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I’m planning to post some short and not so short essays on my favourite fictional characters from books, and movie reviews. So, stay tuned. 😊

I’ll also be posting some more recipes on baking chicken, cooking brown rice with nuts and fruit, and making pasta noodles from scratch.

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Yields 6 servings.

Great as a main meal.

Optional: Serve with vegetables. To prepare vegetables, wash vegetables in cold water in a colander and dry them with paper towel. Chop vegetables with a knife.

You can use buttered asparagus, or your favourite vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes or mushrooms. You can roast or sautee the carrots, asparagus, potatoes (or sweet potatoes, yum), broccoli, capsicum, tomatoes in olive oil or butter.

I prefer mushrooms to be sautéed.

Ingredients:
6 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons dried rosemary leaves
6 salmon filets
3 tablespoons olive oil
Salt to taste
2 lemon slices

Method:
Marinate the salmon filets with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and dried rosemary leaves.

Refrigerate the salmon for 30 minutes.

Bake in a preheated oven for around twenty minutes.

Serve with lemon slices. Enjoy. ^^

Recipe is based on the one from e-book The Sauce Cookbook Dreams are Made of.

Makes about one cup sauce. Delicious with barbecued meat and vegetables.

Ingredients:
One third molasses
1 cup pomegranate juice, either freshly squeezed or store bought
One third honey. Reduce the amount of honey if it's manuka honey. Manuka honey has a strong flavour.
1 dash black pepper or cayenne pepper. I prefer black pepper.

Directions:
Stir ingredients in a pot on stovetop on high heat.Bring top boil ( this is when the sauce bubbles). Reduce stovetop temperature to low heat, simmer for 25 minutes.

Serve and enjoy!

This recipe is based on the one at www.pillsbury.com :)

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Total time: 1 hour and 5 minutes

Ingredients:

- 2 and a half cups of rotisserie / cooked chicken, 1 cup of peas/ carrots, 1 cup of corn, half a cup of milk, one third cup of plain flour

- three quarters cup of chicken stock, one third cup of chopped onion, one third cup of butter, half teaspoon of salt, one quarter teaspoon of pepper

- softened pie crust.

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- Bake in oven for 30 to 40 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Let the pie stand and cool for 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy! :)

I've just made bruschetta! You can use different types of bread to make it (like Ciabatta bread or a French baguette). My recipe is a mixture of online recipes. You can find recipes at taste.com or www.simplyrecipes.com

Coat both sides of bread slices with 1 to 2 tablespoons of pure olive oil and 1 tablespoon of garlic paste/2 cloves of minced garlic. Toast bread in the oven at 210 degrees Celsius for 5 to 10 minutes.

Chop 8 grape tomatoes and 8 fresh basil leaves into fine pieces. (You can also use large cooked tomatoes. According to the FDA, it's not safe to eat large tomatoes or Roma tomatoes raw. However, the FDA states it is safe to eat cherry tomatoes or grape tomatoes raw). Coat the bread with the tomatoes and basil leaves. Add the tomatoes right before serving, or the bread will get soggy. Add a sprinkling of salt and pepper if you like ( this is optional). You can also add prosciutto meat or feta cheese. Serve and enjoy!