Category Archives: Savory
I'm not going to arrange my pantry like a crazy. I'm not going to lie to you and make things fancy for the photos! This is the condition of my pantry, and I bet yours is pretty damn close.
I thought I’d make one of these, because I think it’s super important that you have a properly stocked pantry. If you’re new to cooking or think you dislike it, this will make it easier, and fun! Or something!
and in the interest of awesomeosity, I’m going to look for the best stock photos ever.
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Leave a comment | tags: baking, basic pantry, boullion, coconut milk, cooking, curry, honey, ingredient essentials, inside my pantry, list, pantry essentials, sauces, spices, stock | posted in Baked, Breakfast, Drinks, Easy Meals, Food, Restaurants, Salads, Savory, Soup, Spicy, Sweets, Uncategorized
So delicious and the brioche buns make it!
I made these at work today, we actually make a lot of these. One of our most popular appetizers! Homemade, fresh baked brioche buns, beef hamburgers glazed with bbq sauce, cheddar, mayo and grainy mustard and garnished with a gherkin or whatever else I can find. 
Brioche can be a bit of work to make, but it’s truly worth it for these little guys. Really any fresh baked bread will do, the key is fresh baked!
Brioche is also great because it freezes very well in it’s dough form, so if you want you can make this ahead and freeze it for any appetizer emergencies!
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8 comments | tags: appetizers, baby burgers, BBQ, bbq sauce, beef burgers, brioche buns, burger buns., burgers, cheese burgers, cornichons, gherkins, hamburger buns, kids meals, mini burgers, mini cheese burgers, mini slider buns, mini sliders, sliders, snacks, tiny burgers | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Jerk Chicken Perogies! Creamy potato with chunks of chicken breast and spicy jerk sauce.
Michael invented these. Or at least gave me the suggestion. I was looking for interesting perogy ideas and he blurted out “jerk chicken”. So I used my imagination and came up with this.
I knew it had to be done with potato, as it adds substance, and perogies still need to be comforting and starch-a-licious.
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4 comments | tags: butter, chicken perogies, cooking, creative perogies, delicious, easy meals, jerk, jerk chicken, jerk chicken perogies, jerk perogies, perogies, perogy, perogys, Polish perogies, savoury, spicy | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Spicy
I honestly threw this dish together randomly. BUT. Michael LOVED it and asked that I include it in our regular meals. Go figure!
Lately I’ve been cooking much more asian/asian inspired food than anything else. I can’t help it. We both love it, it’s healthy, an oh sooo spicy.
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4 comments | tags: cherry tomatoes, coconut milk, curry, curry noodles, grape tomatoes, ground lamb, lamb, lamb and noodles, red curry, red curry noodles, Red Curry with Lamb and Tomatoes, thai, thai lamb noodles, thai noodles | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Soup, Spicy
The perfect holiday snack!
I’m back! Also, Merry Chrismas/all that holiday stuff!
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1 comment | tags: christmas nuts, christmas snacks, holiday snacks, holiday treats, roasted almonds, roasted hazelnuts, roasted nuts, roasted pecans, snacks, spiced nuts | posted in Baked, Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Spicy
Surprisingly AMAZING! Is that a thing people say?
I had some chickpeas for falafel rehydrating, and I thought I’d take a shot at making pita bread. First time ever. I always risk making things I’ve never made before, but dinner always seems to turn out. Now that I’ve said that, I’ll probably burn the kitchen down next time!
These are a must make. MUST! Must make, and eat immediately after making. So awesome.
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12 comments | tags: appetizers, baking, bread, brunch, butter, cooking, dinner, easy, easy baking, falafel, flat bread, flour, food, food blog, greek, healthy, Lebanese, pita bread, recipe, recipes, savory, side dishes | posted in Baked, Breakfast, Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Carbs. Perfect for everything.
I like using heart shaped cookie cutters, molds, stamps, whatever. My middle name is Love (seriously), and I’m normally a huge cheeseball. I like to draw heart shaped sriracha on food I give to Michael.
Love love love love hearts *puke*. I make myself sick!
It was our 3 year anniversary yesterday, so I post something heart shaped in lieu of a proper related post.
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12 comments | tags: appetizers, baking, biscuits, bread, breakfast, brunch, butter, cooking, dinner, easy, food, food blog, garlic, green onion, healthy, oil biscuits, olive oil biscuits, parsley., recipe, recipes, savory, scones, side dishes, spicy | posted in Baked, Breakfast, Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Moist salmon with a sticky savory glaze, topped with a lively and bright chimichurri.
We don’t eat as much fish as I’d like. Michael is slowly warming up to the idea of fish, although he eats sushi which is a jump. Apparently raw fish is better than cooked! 
But since my parents always give me fish, it was time to make some. I’ve never made my own chimichurri before so I grabbed a recipe from epicurious.
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2 comments | tags: appetizers, argentina, argentinian, baking, chimichurri, condiments, cooking, dinner, easy, entree, fish, food, food blog, garlic, green onion, healthy, hot sauce, jalapeno, recipe, recipes, salmon, sauce, savory, side dishes, spicy, supper | posted in Baked, Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Spicy
Yum!
I guess this is more of a pull apart bread, but whatever. I think monkey bread has to be “gooey” or something?
I wanted something to go with spaghetti and meatballs, so I came up with this.
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13 comments | tags: baking, baking recipes, blog, bread, bread recipes, brunch, butter, cooking, dinner, easy, easy baking, food, food blog, garlic, garlic bread, garlic bread recipes, garlic monkey bread, healthy, monkey bread, oil, pasta, raptortoe, recipe, recipes, savory, side, side dishes, sides, yeast | posted in Baked, Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Michael ate more than half. Seriously.
We love pizza, and I love making pizza. I can use whatever I have or plan to make certain types. This was a combo of both. I had some stew beef I wanted to use, but I didn’t want stew.
I also don’t understand people who say they don’t make pizza dough because it takes too much time? I can make a basic pizza dough in 20 minutes, less even.
Caamaan people!
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6 comments | tags: baking, bbq beef pizza, bbq pizza, bbq sauce, brunch, cooking, dinner, easy, easy pizza dough, entree, homemade pizza dough, hot peppers, lunch, mozzarella, pizza, pizza dough, pulled beef, pulled beef pizza, recipe, recipes, sauce, tomato | posted in Baked, Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Spicy
Put this on macaroni, cauliflower, fries, dip things into it. Dear god.
Killer as in awesome, not deadly. That wouldn’t be good.
This recipe is for a creamy cheese sauce, with a blend of sharp white cheddar and regular cheddar, cracked black pepper and cayenne pepper. You get the sharpness of the cheese cutting through the richness of the cream, and a little pop of heat from the peppers. Amazing.
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15 comments | tags: 7 year old cheddar, appetizers, blog, breakfast, brunch, butter, cauliflower, cheddar, cheddar cheese sauce, cheese, cheese sauce, comfort food, cooking, dinner, easy, food, food blog, french fries, healthy, hot sauce, jalapeno, recipe, recipes, sauce, sauces, savory, sharp cheese sauce, side dishes, spicy, spicy cheese sauce, white cheddar | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Spicy
Yaayy!
We haven’t gone to a real Beer Thursday in forever. But we were finally able to and quickly decided on sushi, as it’s too hot for pub grub.
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8 comments | tags: agedashi sushi, appetizers, beer, beer thursday, blog, booze, brunch, cheese, chicken, chicken karaage, cooking, dinner, dynamite roll, easy, food, food blog, fried tofu, green onion, healthy, hot sauce, jalapeno, japanese food, lunch, recipe, recipes, savory, shrimp tempura, side dishes, spicy, spicy fried chicken, sriracha, sushi, vegetarian dragon roll, vegetarian sushi | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Restaurants, Savory, Spicy
I have a new soup related love.
There’s this new place down the street that we go for our Pho nowadays, but they have this one type that just blows me away.
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8 comments | tags: appetizers, asian food, bao chao, bau chao, blog, breakfast, brunch, cooking, dessert, dinner, easy, food, food blog, green onion, healthy, hot sauce, iced tea, jalapeno, lemongrass chicken, lunch, pho, recipe, recipes, side dishes, soup, sriracha, vietnamese food | posted in Breakfast, Easy Meals, Food, Restaurants, Savory, Soup, Spicy
We needed one of those...uh.. "Rejuvinatin' Greasy Breakfasts" to counter an over consumption of a certain type of liquid.
We headed down to the Slocan for some All Day Breakfast. I had never been there, and yelp said it was alright. The only other “close as we want to walk” was some placed called Tom and Jerry’s, which features a banner of some Budweiser girls from the 90′s and boasts about $4 awful beer on tap. (not that I judge, I’ve been to many a scuzzy place, they’re just reserved for french fries and karaoke).
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6 comments | tags: baking, blog, bread, breakfast, breakfast sausage, brunch, butter, cheese, coffee, cooking, dinner, easy, eggs benedict, food, food blog, hangover, hangover food, hastings restaurants, healthy, lunch, recipe, recipes, restaurant review, sausage, side dishes, sleepy, slocan restaurant, slocan review | posted in Breakfast, Easy Meals, Food, Restaurants, Savory
It's just you and me noodles. (And Michael) But mostly you an' me.
You know I love spicy, asian-y, cilantro-y, peanut-y, whatever else-y can describe my tastes. This is a dish I’ve started to make much more often because it’s just so easy. And I have not just one, but TWO ways to make this! Golly! (there’s way more ways than two, I might have lied)
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13 comments | tags: appetizers, bok choy, breakfast, brunch, chicken, Chicken breast, chili sauce, chow mein, cilantro, food blog, garlic, green onion, hot sauce, jalapeno, lime, lunch, peanut sauce, recipe, recipes, red pepper, sambal oelek, savory, side dishes, spicy, spicy peanut noodles, sriracha, stir fry, yellow pepper | posted in Breakfast, Easy Meals, Food, Restaurants, Savory, Spicy
I looked everywhere for a sesame street reference, but this will have to do instead.
Well I’ve been tagged so I guess I have to participate!
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7 comments | tags: 7 facts, appetizers, Art, baking, BBQ, blog, blogging, booze, bread, breakfast, brunch, butter, cheddar, cheese, chicken, chocolate, chocolate cake, cookies, cooking, dessert, dinner, easy, food, food blog, food buzz, garlic, ginger bread cookies, glico curry, Goat Cheese, green onion, healthy, hot sauce, icing, Italian Sausage & Sundried Tomato Alfredo, jalapeno, jalapeno infused vodka, jalapeno vodka, lunch, pasta, peanut butter mousse cake, recipe, recipes, sausage, side dishes, soup, spicy, sriracha tortillas, stuffed mushrooms, sweets, tomato | posted in Baked, Breakfast, Drinks, Easy Meals, Food, Salads, Savory, Soup, Spicy, Sweets, Uncategorized
I'll show YOU who's crazy.
So I made a roast beef in the middle of summer. You might say blasphemous, but I say delicious!
We’re lucky because of this new place, I’m not limited with what I can cook depending on temperature. It’s always nice and cool down here 
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10 comments | tags: appetizers, baking, blog, bread, brunch, butter, cooking, dinner, easy, food blog, garlic, gravy, healthy, jus, lunch, medium, mustard, perfect roast beef, popovers, rare, recipe, recipes, roast beef, rosemary, rosemary roast beef, savory, side dishes, steak, traditional roast beef, yorkshire pudding | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Yum Yum Yum
My first real meal in my home! We have been eating out a lot. Specially pho at this one place, I think we’ve gone every second day =/
I threw together a quick curry using Glico curry. Which is my favourite instant-ready-to-go curry. The jarred ones always taste…odd.
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5 comments | tags: beef sausage curry, brunch, coconut rice, dinner, easy, entree, food blogs, food buzz, foodbuzz, garlic, glico curry, gourmet, green onion, healthy, main, main course, main dish, meals, recipe, recipes, rice, sausage, sausage curry, side dishes, spicy, tomato, yellow curry | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory, Spicy
Delicious!
Just a quick post before bed!
I made a sundried olive and rosemary focaccia and pasta with italian sausage, fire roasted tomatoes, mushrooms and fresh basil!
Focaccia recipe here:http://raptortoe.com/2010/10/06/tomato-focaccia/ Just replace tomatoes with same amount of pitted sundried olives and throw in some rosemary.
For the pasta, sautee two italian sausages removed from the casing until browned, add 1/2 cup roughly chopped mushrooms.
Add 1 can of fire roasted tomatoes, or just diced tomatoes, strain if too much liquid. Cook and reduce until thickened, season with salt and pepper.
Add a small handfull of fresh minced basil and toss with your favourite pasta!
10 comments | tags: baking, bread, breakfast, cheese, cooking, dinner, easy, fire roasted tomatoes, focaccia, food, food blog, garlic, green onion, healthy, lunch, pasta, quick bread, recipe, recipes, sausage, savory, side dishes, spicy, sun dried olives | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Such a good last minute idea!
Today I’ve left the house 3 times, washed and folded 3 loads of laundry, done 2 loads of dishes, made burgers, potato salad, guacamole, these puppies and banana bread.
So in the interest of my sanity I wasn’t going to post this.
But since it was SO good, and I had some okay lighting, posted it is!
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21 comments | tags: appetizers, baking, blog, brunch, chevre, cooking, courgette, courgettes, cream cheese, creamy, delicious, dinner, easy, food blog, garlic, Goat Cheese, green onion, grilling ideas, jalapeno, jalapenos, lunch, mushrooms, recipe, recipes, savory, side dishes, spicy, summer ideas, zucchini, zucchini boats | posted in Baked, Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Yep
I flipped as soon as I saw this recipe. Such an awesome idea!!
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10 comments | tags: Bake the Book, baking, blog, bread, brunch, butter, buttercream, cooking, cornbread, dessert, dinner, easy, food, food blog, healthy, jalapeno, jalapenos, lunch, recipe, recipes, side dishes, spicy, sweets, Whoopie pies | posted in Baked, Food, Savory, Sweets
Will make again, and again.
I don’t wanna call these thai, maybe moreso “thai inspired”, or “east asian inspired” but whatever. They’re DAMN good and that’s all that matters.
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5 comments | tags: appetizers, blog, bread, breakfast, brunch, burgers, cheap, chicken, delicious, dinner, easy, father's day, father's day recipe, food blog, garlic, green onion, grill, grilling, lunch, main course, recipe, recipes, sausage, savory, side dishes, spicy, sriracha, thai burgers, thai turkey burgers, turkey burgers | posted in Food, Savory, Spicy
Mushroomy Goodness!
Unexpected bills sometimes make you broke, as a result of one we’re a bit broke until next pay. So, for frugality’s sake, I’m going to dig into the recesses of my cupboards to make dinner for the next few days. I am only going to use what’s in my pantry/freezer/fridge.
I probably should’ve done this a long time ago, there are a lot of random things in there… I think I need to do a “cupboard inventory” just to make sure I actually USE what I have!
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10 comments | tags: affordable, appetizers, bread, breakfast, brunch, butter, campbells mushroom soup, canned food, cheap, cheap food, cheese, cooking, course, dinner, easy, easy food, food, food blog, lunch, main course, mushroom soup, pantry, recipe, recipes, sausage, savory, side dishes, stovetop, stuffing | posted in Easy Meals, Food, Savory
Perfect for the bbq! Srsly!
My favourite is Pho, Michael’s favourite is lemongrass chicken. (although he’s been ordering pho lately, I am a converter of all. The United Church of Beef Broth.)
So for my wonderful, amazing, mass amount of chicken consuming- significant other. I decided to try making it!
I’ve made it with packet lemongrass mixes before, but it never tastes right. Nothing from a package ever tastes right.
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10 comments | tags: appetizers, asian recipes, blog, brunch, chicken, cooking, dinner, food blog, garlic, grilled chicken, herbs, jalapeno, lemon grass, lemongrass, lemongrass chicken, lunch, recipe, recipes, savory, side dishes, vietnamese food, vietnamese recipes | posted in Food, Savory
A portrait of a dinner.
I love making my own salsas. Pineapple salsa is my allll time favourite. But this is a good one too. Ugh. Peach salsa is awesome too.
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10 comments | tags: black bean and corn salsa, black bean salsa, blog, brunch, chicken, condiments, cooking, corn salsa, dinner, easy dinner, food, food blog, garlic, green onion, healthy dinner, jalapeno, lunch, mexican dishes, recipe, recipes, rice, salsa, savory, side dishes, snack | posted in Food, Salads, Savory
