Recipes

Simple, tasty and spicy are the keywords hereThe 20 best easy pasta recipes – in fullThis is one of my favourite dishes. It’s one of the first things you can teach your children to cook – if they are adventurous with strong flavours – and it will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives, when money is short or cooking for a gang at university or after a late night.My wife, Plaxy, cooks this for us when we arrive in Puglia on the silly o’clock flight, having been up since 3am. A cold crisp white wine,...

Mountain Fork, AR in Polk County. Never heard of it? Neither had I🤔🤔. There’s just not a whole lot written about Mountain Fork. Seems to be just a tucked away place in Polk County, very near the Oklahoma border. I’ve added a photo (not mine) of their Mountain Fork Bridge. This bridge is on the historical register and celebrates 100 years this year❤️ This week’s cookbook, “Heart & Soul Cookbook”, was compiled by the members of Christ’s Church at Mountain Fork. The community first began hosting Sunday school in 1954 at the school house. Construction of the church began the...

Hot summer days will soon be here, it is nice to have several entrée “salad” recipes on hand which are easy to prepare and avoid heating up the entire kitchen. “Tuna & Pasta Salad” is one of these dishes. This pasta salad is a twist on the old-time classic, “Tuna Noodle Casserole.” To make the salad, I added canned tuna fish, hard boiled egg, several vegetables and a “lite” dressing to cooked bow tie pasta. Rather than baking in the oven, the entrée is chilled and served cold. It is a “meal-in-one.” I scaled the ingredients down to make two...

Who doesn’t love a good pesto sauce with some pasta?! Pesto is such a wonderful sauce that you can play around with and make many different versions. The version I have for you today is a little different than most and the one I use when making pesto pasta at home. It is a plant based pesto with a slightly creamy consistency. This recipe has pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, and instead of basil it has spinach. You can certainly add some basil if you’d like – however it is also wonderfully delicious with the spinach. Pumpkin seeds provide vitamin A...

If golden, garlicky spuds are your idea of a heavenly side dish, you'll adore these Garlicky Roasted Asparagus and Potatoes. The potatoes are crunchy on the outside and melt in your mouth, and the asparagus roasts up juicy and crispy and so delicious. Golden bits of garlic scattered throughout add amazing yum! This garlicky roasted asparagus and potatoes recipe is a reader favorite and a super simple one that takes minutes to put together. And it goes fabulously with just about any main dish. You get to enjoy two of spring's best veggie offerings -- baby potatoes and asparagus-- in...