Rum Plum Compote

It’s delicious Monday at Kingly Foods. Let’s kick off the week with a delicious and fast, dessert: 1 tbs butter 3 large ripe plums 2-3 tbs brown sugar ½ cup rum 1 cinnamon stick Slice the plums into half inch discs. Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the brown sugar and plums. [...]

Plantain Weekend: Fried Plantains

It looks like a banana. It kind of smells like a banana, if banana was a vegetable. But taste different when you bite into it. And it’s alot harder to peel! Kicking off this theme weekend with plantains :) For this simple recipe you’ll need: 1 plantain 1½ cup water 1 tbs salt 3 cloves [...]

Ginger Red Cabbage

Cabbage is way underrated and often only found as sauerkraut in the grocery store, obviously also as just a head of cabbage. Anyway. I mixed together some ingredients and added ginger to the mix and let me tell you, it was so much better than I thought it would be – definitely Kingly Foods worthy! [...]

Thai Coconut Rice

I was reading around for coconut rice recipes and the Thai style coconut rice seemed to be the most entre like. South American and Indian coconut rice seemed a lot more dessert like. So here is a simple Thai coconut rice recipe. What we need: 1 can of coconut milk 1 can of water 1 [...]

Roasted Bell Pepper Salad

Today I’m posting two similar posts, the first one will be a tangy bell pepper salad and the other a vegetarian pasta dish. For the salad you will need: 1 red bell pepper about 1/3 cup kalamata olives (10-15 olives) about 1/3 cup sun dried tomatoes 3 garlic cloves Pit the kalamata olives and cut [...]

Quinoa With Grilled Zucchini

I’ve been buying quinoa pasta for a long time having no idea of what it really was. So I looked it up. this crop has become highly appreciated for its nutritional value, as its protein content is very high (12%–18%), making it a healthy choice for vegetarians and vegans. Unlike wheat or rice (which are [...]

Chunky Vegetable Stew

Tasty chunky vegetable dish, perfect for this cold weather. Takes about 20 minutes including preparations. Here’s what I used: 5-6 green onions 1 zucchini 14oz canned tomatoes 4 celery stalks 1 red bell pepper salt, pepper to taste garlic powder handful of parsley 1 tbs dried tarragon Start out with chopping up the green onions [...]

Super Bowl Snacks!

Super Bowl Sunday is on. The game starts in about 5½ hours and I will not even have time to shop after work to get home in time. So no cooking for Kingly Foods today! Instead I pulled out some great recipes from the archive that suits the occasion perfectly! From the left: Pico de [...]

Baby Red Hash Brownes With Fried Onions

The colder the morning the warmer the food. Although I didn’t have these for breakfast they still fit in the previous sentence. It is indeed cold today and it calls for warm breakfast and lunch. Fast and classic hash brownes with fried onions, really good. I promise. I got inspired watching Alton Brown making his [...]

Pico de Gallo

Mexican salsa or salsa mexicana, is the perfect condiment for Spanish and Mexican food. Pico de Gallo means “Rooster’s beak” and is made with the colours of the Mexican flag. Tomatoes (red), Onions (white) and cilantro (green). Super simple to make, I made it a little bit of my own with additional spices and here’s [...]