Category: Dinner
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Crispy Quinoa Falafel
As I have been telling you, I have been trying to introduce vegetarian meals into our diet at least a few times a week. I think we are all coming to realise the impact that animal agriculture is having on our environment. Don’t get me wrong, I still love meat (I think you can tell…
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Kale & Bacon Pizza
Pizza features prominently on my table as it’s such an easy meal to put together. When I’m really feeling lazy, I don’t even make a base and just use a tortilla! Pizza is also how I use up leftover pasta sauce or I make “kitchen sink pizza” using up odd bits of veg from the fridge. When I…
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Quick Pickle
Adding pickled vegetables to a dish is a great way to enhance the flavor. The sour notes play nicely with sweet and spicy – like topping spicy tacos with pickled radishes/onions and pomegranate seeds. They also lighten up heavier dishes – think of how good that pickle tastes on a juicy burger. I like to…
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Sweet and Spicy Plum Sauce
Sometimes all you need to do is make a sauce. This sauce in particular. Why? Because there is so much you can do with this delicious sweet and spicy, fruity combo. It’s amazing as a sauce for chicken, pork or fish, or toss it with your side dish. Forget using store bought teryaki sauces or…
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Winter Salad
I’ll admit that when the weather is cold and there is snow on the ground, I’m craving hearty, meaty, starchy things. Salads are the last thing I get excited about. But this salad is the difference maker. It has all the things that make a dish comforting. Warm flavours, crispy things, creamy things finished off…
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Crispy Corn Fritters
My dad’s kitchen speciality was breakfast growing up. More specifically weekend brunch (now you know that my connection with brunch runs deep). Corn fritters were my dad’s #1 most requested recipe and my brother and sister’s favourite. My favourite was his fried latkes (mainly because those have this sweet/salty flavour combo going on… which in my opinion…
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T’s Take On A Tartiflette…
If you are on a low-fat diet, look away now. Or don’t. But I warn you, once you read what’s below, you won’t be able to resist. And how can you. I mean I’m talking bacon, cheese, cream, potatoes. With all this horrible cold, wet and windy weather, I was craving something warm and comforting. I…
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Veggie “Fried Rice”
You know that funny blog, Reasons My Son Is Crying? Well today mine was because I offered grapes. Apparently just the offer was enough to set him off…even though most days he’ll eat an entire pack. Thats the pain beauty of toddlers, you never know what you’re going to get. So that’s why its so nice to…
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Chinese Duck Pancakes
Living in China taught me so much about Chinese food. The sugar laden versions of what we eat in the west isn’t at all what I experienced there… so that means we don’t eat Chinese very often now that we are in Amsterdam. China is such a diverse country but if there is one thing that unites…
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Salmon “En Papillote”
My husband travels quite a bit and most of the time that means toast for dinner. But sometimes I take the opportunity to make a yummy salmon dish – he’s not so crazy about salmon. This particular dish was inspired by a meal my mom recently had at a local restaurant where she and my…
Tamara Silverstein 