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Chicken Pot Roast with Apples and Cider

December 29, 2015 By Laura 7 Comments

Pot Roast Chicken with Apples and Cider: a comfort food winter dinner straight from England and northern France. Your family will love this meal!

Chicken Pot Roast with Apples and Cider is a comforting winter dinner, perfumed with apples and rosemary. Your entire family will adore this one pot meal. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing.  This is another one of those stories where I discover a gem of a cookbook, but it takes… 

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Filed Under: apples, bacon, British, chicken, cookbooks, potatoes, reviews Tagged With: apples, bacon, British, chicken, cream, hard cider, northern French, pot roast, potatoes, roasting

Mexican Spicy Roasted Shrimp and Potatoes Stew Redux!

March 6, 2015 By Laura 11 Comments

Mexican Roasted Shrimp and Potato Stew: super easy and super delicious!

This Mexican Spicy Roasted Shrimp and Potatoes Stew is tried, true and repeated! Tangy with lime, cilantro and tomatoes, earthy with roasted potatoes and sweet with roasted sweet potatoes and shrimp, it makes an excellent, relatively fast meal! Guys I have so many really, really delicious dishes on this blog that just are not feeling the… 

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Filed Under: lime, Mexican dishes, potato dishes, potatoes, seafood, shrimp, soup, stews, sweet potato, tomatoes Tagged With: ancho, broth, cilantro, lime, mexican, potatoes, roasting, seafood, shrimp, soup, stew, sweet potato, tomatoes

Mahi Mahi Roasted Over Peaches and Nectarines

October 9, 2014 By Laura 4 Comments

Mahi Mahi Roasted Over Peaches and Nectarines: choose any white fish and roast it over seasonal fruit!

Mahi mahi roasted on a bed of seasonal fruit makes an easy, healthy and delicious one pot meal! Affiliate links are used in this post, to link to items I am discussing. Guys it has happened again. I have come across another random (meaning I had not heard of it previously) cookbook in a used bookstore,… 

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Filed Under: avocado, cookbooks, fish, fruit, nectarines, peaches, reviews, seafood Tagged With: avocado, cookbook review, fish, fruit, healthy, mahi mahi, nectarine, peaches, roasted fish, roasting, seasonal, white fish

Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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