Besides Mexican food one of the popular food choices is Chinese food. These two types of food are typically eaten in restaurants. If you are not Chinese or Mexican you most likely do not cook Chinese or Mexican food. I love cooking different recipes, that aren’t the “normal” meals. Have you ever heard of Asian Slaw? Well, Chef Guy Fieri, has a few recipes for 'Asian Slaw' (on right). It is basically a salad. However it isn’t just any salad. It has many vegetables, some of which are used often in Asian meals, like snap peas and bok choy.
If you are craving barbeque chicken and Asian food, what will you do? Well, you can make Emeril Lagasse’s ‘Asian Spicy Barbeque Chicken’(above). It is deliciously flavored with sesame oil, peanut oil and soy sauce. With summer right around the corner, we have the perfect dish you can prepare! Robin Miller has a recipe called ‘Grilled Asian Kebabs over Rice’(on left). This dish is a complete meal with vegetables, meat and rice! The unsuspecting, but delicious ingredient is black bean sauce. Enjoy this dish anytime of the day.
These recipes are different, yet they still have a hint of Asian in them. Be inspired and learn some new recipes!
In the mood for trying something different? Out of the ordinary? Something you would think you would never try before? How about going South? They have delicious recipes nothing out of the ordinary. Something you can probably make in your own home.
To give a bit of a background on the history of Southern food. Southern Louisiana developed significant culinary traditions, Louisiana Creole cuisine in southeastern Louisiana centered on New Orleans, Louisiana. Cajun cuisine in central to Acadiana in southwestern Louisiana.
I have given you a bit of background information about the food history,now lets talk some recipes. Here are a couple of recipes that I found are delicious.
Here are some homemade buscuits that you would love to have for a special dinner, the holidays, or any other ocassion you might have. You can put jelly on them, jam, or butter. They are very good and fulfilling and will do great in any dinner.
Another great recipe that can be served as either a snack or an appetizer is Pita Chips. This chips are homemade and are might delicious. They can be followed by an dip of your choice.
I have showed you some great snacks that can go along with a great entree. This recipe is magnificent, it includes delicious pasta with chicken.
These recipes are made by the famous and well known chefs such as Paula Deen, Emeril, and many more.
Mexican recipes are delicious to have. Most people love eating mexican cuisine, most people eat it because of the great taste, the spices, the salsas, and other authentic foods. I personally do not like spicy food but I tend to try it at times but usually I need a huge glass of water next to me. I cannot handle the hotness!
One of my favorite mexican foods is las enchiladas. They are really delicious. These mexican enchiladas can either have beans inside, cheese, chicken, or even meat. Of course you will need to cook the chicken and make sure to shred it into piece not to small and you will also need to fry the tortilla in oil for a little bit. The tortilla is either dipped into a red sauce or a green sauce. It is up to you, in which, salsa you can handle. Then you put either the chicken or the meat, fold the tortilla and you can either put them in the oven for a bit of more time with cheese on time, to make the cheese melt or you can also use mexican fresh cheese.
I will be providing you some of the recipes that are my personal favorites and will soon become yours too. You can find these recipes on
Like I mentioned before mexican cuisine is mmmmmmmmm good. Ok so you like fondue right? well guess what there is a mexican fondue. Surprise!!! I bet. It is very good and you could eat it with chips or bread. You pick which one is best for you. This mexican fondue can be served at party, gathering, or a bar-b-que.
We talked about the main dish, so what about that hot summer day when you just feel like eating something fresh and fullfilling. I have the perfect recipe. It is called "Fajita" Torta It includes tomatoes and avocadoes....making your mouth watery huh. You could eat with french fries mexican chips or doritos or cheetos.
Wolfgang Puck is one famous chef who has his own restaurant with multiple locations. He uses fresh California ingredients in his French style cooking. He is commended by Hollywood stars and world leaders. You can even purchase frozen pizzas, pastas and canned soups made by him! His company sells cookware and appliances and has catering services. In 1998 Puck won the Outstanding Chef Award from the James Beard Foundation.
One of his easier recipes is ‘Straw and Hay Pasta' (on right). It only takes 15 minutes for preparation and 15 minutes for cooking. If you are a dairy lover, then this is a healthy recipe for you! It has heavy cream, butter and Parmesan cheese in it. Another easy recipe is ‘Couscous Salad' (below). The interesting ingredient in this recipe is cinammon. There are quite a few vegetables in this recipe from cucumbers to bell peppers.
Not a big fan of meat? Want to lose that extra weight? Or maybe you just want to live a healthier lifestyle. Going vegetarian is not as hard as you think and many of our favorite chefs cater to the vegetarian lifestyle. I have found many great vegetarian recipes on foodnetwork.com's vegetarian cooking and even browsing around some of famous chef's websites including but not limited to: Sandra Lee's, Rachel Ray's, and Emeril's.
Of course the mark of the healthy eater is a salad. But there are so many different ingredients you can add to lettuce to make it tastier and more filling. First try adding fruits like apples, pears, apricots, and strawberries. These fruits go great with balsamic dressings and fruit based dressings. Other vegetarian ingredients include beans (black, pinto, garbanzo, snap-peas), corn, artichokes, avocados, tomatoes, barley, walnuts, almonds, pecans, to name a few. Salads don’t have to leave you starving at the end.
There are also some great ideas for appetizers like hummus, edamame beans, bruschetta, vegetarian pot stickers and spring rolls. Hummus, which is usually pureed garbanzo beans or chick peas, with olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper, is easy to make and you can add different things to it to give it different flavors, like red pepper, roasted garlic, grilled onions, olives, tomato and more. It is a great appetizer and very healthy for you. Best served with bread, pita bread, or tortilla chips.
Meals are a breeze with vegetarian thinking. A sandwich tastes great with ingredients like grilled veggies, veggie burgers, black bean chili, Portobello mushrooms, and mouth watering cheeses like ricotta, feta, cheddar, and mozzarella. Pastas can easily be transformed into delicious vegetarian dishes in the same way. Some great pasta dishes include: potato gnocchi, cheese or spinach ravioli, and baked ziti.
All of these recipes and ideas can be found by your favorite chefs at foodnetwork.com. Or you can check out some of these books we found on amazon.com. Vegetarian living is healthy, simple, and can still be delicious.
Paula Deen,owner of Lady and Sons, a famous Savannah restaurant, is Food Network's resident southern chef. Her delicious food is both uncomplicated and comforting.
She has a new show on FoodNetwork called Paula's Party. She loves to interact with her guest, have a great time, and make her audience laugh while she is cooking one of her famous recipes.
She has great recipes for the holidays, parties, an ordinary day dinner, and she also has her famous desserts.
Here is an episode of her show that is very entertaining and cooks up dinners and desserts and other yummy foods. She has a theme for this episode that she dresses up for different decades such as the 60s, 70s, 80s...
She also has other delicious meals that you can find on either or on her own website
Here are some of her recipes:
This recipe is Paula's Hurry Up Chicken Pot Pie This is a very delicious meal that can be served as an appetizer or as an entree. This recipe includes delicious vegetables and it's a great meal for all the chicken lovers.
Here is Paula's Special Pinini. This is Paula's Special sandwich that includes varies cheeses that are delicious. She uses ciabatta loaf but you can substitute the loaf for your own favorite.
Paula is the type of chef that loves to cook and show her audience how to make her famous recipes and her favorites. On the other hand, she also loves to entertain her guest and make them feel at home and having a good time.
Paula also has her very own house seasoning for cooking that can be purchased through her website.
These are some of Paula's cookbooks that I suggest to help you in a meal that you may need.
"Keep it simple, keep it sweet and keep it semi-homemade!"
Sandra Lee always ends her show with this friendly sign off and leaves you with great ideas for easy and delicious recipes including some great table scape decorations. She usually always has a theme to her show whether its a season, a holiday, special guests, a picnic, barbeque, or a kids day she always covers the basics of meals and entertaining.
In this episode she has a beach theme for an easy beach table scape, fish appetizers and a delicous themed meal.
I have a couple of her cook books and I just love her ideas because they are so easy. They taste like they really are made from scratch but she just gets groceries and has found a way to make them better into delicous semi-homemade meals. There are just so many delicious meal ideas. You can go check out her vast selection of meal and entertaining ideas at either foodnetwork.com or at her own website semihomemade.com. These sites also show her table scape and decoration ideas and the easiest and cheapest way to copy it.
One of the many great recipes I found from her is a healthier spin on a burger and fries meal. First she starts out with really good "sweet potato fries". Then she makes these great "apple maple turkey burgers with maple dijon mustard". I liked all of the ideas for this episode because I don't eat red meat and I try to eat healthy so these were great and tasted just as good as the real thing!
I have yet to find a bad recipe from her and I love how she makes such delicious meals and decorations so creative and accessible to anyone.
Jamie Oliver, also known as the "Naked Chef," cooks with simple easy to find ingredients. He has two shows on the Food Network; Jamie at Home and Jamie’s Kitchen. On one show he focuses on one main ingredient and cooks various home-style recipes.
Oliver has various books. In his Jamie’s Kitchen, he has a ‘Chargrilled Marinated Vegetables’ recipe (on left). This is perfect for the spring and summer months, when people barbecue. However this recipe can still be made when a barbecue is not available. Just use a griddle pan! Besides vegetables, the only ingredients used are: garlic, white wine vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper.
Oliver has unique salad recipes. One delicious one is ‘Couscous with Grilled Summer Vegetables and Loadsa Herbs’(on right). This is a perfect recipe for the summer! Once again, besides the vegetables the other ingredients are: red wine vinegar, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. The couscous is prepared differently and thus has a "bite" to it.
Another great recipe is ‘Farfalle with Cabonara and Spring Peas'(on left). This delicious recipe is creamy and flavored with mint, bacon and Parmesan cheese. It is a great alternative to the classic cabonara.
If you want healthy and fresh meals, you can always rely on Jamie Oliver!
