This pasta dish is amazingly simple to prepare. By roasting ripe cherry and sun-dried tomatoes, olives, goat cheese, onions, and garlic with fresh herbs, you can create a very simple but luxurious pasta sauce. Serve it with interesting pasta like farfalle (bow tie pasta) which adds nice texture and surface area for the roasted cherry [...]

My French Onion Soup Recipe features the very best elements like leeks, onions, shallots, quality Cognac, Gruyere cheese, and homemade sourdough croutons and makes for a hearty meal by itself. By slowly cooking down the aromatic ingredients, the soup is silky, sweet, and savory. Click the link for the complete French Onion Soup with Gruyère [...]

I’ve taken some of my favorite flavors of the Mediterranean and created this warm quinoa salad recipe, featuring the best of what the Mediterranean has to offer — olives, capers, sun-dried tomatoes and served it with lemon dressing. Quinoa is amazing.  It is actually a seed, high in protein, gluten-free, easy to digest, and quick [...]

The Wild Mushroom Soup at Panera Bread is the inspiration for this Cream of Mushroom Soup made with with Stout Beer.  I thought that the Stout Beer would work as a good base for the mushroom soup because both the soup and the stout beer are full-bodied in their own respects.  I used McAuslan’s St-Ambroise Oatmeal [...]

These Quesadillas take 5 minutes to prepare, and 5 minutes to cook.  They’re kid-friendly, tasty, and very easy to make. Click the link for the full recipe and HD video on how to make these quick and easy Quesadillas.

The first time I tried basil pesto, I didn’t really care for it.  It was store-bought, and lacked any flavor or intensity.  Then I watched an episode of Jamie Oliver make pesto, and it looked so appetizing, that I had to give it a try.  After all, I enjoyed the key ingredients, so there was [...]

Crunchy vegetarian samosas with sweet mango chutney!