Recipe:Steamed Pacific Snapper with Ginger and Garlic
April 6, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Entrees/Main Courses
The thing that I love best about this recipe is that it takes no time to prepare and even less time to cook. That means that even when the thought of cooking is just too much to bear, you can have a delicious meal in about 15 minutes. I don’t know about you, but I [...]
Recipe: Stuffed Pacific Snapper with Shrimp, Ginger and Soy
April 6, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Entrees/Main Courses, Featured
This is one of those dishes that look so big that it could not possibly have as few calories as it does. The mushrooms in the stuffing give a really unique flavour and you can play around with different types of mushrooms to give you a different result. Equally if you are not a mushroom [...]
Recipe: Chicken in Mini Pita with Roast Red Pepper Mayonnaise
March 28, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Hors D'oeuvres
I wrote this recipe for a magazine that wanted a bridal shower menu. The theory behind them was that it’s always a good idea to have a bread based item at an afternoon party in case people haven’t had lunch before arriving. Serving these mini pitas instead of a traditional sandwich or a ribbon sandwich [...]
Great food deserves great accessories
March 2, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Random Thoughts
My husband and I went to dinner the other night. Not a particularly fascinating anecdote I’ll admit, but it occurred to me that at this restaurant, not only was the food great, but there were also some great accessories. By accessories I don’t mean my earrings, the flowers on the table or the cutlery and [...]
Recipe: Simple Mac and Cheese
February 7, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Low Fat Kids
Macaroni and cheese, although much loved, is a bit of a nutritional wasteland. I like to use celery root in this dish because it is very much like a potato in that it takes on the flavour of whatever it is added to. Therefore kids don’t taste vegetable in this dish. What is lacks in [...]
Recipe: Sensational Mac and Cheese
February 7, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Low Fat Kids
When I say sensational here I mean more from a child’s point of view rather than an adult (although my husband is a huge fan). This dish has the double barrelled advantage of being individual servings, so no sharing, as each person gets their own. Then there is the surprise layer of bologna as they [...]
Food fixes everything, doesn’t it?
January 26, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Random Thoughts
This past week I was a little under the weather and one of my husband’s first reactions (albeit after “don’t give that to me”) was can I bring you some soup. This started me thinking about the fact that, in my life at least, the first thing that we often think of when there is [...]
Is food photography the equivalent of intellectual porn?
January 19, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Random Thoughts
Someone much cleverer that I once described food photography as “thinking woman’s porn” which is a phrase I adore. When I first started this site I didn’t have any pictures of the food. This was mainly because, if you have ever tried to photograph food, you will know that it is a really difficult thing [...]
Recipe: Beef Wellington
January 2, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Entrees/Main Courses
I am taking a little poetic license here and this beef dish is really “beef in the style of Wellington”. Beef Wellington is typically beef tenderloin, wrapped in a combination of pate and sautéed mushrooms and then wrapped in puff pastry. The original of the dish can be pretty high up on the “things to [...]
Recipe: Beef with Mushroom Sauce
January 2, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Entrees/Main Courses
Beef and mushrooms are one of those classic pairings that you can do very little wrong with. This recipe is a big flavour step up from broiling a steak and sautéing some mushrooms, but with not much more work. You can play around with the mushrooms you use to give you different flavours and I [...]
