Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Monday, 26 July 2010

A Delicious Summertime Dinner For the Whole Family

On a long, hot summer day, the last thing you want to do is be cooped up in a stuffy kitchen. The summer is the perfect time to head outdoors and fire up the grill. Standard barbecue foods like steaks, hamburgers and hot dogs can get boring after one too many summer cookouts, so fish is the perfect option to mix things up. This recipe for summer halibut is healthy and delicious, which makes it the perfect meal for a sweltering day.

Ingredients

Salsa: 1/2 cup English cucumber, diced

1/2 cup Roma tomato, diced and seeded

1/4 red bell pepper, diced

1/4 yellow bell pepper, diced

1-2 jalapenos, diced (depending on your taste)

1 bunch green onions (white and half of green tops), diced

two ears of white or yellow corn, cut from an ear of corn

1/4 cup cilantro leaves

1/2 cup rice wine vinegar

salt to taste

juice from one lime

1 tablespoon sugar

2 6-ounce halibut fillets

To prepare the salsa: Combine all the vegetables in a bowl. Chop cilantro finely. Mix rice wine vinegar, sugar, salt, and lime juice together until well blended. Add all chopped vegetables and cilantro to the mixture. Mix well.

To prepare the halibut: Season with sea salt and pepper. Place the fish directly onto a hot grill for a few minutes. Then using tongs or a spatula give it a quarter turn to create the second set of marks resulting in a crisscross pattern. When it's time to flip it, repeat the process of grilling for a few minutes and then give it a quarter turn. Remove from grill and finish in the oven.

Putting it together: Spoon a pile of salsa in the center of each plate, adding a bit of the salsa juice. Place the halibut fillet on top.

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Friday, 23 April 2010

Cheap Meals For the Family

Cheap Meals: Easy and Delicious

Why is it, that when the time to cut corners comes, we seem to cut them away at the expense of our desire for flavor? We get cheap take-out we wouldn't normally go near or, we whip out something at home, so conscious of cost we deny ourselves some of the ingredients that we might consider "luxury items" and our poor little taste buds pay the price. What did they ever do to deserve such neglect?

We needn't continue to treat taste and thrift as mutually exclusive. WIth the recipes I will show you, you can prepare flavorsome meals for the family and at a much lower price than you would normally associate with taste. Oh, and did I mention how easy they are? No? Well, consider that a little bonus. Some of these have as little as 5-10 minutes of preparation time - you put everything together and the oven will do most of the rest.

Here's the first Cheap Meals Idea;

Recipe for Apricot Chicken:

(serves 4)

16oz (500ml) apricot nectar

1 packet french onion soup

1 Onion Sliced

1/2 tsp salt

pinch pepper

8 chicken pieces (drumsticks or wings)

Mix the nectar, soup, salt and pepper. Place the chicken in a casserole dish and pour over the liquid. Cover and cook for 1 hour at 390F (200C). Uncover and cook for 30 mins more or until the chicken is cooked. Serve with rice.

So, by our calculations, you'll get dinner on the table, for four people, at somewhere around 6 or 7 dollars. That's less than $2 a serve.

OK, so there you have it, something that takes very little effort, costs very little money and most important, is enjoyable to eat. In fact, you'll thoroughly enjoy it!!

The next one will cost a fraction more, but be just as easy to cook and, if it's possible, taste even better. This is one of the favourites on my webpage. I hope you enjoy it just as much;

(serves 4)

It's offensive how easy this Cheap Meals is;

2lb (1kg) of Lamb Shoulder Chops 4 cups of mixed vegetables 14oz c(400ml) an of Cream of Mushroom Soup Preheat oven to 300F -Cut the lamb into their serving size portions if they're not already. Put in oven proof dish with vegetables. Cover in Cream of Mushroom soup and garnish with Salt and Pepper. Bake for 45 minutes - remove lid - bake for a further 15 or until cooked. Serve on a bed of Mash Potato

Yep, believe it or not, that's it. Easy wasn't it? And delicious too right - And available for around 8 - 9 dollars. That's around $2 a serve and if you want to stretch it even further, serve it with some bread to really sop up that gravy at the end!

Well, we hope you enjoyed these Cheap Meals. Please feel free to check out our site for more recipes.

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Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Great relaxing holiday meals for the family

The food is always a big part of holiday celebrations. During the holidays can often be difficult to make healthy meals for the family. Fortunately, with a little 'planning you can make meals for the family, which will be both healthy and tasty. Here are some healthy recipes and ideas are the holiday meal for the family.

1. Collard greens with smoked turkey breast are the ingredients: 1.5 kg of cabbage, 1 / 4 pounds smoked turkey breast, 1 / 2 cup of chicken broth, 1 / 4 mincedOnion, 1 / 2 tsp. Chili, 1 / 2 tsp. Chopped celery and 1 / 2 tsp. ground black pepper. Place the cut pieces of leaves of cabbage and turkey in a pot. Cover with water and cook covered over medium heat for 20 minutes. Add onion, celery, red pepper, chicken broth, onion, red pepper and black pepper, and cook over medium heat for about an hour.

2. Pepper Honey Mustard Pork Roast: The ingredients are: 1 - pounds pork loin roast, 1Orange, a package of 12 grams of blueberries, honey 1 / 4 cup, 2 tbsp. Honey mustard, 2 tbsp. crushed peppercorns, 1 / 2 tsp. 1 tsp. chopped thyme and 1 / 2 tsp. Salt. Chop orange and blueberries. Put in a saucepan and stir to make honey. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook 3 or 4 minutes. Cool. Place the pork is roasted in a pan. Stir the mixture of honey and other ingredients in a bowl. Baste the roast pork with the sauce. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes. Removeover the top and the meat. Bake for 20 minutes. Let stand for about 15 minutes and serve.

3. Honey Mustard Glazed Turkey: Ingredients: 5 pounds of turkey breast, 1 / 4 cup apricot preserves, 1 tablespoon. Honey-style mustard. Place turkey in pan. Bake in oven for 2 hours at 325 degrees. In a bowl, mix the mustard and apricot preserves. Baste the glaze on the turkey breast and cook for another 20 minutes Remove and serve.

4. Sirloin steak with gravy, potatoes and mushrooms:1 tablespoon chopped rosemary, garlic, diced 2 gloves, 2 tsp salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper, 4 pounds rib-eye roast, 4 pounds small potatoes (cut into small pieces) 1 tablespoon olive oil Vegetable £ 1 chopped mushrooms, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 can of beef broth, 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. In a bowl, rosemary, garlic, salt and pepper. Baste the roast. Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 ° C). Add the potatoes to the pan. Bake for 20 minutes. PutFry the mushrooms in the pan, swirl, and cook for another 40 minutes. Butter and flour into a bowl. Remove roast and vegetables in the oven. Take the food from the pan. Add the broth into the pan juices, boil and cook for 2 minutes. Reduce the heat and mix in the flour mixture and tomato paste and the blend. Pour the sauce into a bowl to give you. Cut the beef and serve with gravy, potatoes and gravy.

The holidays are not yet in a moment of eating unhealthy food. Careful planning and healthy mealPreparation makes a lot of your family eating healthy meals during the holidays.

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