Cooking-for-two/5 recipes

Just like grandma used to make!

Sugar Cookies For Loved Ones recipe

Quick, easy and super refreshing. The combination in this recipe is excellent, both flavor and texture are absolutely thumb up. Great with many of the main dishes, such as BBQ, grilled fish or any recipe that calls for salsa.

So delicious, and packed with goodness. If you don't have quinoa, use brown rice or regular white rice. A very tasty way to cook with seasonal colourful bell peppers, and they are so good for you as well.

Ginger Shrimp with Snow Peas and Water Chestnuts recipe

Use this when you find a recipe that calls for dried Caesar Salad Dressing mix.

Very easy recipe. I substituted peach-mango Kool Aid for the strawberry, and diced a fresh mango for garnish. Delicious and light!

No-Cook Apple Raspberry Jam recipe

No-Cook Peach Jam recipe

This cheesy and creamy dip is great with pita bread/chips or crackers. Best served hot or warm.

From the kitchen of Brian Evans

Easy to prepare, and it's loaded with yumminess. Crunchy sugar snap peas, browned mushrooms and tofu cubes with some sweet bell pepper and carrots make this quick and tasty dish ideal for a week-night meal.

Instead of making a scheduled stop at Tim Horton's, try this simple recipe that you and your family will love!

Best Cheesy Chicken Chowder recipe

So to start off with the first post, I decided to make a meal that screams of comfort food. Whilst it does take a bit of a while to get the meal done, once you take that first bite, heaven couldn’t seem closer if you were Adam trying to touch God’s finger in the “Creation of Adam” fresco created by Michaelangelo. The meal I speak of is Cottage Pie. There is much debate as to what exactly a cottage pie is and how it is different to a Shepherd’s pie...I don’t know. The dominant theory is that Sheperds pie uses lamb mince, whilst a cottage pie uses beef mince. I don’t know about you, but the term “Sheperds Pie” does not get my tastebuds going quite as well, so I prefer the term cottage pie. Besides, comparing the price of ground (mince) beef to ground lamb, a student would pick up the beef mince in a heartbeat without even so much as glancing at the lamb in the meat section. This cottage pie that I made is full of flavour, and just makes you want to cuddle up next to a fire and watch TCM movies all day either by yourself, or with a significant other. Here is the recipe:

A double-dose of lemon zing, a great lemon cookie for Chrismas or any time of the year.