Peruvian style chicken rice soup loaded with cilantro, elevated with the addition of black rice and crispy chicken skin

tapas style smokey beef/mushroom meatballs stuffed with Manchego, served on a smear of spicy romesco sauce

Frittata is not just for brunch - this fennel zucchini frittata is perfect for lunch or dinner, served with a salad and some crusty bread

up your overnight french toast by using croissants and caramelized pears, topped with a handful of pecans

Creamy no bake matcha cheesecake with Matcha Pocky Granola crust is the dessert you need now.

Cooking pasta in an Instant Pot (or other electric PC) produces the perfect amount of starchy cooking water for carbonara.

An electric pressure cooker like the Instant Pot, takes hours off the cooking time without sacrificing any of the flavour- posole express!

Spicy Puy lentils, full of olives, bomba and chorizo piled high on crostini. Perfection.

You can make chili, starting with dried beans, in just under and hour with a pressure cooker. Grandma was on to something!

Quick and easy thanks to my Instant Pot pressure cooker, this rich chicken and lentil stew can now be a weeknight staple

A healthier spin on Spicy Pork with Green Beans that replaces half the pork with mushrooms.

Once you start to sous vide, you will never cook your meat any other way. This was the most tender souvlaki I have ever had.

Tender meatballs with a little secret, cooked right in the tomato sauce

You can also cook these in the oven but either way, these miso pork meatballs, rolled in sesame seeds are delicious.

Spicy Gochujang Beef Stew - A Korean spin on a simple pot of beef stew

Miso marinated ribs in the slow cooker and finished with a rich miso/gochujang bbq sauce

The heat in this caramel corn comes from Korean gochujang paste and the crunch from crispy, roasted beluga lentils.

Brown Butter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies stuffed with Trader Joe Spekulas Cookie Butter

Brown Butter Ricotta Apple Napoleon- riesling apple compote, brown butter whipped ricotta and some pre-baked puff pastry.

After years of searching, I have finally found the elusive magic ingredient for my mom's egg salad- Nathan's Sweet Horseradish Pickles!

Rigatoni with a rich meat sauce made with sweet Italian sausage instead of ground beef

Filipino Inspired Meatballs in a peanuty Kare Kare sauce.

replace the bulgar wheat with raw, ground up cauliflower for a delicious gluten free version - you won't even know it's not there

Back to school means stocking the freezer with lunch items and these mushroom beef burritos certainly fit the bill.