Teriyaki Chicken Salad

You know what I hate? Getting to that place where you know it's become time to move on. Again.

Whether it's in my personal life or professional life, it always leaves me with an unsettling feeling deep down in my stomach. Change is good (and sometimes very necessary), but it's never nice leaving those now-very-comfortable people and places behind. Even though they might now irritate the living daylights out of us. Or actually be harmful to our wellbeing.

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Chickpea, Apricot & Walnut Salad

Carrying on with my Tex-Mex theme (as evidenced by my Spicy Mexican Beef Skewers and Tex-Mex salad), I bring you... well.... a not so tex-mex-y salad. But it did hang out with some cacti... so I think we can at least give it honorary Tex-Mex status! Eh... probably not, right? Oh dear.. now the salad is skulking away in shame.

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Tex-Mex Salad

Apologies for the few days of absence, but our thoughts have been occupied with this little cutie:

The newest addition to our household, JD has already been embroiled in a sex change scandal although we've only had her for a week.

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Pimping all over the world...

I feel super embarassed for posting this, but at the moment my desire for 15 minutes of fame outweighs my embarassment levels (albeit only barely...). ;-)

I've entered some of my blog posts of 2009 for the Foodista Best of the Blogs Cookbook. These are my entries:

Awesome, right? Well, only the most popular recipes get published. That's where you, my dear readers, come in. Please please pretty please with extra chocolate sauce on top would you head over to Foodista and consider voting for me? You can just click on the recipe(s) you'd like to vote for and it will take you straight to the Foodista link for voting.

I would be super grateful!

Spicy Mexican Beef Skewers

It's Taste&Create time again! This month my allocated partner was Katie, from One Little Corner of the World. Katie is a teacher by day, blogger by night and in her own words feels that cooking is in her blood. Hey, I can relate to that!

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Guilt-Free Chocolate Mousse

Behold, my friends, for I bring you a way to satisfy my your chocolate and sweet tooth cravings sans guilt.

"Hah!", you scoff, "I've heard claims of this before and it ends up either costing a fortune or tasting like cardboard".

"But wait", I reply, "this is not like all the others, it's different!"

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Fresh Coriander Pasta Ribbons with Spicy Peanut Sauce

So what do you do with fresh pasta once you've made it and congratulated yourself over and over that you did? This is what I did with mine:**

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Fresh (homemade) pasta ribbons with herbs

Don't you just hate it when work gets in the way of your extra-curricular activities? That is the fate that I've been battling for the past week or so. Work work work, with little time for blogging. But the deadline has gone, the load has lightened and I'm back to blogging with a bang!

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Chicken Satay

Mark this date on the calendar people! For the first time I'm actually posting the Daring Cooks recipe on time! Third time lucky as they say.

Besides marking the calendar though, you should definitely bookmark this recipe.

The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy of Cuppylicious and she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day. 

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Picadinho de Porco (Minced Pork)

What do you get when you mix exploding eggs, with spicy mince and a fresh salsa? Well in my case, you get a Brazilian dish called Picadinho de Porco, a late supper and a side-scoop of irritation.

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Best of the Pot '09

With the start of a new year, one inevitably tends to look back and reflect on the year past. Celebrate the success and preferably forget the disasters. Of course this is no different for us food bloggers. These represent (in my opinion) the very best  of the creations to have come out of my kitchen in 2009. Have a look, try them out and who knows, they just might become your favourites too.

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Tuna & Coriander Pesto Pasta Salad

Let me tell you I am feeling the burn! My arms have officially taken up arms against me. At least, that's what it feels like. This of course is the result of my first two exercise sessions of the year (and indeed the first in a couple of months) that I so valiantly embarked on earlier this week. Don't get me wrong, normally I *like* feeling the burn. Odd? Perhaps, but it gives me a strange satisfaction and of course also warrants me having a smug smile on my face for a few days. But this? This is insanity!

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Black Bean Burgers

Back to school, back to reality as they say, right? No that's not really indicative of my mood. I've actually had a really relaxing holiday and as such I feel refreshed and ready for the new year. Who's with me now? The start of a year (and a decade at that) should be full of hope for what's to come and I'm definitely feeling that vibe. 2010 is going to be full of great things.

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