Dinner Recipes

  • Weekend Cooking: Roasted Salmon with Mushrooms and Orange

    Weekend Cooking: Roasted Salmon with Mushrooms and Orange

    Saw a few people selling premium quality salmon at Tesco this morning, so I decided to pick up a few fillets, and then searched on-line for a few recipe ideas.  This one looked really promising – all those yummy mushrooms – so I gave this a try, tweaking it here and there based on the…

  • Dinner Club: Roast Lamb Shoulder

    Dinner Club: Roast Lamb Shoulder

    Last night Rudy and I had the Round Knights over for a long overdue Dinner Club meet.  Merv was very kind to help me get the lovely lamb shoulder we roasted for the main course, and boy it was a great dinner with awesome company.  The menu last night: Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Potato and…

  • Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Quail Ozzi with Saffron Boiled Eggs

    Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Quail Ozzi with Saffron Boiled Eggs

    Found some quails at Tesco recently, and was really curious about them.  I remembered that Chef Ammar had a quail recipe in his book, so I decided to grab a bag of ten birds.  Making this dish marked a few firsts for me; first time preparing quails, and first time frying breaded stuff in the…

  • Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Bukhari Rice with Roasted Chicken

    Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Bukhari Rice with Roasted Chicken

    Happy Ramadan, everyone! Fasting month makes me feel like cooking more, so on this first weekend of Ramadan, I’ve been making dinner two days in a row.  Today I wanted to try something new but didn’t want anything too complicated, so finally I chose Chef Ammar’s bukhari rice with roasted chicken. This turned out…

  • Weekend Cooking: Roast Leg of Lamb

    Weekend Cooking: Roast Leg of Lamb

    While hanging around the frozen meats section at Tesco I spotted a whole stack of frozen lamb legs.  It took me quite a few grocery shopping trips after that before I finally picked one up; aside from that one time making lamb Mandy, I’ve never really handled lamb before so I was really curious…

  • Weekend Cooking: Smoked Duck Risotto

    Weekend Cooking: Smoked Duck Risotto

    So recently Merv managed to score some smoked duck for me (thanks so much, Merv!), so I began hunting for ideas on what the heck to do with them.  I had quite a few options, including pasta, pizza, risotto, and gumbo, but I decided to start with risotto, since both using smoked duck and making risotto…

  • Weekend Cooking: Roast Duck with Bubble and Squeak and Stir-Fried Vegetables

    Weekend Cooking: Roast Duck with Bubble and Squeak and Stir-Fried Vegetables

    For Chinese New Year, Tesco started stocking some frozen duck, so I decided to pick one up and try roasting my own.  I ended up trying out a recipe by Jamie Oliver instead of the usual Asian-style roast duck, but the results were really satisfying.  Duck meat stays so moist and tender even roasting for…

  • Weekend Cooking: Chicken Parmigiana

    Weekend Cooking: Chicken Parmigiana

    Chicken parmigiana was my “usual” during late night binges with friends, at one of the 24-hour diners back in New Haven whose name I am no longer able to recall.  Tonight I wanted to try making it for dinner, with the added bonus of being able to use the basil leaves my Mom has in her garden, which…

  • Weekend Cooking: English-Style Fish and Chips

    Weekend Cooking: English-Style Fish and Chips

    Rudy and I love our red meat, but we do love a good fish with chips.  The places we went to for fish and chips don’t always get it right, so I decided to make my own, in search for the perfect recipe.   Unfortunately for me, many “perfect” recipes call for beer, but I…

  • Weekend Cooking: Baked Chicken Alfredo Pasta

    Weekend Cooking: Baked Chicken Alfredo Pasta

    I had some leftover alfredo sauce in the fridge, and decided to make something simple for dinner.  I remembered that I had shared a recipe by Gimme Some Oven on Facebook a few weeks back, and it became my inspiration for dinner tonight.  Yummy and light yet very easy to make, this comfort dish is perfect for…