light meal
Ideas for light meals, either lunch or supper.
Chimichangas
Serve with almond red sauce and jalapeño cream sauce. Prepare the sauces and reserve while cooking chimichangas. Traditional Mexican garnish such as shredded lettuce and cheese, sour cream, guacamole also go well with chimichangas.
Best sloppy Joe recipes from New Jersey
Quick homemade sloppy Joe sandwich
This sloppy Joe recipe uses ketchup, not tomato sauce, and it is the quickest one to prepare. So quick and easy, once you try this one you will wonder how you ever bought the sauce ready made before.
Simple sloppy Joe
Use a simple meat and tomato sauce, just season with your favorite herbs and spices.
Garlic shrimp
Gambas al ajillo are very popular as tapas. The shrimp used for this recipe should not be excessively large. The kind of chili used for this in Spain is known as guindilla, a Spanish hot red chili of the thin and long varieties, usually dried.
Sausage rolls from Nigeria
The dough for the sausage rolls would probably be made with flour, butter, eggs, water and salt, kneaded and left to rise. Chilled pizza dough, however, is a good enough substitute.
No sauce menestra
No sauce, no wine; this is a variation of the menestra Monterrey recipe; we use the same technique.
Peking duck
The key to good Peking duck is the elaborate preparation that takes place before cooking. The bird should be thoroughly plucked and cleaned. Then it must be wiped, preferably with a bit of gin and hung to dry. Let the air flow through the bird for several hours. Keep the mouth open, a small cardboard tube works well.
Moroccan orange almond couscous
This recipe has an interesting blend of spices and flavors very characteristic of Moroccan cuisine.
Buckwheat pancakes
Buckwheat is a seed, although it is used as if it was a cereal, and it does not contain gluten. Try these pancakes for a gluten free breakfast.