836 kay kay recipes

Strawberry, melon, and avocado salad fans avocado and cantaloupe over baby spinach, tops with berries, and drizzles with honey-sherry-mint dressing. A stunning brunch salad.

Black-eyed pea soup slow-simmered with a ham bone for New Year's Day good luck. Creamy, smoky, and served over white rice in the Southern tradition.

Old-fashioned eight-day bread and butter pickles made in a crock with cucumbers soaked in boiling water, then cured in a sweet vinegar syrup reheated daily for extra crunch.

If you run out of preserved lemons, or decide on just a few day's notice to cook a chicken, lamb, or fish dish with lemons and olives and need preserved lemons in a hurry, you can use this quick five-day method taught to me by a Moroccan diplomat's wife. Lemons preserved this way will not keep, but are perfectly acceptable in an emergency.

Make your own snacks rather than buying from a bulk store or box. Store bought packaged snacks always have huge amounts of salt, reduce the sodium by making your own.

Mother's Day baked apple-cinnamon French toast assembles overnight, then bakes into a puffed, custardy casserole with dried apples, raisins, and warm spices. Zero morning-of stress.

Neil Perry's Rockpool Coffin Bay scallops with braised capsicum and tomatoes: pan-seared scallops on a blanched pepper-tomato base, crisped herbs, and lemon-olive oil pan dressing.

Smoked trout crackers with lemon-dill mayonnaise top thin whole-grain crackers with sliced smoked trout and a bright lemon-dill aioli. A five-ingredient elegant appetizer.

Canadian Atlantic salmon brushed with mayo for moisture, baked or grilled, then topped with a sake-flambeed black bean and scallion sauce. East meets East Coast in this 30-minute seafood dinner.

Fat-free pumpkin pie with a bread crumb crust, egg whites, and skim evaporated milk. All the warm Thanksgiving spice flavor with none of the butter or yolks.

Thai red curry scallops (Chuu-Chii) with homemade curry paste, coconut cream, kaffir lime leaves, and fish sauce. Includes a from-scratch paste recipe using galangal, lemongrass, and shrimp paste.

Pan-seared bay bugs on wok-fried egg noodles with speck, smoked eel, peas, and capsicum, finished with a turmeric-chilli oil drizzle. Australian seafood meets Asian flair.

Bubbly ginger ale poured over scoops of strawberry ice cream and crowned with whipped cream and strawberry preserves. A pink, fizzy Valentine's Day treat ready in 10 minutes.

These buttery, chocolaty and melt-in-your mouth cookies are perfect treats at Valentine's Day.

Mini brownie cupcakes topped with a milk chocolate kiss that melts slightly into the warm batter. Made from boxed brownie mix, these 25 bite-sized treats are ready in under an hour. Kids go wild for them.

Brown rice and fresh spinach side dish with sauteed onion and celery. A simple, wholesome one-pan recipe using spinach cooking water to flavor the rice.