A long time ago when we lived in southern Ontario, we used to go to Mexican Town in Detroit a lot. It was one of our favorite places to go on the weekend. There you'll find some of the best Mexican food in the world and my favorite of all, the best margaritas. It was like a vacation every weekend, it was our getaway. Some of my favorite things to eat were chicken enchiladas, flaming fajitas and the fresh ta ...

My passion for alcohol only goes as far as Mojitos or Margaritas, but I do love to cook with it. I've always used red wine and white wine and occasionally vodka, but cooking with Bourbon is fairly new to me. I would never drink Bourbon unless it was in some sort of cocktail, but I do like the flavor of it in food. Although I originally thought that Bourbon Chicken is a Chinese dish, it is actually a Cajun d ...

Happy Easter Everyone! No big dinner for us today though, our Easter is not till next weekend. So chicken for dinner it was. Well I had no idea what to call this concoction of mine, but since I used lots of alcohol in it, white wine and bourbon, I decided to call it drunken and creamy chicken, the creamy part comes from the half and half cream. I think it's an appropriate name. :) I don't know why I mixed w ...

Whenever I make anything with chicken at my house, the dog is glued to me. Well it happens with bacon, or pork, OK any meat really. So it's really hard to cook when you have a little dog by your feet. Oh, you know I love it. I love my little sweetheart. Anyway, chicken is my favorite meat, and as long as it's not dry I love chicken regardless of how it's cooked. These chicken poppers are to die for, with or ...

If you like hot and spicy foods, then this buffalo chicken and grilled cheese sandwich is for you. Although it may not look very spicy, trust me when I say it was. Regardless, this sandwich is incredible! It is so much better than a regular chicken salad sandwich, there is so much more flavor in it. They were so good, my husband said they were the best sandwiches he ever ate.  Well it's not that hard to ach ...

I love Indian food and just recently went to an Indian restaurant with my husband. He really enjoyed the tandoori chicken there and I thought I'd attempt to make it home. Now obviously making it at home will never turn out as it does in restaurants, because I don't have the right oven, but this recipe which I found here, with a couple changes of my own, turned out quite good . You get all the right smells o ...

One of my favorite meals ever is chicken fajitas. This is a dish I learned to make a long time ago when I first lived on my own. It's very easy to make and it's a dish full of flavor. I would also say it is healthy, because of the ingredients. Fajitas is a Spanish term and it usually refers to a grilled meat served in a taco or a flour corn tortilla. So you can literally make these fajitas with any meat you ...

Fried chicken is one of my favorite things to eat. I love fried chicken served with a side of mashed potatoes, a great salad, or simply just plain!  Unfortunately I don't make fried chicken often, well because it's not the healthiest thing to eat, but it's great every once in a while, like when you have friends over. Fried chicken is one of those first things you learn to make because it's so simple. I thin ...

On a cold winter day, there is nothing better than a nice hot chicken pot pie. And cold it has been here in Calgary, -30 or lower. Thankfully a Chinook is coming and today it has warmed up a bit. The only thing I don't like about Chinooks is the headache that comes with it. In any case, a good chicken pot pie is perfect for this kind of weather. This recipe is very easy, the best part about it, is the crust ...

Let me tell you about butter chicken. It is the best chicken dish you will ever eat. I remember the first time I had butter chicken was about 10 years ago when I first went to an Indian restaurant for lunch and tried all sort of Indian dishes. Butter chicken was by far my favorite dish and every time I go to an Indian restaurant I have to have it. Now there are many variations of butter chicken, and I've tr ...

Today I learned a new term used in the cooking world. As you guys may know, if you've read my profile page, I'm not a chef or I have not been trained as one. Everything I do, I learned on my own, or any of my traditional Romanian recipes, I've learned from my mother. However, I love the food network channel, and that is pretty much all I ever watch on TV. So last night I was watching a show which I think it ...

I've had this classic Frenchbook for years now, and I've always been afraid to try any of the recipes in there. I've always thought of French food as difficult or time consuming, but very delicious. Well this past weekend I decided to look through the book and see if there was any dish in there that wouldn't scare me off. So this is how I came across this old fashioned chicken fricassee recipe, and the thin ...

So here we are on a weekday and you come home from a long day at work and you need to make dinner. Well this salad and chicken could not get any easier. This is not necessarily a recipe, it's just more of a dinner idea. A dinner that is good for you, and it's quick and easy to make. Sometimes we don't want to slave in the kitchen for hours to come up with an extravagant dinner, sometimes we just want to get ...

We all probably have our own stir fry recipes and this is my chicken stir fry recipe. I should correct that, this is my husband's chicken stir fry recipe. We always make this together and it always turns out great. We may switch it up a bit every once in a while, like use different vegetables, but this is our tried and true chicken stir fry and we love it. I love cooking with my husband, we have fun and we ...

I know I always say I have a treat for you, but this time you have to believe me. These spicy chicken wings will truly rock your world! The dressing for these wings is really out of this world, it is absolutely incredible. And the best thing about these wings is that they are baked. That's right, you heard me, they are baked, so less fat, but just as delicious, if not better. I love going to restaurants and ...