main meal
Ideas for the main meal of the day, dinner, be it at noon, early or late afternoon.
Chicken nacho salad
Winner of the Best Warm Salad Competition at All Foods Natural. Scrumptious flavors that blend together beautifully.
Chicken Creole
Make this one week evening, when you are in hurry but you need to whip something flavorful.
Blueberry cake
Excellent and nutritious as breakfast, dessert or snack, and a change from blueberry pancakes.
Bay leaf kebabs
You can also cook the kebabs on top of a grill. A charcoal fire adds extra flavor, but any ordinary grill will serve.
Basic chili con carne
This is the most basic recipe for chili. Chili keeps well frozen, so go ahead, cook extra and freeze some portions for future meals.
Irish coddle
Coddle is a traditional Irish dish made up of layers of bacon rashers and sausage, sliced potatoes and onion. It is steamed or partially boiled and seasoned with salt and pepper.
Best apple pie
This recipe is a version of the first place winner in the Connecticut Two-crusted Pie final. The original used butter flavored shortening for the crust, instead of butter, and it only called for vegetable oil, instead of sunflower oil.
Balmain bug salad
This salad is a specialty of Sydney. Contrary to what any may might think, balmain bugs are not insects. Balmain bugs are a type of slipper lobster, not a true lobster, but they have a taste and texture similar to the real one.
If you cannot find balmain bugs, which are usually sold in fish markets along Australian eastern coast, especially Sydney, any crustacean will be a boog substitute. Substitute balmain bugs with prawns, shrimp, crab or lobster - use 1 lobster, cooked and prepared for this recipe.
Basic menestra
This is the most traditional way to prepare a menestra. To prevent the sauce from sticking to the bottom of the pan once simmering, just shake the pan.