A recent trip to a Chinese restaurant, where I enjoyed this dish as part of a combination meal for three, led me to make my own version of beef and mushroom chop suey. It was tasty in the restaurant but the pieces of beef were few and far between. The dish was mostly bean sprouts. My version was much more generous on the beef front with about half ( Read more... )

About thirty years ago, I made an attempt at a tourtiere, a French-Canadian meat pie, but the pastry was so hard that I ended up tossing the whole thing. I finally decided to try again using a recipe I found on line. The crust was a great success, but the filling was a bit on the bland side. I'll try again one day. In the mean time, this was the ( Read more... )

My neighbour gifted me with a giant zucchini (seedless) and after making a chocolate zucchini loaf, I still had about 75% of the zucchini left so I did some googling and found this recipe for beef rissoles with grated zucchini in the meat mixture. Here are some pretty pictures taken during the process of assembling the rissoles.


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I had some ricotta and provolone in the fridge and thought of making a lasagna but I didn't have any lasagna noodles and was too lazy to make my own from scratch so I hunted down a recipe that used penne, ziti or medium shells for a casserole type dish. I had penne rigate so that's what I went with. And, in place of the doctored marinara the recipe ( Read more... )

Too lazy to make a real cooking post but I thought I'd share today's lunch, a Hawaiian loco moco.

This version features a bowl of left over basmati rice (long grain, jasmine or sushi rice works too, as does couscous, quinoa or cauliflower rice), topped with a hamburger patty and canned Swiss Chalet beef gravy.


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Some years ago, I made the Hungarian fried burgers/patties/balls called "fasirt". These panko breaded and fried Japanese hamburgers, or "menchi katsu", reminded me of them. They're flavourful and the coating seals in the moisture making for a juicy patty.


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NEWSFLASH: The Japanese fast food chain, Mos Burger, serves a hamburger on a rice bun.

I first heard about this dish on the Youtube channel, TabiEats, and was intrigued enough to give it a try. Especially after seeing a similar dish that they made, a grilled cheese sandwich, using a rice bun in place of sandwich bread. Searching Youtube revealed ( Read more... )

When you make a recipe within a day of it being posted on a blog and love it enough to share the link, it must be a pretty good recipe.

And it IS.


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I've made a half-hearted version of beef bulgogi in the past but this time, I made it as authentically as I could. I bought a nice piece of sirloin steak, par froze it and cut it as thinly as possible. I also bought an Asian pear. And watched several videos before I chose the one which produced this dish.


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Last post today ... I promise. I was on a roll.

I get my ideas/recipes from 'only the best' people.

Like this beef chow fun (beef and rice noodles) which came from the blog, "The Frugal Hausfrau". I followed the recipe exactly and didn't have to make any substitutions because I HAD all the ingredients. (So proud of my pantry.)


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