Food and Crafts for All Occasions

Squids Stuffed with Ground Chicken and Spinach in Herby Tomato Sauce

If you love the combination of seafood and meat in one dish, this recipe is for you. Regularly, for the stuffing I would take quite fatty pork, but since during the fall and winter our summer clothes seems to have significantly shrunk in the closets, I temporarily replace fatty pork with leaner chicken or turkey. But you can take pork, beef or any combination of meats you like.

Perfect Winter Dish: Coconut Curry Laksa

Laksa, the specialty of Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine, is a fragrant and spicy noodle soup that is a perfect warming and cheering-up dish for a regular sunny and pleasant rainy and gray Seattle’s winter.

Snack Break: Lavash Stuffed with Prosciutto, Fresh Mozzarella and Basil

Actually, this dish is so simple that its name contains the whole recipe. All you need is:

Chili Garlic Oil

This oil is a good thing to have in your pantry. In my kitchen, it’s used mostly for Asian dishes like Mongolian beef, Bun Bo Hue or beef tripe with chili oil and cilantro. But, overall, it’s good for any recipe that calls for spicy oil – dressings, stews, stir fries and soups.

Bitter Greens Salad with Potatoes, Mushrooms and Quail Eggs

It looks like a salad week in my blog (high time to go on strike and demand some meat!), but I can’t help myself but give you one more of our favorites. It makes a great vegetarian lunch or a first course of a bigger meal.

Simple Salad with Tomatoes, Avocado, Olive Tapenade and Fresh Basil

Continuing the salad theme, here’s one I make often for myself for a snack. It takes mere minutes to make and is quite filling, so you can spend next half an hour  without thinking about food. ;)

Steak Tartare wit Asian Flair

I haven’t been blogging for a while again. Somehow, with years I’ve become more of a doer than a talker, and every time I feel I need to sit down and write to my blog I find another hands-on project to do. So today, after at least a month of procrastination I finally force myself to catch up on my blogging.

 

Minced Lamb Kebab

Grilling season is coming soon (Hopefully - keep your fingers crossed!) and here’s one good recipe for you. If you are not big on lamb, take not too lean ground beef or poultry instead.