Reuben Sandwich with Pomegranate, Sunflower Seed, Kale Salad

Reuben Sandwich with Cranberry, Sunflower Seed, Kale Salad

A deli classic, and one of the best sandwiches you can make with meats from your local deli counter.

ingredients:

100-200 grams shaved corned beef
sauerkraut

thousand island dressing
mozzarella or swiss cheese
rye bread (or your favourite bread)

kale
pomegranates
sunflower seeds
oil
white wine vinegar
salt
pepper

directions:

1. Take some shaved corned beef that you can get shaved at your grocery deli. Don't use the packaged stuff, as it isn't thin enough and definitely won't be as nice. Put a pile on a baking tray for each sandwich you need. On top of the corned beef, place some shredded mozzarella or swiss cheese on top. Put in the oven at 400 degree for 5 or so minutes until the cheese melts.

2. Toast the bread if you'd like it toasted, or just use a nice plain rye bread, and lift the corned beef off the baking tray with a spatula and place it on top of the bread. Top with thousand island dressing, which will give it a tangy zip and help cut through the fat of the cheese and corned beef. And then top with sauerkraut. Top with another piece of bread to complete the sandwich.

3. Serve with a side salad, or a pickle.

Chili Cheese Dog

Chili Cheese Dog

This is the perfect game day food! Forget the nachos, chili dogs are where it is at. What's great about them is you can make the chili ahead of time and just warm it up later. You can obviously use whatever hot dog you want, but I find the all beef juicy jumbos have the most snap to them. I just love the texture and the flavour!

ingredients

schnieders all beef juicy jumbo hot dogs
hot dog buns
cheddar cheese
red onion
ground beef
onion
garlic
tomato paste
cayenne
cumin
pepper
salt

directions

1. Make chili ahead of time by frying onions in a big pot. Add ground beef to onions and season with cayenne, cumin, pepper and salt. Sear meat so it is brown and the fat has cooked out into the pot. Add tomato paste and/or canned tomatoes and simmer for 1-2 hours.

2. Dice some red onions. Shred some cheddar cheese. Warm up your chili.

3. Grill up some hot dogs and put them on your favourite hot dog bun. Then later chili, cheese and onions on top in that order.

Lobster Flatbread

Lobster Flatbread

ingredients

1 lobster tail
handful of basil
1/2 red pepper
a pile of shredded mozzarella cheese
parmigiano-reggiano cheese
olive oil
salt
pepper
flatbreads (store bought) or you could make your own dough

directions

1. If your lobster tail isn't cooked, cook it, and then chop it into bit size pieces that would be appropriate on a pizza.

2. Dice some red pepper and basil to also put on the pizza.

3. Take your store bought flatbreads (which are quite the convenience) and drizzle them with olive oil, and sprinkle them with salt and pepper.

2. Top flatbread with shredded mozzarella cheese. Then your chopped lobster, red pepper, and basil. Sprinkle with parmigiano-reggiano cheese if you have it.

5. Put in the oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Enjoy!

Eggplant Parm Sandwich with Greek Style Potatoes

Lemony potato goodness.

Homemade Easy Mac N Cheese

Homemade Easy Mac N Cheese

Mac N Cheese is a crowd-pleaser for the young and the old. Or at least I know I love it. It's one of those comfort foods that is easy to feed to an entire family, and is also great as leftovers. The other great thing about mac n cheese, is that really any and all cheeses work. As long as one of them is good at melting. So here is how I made mine.

ingredients:

1/2 bag of macaroni
2 cups cheddar cheese (or a huge pile)
1/2 cup parmigiano-reggiano cheese
2 cups milk
1/2 cup butter
4 tbsp flour

1/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup butter

directions:

1. Boil macaroni in a pot with salted water. And shred a big pile of cheddar cheese.

2. Put some butter in a large pan and melt it down. Slowly add flour bit by bit and mix it in to make a rue. Then add in your milk to the pan and mix with the flour. Once this mixture has mixed together and seems like a sauce, you can start to add your cheese into it to give it more flavour and body.

3. Pour macaronies into a casserole dish, and cover pasta with the cheese sauce.

4. Toast some bread crumbs in a pan in some butter. Make sure all the bread crumbs are soaked with the butter so that they won't burn. Put this crumble on top of the mac n cheese.

5. Cook mac n cheese in the oven for 45 minutes at 400 F. Cover for first half if you are afraid it will burn.

Ground Beef And Rice Stuffed Peppers - Gluten-Free!

Ground Beef And Rice Stuffed Peppers - Gluten-Free!

"I'll stuff your pepper!" -me

ingredients:

1-1.5 pound ground beef
1 can kidney beans
1 onion
2-4 green pepper (or any colour you want)
1/2-1 cup rice
2-3 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp cayenne
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper
handful  of shredded cheese (mozzarella)

directions:

1. In a small pot, could 1/2-1 cup of rice, and set aside. I find it's easier to cook the rice ahead of time, instead of trusting that it will cook and soak up enough liquid inside the pepper.

2. Cut some large green peppers open from the top, and de-seed. And then dice up some onions into small pieces, and crush some garlic. Set aside.

3. In a bowl, mix your ground beef, rice, canned tomatoes, onions, garlic, salt and pepper, cayenne together. Fill each green pepper up with this mixture. And top with shredded cheese.

4. Put in the oven at 400 F, for at least 30 minutes. Until the cheese because golden brown, and the ground beef is cooked. Broil for a few minutes if cheese doesn't look golden enough. When the green peppers change to a more desaturated yellow from the green. That is when you know they are ready, or almost ready.