish since brisket is an affordable piece of beef. Even in Belize this is an affordable cut. Brisket comes from the lower part of the beef shoulder, so it's a tougher piece of meat and needs to be slow-cooked. Some cooks will put...
Herb and Grape Tomato Focaccia
Focaccia is a buttery bread that can be served as an antipasto, with a meal or with your favourite drink. It can be topped with herbs, tomato, roasted veggies, cheese, all of the above or just with sea salt. It's a delicious buttery bread that is ideally served the...
Rustic Chicken Cacciatore
So what's the difference between this dish and my Chicken Cacciatore? Well this one cooks a little faster, uses fresh ripe tomatoes instead of sauce and boneless skinless chicken thighs instead of the thigh and leg cut. The sauce is a little sweeter from...