Froodies • Other Recipes

Written by Chris Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:00

Here's a delicious pastry dish. The Tarte Tatin, or upside-down cake, was purportedly created by accident at the Hotel Tatin in France. One of the two Tatin sisters who owned the hotel started making apple pie and left the apples cooking in a pan with butter and sugar for too long turning the butter and sugar into caramel. Thinking of a way to save the dish she put the pastry on top of the apples and placed the pan directly into the over. Once cooked, she served the dish to customers and they loved it!

This is a variation made with pears in much the same way.

Written by Chris Sunday, 20 September 2009 00:00

In the course of history food lovers have probably tried to stuff every kind of vegetable that exists with the exception of the very small or the very thin. Around Southern Europe and the Middle East people commonly stuff tomatoes, eggplant (aborigine), zucchini (curette), cabbage leaves, vine leaves, peppers, onions and even marrow flowers. The stuffing in most cases is a combination of meat (pork, lamb or beef) and rice. The variations on the stuffing are almost endless and depend on the region. The Armenians, for example, stuff vine and cabbage leaves with minced beef or lamb and rice with coriander, dill, mint, pepper, cinnamon and melted butter and sometimes even chestnuts and peas. The Iranians use a similar meat-rice mix with split yellow peas, and a variety of herbs In Greek cuisine there is a similar mix of pork/beef/lamb and rice with tomato, onion and parsley.

Above is a picture of my variation done with a Halloween feel to it :-) More vegetable stuffing below...

Written by Chris Saturday, 05 September 2009 00:00

Salmon is a fantastic, tasty and nutritious fish that is super easy to cook. You can pan-fry it, broil it, grill it or just chase it upstream. The thing that distinguishes any salmon recipe is the sauce. My favorite flavours that go with salmon are lemon & dill so that makes this my favorite sauce for salmon

Written by Chris Sunday, 23 August 2009 00:00

A simply delicious way to make finger food for parties etc or a great appetizer is to make chicken satays. This recipe uses a teriyaki marinade for a tastier flavour and yummy glazed look to the satays. The Sauce is a peanut butter satay sauce.