Main Courses
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...
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...
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...
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...