Mexican

Sunny Side Up: Huevos Rancheros

May 1, 2014 · 15 Comments

Of all the people who have inspired my cooking, my mother certainly comes in somewhere in the Top 5. Over the years, I've shared a bunch of my childhood favourites from her repertoire - her spaghetti sauce, her pot roast, her Portuguese-style braised peas and eggs, her mulligatawny soup, her marshmallow cake, and her "impossible" lemon-coconut tart.

When the time came to pick something to share in her honour for a Mother's Day recipe round-up for the Holiday Food Blog Party crew, though, I was totally stumped....

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Secret Recipe Club: Mexican-Style Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

Mar 4, 2013 · 24 Comments

Oh look, it's the first Monday of the month. Do you know what that means?

Yup, it's time for the Secret Recipe Club again!

(On a slightly related note, where the hell did February go? It feels like the past four weeks just zoomed by at light speed.)

Meet This Month's Blogger

My SRC assignment for this month is Melissa, who blogs over at I Was Born to Cook.

The blog's name is a reference to Melissa's Greek and Italian roots, and if the looooooong list of recipes in her Recipe Box is anything to go by, she 's doing a pretty bang-up job of living up to that name....

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Secret Recipe Club: Potato and Chorizo Tacos

Jun 4, 2012 · 24 Comments

Guess what time it is? OK, so the title of the post kind of gave it away already, but yes... it's Secret Recipe Club time again!

This month, my buddy is Sarah, whose blog is called The Pajama Chef. I've visited Sarah's blog once or twice before, mostly through past SRC reveals, but this is the first time I've taken a really good look around.

In the process of digging around for a recipe to make, I discovered a few things:

Sarah's cat Sheba looks almost exactly like my little tortoiseshell, Morgan.
We both love caramel lattes and cheese chick-lit.
Her husband, Ben, is also a very talented cook (in fact, he has his own guest column on the blog: "One Tablespoon Testosterone")

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