This is one of Rob’s all-time favourites. It’s always a joy to watch his eyes light up when we’re on the way home from work and he asks “what’s for tea?” and I get to say “Seafood Risotto”. I usually make it with Sainsbury’s Seafood Collection which is a mixture of cooked mussels, king prawns [...]
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Seafood Risotto
Posted in Grains, Main Courses, Recipes, Seafood, tagged Recipes, risotto, seafood on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving – Wild Rice Stuffing
Posted in Grains, Recipes, tagged dressing, food, Grains, recipe, stuffing, thanksgiving, wild rice on October 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This year I was determined to have a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. Usually I get all wrapped up in Freshers’ week activities and forget that Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up. Everyone always asks me why us Canadians have Thanksgiving on a different day than the Americans. So here goes.. In Canada we celebrate on the second [...]
Delicious Quinoa Big Bowl
Posted in Grains, Main Courses, Recipes, Vegetarian, tagged food, Grains, main course, quinoa, recipe, Vegetarian on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Delicious Big Bowl – Quinoa I’m moving out of my flat in a few weeks and I’ve been trying to use up some of my many opened bags of grains in the cupboard. I have paella rice, risotto rice, wild rice, basmati rice, long grain brown rice, buckwheat groats, quinoa, millet and bulghur. I made [...]
Breakfast Kasha
Posted in Breakfast and Brunch, Grains, Recipes, tagged breakfast, food, kasha, recipe on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was feeling particularly hungry this morning so I decided to make kasha for breakfast. Kasha has been a part of Eastern European cuisine for many centuries, although in Slavic languages it refers to a porridge made not only from the buckwheat groats used here, but a whole family of porridges made from wheat, buckwheat, [...]


