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Spicy fish and chips

March 27, 2021 by Stuart Melling
Spicy fish and chips

Looking to turn up the heat on this Brit classic? Try this one for size. In this spicy take on the traditional dish I cooked some Lingcod with Tajinn and …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Mash Up Tags Ore-Ida, Sitka Salmon Shares, Wild Coyote Leave a comment

Meat free Impossible gyro

July 3, 2022December 10, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Meat free gyro

I found the basics for this plant-based gyro over on the Impossible Food website here. I was looking for something interesting to do with the meat other than the regular …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Greek Tags Impossible Burger, Impossible Foods Leave a comment

Italian-style nachos

October 18, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Italian-style nachos with Alpha meatless sausage

My wife tasked me with this one, essentially a home-made take on a dish from a well known chain restaurant. After all, home cooking is ultimately always healthier, even when …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Mash Up Tags Alpha, Alpha Foods, Mission Foods, MorningStar Farms Leave a comment

Tempura shrimp with Japanese curry

August 27, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Tempura shrimp with Japanese curry

For this dinner I used the SeaPak Tempura Shrimp product. The interior shrimp is overpowered by the overall tempura (which is great) so I wanted to bring more flavor to …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Japanese Tags House Foods, Maruso, SeaPak Leave a comment

Sable fish with cous cous and chickpeas

August 19, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Sable fish with cous cous and chickpeas

I scored this sablefish courtesy of a Sitka Salmon Shares shipment. Try saying that three times with your mouth full of fish! I cooked the fish skin side down until …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Healthy Tags Sitka Salmon Shares Leave a comment

Linguine with tomato sauce and smoked sausage

August 16, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Sam's Choice Cajun Style Andouille Smoked Sausage in linguine

Three ingredients. That’s all you need here. Quality pasta, quality sauce and excellent sausage. Seriously, what are you waiting for? Stuart MellingHi, I’m Stuart, nice to meet you!  I’m the …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Comfort Food, Dinner Ideas, Italian Leave a comment

Loaded veggie tots

July 10, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Loaded vegetarian tots

Loaded ‘anything’ is good by me. It’s basically an excuse to pig out on whatever you have to hand. Here I had some Kroger Tater Bites in the freezer and …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Comfort Food, Dinner Ideas, Mash Up Tags Kroger, MorningStar Farms, SW Beans Leave a comment

Thai red curry with rice noodles

July 10, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Rice noodles with Thai red curry fry

Unlike many Thai curries, this one skips the coconut milk. This makes for a more fiery and less creamy finish. A lot less calories too ;). The curry is simple …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Meat Free, Thai Tags Mae Ploy, MorningStar Farms Leave a comment

Sablefish with cous cous and chickpeas

June 20, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Sablefish with cous cous

Sablefish is so often featured with Japanese flavors, Iw anted to try something different here. I cooked the fish (aka black cod) until the skin came away then cleaned the …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Dinner Ideas, Healthy Tags Sitka Salmon Shares Leave a comment

Sweet potato fry nachos

May 24, 2020 by Stuart Melling
Sweet potato fries with MorningStar Farms crumblers

The crinkle cut fries from Alexia are the basis for this meat free comfort food dish. After cooking the fries to a crisp finish (an air fryer works best) its …

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Categories 30 Minute Meals, Comfort Food, Dinner Ideas, Mash Up, Meat Free Tags Alexia, McCormick, MorningStar Farms Leave a comment
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