Ingredients: 2 cups broth (see below) Baby Bok Choy 1 piece white fish per person ½ lemon Curry powder ½ onion, chopped 1-2 carrots, chopped or grated Brown rice noodles (or other spaghetti type noodles or vermicelli noodles) Broth You can use vegetable, beef or chicken broth and add a tablespoon of soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of ginger.  If you don’t have broth on hand, I used water, added the soy sauce and ground ginger and some pepper.[...]

Sometimes easy and simple make the most delicious of meals.  This can be an appetizer or light supper. Ingredients (makes 6 pieces): Scampi tails Fresh Italian bread, sliced 1 tomato, diced 1 cup spinach, chopped 2 green onions, chopped 1/4 cup olive oil 1 clove of garlic, crushed salt/pepper Directions: 1-Combine garlic and olive oil. Set aside. 2-Place bread slices on baking pan. Brush with garlic/olive oil.  Bake until almost crispy, flip sides and continue baking the other side until[...]

I Found this recipe on Jamie Oliver’s app for the iphone! Excellent and filling meal!! I ended up adding more tomatoes into the recipe then it called for. Ingredients: (serves 4) – olive oil – 1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped – 1 – 2 fresh red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped – 1 level teaspoon ground cinnamon – a bunch of fresh basil, leaves picked, stalks chopped – 2 x 400g tins good-quality plum tomatoes – 2 x[...]

Halibut is one of our favourite fishes.  Orange sauce seems to be a perfect fit with it.   The hardest thing though is deboning it! Ingredients 2 Halibut filets, seasoned with salt and pepper Olive oil Butter 1/2 cup chopped shallots 1 cup orange juice 1 cup stock ground pepper Directions: 1-Heat a generous amount of butter and olive oil in a pan. 2- When pan is quite hot, add the halibut.  Cook for several minutes on each side until nearly[...]

  This recipe was a mid-week fluke based on what was in the fridge and freezer.  It was last minute but it won’t be the last time I make it. I hope you enjoy it too. Ingredients: 2 pieces of salmon 8 pieces asparagus, cut to the length of the salmon 3 tbsps butter 2 tbsp chopped onion ½ tsp grainy Dijon mustard ½ cup cream 1 half package frozen puff pastry, thawed  Directions: 1-Blanche asparagus but putting in boiling[...]

Ingredients 8-12 scallops, seasoned with salt and pepper ½ cup butter Olive oil 1 clove crushed garlic 1 cup cream Directions: 1-Melt butter with olive oil on medium heat. 2-Add crushed garlic and cook until before browning too much. 3-Add scallops.  They should sizzle as they hit the pan.  Cook scallops a few minutes on each side until cooked through and brown. (Scallops start out very translucent and will become white when cooked through) 4-Add cream.  The heat will reduce[...]

This is a very easy and quick recipe that you could do on a weeknight and people would think you worked very hard at it! Ingredients 8-12 scallops, seasoned with salt and pepper ½ cup butter Olive oil Handful of chopped chives Directions: 1-Melt butter with olive oil on medium-high heat (you want the pan hot) 2-When butter is browning (but be careful not to burn), lower the heat and add chopped chives 3-Add scallops.  They should sizzle as they[...]

We try to eat a lot of fish, so keeping frozen Pacific salmon in the freezer (or other fish) is a must.  This was an easy spur-of-the-moment recipe that I’ll be making again. Ingredients (this recipe serves 2): Frozen or fresh salmon 1/4 cup maple syrup 2 tbsp grainy dijon mustard 2 green onions, chopped 1 1/2 cups rice 1 1/2 cups broth (chicken or vegetable) 2 sprigs tyme, chopped 1 sprig rosemary, chopped 2 fresh sage leaves, chopped 2[...]