Valentine’s Weekend: Cupcake Meringues

Let’s kick off the weekend with two desserts in two different posts. Starting off with meringues. Hard whipped egg whites and sugar in perfect harmony. The blend: 2 egg whites ½ cup of sugar Make sure your eggs are room temperature, or leave them out of the fridge for about 30 minutes. This will allow [...]

Giada de Laurentiis Inspired Filled Bell Pepper

I was reading around through Giada de Laurentiis recipes the other day on Food Network. Her chicken/orzo frittata caught my eye and I wanted to make something similar.I have also wanted to make a filled bell pepper for some time now. Here’s what you need: 2 eggs 1 tbs pesto ½ cup orzo 1 large [...]

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 [...]

Poached Eggs

Today I made something different for breakfast. Poached eggs on bagels sprinkled with old bay seasoning. I was a bit scared of the poaching process at first but it was way easier to do than I first thought. So here we go, breakfast for one: 2 eggs 1 bagle a pinch of old bay for [...]

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 [...]

Yam Frittata

This whole time I have thought a frittata was Spanish/South American! Really it’s an Italian style omelette. And actually the way I’ve prepared omelettes my whole life. Just read up a bit on Wikipedia and learned that French omelettes are prepared only on the stove-top and served folded. Italian frittatas are prepared on the stove-top [...]

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 [...]

Tomato/Parsley Omelette

By now everyone should know how important breakfast is, how it is the starting fuel of the day and what decides your general mood for the whole 16+ hours you’re awake. I’m going to write out a simple omelette recipe that is high in protein and has both vitamins and good antioxidants, and it’s pretty [...]

When Creativity Runs Dry – Experiment!

So what have I been up to for eight months? Not eating? Well kinda. I haven’t really cared for making anything fancy or nice looking. Sandwiches in the evening, porridge in the morning etc. But I got some inspiration out of the blu, and I will start out this new year with talking about how [...]