Recipe

Oven Baked Salmon Goujons

Oven Baked Salmon Goujons with Honey Mustard Mayonnaise

We eat fish usually about once a week, and a lot of the time we either oven bake or grill the whole fillet with nothing more than some herbs or a little seasoning. What fish we buy depends on what is on offer at the time and this week it was salmon. I was in …

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Corned Beef & Cabbage an Irish-American Saint Patty’s Day Classic

Corned Beef with Cabbage, Carrots and Potatoes

On March 17th almost everyone in the United States claims to have some Irish heritage in their blood. Aside from drinking green colored beer, chewing Guinness, wearing silly leprechaun green paper hats and being a little green around the gills from too much Irish Whiskey, there is the traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage. …

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Sandwich Ideas – What is a sandwich anyway?

Sandwich Ideas

Before we get down to some good sandwich ideas, what is a sandwich anyway? In English, the verb sandwich, means something between two other things. The noun sandwich, usually means a two slices of bread with a filling, however there are open sandwiches where the filling is not sandwiched between bread, but laid on top …

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Roasted Chicken (Herbs de Provence), Stuffed with Fresh Rosemary

Carved Roasted Chicken

There was a time in American history when the family would sit down for a roasted chicken or a roast beef on a Sunday afternoon. This image almost seems like a Norman Rockwell painting, but it was a very real weekly occurrence. For too many the process of roasting a chicken for Sunday dinner is …

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Smørrebrød – Danish Open Sandwiches

Creamed Herring Smorrebrod

Smørrebrød is literately Danish for butter and bread (smør og brød), but has come to mean Danish open-faced sandwiches. If you have ever been to Copenhagen, you will have surely seen shop windows displaying meticulously arranged open sandwiches which are an important part of Danish life. The basis for Smørrebrød is rugbrød, a dark rye …

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