Steak Bacon Walnut Blue Cheese Caesar Salad – a bold collision of flavours and textures in an outstanding dinner salad that’s a complete meal in itself.

Grilled Balsamic Peach Pork Tenderloin – A cinnamon and spice rubbed pork tenderloin served with simply marinated and grilled balsamic peaches.

Strawberries & Cream Bread Pudding. An old fashioned, comfort food classic with a delicious summer twist, during strawberry season and beyond. Originally published Feb 2011. Regular readers of this blog will know that Spouse has a great fondness for bread pudding. With Valentine’s Day falling this week, I couldn’t think of a better dessert than …

Frittata Primavera. This recipe uses leftover pasta to create an entirely new brunch or lunch dish. So colourful, tempting and delicious! Originally published Feb 2008 Sunday brunch this week begins with leftover pasta prima vera and leftover baked ham that we had earlier this week. Spouses favorite brunch is a frittata and this one is …

Mango Orange Dressing on Prosciutto Apple Salad. Using pureed fruit as the base makes for an incredibly delicious, no fat added salad dressing.

Steak Tomato and Smoked Paprika Soup. A terrifically tasty way to use leftover grilled steak but well worth cooking steak especially for this hearty soup.

Sweet Mustard Sauce. A quick and easy salad dressing type sauce that can be used to drizzle over your favourite potato salad or as a dip for veggies.

White Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberries. This recipe has the key to perfectly baking a gorgeous, lusciously creamy white chocolate cheesecake every time.

Strawberry Pie. Southern style with no artificial colours or flavours. Why interfere with the sweet natural flavour of summer ripe strawberries?

Seared Rib Steak with Crispy Onion Petals and Brown Butter Hollandaise. Chef Mark McCrowe shows us a perfect sharing dish for two this Valentines Day, or any day of the year you want to celebrate your sweetheart.