Recipe Sifter

This is a recipe I made for a food styling course from a cookbook. The assignment was to duplicate the look and feel of a recipe from a magazine or cookbook. This is a modified recipe that came from the book Healthy Appetite by Gordon Ramsay.

These parmesan and olive oil crackers are so delicious and packed with goodness. Make sure to bake enough, because everyone can't get the hands off these yummy crackers.

This tasty yet refreshing spinach salad is a classic Korean side dish that you can pretty much find in every Korean restaurant. It's quick, easy to make at home, it goes well with most of the BBQ, any meat dish, or just simply serve it with some steamed rice.

This easy yet tasty recipe is a great way to maintain the texture of asparagus. Tender but still crispy. The Chinese seasoning including soy sauce, sichuan oil, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar really brings tons of flavour into the dish. Serve it with cooked brown rice to make a wholesome meal.

A wonderful sauce for fresh grilled salmon, halibut or sea bass.

Try this tantalizing chicken dish made with lemon juice and white wine.

Add an authentic Chinese dish to your cookbook with this scrumptious recipe that's easy to follow.

A succulent beef dish made with red wine, mushrooms and madeira wine that will take you back to the Dark Ages!

Toast whole spices until smoky, grind with dried chilies and aromatics, then blend with oil and wine for a thick Ethiopian berbere paste that clings to meats and vegetables.

Gourmet's chicken divan layers blanched broccoli and sliced chicken under a silky sherry velouté finished with whipped cream, lemon, and broiled Parmesan. A refined take on the American classic.

Triple-cheese crustless quiche featuring nutty Jarlsberg, cream cheese, and Parmesan in a buttery cream sauce custard. Makes two pies to feed a crowd at brunch.

Groaty Dick pudding, a Black Country classic of stewing beef, leeks, onions, and oat groats baked low and slow until the groats swell and thicken it into a rich, savoury pudding. A Bonfire Night tradition.

Had some puff pastry on hand from the holiday baking, and made this apple strudel. It was great, the puff pastry certainly delivered a much richer result than phyllo pastry that I normally use. No leftover, we ate it all!

Jamaican-style sauteed greens with collards (or kale), jalapeno, allspice, onion, and a squeeze of lime. A Caribbean spin on cooked greens with warm spice and bright citrus.

A true Italian soup that has a wonderful taste that can warm up any rainy day.

Oven-fried orange roughy coated in seasoned crumbs and baked in butter for a crispy crust without deep frying. A lighter, less messy take on breaded fish fillets.