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Thai Red Curry — delicious, bold Thai flavours and a creamy red curry sauce that is so good you can put anything in it and it will be amazing! This is a simple red curry with vegetables is taken to the next level served with grilled pineapple and black tiger prawns skewers. They cook up so quickly, are full of flavor and compliment this dish perfectly. This is the easiest...

This Hokkaido pumpkin and Tuscan kale salad is a delicious combination of textures and flavours — sweet, tart, crunchy and creamy. Pumpkin and kale in a lemony sumac dressing and tossed with honey-toasted walnuts and pumpkin seeds as well as crumbled goat cheese. For a splash of color and even more flavor, there are also late summer red currants or sweet-tart pomegranate seeds. This dish makes a healthy side...

Almost every one knows of someone who has cast iron cookware that has been passed on with the generations. This is because a good cast iron pan is a workhorse in the kitchen and there are plenty of benefits to cooking with it. Properly cared for they can last for generations. What I particularly love about it is that it can be used on any stovetop (whether it’s electric, gas,...

A real classic: a delicious apple crumb cake with tender juicy apples and a brown sugar, oatmeal crumb topping. This apple cake is packed with apples — in the cake batter itself and thinly sliced apples under the streusel topping. It’s perfectly sweet without being super sweet — with half the amount of sugar as my recipe for Oma’s Apple Crumble. It’s a cake for anyone who likes a...

This EASY one-pan potato coconut curry has so much delicious flavor! It’s healthy, plant-based comfort food that tastes AMAZING!! It’s made with both potatoes and sweet potatoes and a curry-like medley of spices (cumin, coriander, cayenne and turmeric), plus some flavour boosting favorites: onion, garlic, ginger and fresh chili. Hearty and comforting, it’s also naturally vegan and gluten-free. AND it makes fantastic leftovers! Simple, healthy and so delicious So if you’re...

This easy and classic tomato risotto is one of my favourite ways to enjoy sweet, juicy vine-ripened tomatoes while they are still in season. Here they are blistered on a grill plate which intensifies their flavour and brings out their rich sweet juices before they are added to the risotto. Which is served topped with grilled zucchini goats cheese parcels — adding a little bit of luxury to your...