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Picture Of The Week
Winter Wonderland
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Inexpensive Grilled Steak Dinner With Orange Salad
This a a steak dinner for two you can’t help but love. Super delicious, easy to make and surprise, not that expensive. The secret is to use flank steak. It is relatively cheap, given the super high price of steak these days. But there is a trick you must follow – because the cut is…
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Grilled Turkish Chicken Thighs Are Out Of This World
Tasting Notes We love grilled chicken thighs around here, they cook up so much more flavorful and juicy than chicken breasts. This recipe uses some common easy to find spices to give a wonderful full but light flavor that can go with a lot of different sides, or can be used for other dishes. We…
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Yum Yum Versatile Tomato Sauce
So easy to make, so delicious.Use in pasta, in salads, as a vegetable, as sauce for meats, fish. By adding any of these garlic, thyme, oregano, you add a different flavour dimension. SPECIAL NOTE When you use your tomatoes you will have lots of oil left – don’t throw it out, it has wonderful flavours,…
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Photo Of The Week
Japanese Bonsai Tree Arrangement
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Photo Of The Week
Nature
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Watch Fred Astaire Dancing Old-Time Funk
There is nothing like it – people dancing. And it becomes sheer magic when great movie stars – the Hollywood icons of the past get their groove on. Here is the best of the best.
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Nina Simone – Social Activist, Jazz Singer Supreme
Nina Simone was special. Her music was special. It was memorable, an amalgam of musical styles – gospel, pop, folk, classical, jazz – rendering velvety, memorable, pieces of music that stir your soul. This American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, a fervent, major, civil rights activist, her beliefs often shortcutting her career, forcing her to move…
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Cajun Chicken Thighs – Superb Extraordinary Flavours
Tasting Notes This dinner hits all the flavour spots – the chicken juicy and a bit spicy, the rice has great flavours, the peas sweet, and the simple salad cuts through the richness of the meal. The bread adding great crunch. A Snap To Make Cajun Chicken ThighsThis serves two people and we served it…
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Yummylicious Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese, On A Crusty Bagel With A Salad
Tasting Notes For two. This has a bit of everything – a crunchy bagel, salmon lightly smoked, rich cream cheese, capers adding a pickled element and sweet onions, the salad cutting through the richness of the dish. What You Need 2 bagels. Get them as fresh as possible. Jewish deli’s usually sell them. If you…