Turkish Meatball (Kofta)

1 lb of ground meat

3 garlic cloves minced

5 green onions chopped thin

1 tsp 1/2 of cumin

1 tsp of mint crushed

1 tslp of fresh parsley

1/2 tsp ground ginger 

salt and pepper

Mix all ingredient together. Make into little balls easy to cook on barbecue. Grill for about 10 minutes. Serve with sour cream. It's one of my favorite recipe of meatball. Love the taste, easy to make, so delicious. Enjoy

Frittata Tania

7 eggs

3/4 cup milk

1/2 cup plain yoggurt

5 green onions

1 tsp garlic paste

1 cup of cheddar cheese

1/4 cup of parmesan cheese

1/4 cup of ham or deli meat chopped

1/2 packet of bacon cooked and chopped

1/2 cup of brocoli little bit cooked and chopped

1/2 cup of asparagus little bit cooked and chopped

1 tsp of paprika

1 tsp of savory

Salt and pepper

Grease one round oven pan. Mix all ingredient really well. Put in oven at 350 f. For about 45 minutes. Check with a toothpicks in the middle of the pie, if it come out clean, It's ready! Enjoy!

Jamaican Jerk Chicken

Chicken breast or any type of meat

Marinated in Jerk Jamaican spices

It's on the picture

It's a typical dish from Jamaica. They marinated the meat for several hour then cook it on the grill. It's nice but I found the flavor much too stronge. We didnt' like it that much but you can try if you like stronge flavor.

Jamaican Roast Fish

Fish Fillet

1 tsp Paprika

1 scotch pepper

3 tbsp butter

3 green onions

2 garlic cloves minced

thymes

salt and pepper

juice of one lime

Brush fish with lime juice and marinate with all ingredients for few hours. Rub fish with butter put in the oven at 350 for about 20-30 minutes. Easy to do but I don't like fish in oven. I think it taste fishy. I like my fish in a pan. I think I would to it in a pan on the stove next time. I didn't put any pepper for the kids, they like it, just me I didn't.

Jamaican Red Pea Soup

1/2 lbs of beef cubed for stew

2 can of red Kidney bean

5 green onions

3 carrots

2 tsp fresh thyme

1 hot pepper (hot bonnet scotch)

salt and pepper

3 potatoes

2 yams

1 can of coconut milk

flour and water and pinch of salt to make dumplings.

Boil beef in 1 liter and half of water for haft and hour. Add 2 can of bean drain and boil for 45 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients, mix well. Add dumplings, roll in your hand the size of your pinky. Simmer the soup for another hour. It's to hot for the kids. My husband really like it. I think it will be better after a day of two so the flavor will increase. It's a nice healthy soup. Enjoy.

Jamaican Curry Chicken

Vegetable oil

3 garlic clove minced

3 tsp Curry powder (Jamaican it's better)

4 Chicken breast cubed

5 green onions

4 potatos

1/4 cup of chicken broth

1 tbsp fresh ginger grated

1/2 cup coconut milk

Salt and pepper

Fry garlic in oil until brown. Add curry powder and cook 1 minute. Add chicken, stir well, add green onions, potatos, stock. Stir fry at medium heat until potatos cooked. Stir ginger and coconut milk. Simmer until sauce thickens. It's really easy and fast. I really like the flavor. It's mild, the kids love it too. It's a recipe I will do again for sure. Enjoy!

Cayman Islands Beer Fish

Fish Fillets

juice of one lime

1 cup of flour and 1/2 cup flour in separate plate

salt and pepper

1 can of beer

Fill the bottom of a pan with oil to cover fish. You can do it in a fryer put it's messy and sticky. Brush fillet with lime juice. In a bowl mix flour, salt, pepper and gradually add beer and stir in same time. Put an extra plate with flour. Dip the fish in flour first then in the beer mixture. Fry in a pan for several minute each side. Drain on paper towel. It's nice recipe but a little bit messy and not too healthy. Better with white fish. Great with cole slaw. Enjoy

Equatorial Guinea Chicken Paella

• Equatorial Guinea Chicken Paella

Chicken Thigh
4 green onions
2 garlic cloves minced
2 Cup of cooked rice
1/2cup Chicken stock
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp Oregano
1/2 tsp Cayenne pepper
salt
1/8 tsp Turmeric
1 tomato cubed
1 can of black bean

Fry chicken in butter and oil in a pan with half of the green onion and garlic. Cook throughly for about 25 minutes. Set aside. Saute the rest of green onion and garlic in butter. Add tomato, saute for about 3 minutes. then add spices and the rice. saute for another 3 minutes. Add chicken stock cook for 3 more minute. Add Black bean. Mix well, then add chicken. Let cook for about 3 minutes. Serve. It's very nice dish, easy to make. Enjoy

Texas Venison Ham Roast

• Texas Venison Ham Roast
  

250 ml red wine
salt and pepper
3 garlic cloves

Fresh Rosemary

marjoram


Marinate your roast in red wine overnight. Cut garlic in lengthwise. Insert the garlic with a knife inside the roast at many different place. Do not make a big cut just enough for the garlic. Saute your roast on a pan on each side at high temperature just for one minute. That will seal the juice inside the roast. Then add the spice all over the roast. But in the oven covered at 300 until the roast reach 160 degree inside. You have to put a thermometer in the roast. It's important do not over cook it will be extremely hard. The meat need to be medium rare. If you like you meat over cook, this is not a dish for you. Enjoy

Benin Chicken Peanut Sauce

• Benin Chicken Peanut Sauce

Chicken breast cubed
6 tbsp peanut butter unsweetned
4 cup water
oil
5 green onions
2 garlic clove minced
2 fresh diced tomatos
2 tsp thyme powder
7 carrots
2 sweet potatos
3 cup shredded cabbage
salt

Bring water to broil and add peanut butter. Simmer for 20 min. then cool and remove the extra fat from the surface. Fry chicken in oil, add green onions, then add garlic, stir, add, thyme and salt, stir, add tomato, carrot and cabbage. Stir and fry for 1 min. Then add peanut sauce, bring to broil then reduce and simmer for 20 min. cover in. Add sweet potato and cook for another 40 minutes. Taste often, need a lot of salt. I like it but I had to add more salt. It's not a stronge taste witch is good for kids. Enjoy.

Benin Beef Stew

• Benin Beef Stew

Beef cubed for stew

5 Green onions

3 tbsp curry powder

2 tsp salt

pepper cayenne

1 can of coconut milk

2 sweet potatoes cut in cube deep fried

1 tbsp flour

4 tbsp butter

4 tbsp unsweetened peanut butter

4 garlic clove minced

1 hot red chili, sliced big

1 cup water

6 whole Okra, jst remove the top

First brown the beef in butter and remove. Saute green onions and garlic in the remaining butter. Add flour, mix constantly, add curry powder, salt, pepper, peanut butter. Heat for a minute at mid heat. Add coconut milk but little by little, stir all the time. Slowly add water. Cook until the sauce thinckens. Add the meat and chili. Cook for 2 hours. 20 minutes before the end add okra and sweet potatoes. It's a very nice recipe but be careful, it can be hot for children, don't add to much chili. My husband loved it, it's one of his favorite recipe. Enjoy.

Costa rica Beef tortillas

• Costa rica Beef tortillas

ground beef or any type of meat.
1 garlic cloves
1 green onion
salt and pepper
Hot picked banana pepper

2 cup cabbage cut finely
1 cup of fresh dice tomato
juice of 1 lemon
2 tsp olive oil
fresh cilantro
salt and pepper

saute green onion and garlic in a pan, add beef, salt and pepper. Prepare the cabbage salad in last minute. Mix in the bol cabbage, tomato, lemon juice, olive oil, cilantro, salt and pepper. Heat the tortillas in a pan. Add the beef on the tortillas, top it with the cabbage salad and add as many as you want banana pepper. Really good and easy to do. Love it.

Costa Rica Tilapia dish

• Costa Rica Tilapia Dish
  

Marinate Fish in juice of 2 lime, 2 tbls olive oil, fresh cilantro, 1 garlic clove minced, salt, 1/4 tps sugar.

Marinate in a dish for 10 minutes each side.

2 tbsp olive oil
fresh cilantro
1 garlic clove minced
1 cup of rice cook
4 green onions
2 oranges peeles and choppes in small
1 can of dice tomato
1 can of black bean
1 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
salt

Start oven at 400 f. In a pan saute garlic and green onion. Add cilantro, orange, tomato, bean, oregano, salt, cayenne pepper. Cook for about 8 minutes with cover, mix often. In a baking dish, transfer cook rice and the mixture of the bean together. Put the fish on top of it and over lap a little bit the mixture on it. Drizzle with the rest of the marinate on top of the fish. Bake in the oven for 18 minutes. Baby loves it but older kids, not so much. I did love it and my husband too. Great dish. Enjoy

Costa Rica Chicken Marinated

• Costa Rica Chicken marinated

1 Grated lime peel
Juice of one lime
1/4 cup tomato juice
bunch of cilantro
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt
1/8 tsp Red pepper sauce
2 Cloves garlic minced

Mix all ingredients in a plastic bag and marinate chicken, pork or beef for at least 8 hours. Cook on a grill or pan. Serve with Gallo pinto (bean & rice). Very nice recipe, kids enjoy too.

Russia Beef Stroganoff

• Russia Beef Stroganoff

Beef sirloin cut into strips or venisson
salt
3/4 tsp ground black pepper
5 tbsp Butter
mushroom sliced
4 green onions
1 tbsp tomato paste
2 tbsp flour
1 can of beef broth
5 tbsp sour cream
2 tsp dijon mustard
Fresh basil
egg noodle

Cook the noodle first and et aside.
Cook beef in butter with salt and pepper, do not over cook otherwise it will be hard. Tranfer beef in plate. Add mushroom in the pan cook until well browned and add green onions. Add tomato paste, whisking constantly add a little bit of butter add the flour. Add the beef broth slowly, don't forget to keep whisking, lower the heat add sour cream and mustard then the meat and the basil. Rinse pasta in hot water. Put in the plate and top it with the beef. Very delicious. Enjoy

Indian Fish Dahi Machi

Dahi Machi

Fish Fillet
2 tsp dry mustard Mix in a little bit of water
flour
oil
4 green onions
a little of fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves minced
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp cayenne
1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp cardamom
2 tsp salt
1 cup 1/2 plain yogurt

Garnish with fresh cilantro and green chilies minced

flour the fish, and browned about 1 minute per side in the pan. Move to plate, reheated the oil and add green onion about 3 minutes then add ginger and garlic, saute for 1 minute. Add all spice but not the mustard saute 15 sec. Remove from heat add yogurt and mustard. Put in blender to have a smoot paste. Bring back in the pan simmer and add fish. Cook for 3 to 4 minute per side cover in. Garnish in your plate.
I was so suprise that my kids eat that fish so fast. They loved it. It's amazing. Enjoy

Vietnamese barbecue Rolls

• Vietnamese barbecue Rolls
• ground beef
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 2 tbls fish sauce
• Juice half of a Lemon
• 1 tbsp sugar
• salt and pepper
• basil leaves
• dry peanut chopped for garnish
• Mix fish sauce and sugar together. Mix garlic, lemon, fish sauce salt and pepper in the meat. Mix with your hand. Lay down basil leave and roll the meat inside. Put your meat on a skewers. Cook on barbecue for 3 minutes each side. Garnish on top with peanut in your plate. Kids again love it. Enjoy

Macaroni salad

• Kids best Macaroni Salad
  
  Short macaroni cook, rinse and cool in fridge
  small dice cucumber
  small dice deli meat, can be ham, turkey, chicken
  small dice cheddar cheese
  green onion
  salt & pepper
  a little bit of tried basil
  mayonnaise Hellman (important otherwise doesn't do the same, kids won't like it)
  
  Very simple, mix everythings. Taste all the time when you add ingredient. Kids enjoy and they don't realize that they eat everything healthy.

Sates skewers Sri Lanka

• Sates skewers Sri Lanka

Marinate for Chicken

Boneless chicken breasts
1 tbsp Paprika
2 tsp ground coriander
salt and black pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
3 tbsp Olive oil

Cut chicken lenghtwise small slice
marinate chicken for at least 1 hour

Prepare the sauce with
3 tbsp olive oil
4 green onions
1 tbsp fresh ginger minced
2 garlic cloves minced
1 tsp ground cumin, 1tps ground coriander
1/2 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
salt and pepper
1 cup coconut milk
2 tsp white vinegar

Saute green onion in oil, add ginger, garlic and the spice. Stirring occasionally for 5 to 10 minutes. Add Coconut milk and vinegar. Let simmer until thick a little bit about 5 minutes. Reserve
Put chicken on a skewers, grill on a barbecue it's around 3 to 6 min. When cook just had the sauce on top of it with a brush. The kids love it because it's a little sweat. Enjoy

Chili Texan

Chili Texan

Ground beef, or venisson or turkey
can of black beans or pinto beans
6 carrot cubed small
Can of diced tomato
Can of tomato sauce
Green Onion
chili powder
Red pepper crushed
Pepper cayenne
Oregano
Cumin powder
Ginger powder
Curry powder
Turmeric powder

Brown meet with butter and green onion. Add can of diced tomato, bean add all the spice. I didn't put any quantity for the spice because it's all depend on your taste. I do separed pot for the kids and I don't add any red pepper crushed. Chili powder is the first ingredient. I like my chili spicy. Taste all the time to be sure you like it. Add tomato sauce when the liquid is very low. Cook for at less 1 hour to 1 hour and half. Enjoy.