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Arepas recipe

 

Enjoy this quick and easy traditional Venezuelan arepas recipe. No oven needed, a frying pan works equally well. Fill your arepas simply with cheese or with any combination of savory meats, beans, plantains and/or again cheese.

 

Arepas translated

 

Arepa – Cooked cornmeal pocket stuffed with various ingredients. 
Arepitas – Small fried arepas served as a starter to eat with . . . → Read More: Arepas recipe

How to make ceasar dressing

This is the best ceasar salad dressing recipe to keep when you want to know how to make ceasar dressing.

 

This ceasar salad dressing recipe can be used both on chicken ceasar salad and in any other ceasar salad recipe. Use it when you want to make your "house special best ceasar salad recipe".

 

Ingredients to make . . . → Read More: How to make ceasar dressing

Velveeta soup

Velveeta soup is a delicious rich soup with Velveeta cheese and preferably Guinness Stout beer.

 

Of course you can use this beer cheese soup recipe with Velveeta as a guidance to substitute with your favourite beer, cheese or cheeses like Parmesan.

 

A great tip is using Velveeta recipes, substitute it with your favourite Cheddar cheese and you have . . . → Read More: Velveeta soup

Using zucchini in soup

Using zucchini in soup is an easy way to get through your summer harvest of zucchinis.

 

If you peel the zucchinis, they are ideal for thickening a soup without adding too much colour.

 

If you love the green colour of zucchinis, make sure not to peel them and cook the zucchini soup a bit longer than normal . . . → Read More: Using zucchini in soup

Zucchini potato soup recipe

This quick and easy zucchini potato soup recipe is a variation on the even easier Zucchini cheese soup recipe.

 

Just add some leek and potatoes and you are done!

 

 

Zucchini potato soup recipe ingredients

 

2 big potatoes, cut into pieces 
2 leeks, cut in big rings 
2 small zucchinis (about 1 pound or 500 gram), cut into pieces 
2 pints (1 liter) . . . → Read More: Zucchini potato soup recipe

Taste of Thai

So my dieting friend asks me a Thai cooking recipe without coconut milk, not too spicy and if possible with fresh Basil leaves, as she has a Thai basil growing but has no idea what to do with it. So for her this "taste of Thai" recipe.

More authenticThai food recipe

For those who do have all the . . . → Read More: Taste of Thai

Pork rib recipe

Cooking pork ribs

Cooking pork ribs has never been easier than with this Thai pork rib recipe! You combine in 2 minutes all ingredients for the curry sauce, and then it is up to the pork ribs to distract just enough of their flavor into the curry sauce. Meanwhile the Thai flavors of the curry sauce marinate . . . → Read More: Pork rib recipe

Thai red curry recipe

Homemade Thai red curry recipe

This paste can be used in our Tom Yum Soup Recipe : a delicious hot and spicy Thai Shrimp soup recipe. It can also be used in the other Thai food recipes like Thai red chicken curry

If you can’t buy Thai Red Curry Paste ready made, here follows a recipe to . . . → Read More: Thai red curry recipe

Thai red curry paste recipe

Delicious Thai red curry paste recipe

This Thai red curry paste can be used in our Tom Yum Soup Recipe or in the other Thai food recipes like Thai red chicken curry. If you have made too much Thai red curry paste, freeze it in into small ready sized quantities. So you only need to . . . → Read More: Thai red curry paste recipe

Greek Food Picture

So on my educational trip around Kos Island learning about How to get pregnant in Greece and other Greek cultural activities, the highlight of my trip was of course being able to sample the Greek authentic food!

… Greek fries (cannot call them French fries being on a typical gourmet trip in Kos Island, Greece), Greek omelet . . . → Read More: Greek Food Picture

Edible flowers recipes

As a follow up post about my Hibiscus Edible Flowers in Greece and a reaction about a cookingdiva making soup using Garden Nasturtium Edible Flowers, let me add also an edible flowers recipes for soup.

Simple Indian Cress soup recipe

Cut 2 onions
Remove the stems from the leaves of the Garden Nasturtium (Indian Cress), cut the stems . . . → Read More: Edible flowers recipes

Edible Flowers

Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible flowers? That’s what the self proclaimed cookingdiva told me today when I had a drink in her little tavern with a view over the Aegean Sea.

According to her it’s best to serve the yellow and orangey coloured hibiscus flowers, as the taste reminds you a bit on . . . → Read More: Edible Flowers

Gin Cucumber Martini

Enjoy this most refreshing gin cucumber Martini. Read how to make a cucumber martini in less than 10 minutes! And we reveal the secret why you now have a great excuse to go and buy and extra bottle of Martini …

Gin Cucumber martini ingredients

 

For 1 cocktail you will need:

 

2 1/2 oz (70ml) gin
1/3 oz (10 . . . → Read More: Gin Cucumber Martini

Bitter Lemon Schweppes

More and more people die from liver cancer or heart disease these days due to :

too much stress
obesity
intestine problems due to too much red meat causing colon cancer (which most likely will give a person a secondary liver cancer)
food filled with pesticides

We only have one earth and we only have one life, that’s why health . . . → Read More: Bitter Lemon Schweppes

Spaghetti Meatballs Recipes

This is one of the fastest quick dinner recipes in our list of spaghetti meatballs recipes. You are eating a delicious spaghetti within 30 minutes!

Of course you need the fastest cooking spaghetti you can find, although a normal ready in 10 minutes spaghetti will do fine as well.

The secret of this spaghetti meatballs recipe lies in . . . → Read More: Spaghetti Meatballs Recipes

Strawberry smoothie

The Skinny Cook is back on track making more healthy smoothies than ever and sharing the best smoothie recipes at our dedicated Smoothie Recipe website.

All you need for making fresh fruit smoothies is:

fresh fruit
a smoothie maker (any three in one smoothie machine blender food processor would do the job if you only make a few . . . → Read More: Strawberry smoothie

Peach Smoothie Recipe

What to do with peaches from the shop…

This fruit smoothie recipe uses fresh peaches, and is a welcome idea to use the peaches from an abundant peach harvest if you have peach tress yourself in the garden. Yet it’s even a better idea when you just bought peaches from the shop: peaches that are a little . . . → Read More: Peach Smoothie Recipe

Dog Cake Recipe

What do you do when your pet has a birthday? Bake a birthday cake for pets!

According to our border collie: the best dog cake recipe has been added to the homemade pet food recipes of Dog Treat Cookbooks : a site about recipes for dog treats found in dog treat cookbooks.

Technorati Tags: Pet | Pets . . . → Read More: Dog Cake Recipe

Kuih Rose Recipe

Warning: This will seriously impress even your mother-in-law!

Malaysian desserts or Kuih are normally very sweet! Kuih rose is kind of different as it is deep fried: most likely from the Indian cuisine.

But in the melting pot of all food in Malaysia, the origin is less important than the delicious taste!

Further on Kuih rose . . . → Read More: Kuih Rose Recipe

Maggie Q Naked

We start off with chili hot and spicy Maggie Q to continue dishing up some quick dinner recipes.

Having been away, The Skinny Cook is full with new ideas and recipes to share with you.

Also we will be updating our Dutch Ons KookBoek site, which has been covered with dust and coffee stains since 2006…

Maggie Q Naked

But . . . → Read More: Maggie Q Naked

Heavenly quick Spaghetti for Gabriele Sandri

Can you imagine: you go to a football game and next thing you know: you are in heaven?

That’s exactly what happened to Gabriele Sandri after he was shot "by mistake" by the Italian police… In honour of Gabriele Sandri’s soul:a quick spaghetti dinner recipe by Italian master chef Antonio Carluccio.

Now for the official reaction

Italian Prime Minister . . . → Read More: Heavenly quick Spaghetti for Gabriele Sandri

Nigella express quesadillas

Quesadillas come in many forms and ways, but when it comes to quick dinner recipes: Nigella express quesadillas are a must! What’s even nicer is that you only need to read this recipe once to know it by heart. Cooking without a cookbook makes quick dinner recipes even quicker!

Although I am eating a lot of avocados . . . → Read More: Nigella express quesadillas

Homemade soy milk

I once wrote a post about How to make soy milk, and since we live in the 21th century, I also found a youtube video about how to make soy milk at home.

In these days where organic food is scarce and expensive, you are always better of to buy the basic ingredients in an organic shop, . . . → Read More: Homemade soy milk

Sexy Nigella Express Coleslaw – Quick Dinner Recipe!

I reckon might as well add a picture of sexy Nigella in stead of the coleslaw, as who is really watching what she is cooking anyway? I hear stories of men just turning the volume on and the image off when “enjoying” a Nigella Lawson show… Better than radio it seems!

Having said so: this is a . . . → Read More: Sexy Nigella Express Coleslaw – Quick Dinner Recipe!

Dog Cake Recipe

Baking this dog treat is especially fun when your dog is having his birthday.

For sure my border collie loves this treat! Makes 1 8" (20cm) loaf of pet treat.

Read the recipe here: Dog Cake Recipe or:

buy the complete cheap and good healthy dog treat recipe cookbook at:Homemade-Dog-Treat-Recipes.com

Technorati Tags: Holidays | Pets | Animal . . . → Read More: Dog Cake Recipe

Spice up your dinner with sexy Nigella

From now on we will spice up The Skinny Cook with some gossip or recipes about famous cooks and celebrity chefs.

For our Quick Dinner Recipes, sexy Nigella especially cooks up a storm in her Nigella Express!

Nigella Express

The best new series so far this autumn come from Nigella Lawson: showing of her Nigella Express recipes. Nigella Lawson . . . → Read More: Spice up your dinner with sexy Nigella

My Mum’s Muffin Recipes

Get delicious and yummy muffin recipes at mymuffinrecipes.com for your family and friends!

There are a range of both sweet and savoury types for your choosing and this website is updated regularly with Mum’s muffin recipes.

You can get recipes from My Mum’s Muffins Recipes for strawberry muffins, rum and raisin muffins, mama Mia savoury muffins . . . → Read More: My Mum’s Muffin Recipes

Orange Juice

I love to squeeze 3 oranges a day, yet I do keep having a flu once in a while, so it’s not a bullit proved secret recipe against flu…

How to buy orange and lemon?

When buying citrus fruit: you go to your local fruit seller and ask if the oranges are sweet. Your orange seller will . . . → Read More: Orange Juice

Quick Dinner Recipes: Mom’s curry Chicken

This is mom’s curry recipe: lots of preparation to do if you only use a mortar and pestle.

A lot of sweat and tears for a delicious curry. More tears if you use an extra amount of chilies…

Quick dinner recipes

This curry chicken recipe is prepared much faster using a blender, but mom swears that the authentic . . . → Read More: Quick Dinner Recipes: Mom’s curry Chicken

Quick dinner recipes: Quick and easy tomato sauce recipe

Organic tomato sauce

Tomatoes are ideal in the prevention of cancer (and if you want to know why you don’t want to undergo cancer treatments nor get cancer in the first place, start reading about Secondary Cancer.)

You can buy good organic tomato sauce ready made, which will really speed up your quick dinner recipes. But you can . . . → Read More: Quick dinner recipes: Quick and easy tomato sauce recipe

Homemade salsa recipe

Talking about salsa in my previous post, let’s prepare some real salsa in this post

Salsa recipes

Why add another salsa recipe, when the Internet is overwhelmed with salsa recipes? Because this one is a back to basics salsa recipe given to me by an authentic Mexican. Simple and good

And: this salsa recipe beats . . . → Read More: Homemade salsa recipe

Turkish delight recipe

Condolences to my Greek Cook in the streets

What I was missing this year compared to the last time I was in Kos, was the old lady sitting in the street where I went for a little stroll each and every evening. Seems the old yet generous lady is no more, so this post is in honour . . . → Read More: Turkish delight recipe

Turkish fruit

Just strolling around a fruit vendor in Bodrum: little fruit shop with at the right top the very sweet "Turkish melons" and at the bottom left big, sweet and dripping juicy peaches. There are 2 kinds of peaches I like:

fresh peaches picked from a peach tree
these Bodrum peaches

Technorati Tags: Greece | Greek Food . . . → Read More: Turkish fruit

Strawberry banana smoothie

Another healthy smoothie recipe

Just make sure you buy your fresh fruit strawberries the day you want to make your smoothie drink. Otherwise freeze the strawberries and use them when you feel like drinking a cooling and fresh strawberry drink. Rose flowers are growing strong, that’s why they are on the smoothie drink picture at the left . . . → Read More: Strawberry banana smoothie

Lemon juice, lemon zest

How to buy orange and lemon?

When buying citrus fruit we already told in our previous post what to look for when buying oranges.

For lemons: try to find organic lemons. Organic lemons are the ones with a five-digit number whose first digit is 9. Since lemons can be used much more than just lemon juice . . . → Read More: Lemon juice, lemon zest

Papaya Smoothie from Malaysia

Papaya smoothie

Papaya is growing in each Malaysian garden, when the owner of the garden wants to have some fresh fruit. You just saw the papaya seed and 3 months later you can see the fresh papayas getting ripe on your papaya tree.

Papaya is ideal for making smoothies (if the papayas come for free…): it . . . → Read More: Papaya Smoothie from Malaysia

How to make curry chicken?

There are lots of ways to make curry chicken, basically because “curry” means sauce in it’s language of origin: India. So basically you use a lot of Indian spices to make a chicken “swim” in a sauce.

If you don’t like your chicken to swim, then you go for dry curry recipes.

A curry is any of a . . . → Read More: How to make curry chicken?

Calamansi use

If you live in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines: then you probably have a calamansi tree growing in a pot like we do. Yet in warm summer countries like California or actually more or less everywhere these days due to global warming,
you can grow your calamansi yourself almost everywhere.

Calamansi juice

Lazy men’s calamansi use…

A . . . → Read More: Calamansi use

How to make quick meat balls

I was watching Jamie Oliver in his latest “Jamie at home”. He was cooking up a spaghetti dish in 5 minutes… Which came with burned black meat balls…

Jamie Oliver is whom he is: a hard working father of 2 kids in expensive London England in need of money with a famous TV show, so he is . . . → Read More: How to make quick meat balls

Smoothies

On request of many of my friends, I will start again posting smoothie recipes.

It’s just that smoothies are getting a part of my life just like brushing my teeth is, and since you don’t hear me writing about brushing my teeth every day, I kind of had the same feeling about smoothies.

Yet thanks to global . . . → Read More: Smoothies

Baileys Irish cream recipe

Baileys Irish cream recipe

Ever got an unexpected hungry visitor, yet your fridge is kind of empty and your friend thinks you are the best cook in the world? Normally we go out then, but sometimes I am too lazy to go out: it’s still much easier to improvise a storm

Irish cream drink

I . . . → Read More: Baileys Irish cream recipe

Recipe for prawn curry

Serves 2 or 3, if you buy fresh cleaned prawns, this dish is yet another quick dinner recipe, ready in less than 1 hour.

Recipe for prawn curry : Quick Dinner Recipes

Prawn Curry

Prawns are ideal to make quick dinner recipes when you buy them without the shell. Ask your prawn seller how much prawns you . . . → Read More: Recipe for prawn curry

Oldtown White Coffee

Oldtown White Coffee "Now Open" (Kini dibuka)

Every day I have been passing this building on the road in Kuala Lumpur, and today the first ‘restaurant thingy’ opened there is called "OldTown White Coffee".

For those not living in Malaysia: white coffee is a way of roasting coffee with margarine only. Compared to my father-in-laws’ Hainan coffee . . . → Read More: Oldtown White Coffee

How to make soy milk

Making soy milk

How to make soy milk

Nothing beats home made soy milk, especially when you are making organic soy milk using organic soy beans. You don’t need a fancy soy milk maker: only if you are an addicted soy milk drinker, I advice you to buy an automatic soy milk maker. Otherwise you just . . . → Read More: How to make soy milk

Bo La Lot

Grilled Beef in Vine leaves

Bo La Lot : Vietnamese food

I love to eat this dish when I travel to Vietnam, so I was happy to try it out in the Vietnamese Restaurant in Bangsar Village 1, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Yet I imagine the meat used in Vietnam had some pork included, as the "drier" . . . → Read More: Bo La Lot

Durians are back!

Durian: "Red Prawn" (Udang Merah)

If you visit Malaysia, then come during the durian season, which just started now. Better is to come when the durain season is in full swing. Why? Because:

of the incredible amount of durian supply and
nobody believes a western eats durians,

you can just sample and sample durians for free . . . → Read More: Durians are back!

Quick dinner recipes Thai Basil

My wife gave me a 6/10 for this dish. Must be because I didn’t serve any rice. No rice, no marks… basic eastern cuisine logic!

Anyway, I can brag about this recipe because it is a 1 pan dish ready in less than 30 minutes!

Thai Basil

The plant on the right top are a few stems of . . . → Read More: Quick dinner recipes Thai Basil

Grape smoothie

Grape Smoothie

30 over degrees Celsius (that’s around or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit) today in hot and sunny Malaysia. While western tourists on the beaches in Malaysia try to change themselves into red lobsters, we are doing all we can to keep our head and body cool with this Grape Smoothie!

Grape smoothie ingredients

10 1/2 ounce . . . → Read More: Grape smoothie

How your kids make Belgian Chocolates!

Find more Belgian Chocolate truffles

Belgian Chocolates

Belgian chocolates or pralines as we call it is normally "something inside" (Ganache) with "something chocolate outside".

But every time I come back to Malaysia, my whole family wants those Belgian chocolate delicacies. Unfortunately, KLM airlines let me only carry 20 kg (yes, about 40 pounds), which is a joke if . . . → Read More: How your kids make Belgian Chocolates!

Malaysian Food

Jippee! TheSkinnyCook is back in Malaysia

Tom Yum Soup

See also my Tom Yum Soup Recipe

Sotong (squid that is), prawn, chicken, chilies, veggies, lime, sugar…. all that in a little bowl as if you are in Thailand, yet I am back in Malaysia

Ok, why I love to be back in Malaysia:

to be in my . . . → Read More: Malaysian Food

Chocolate and dessert recipes

This recipe is featured from the Ashley’s Big Secrets Blog

This chocolate truffles recipe is brought to you by Ashley. This culinary diva shares one of her favorite recipe ideas: "faking it in the kitchen". Her chocolates prove that modest people make the best chocolates…

Chocolate truffles are a simply delectable treat that are usually purchased . . . → Read More: Chocolate and dessert recipes

Where to find Quick Dinner Recipes

Here, visiting our Quick Dinner Recipes -site of course

Yet the real quick dinner recipes come from the stay at home moms who mostly even don’t make time to post quick dinner recipes as they are busy multitasking their own lives, the life of their kids and their hubby. Like Chesca, originally from the . . . → Read More: Where to find Quick Dinner Recipes

Filipino recipe

Featuring a Filipino recipe from Filipina mom Chesca. On her blog you will see Chesca is an ex-skin-diver: skin-diving is between snorkling (like I prefer) and free diving: we all enjoy the beautiful world under water without extra oxygen tanks.

Filipino food recipes

Now I have to admit, I just haven’t any Filipino food recipes under my sleeves, . . . → Read More: Filipino recipe

Chicken Wings Recipe

Again a delicious recipe from Wokkingmum! Check out her great wok-king site : "Let’s get wok-king" or just look at her chicken wings picture : it looks like it tastes and it tastes like it looks: delicious culinary standards from Wokkingmums’ private kitchen. (Which in my opinion she should open to start a restaurant…)

How to . . . → Read More: Chicken Wings Recipe

Quick dinner recipes featuring Fried Rice!

Leave a comment if you want your recipe(site) to be featured here

Fried rice

The best way to make sure fried rice doesn’t stick is using overnight fried rice.

Fried rice recipe

Featuring my wify!

This fried rice recipe is from my dearest wife in her dearest writing style and cooking style. When it comes to quick dinner recipes . . . → Read More: Quick dinner recipes featuring Fried Rice!

Taste of home

Feature your personal recipe with a picture in "Taste of Home" !

So many years ago I had a website javabit dot come where I tried to gather home made cooking recipes. The cooking site went bust as I didn’t have a clue how to find people that would share their recipe. Since I added myself . . . → Read More: Taste of home

The best dog food

Dogs are like humans in the sense that they have their own personal preference when it comes to dog food. The only difference with humans is that dogs have 5 times less taste buts than we do, so less salt and less sugar is needed when feeding your pet.

The best dog food recipe has been added . . . → Read More: The best dog food

Unique Valentine gift

Most unique of a Valentines gift is that :

your Valentine gift is a very personal gift and
your Valentine gift shows you know your Valentine!

Never say this is a very quirk dinner recipe drink, just say you worked your butt off for this special Valentines day Yet if you find out that this . . . → Read More: Unique Valentine gift

Quick dinner recipes’ pots and pans

Which pots and pans do I buy?

I always get the question: what pots and pans do I need to buy for my kitchen utensils or cookware? Well, your cookware depends on your cooking skills and cooking wishes. If you go for quick dinner recipes, then a grill pan is ideal.

Grill pan

A grill pan is a cross . . . → Read More: Quick dinner recipes’ pots and pans

New! : Smoothie Recipe

Living with osteoarthritis

For those not having arthritis nor osteoarthritis: joints inside the body become painful, not to mention the joints, so also person is getting less mobile as well. Since I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my left index finger: osteoarthritis is dictating me to find osteo-arthritis treatments and change life according to the osteoarthritis . . . → Read More: New! : Smoothie Recipe

Green lipped mussel extract en Smoothie Recipe

Green Lipped Mussel Extract

Being chronological… In my arthritis treatments quest I got a reply from the company on the left selling green lipped mussels extract: the original Perna. PERNATON®, the original Green Lipped Mussel Extract Gel is formulated to aid connective tissue and joint care. It helps to provide instant relief from the aches and pains . . . → Read More: Green lipped mussel extract en Smoothie Recipe

Thai green curry paste recipe

Thai green curry paste recipe

This Thai green curry paste can also be made like the red curry paste by substituting red peppers with green peppers at: Thai red curry paste recipe.

How to make the authentic Thai green curry paste recipe

Authentic is always to be taken with a pinch of salt… If you are adventurous, then . . . → Read More: Thai green curry paste recipe

Thai red curry chicken

Thai red curry chicken paste based recipe

If you live in South East Asia like we do, we just by the Thai Red Curry Paste form the shops. So if you don’t live here nearby, and you want to find a ready made Thai red curry paste, go to any Asian supermarket. If there are no Asian supermarkets . . . → Read More: Thai red curry chicken

Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

Super-healthy & delicious Strawberry-Yogurt Smoothie
This fruit smoothie recipe uses the most healthy ingredients possible to make an incredible refreshing and healthy fruit smoothie. Try to use natural yogurt, organic grown strawberries and organic brown sugar for more taste and more health.

Go to Fruit smoothie recipes to  read this Strawberry . . . → Read More: Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

Lime Smoothie from Malaysia

Limau Kasturi Lime smoothie

Very easy smoothie: throw in the whole lime and sieve afterwards We use limau kasturi: a small green lime, but you can experiment this smoothie with the lime of your choice.

Go to Fruit smoothie recipes to read this . . . → Read More: Lime Smoothie from Malaysia

Fresh Cherry Smoothie

Healthy fruit smoothie recipes

Nothing better than the taste of fresh cherry in a smoothie! We only used cherries as the fruit of choice in this fruit smoothie recipe.

Go to Fruit smoothie recipes to read this . . . → Read More: Fresh Cherry Smoothie

Fruit smoothie recipes

Fruit smoothie recipes for summer

Nothing better to cool down on a hot day with healthy smoothies.

The Skinny Cook will gather fruit smoothie recipes from the warm countries and starts with a simple Malaysian pineapple smoothie.

Go to Fruit . . . → Read More: Fruit smoothie recipes