Category Archives: Dinners

Tasty tip Tuesday! Make a quiche with left over vegetables

We had friends over for dinner and I made too much steamed vegetables. Make a quiche with your left over cooked vegetables. Egg mixture: 6 whole eggs, 100g cream, 1/4 cup milk, salt and pepper to taste. Whisk together, pour over vegetables in crust, make sure it’s even. You can use any vegetables you have.Continue reading “Tasty tip Tuesday! Make a quiche with left over vegetables”

Tastey Tip Tuesday! – Prepare a potato

Baked potato is such a easy meal to put together, once the potato is cooked. The potao takes so long to cook in the oven – about 40 minutes or more, so most people cook them in the Microwave; however if you would like a fluffy oven baked potato that would be even quicker thanContinue reading “Tastey Tip Tuesday! – Prepare a potato”

Tastey Tip Tuesday!

Do you have extra instant Ramen noodle seasoning packets? Sometimes you only want to use the noodles for a stirfry recipe that doesn’t call for the Ramen seasoning packet. Don’t throw them away. I keep the Chicken flovored seasoning packet to season the water I boil my potatoes in, when making mash potatoes. Run yourContinue reading “Tastey Tip Tuesday!”

Filipino Adobo Pork

I was introduced to Filipino food in Australia, there’s so many similarities to Caribbean cooking, I always enjoy Filipino food. Here’s something I like making at home. Pork Adobo. Ingredients 500g pork scotch fillet steak diced 1 cup soy sauce ( or coconut aminos) 4 tbsp apple cider vinegar 4 Spring onions 2 bay leavesContinue reading “Filipino Adobo Pork”

Singapore Noodles

Lately everytime we have Thai take-out my hubby orders Singapore noodles. I guess he likes it so I did some research and made him Singapore noodles this way: Ingredients Rice vermicelli noodles 100g pack 5 Spring onions Fried eggs(3) 3 carrots (Julien slice) 1/4 Cabbage 3 Lup Chong Chinese sausage diced 3 tbsp Dark soyContinue reading “Singapore Noodles”

Quick and easy pork ragu pasta

This is a quick and easy mid-week meal. Another meal that can be made with a mince. This one calls for mince pork. Ragu is usually cooked low and slow with cuts of meat and not mince, using mince means we can speed up the cook time. Otherwise we’d need all day to make ragu.Continue reading “Quick and easy pork ragu pasta”

Mortar & Pestle

These tools were used throughout my childhood in the Caribbean, to make pounded root vegetables like yam and dasheen or pounded breadfruit. Similar to West African fufu. The M&P were usually made out of wood, and larger in size than the mortar and pestle you would have seen used on a cooking show. I’m notContinue reading “Mortar & Pestle”

Pork rice paper rolls, fried

Discovered rice paper in Australia. Asian food goes beyond take out here. Such a malleable ingredient, I decided to try making something with it at home for the first time. Ingredients 500g pork mince 3 green onions diced Diced or mince ginger to taste 4 cloves of minced garlic diced small brown onion Soy sauceContinue reading “Pork rice paper rolls, fried”