On the way to Gambia: Beef in Aubergine Sauce

Cookbooks, Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Main Course Recipes

Remember about 5 months ago when I had major water damage and I was suppose to get a new kitchen out of it. Well I did not. Then early last week I had to endure another moment of water problems. No damage (to my stuff, nor in the kitchen) this times but things shook...

The Last CEE Dinner on Meetup

Events, Exotic World Recipes, Montreal Buzz, Restaurant reviews

Do you know how this blog got started? No it was not a need to share my baking skills with the world but a dinner group. On March 11th, 2007 I started a group on Meetup.com called Cheap Ethnic Eatz. Meetup allows people to start a group on what ever you want and then...

High Tea Afternoon

Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Restaurant reviews, Traditions

On the last dinner with the CEE dinner group I met a new member and we really hit it off on a possible friendship level. She also seemed to be quite the foodie and said she worked as a concierge in a hotel downtown. As a concierge she often gets free invites to...

Cooks Challenge Butternut Squash and Vanilla Risotto and Vanilla Chicken

Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Main Course Recipes

The 2010 March Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Eleanor of MelbournefoodGeek and Jess of Jessthebaker. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make risotto. The various components of their challenge recipe are based on input from the Australian Masterchef cookbook...

Daring Cooks Mezze

Bread Recipes, Appetizer Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

The 2010 February Daring COOKs challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid. The February 2010 cooks’...