Dill With it.

Sometimes you just have to make your own takeout food. Crispy teriyaki chicken served with noodles and broccoli. Works out to be a lot cheaper and just as delicious. I will add the recipe for the noodles in a link at the bottom of this recipe if you want to make the noodles as well. Do it. They're delicious. Lets get the teriyaki sauce going. I like to make it before everything else so it can thicken as it cools and it coats the chicken oh so good. this is the one I use In a medium sauce pan add 1 tbsp honey, 1-2 cloves minced garlic, 1 1/2 tsp mined fresh ginger, 3 tbsp Mirin sauce, 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup of water with 1 tbsp corn starch mixed in.  *Mirin is a type of rice wine, but lower in alcohol content and higher sugar content. Whisk everything together and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Leave to simmer for 1 minute and remove from heat. Set aside. Cut up 3 chicken breast into bite size pieces and add to a large zip top ba

If you're trying to eat healthier, avoid carbs and copious amounts of cheese look away now... I warned you. If you're still reading this...welcome to the dark side, we have cheese...and bacon. Making homemade mac and cheese is seriously so easy and totally worth it. You can make a quick pot of it (minus the bacon and the topping) in however long it takes to cook the pasta.  Start by boiling your pasta in heavily salted water. Listen, if you don't generously salt your pasta water you need to start. This is really the only time you can add seasoning to the pasta itself and a few sprinkles of salt in a large pot of boiling water just isn't enough. Select your pasta, I won't tell you what to do but I used fusilli but you can use macaroni, penne, really anything you have. I like fusilli for a couple reasons, first reason being it's what I had in my cupboard lol and second the cheese sauce gets stuck in the cork screw which yields a cheese bite every time. I

I love french dip sandwiches! I know I say I love everything, but I obviously do if I'm writing about it. Jay is not a roast beef fan (weirdo, I know) but he loves these sandwiches. The best part is they're easy you don't have to cook a roast, and the au jus is delicious even without the pan drippings.  Maybe this is a bit of a "cheater" version but it's just as tasty and takes a fraction of the time. Start by adding 1 tbsp of olive oil to a small sauce pan. Add a minced shallot and 1-2 cloves of garlic. If you don't have any shallots you can defiantly use 1/4 of an onion, and just add a but more garlic. A shallot is mild onion with a bit of a garlicky  flavour. Saute the garlic and shallot until soft and fragrant. Add 1 tsp of dried (or fresh) rosemary, give it a stir together then add 1 1/2 cups of beef broth and about 5 dashes of Worcestershire sauce. Bring to a simmer. We're going to need to add a bit of beef bouillon, I really

Sometimes when I'm having a hard time planning meals just from lack of inspiration or whatever the reason, I will let the grocery store tell me what to make. More specifically what's on sale. This doesn't always work out for me, but the times that it does are the best. Whenever I go to the grocery store whether just a quick run for milk or whatever, I almost always take a quick stroll through the meat section to see whats on sale. Meat is expensive and when you have a lot of mouths to feed, sales are your friend. My last milk run I wasn't disappointed, I snagged a pork tenderloin for $4! So that means on the menu tonight is one of my favourites, pork schnitzel.  I prefer to make my schnitzel with the tenderloin instead of the loin which is probably the more traditional way because the tenderloin, hence the name is tender.  You can bite it easily, it almost melts in your mouth. It's perfect. To start off you will need to clean up and slice your tenderloin. Start by

Well it's been a week and a half and I'm still sick...everyone around me is sick too. So far food wise I've tried beef bone broth and one night desperate for some summer in my life thinking it would revive me, I sent Jay outside to chip the ice off the barbecue so I could grill steak.  Obviously food doesn't heal you, or maybe it does...what do I know. But I think it's okay to try. For example chicken soup, delicious and comforting, probably won't magically make your cold go away but, it will make me feel better while I'm eating it. To start your soup you will need a whole roasted chicken, or a whole chicken carcass. I made roast chicken last night for dinner, knowing we would only eat the breasts and I would be making soup today I cooked the chicken until the breasts were cooked, so the legs were still a bit underdone. Take either your whole chicken or the carcass and add to a large pot. Fill the pot with water to just cover the chicken. If you'r

I think it's pretty safe to say this Shepherd's pie is Jay's favourite meal I make. Anytime I even attempt to have him help me with a meal plan for the week or ask for a dinner suggestion, he just smiles at me. The truth is this Shepherd's pie is t ruly delicious but it's not my favourite meal, for a couple reasons. Reason #1, making this recipe involves peeling potatoes, which I strongly dislike. Probably my least favourite cooking task. #2, It requires shredding cheese probably my third least favourite cooking task. We'll address my second least favourite cooking task another time. And I know...I know you can buy pre-shredded cheese, but I also have a moral issue with buying it because shredding cheese isn't difficult, I just don't like doing it. I usually have a quick "suck it up and just shred it yourself" conversation with myself while staring at the pre-shredded cheeses in the grocery store. And reason #3, I'm a big flavour person.