Boyfriendly Cooking

Boyfriendly Cooking is about a fairly slim girl who lives with a hungry boy and tries to make good food that they both can enjoy in Ottawa, Ontario. (Note: The boy also cooks for the girl – plenty!)

Chicken and prune roll

I’ve had this little recipe bookmarked for a while from Belinda Jefferey’s book, Chicken Perfection.  (You can also find the full recipe here via Google Books.)  It’s sort of a take on a meat pie, without any fussing with pie plates.  It’s pretty basic, onions, chicken, some spices and lots of prunes all rolled up [...]

Economic Stimulus Porkage

As we were grocery shopping last week, the boy passed by a cooler full of pork shoulder and swiftly put the cart into park.  He goggled at the price of these huge pieces of meat – $5?!?  For real?  He practically made puppy dog eyes to put one of them into our shopping cart.
Him: I [...]

Chicken leek and feta phyllo pie

I had half a package of phyllo pastry left from Sunday’s lentil phyllo pie, so I whipped up this easy pie from Dinner Survival.  I made the filling last night after the baby had gone to bed and assembled it today for lunch.  I am loving working with phyllo – it’s so much faster than [...]

Chicken à la King

This recipe is a keeper and it comes straight from my Mom (a retired Home-Ec teacher) so you know that it’s fast and good.  If you can teach a fourteen year old to make it, then you know it’s pretty much a foolproof recipe.  I remember growing up and her students would come up to [...]

Secret ingredient curry

Our effort to be more efficient with our time in the new year was due in part to watching Fixing Dinner on weekday mornings.  I was so inspired by Sandi Richard’s meal planning, that I went out and bought two of her cookbooks: Dinner Survival and The Family Dinner Fix.  At first glance, the recipes [...]

Vanilla Roasted Pork Loin

This photo doesn’t do the recipe justice.  It smelled so good that I just couldn’t be bothered setting up a proper shot – I just needed to gobble it up as soon as it hit the plate.  This recipe for vanilla roasted pork loin came from the Abel & Cole, Easy Seasonal Organic cookbook.  (Sidenote: [...]

Navy bean and bacon salad

About three o’clock this afternoon, the bacon alarm went off.  I knew I wanted some sort of salad with bacon.  Enter Google.  I typed in some keywords: bacon, salad and beans.  Most of the results featured green beans… blah!  I wanted real beans… the kind that don’t taste like freshly mowed grass.  (I am not [...]

Personal pizza

Since I bought a bread machine in the fall, our pizza consumption has skyrocketed. I admit, I used to used pizza dough mix – you know, just add water and wait 15 minutes and voila – dough! Those days are over. (While not very ‘cheffy’, those pizzas always tasted good to me.) [...]

Pork tenderloin toss

Another one of my staple recipes is a pork tenderloin toss.  I usually make it with  spinach, but this week we had a large bunch of swiss chard in our veggie box, so I thought it might be a nice change.
Swiss chard is another super green with a crazy amount of good stuff packed into [...]