If tabbouleh, Greek salad and fattoush had a love child, it would be this Mediterranean Summer Salad. I really can't claim that the salad is authentically Mediterranean in origin, but rather its ingredients are reminiscent of warm summer days under under bright blue skies overlooking crystal clear waters, picking at this salad while trying to answer your waiter in a language not your own.
TRAIL MIX COOKIES
Growing up in a rather large city in Australia, I was not a camper, or a hiker. Even though I do love the outdoors; especially if there's a beach involved. So trail mix was not something I'd heard of until I moved to Canada. Unless it was homemade and contained one of the M & M's chocolate family, I didn't understand the allure of trail mix: raw, rancid nuts and raisins so dry they were inedible. Little about it appealed to me. Then I made these Trail Mix Cookies and I was hooked. Not only
CREAMY CHICKEN AND CORN QUESADILLAS WITH CUCUMBER SALSA
A quick and easy dinner takes the form of Creamy Chicken and Corn Quesadillas with Cucumber Salsa - cream cheese, pepper jack cheese, rotis chicken and jalapeños served with a cucumber, basil, lime and avocado salsa.
Jalapeños are added to each part of the recipe: in the quesadilla mixture, the salsa then grilled and served with the quesadillas. Grilled, sliced jalapeños are good with almost anything savory, especially cream foods. If like me, you're a jalapeño lover, you'll
CASHEW THAI BASIL CHICKEN STIR-FRY
Cashew Thai Basil Chicken Stir-Fry is the perfect throw-together meal for a weeknight dinner that will please everyone with its sweet, a little spicy and flavorful sauce of brown sugar, soy and chili paste. I love to serve this over coconut rice or steamed jasmine rice.
In some places Thai basil might be harder to locate, but it's worth sourcing. When I'm not growing Thai basil, I drive about 30 miles to buy it from an Asian market. Many stores sell Thai basil plants right now
HOMEMADE CHICKEN CAESAR SALAD
Of all the salads I could eat, this one is probably the most calorific. Yet I have a story...several years ago when I was living in Minnesota working for a Fortune 300 company, my husband retired and with me cooking all day, he decided he was going to make dinner during the week. Who was I to complain? I'd recently showed him how I make a Homemade Chicken Caesar Salad and, in true American form, he loved it. He proceeded to make different versions of it - bacon wrapped shrimp, steak, chicken and
BLUEBERRY, RICOTTA AND LEMON PANCAKES
When it comes to a nutritionally sound breakfast, pancakes are probably not going to make any dietician's list. But as I'm not claiming Blueberry, Ricotta and Lemon Pancakes to be a health food or deeming them to be something to eat every day, I think we're good. Enjoyed at the weekend with a side of bacon or some little breakfast sausages and a cup of bracingly strong coffee, these pancakes give me joy. Not just because they're the perfect light texture, or because I love the blueberries
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