main meal
Ideas for the main meal of the day, dinner, be it at noon, early or late afternoon.
Irish bread pudding
What can you do with leftover soda bread? Bake an Irish bread pudding! Bread pudding is always a favorite with children. Irish bread pudding may remind you of the British bread and butter pudding with less butter.
Brazilian fried bananas
Brazilian cook bananas in many ways although frying them in vegetable oil or butter is the probably the most popular. The bananas can be served just the way they come out of the pan as a side dish, as you would find in Cuba, or sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar for a sweet dessert.
Iowa chops
The Iowa chop is a huge, boneless pork chop.
French green salad
A French garlic vinaigrette is an ideal dressing for a green leaf salad.
Shredded beef chimichangas
Chimichangas de carne de res by their Mexican name.
Chicken tamales
The tamale is a traditional dish made by filling a masa coated leaf with any number of ingredients and then cooked by steam. You may think making tamales is hard but nothing could further from the truth as we show you here.
Cilantro lime chicken
This chicken recipe is great to serve as a main dish, with Mexican rice on the side, or incorporated into other recipes like chicken tamales.
Mexican rice
A meal from the southwest is just not the same without Mexican rice as a side dish. There are as many different rice recipes as there are families but one thing is certain, they are all great.
Irish lemon curd cheesecake
An important staple in the Irish diet, curds were used for many things. This recipe for lemon curd cheesecake is mild in flavor and comes with a crispy crust.
Irish soda bread
Irish soda bread, made in a cast iron skillet with buttermilk, sour cream and caraway seeds, is super simple. Mind, it’s heavy bread and therefore excellent served with soup, stew or any dish where you may need to soak up natural juices or gravy.