The sirloin grilling steaks added to this noodle soup with vegetables make it a filling, one-bowl meal.
Flank steak absorbs intense flavours from this marinade. Wear rubber gloves while handling chilies.
Think it's impossible to make lasagna on a weeknight? This dynamic mix of veggies and pasta still delivers comforting flavour but comes together quickly because there's no fussy layering.
Annabelle Waugh, with mom Patricia Donaldson.
When I was growing up, “mince and tatties” (Scottish for ground beef and potatoes) was something that my family ate at least once a week. My mother's version, which was never the same twice, usually included powdered gravy. This is my own simple but updated recipe.
There are few things more satisfying than a lusty beef stew to greet family or friends at the end of the day. This recipe had its origins in the good old-fashioned cooking that has come out of Bessie Babb's kitchen in Sebringville, Ont. This stew can be made in two stages: Brown and simmer the meat one day; add the vegetables a day or two later. Serve with a piquant cabbage, apple and cauliflower salad and a light dessert.
In the eastern Mediterranean, especially Greece and Turkey, assertively flavoured meatballs simmered in a slightly tart lemon sauce is a favourite dish. Serve with rice and a side salad of tomatoes and cucumber with olive-oil-and-lemon dressing.
Prepare these delicious, fresh and light rolls ahead of time so you won't feel rushed at party time.
Kay Spicer, food writer and author of the cookbook Light & Easy Choices (Grosvenor House Press Inc., 1985), has three grown-up children who each have a different favourite dish. Son Bob goes for scalloped potatoes baked with pork chops, a dish that harks back to his mom's Prairie roots. Daughter Patti says rice pudding is her favourite ("no contest,"), and home economist daughter Susan Spicer Angrove opts for chicken soup, saying, "We all used to beg her for chicken soup." Fresh-tasting and tomatoey, it's a memory-making soup.
