Category Archives: Quick Meals

Black Pepper Beef

This dish isn’t exactly like the traditional Chinese Black Pepper Beef with the stir fry onions and sometimes bell peppers.  At first glance, it appears to look more like the Vietnamese Bo Luc Lac (Shaking Beef) because the beef is cubed and not sliced and is served with a watercress salad.  It’s sort of a...

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Tomato and Basil Tilapia with Couscous

I love cooking Tilapia… it’s the easiest fish to prepare.  It’s good fried, grilled, baked, breaded… you just can’t go wrong.  Here’s a good and simple dish requiring few ingredients.  This was served with instant Israeli couscous. s 

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The Big Flood Fish Sandwich

It was anything but a relaxing Saturday morning in our household as we woke up to a flooded house.  Inches of rain welcomed us first thing in the morning.  As the Matador went to work on removing furniture and drying the place up, I visited the local market for some fresh ingredients to make some...

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Sliders

I love sliders… I love all things mini… besides, you can have a hamburger without the guilt of having a HAMBURGER.  Everytime I’ve made these I’ve changed up the ingredients – here’s what I did this time. It’s pretty straight-forward so I didn’t write up preparation instructions.  Here are the specific ingredients I used however –...

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