Hello everyone…hoping the weekend was a good one. It’s Monday, the beginning of a new week and hopefully a good one for everybody. This weekend was quite warm. sunny and just lovely to be outside. When I mean outside I just sat in the garden and caught up on some reading material on food blogging of course, and some other things that I needed to catch up on. I did a bit of gardening 🙂 and I just wanted to thank Luda from Plants and Beyond, for her advise in regards to adding coffee grinds into my small garden it was spot on! 🙂 All my herbs and salads flourished these past weeks, and we were able to have home grown lettuce in our salads!! hooraayyyy 🙂 Just fantastic!! I also planted Broccoli, this has become huge I am not sure if my little garden will be able to hold it. 🙂This is a Greek dish…with ingredients that I am hoping would exist in everyones fridge. I know that Carrots and Peas may not be the first choice for lunch or dinner, but if you add tomatoes and a bit of tomato paste well I am sure you will be going back for more. 🙂 It is truly a very simple recipe just a few steps and you’ve got a delicious and healthy meal for lunch or dinner or even a side dish.. 🙂

Hi everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your weekend :) A brand new week ahead of us and I am hoping that it is a good one for everyone. I am back with a salad again today, and this one I know that everyone knows and has tried :) the Traditional Greek Salad, or otherwise known in Greece as "Choriatiki Salata" which translated into English means "Country Salad" or "Village Salad"This reminds of a story, my Dad had a really great sense of humour sometimes his jokes were just to funny that my stomach would hurt from laughing so much, but sometimes he would say things that were just so nonchalant...This is really funny but you need to understand Greek to be able to understand. We had gone to a Greek Tavern in Chasia which is an area in Athens that mainly has Greek Taverns. :) We were just about to order the appetisers when my dad turned around in a very nonchalant way and asked the waiter if they had "Vlaxiki salata" instead of saying "Choriatiki salata". We had never heard this salad referred to as Vlaxiki Salad, we had a good laugh and so did the waiter!! :)The truth is that back in those days the Villagers would grow there own tomatoes, cucumbers, so when working in the fields they would have a Tomato, Cucumber a few olives on a napkin to eat. So the term Vlaxiki Salata comes from how they used to eat, as years followed the named changed to Greek Salad, or Choriatiki. :) My mom grew up in a village so she told me that back then this is what my grandfather use

I love a pork roast (pieczeń wieprzowa in Polish) and this is one of my best recipes. I call it "In the Polish style" as it is heavy on the garlic. Don't cut back on the garlic, though, because, as the roast bakes, the garlic cloves caramelize and become sweet bits of goodness within the roast. This was a common roast served at our kitchen table when we were growing up in Michigan.

Pretty cool and easy recipe for a busy weekday or a lazy Sunday! I know I used a specific kind of pasta (pocini trumpets) but you can sub it for your favorite. Fettuccine would work perfect! I also used chili infused olive oil for more flavor but you don't have to. It will still taste amazing.

I wanted a companion dish to cook with meatloaf in the oven. So I came up with this veggie dish, full of flavor.

Probably not that authentic, but still a great dinner if your in the mood for lamb.

This recipe grew out of my want for something like chicken and dumplings without the all day affair that represents. My family loves this meal, I make it in a 5qt Dutch oven, and the stew is gone before bedtime.

Good as an easy lunch or as a weeknight dinner

It's been described as the kind of shepherd's pie you might be served 50 years ago, and I think that's fair. It's so good that it will take you back, spiritually, to the childhood you should have had.

I love this dish on a sunny day out on the deck, served with pork slovaki straight from the BBQ.

This recipe was a lil out of my kids "comfort zone" the first time I made it, but it is so incredibly flavorful and delicious, it quickly became a family favorite. Please do not substitute breasts- the thighs are perfect for this dish!

4 net carbsMy adaptation of recipe from Cooking Light magazine**I like this salad but it does not keep too long in the refrigerator.