Family favourites (old and new)
It’s getting chilly outside, and I wanted comfort food. I had arborio rice and no parmesan, but I did have cheddar and a bit of leftover Rosé that needed to be used. Experiment time. If worse came to worse (it was Friday the 13th) there …
Homemade cranberry cause is super easy and can be made the day before to free up time when you are roasting a turkey and preparing all the other dishes that go with a holiday meal. This recipe is simple and (tempting fate) fool proof. Ingredients …
This recipe is from our multi-talented intern, Alessandro Loddi, who originally hails from Italy.
Hi Alessandro! (ignore Doug’s very Canadian gesture).
Alessandro treated Skunkworks to the pasta his Mamma makes him – a less spicy version of Pasta All’arrabiata. Continue reading Pasta All’Interno Loddi
We love Nuba Restaurant’s “Najib’s Special Cauliflower.” Alas, I have no deep fryer (it’s flash deep fried apparently) and no plans to get one anytime soon. However, in surfing around I found a slew of recipes for baked versions that while not quite the same…are …
My kids have always loved homemade cheese sauce. When they were little, it was about the only way I could get them to eat broccoli. Homemade cheese sauce is easy but takes a bit of elbow grease (whisking).
This recipe is based on something billed as “Better Than Botox Bone Broth.” Continue reading Bone Broth – Winter is Coming, Fire up the Slow Cooker
So, I have a bad habit of buying rice stick noodles (the wide ones, not the angel hair type) and never getting around to cooking them because in the past I’ve always messed them up (usually the ones I buy don’t have any English cooking …
Borscht is messy and a bit time consuming to make but oh so worth it. I adapted Kitchen Parade’s recipe for Karelian Borscht (Finnish-Russian Borscht) by adding an onion, upping the garlic to 6 cloves and leaving out the sugar (I doesn’t need it). I also used apple cider vinegar. I added chopped up Turkey Kielbasa for a bit of meat.
I used my cuisnart to grate the beets and carrots and to slice the red cabbage.
Original recipe here: http://www.kitchenparade.com/2004/01/karelian-borscht.php
This is a modified version of Mediterrasian’s Provencal lentil, bacon soup recipe. You can see the original here: http://www.mediterrasian.com/delicious_recipes_lentil_bacon_soup.htm. My version uses 3 slices of bacon (I like bacon), 5 cloves of garlic (I like garlic) and 1 tsp of French Herbs and a bay …
