Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Every family has their own tradition for family dinners, my favorite involve a big roast bird. This recipe is an easy one dish roast chicken, that makes it’s own pesto gravy.

People either love dark beers like stout, or hate them. Either way, inevitably you will end up with a bottle or can in your fridge eventually — why not use it to make some juicy grilled chicken?

A grilled chicken recipe with the simplest of Greek marinades — lemon and oregano.

A healthy pulled chicken recipe with Mexican flavors. Easy enough to make any night of the week.

The peppery arugula is a nice contrast to the creamy, buttery Brie in this easy spaghetti recipe.

An easy, earthy and creamy pasta recipe with wild mushrooms, chicken and white wine.

I would be lying if I tried to pass this recipe off as authentically Chinese, however this orange chicken will definitely taste like your local take out.

This Asian noodle salad is a healthy meal in itself which is perfect for a potluck or a packed lunch. The crunchy fresh vegetables bring the vibrant colour and the chicken adds a dash of protein to these tangy peanut noodles.

A braised chicken recipe to help use my abundance of sage. The key is to fry up the chicken first so it stays nice and crispy.

A delicious healthy roasted mustard chicken recipe inspired by an old roommate. In this one pot meal the tangy chicken roasts on top of sweet sauteed cabbage.

After reading several rave reviews of Thomas Keller’s new book Ad Hoc at Home, I was trying to resists until Christmas but when I saw it for sale at Costco, I snatched it up. I took Ad Hoc home, curled up on the couch and flipped through it. It certainly is a satisfying read, and [...]

Since it is the day after thanksgiving, I should mention that though I haven’t tested it I bet you could use this recipe to make some wicked turkey, barley and thyme soup…  if I had leftover chicken or turkey I think I would first make a simple stock with the carcass.  Before straining I would [...]

Since American Thanksgiving is next week I thought I would post a recipe that I made last month with my turkey leftovers. Up in Canada we celebrate thanksgiving in October, I guess the holiday migrates south? I don’t usually end up with leftovers since I am not the host, but this year I was lucky [...]

Fresh, simple, and delicious, this cassoulet recipe tastes very real. The fresh vegetables retain their colour and flavour and the dried beans cook up deliciously as they are simmered with the meat.

This sesame chicken is crunchy and juicy and tossed with the salad it is a lovely fresh recipe.

This recipe was inspired by an old crockpot cookbook. Those old cookbooks can be so funny. Like, seriously, who could possibly go through that much cream of mushroom soup? I have changed pretty much every ingredient to a more natural form, kept the ketchup, and added mushrooms. This is most definitely North American Chinese food [...]

A Brazilian Beer Chicken recipe where the chicken marinates for days in a base of beer, garlic, onions and paprika.

Sometimes all you want is a simple piece of grilled chicken on a summer day. Well this is it, it uses up what you have in the garden as far as herbs go and is delicious hot off the grill or cold and served on a salad. My friend S made this for me a [...]

Happy April Fools! I am curled up inside because of both the snow outside and the stomach flu I am almost finally recovered from. I actually made this dish Sunday night but by Monday morning I couldn’t look or think about food, so it delayed the post a bit. A shame because this came out [...]

The rich flavors of salty bacon and pungent olives make an easy crockpot chicken recipe something extraordinary.