Beef Barley Soup

I know I just posted this week about the beautiful summer weather and eating summery foods, but for today’s recipe, I went quite the opposite direction. I made this beef barley soup – perfect for a cold winter’s day. I love my fresh and bright summer recipes (and I have many more coming), but I…

Traditional Osso Buco

I am always looking for new and exciting dinner ideas. I saw beef shanks at the store and immediately I thought to make ossobuco. This is a dish I have never made (or eaten) before but was excited to try! If you like beef stew, you will like ossobuco. It has the same rich and…

Empanada Eggrolls

Get ready for this recipe. This is sort of my own fusion creation and I’m really proud of how they turned out. Let me explain what I’ve made here. So my dad’s family is from Argentina, I mentioned this in my Alfajores post, and empanadas are another common food there. Empanadas are traditionally a turnover…

Stuffed Zucchini Boats

This last zucchini recipe might be my fave. Using zucchini as a receptacle/ boat is such a fun idea and you could put whatever you want inside. I scooped out the “guts” and actually chopped it up and put it in my filling too, so there was no waste. For my filling, I made like…

Recipe #76: Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup

I’ve been making quite a few soups from this book lately and it’s been so great with all the cold weather. It’s nice to have something so warm and comforting. This one was particularly good because it’s called a soup but it had lots of meat and veggies, so it was almost a chili. I…

Recipe #73: Beef & Broccoli Stirfry

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Recipe #63: Wonton Taco Cups

All the recipes this week (and from the whole book) were super good, but I think this one has taken the cake.. until this point at least. There was nothing complicated or super fancy about this dish, but it just tasted so good and my family couldn’t stop saying how much they were enjoying it….

Recipe #47: Beef & Quinoa Meatloaf

Meatloaf is such a classic dish, but I feel like people either love it or hate it. I would probably never order it at a restaurant but I enjoy a good homemade meatloaf.. like this one! I have no complaints about this recipe and my family loved it (theirclean plates after dinner told me so…

Beef Barley Soup

I love making soups. They’re one of my favourite things to make, and I can do it without a recipe because they are so simple and versatile. This one was beef barley with tons of veggies (carrot, onion, celery, asparagus, kale). I used tomato paste for flavour and to kind of help with the thickening…