This stuffed whole rainbow trout recipe gives a nice crispy skin, with very moist and flavourful flesh. Barbecue or oven roast and serve with couscous or rice.
This recipe for Apple Crumble is very easy and quick to prepare, and, as with many of my recipes, allows for lots of variations and optional ingredients. I’m not much of a dessert-eater, or baker, but my dinner guests always love this. Ingredients Tip: Save on dishes. Just toss all the apple filling ingredients right …Read full article
Recipe – Roast Lamb with Fennel and Garlic
This Roast Lamb was delectably succulent and flavourful, and the roasted fennel and carrots very tasty. Use any juices at the end of roasting to add flavour to couscous or rice. My Brie and Garlic Smashed Potatoes also make a great side with this lamb roast. Ingredients Tip: Marinate meat in a tightly sealed plastic …Read full article
Cooking Thai food is easy once you master a few essentials, especially for making a good curry paste. Below is a list of just a few Thai recipes that will be available soon. In the meantime, while I was publishing my article about Street Food in Thailand, I came across a Thai recipe for barbecued …Read full article
Recipe for Bacon, Cheese and Potato Pie
A Decadent Holiday Brunch Dish or Just Good Old Fashioned Comfort Food: I was craving a good old-fashioned helping of comfort food — scalloped potatoes, and I had a pound of bacon I wanted to use up. I could imagine how great that taste would be, but wasn’t sure how I would bring it together …Read full article
Recipe – Vietnamese Spaghetti Squash Salad
A Spaghetti Squash Salad That Will Make You Very Popular This Vietnamese Salad recipe is one of the very best examples of how Vietnamese cooking focuses on a delectable balance of different textures, colours, and a blend of sweet, hot, sour and salt. It makes a beautiful side dish for festive holiday dinners or a …Read full article
This section of the Recipe for Travel is devoted to the complete ‘World Adventures of a Culinary Xenophile’. Read on and hop on and off each leg of the two-year round-the-world trip with these Food & Travel Adventure Articles.
Fiddleheads are one of Canada’s few indigenous vegetables, and one of my favourite signs of spring, and summer to come. They are simply delicious and crunchy, steamed and topped with a bit of lemon juice and butter, or in stir-fries or cheesy casseroles.
When I travel, whether it be for a short beach holiday, a road trip or an around the world adventure, the food of a destination features at the top of my list of cultural attractions to explore. Want to know the difference between Indonesian mee goreng and nasi goreng? How about learning a few Thai …Read full article
True Culinary Artistry: Highlighting colours and textures as much as flavours, Vietnamese food can be compared to an artist’s canvas as one of the world’s most beautiful cuisines, as pleasing to the eye as to the palate. Fresh herbs, colourful, crunchy vegetables shredded or carved into flowers and other shapes, lemon grass, chillies and fish …Read full article
Like other Southeast Asian countries, food stalls are everywhere in the streets, markets and festivals of Thailand, providing an endless smorgasbord of aromas, color and flavors – food in Thailand is a feast for all of the senses. Picture a barbecue hotdog stand outside a North American sports stadium. Now, instead of hotdogs and buns …Read full article
Thai Food: Sweet, Sour, Salt and Heat What makes Thai food so delicious and distinctive among other Southeast Asian food is the unique blend of fresh herbs, spices and other ingredients that combine for a perfect balance of sweet, sour, salt and heat that leaves your mouth feeling clean and your tastebuds popping in the …Read full article
Thai Food Terms and Popular Dishes Understanding a few Thai food terms will help you decipher a menu anywhere, or ask for a dish or snack from a market stall in Thailand. You’ll find variations in English spellings, with g and k interchanged because k is pronounced like g in good (ie, gaeng or kaeng, …Read full article
Canadian Cuisine? As a Canadian, I sometimes find it a little difficult to put my finger on foods to identify a uniquely Canadian cuisine for a number of reasons. First of all, Canada is one of the most multi-cultural countries in the world, and our cuisine has evolved with the ethnic influences of first British …Read full article
Delightfully Tactile, Slightly Sweet There are wide regional variations in Indonesian food from one tip of the country to the other, with religion, colonization, history and climate all contributing to the cuisines. If I had to identify a distinguishing feature of Indonesian food from other Southeast Asian cuisines, it would be the prominence of …Read full article
Putting together a few phrases for Indonesian Food will help you decipher a menu or ask for a snack or dish at a street market or warung in Indonesia. Be sure to check the Indonesian Recipes Index for some of these popular dishes: Indonesian Food Terms mee Mee means noodles. There are a huge variety …Read full article
As a food and travel lover recently separated from both husband and job in 1995, I decided to take the trip that I thought my husband would be taking with me in our 10th anniversary year: August in England, September in Greece. The plan was that simple — no big adventure here. I had heard …Read full article
