I'll be honest here, I have been holding off on sharing my rendition of butter chicken for three reasons. 1) I know it's not super authentic but that's the miracle of cooking at home!! 2) my mom gave me the original bones from this recipe from a 1998 Chatelaine magazine so I know it's a [...]
Author: Little Girl, Big Eats
Israeli Salad
INGREDIENTS 1 medium yellow pepper, finely chopped1/2 red onion " " 1/2 cucumber " "2-3 roma tomatoes " " A mix of chopped cilantro, parsley, mint (if you can find)Zest and juice of 1 lemonOlive oil S + P Combine all the ingredients in a medium bowl. Add the zest and juice of the lemon, [...]
Creamy Hummus
I am no hummus expert and I don't plan on being one, but I will gladly smother this stuff on anything. Can you be an expert on that? Cookie + Kate's recipe for the best hummus has so much wonderful information already set up that I 100% recommend going to her blog to follow the [...]
Crispy Baked Sweet Potato Wedges
A crisp wedge makes everything better. Skip the frying process though -- in the end, you can still achieve a great crisp by baking potatoes and you can skip the extra grease. The trick? Cornstarch, my friends. INGREDIENTS 3 large sweet potatoes1/2 tbsp of paprika1/2 tbsp of onion powder1/2 tbsp of garlic powder1/2 tsp of [...]
Shish Taouk Kebabs
Okay, quick story time. One of my brother's friends, Rabha, is literally the queen of Middle Eastern cooking. Every time she visits, she will without a doubt bring food...and I'm not not talking a cute veggie tray or bakery rolls. I'm talking homemade from the heart food -- savoury pastries, the greatest toum to ever [...]
Sweet, Smoky & Sticky Ribs
We're celebrating the last day of August with some good ol' ribs. If COVID hadn't hijacked summer events and festivals, I would be feasting at the Capital Ribfest immediantly. My family and I have definitely attended a few different rib festivals in the past and it's always a treat to walk around, taste-test the different [...]
Lemon Aioli
This aioli is g l o r i u s. It's great on burgers, it's great with grilled vegetables, it's great with seafood or grilled shrimps, and it is absolutely perfect as a sandwich sauce too. Yup.. I went there. INGREDIENTS juice of half a lemon2-3 cloves of garlic, minced1/2 cup of mayo1/8 tsp of [...]
Old Bay Grilled Shrimp
Seafood + Old Bay =Happy LG,BE. 🙂 A match made in heaven. It makes me dream about sitting somewhere in the hazy New Orleans heat on a picnic bench. Simple brown paper rolled across the top as our tablecloth, lemon halves scattered across the mound of seafood boil that's been dumped on your table for [...]
Honey Lime & Mint Fruit Salad
An Ontario summer is not complete unless you are surrounded by copious amounts of the ripest stone fruit or a bounty of fresh berries. So make fruit salad.... but make it fancy. There really isn't a rhyme or recipe for making fruit salad, but it's nice to get creative for really simple dishes. Add some [...]
Pineapple Cilantro Salsa with Grilled Chicken
Plain grilled chicken: Plain grilled chicken with pineapple cilantro salsa: For the days when we can't be whisked away to a tropical island, this fun and vibrant pineapple salsa really does the trick. Salsa is meant to generate flavour and freshen an otherwise bland or boring meal. Salsas are super easy to make IMO, and [...]
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