Celeriac Mash with Scallop Roe Butter is a delightfully fluffy side dish where nutty, celery-flavored celeriac combines beautifully with gorgeously buttery coral scallop roe.It’s not a pretty vegetable – in fact, some would say it’s downright ugly - and perhaps that’s why celeriac is underrated. I like to use it in soups where it adds a delightfully subtle celery flavor and welcome creaminess,| Food Lust People Love
Just like a slice of pizza but in muffin form, these pepperoni pizza muffins are great for breakfast, brunch, lunch or snacking. Growing up, we didn’t have the ready option of take-out or pizza delivery or at least if we did, my mom didn’t take advantage of such a thing. If we wanted pizza, it meant going to a pizza parlor or baking it at home. Mom would use the Chef Boyardee pizza kit| Food Lust People Love
These bacon cheddar spinach waffles are the perfect savory breakfast or dinner, plain, buttered, with syrup or even topped with a sunny-side up egg. Despite the savory nature of these waffles, we very much enjoyed them with Pearl Milling (formerly Aunt Jemima) butter lite pancake syrup, which our family prefers to real maple syrup. I know, I know, it’s sacrilege to those from maple producing| Food Lust People Love
Hard-boiled egg yolks mashed into the mayo/mustard mixture mimics the flavor of homemade mayonnaise in this delicious family favorite tuna salad with a hint of onion.In my family, tuna salad and chicken salad are both made with hard-boiled eggs. That’s just the way we’ve always made them and I didn’t realize that not everybody did until I was fully grown up because in the south, we all add| Food Lust People Love
A delightfully fresh dish for summer, this shrimp and quail egg garden salad make a lovely lunch for two by itself or side dish for a potluck or barbecue. Since I was a child, I’ve loved quail eggs. Hardboiled with a spicy mayo dipping sauce, they are the perfect picnic food. But they are also very versatile and an easy, tasty, bite-sized way to add protein to a meal. If you are also a| Food Lust People Love
A traditional part of a full Scottish breakfast, savory tattie scones are easy to make and even easier to eat, dipped in sunny-side-up egg yolks.We have very good friends who are from and live in Scotland so we get there to visit as often as we can. Breakfast out at a café means ordering a “full Scottish” which includes not only tattie scones but a slice of black pudding, two eggs, bacon (usually| Food Lust People Love
This roast chicken, bacon and cauliflower Bolognese is rich and flavorful, putting your leftover roast chicken to the best use, a whole new delicious meal!I must confess, and I don’t think I’m alone here, but I am generally incapable of going to Costco and not buying one of their roasted chickens. They are so much bigger and cheaper than grocery store chickens so I know that there will always be| Food Lust People Love
The perfect spoonful of sweet summer, these homemade peach preserves are a family favorite, on toast, biscuits and cornbread or stirred through yogurt.Peaches were my mother’s favorite fruit so their rich fragrance always brings me good memories of her. I often made peach preserves just for her, so she’d have jars to enjoy all year round. Homemade Peach PreservesIf you don’t have peaches,| Food Lust People Love
This Easy Pastina Soup is comfort food for when you are under the weather and need something delicious, rich and nourishing, made with chicken stock and vegetables, and, of course, tiny pasta aka pastina.It's been quite a while so I can’t remember if it was me or someone else in my immediate family that was feeling under the weather, in fact, it might have even been my neighbor. But I was texting| Food Lust People Love
Possibly my favorite muffin so far (and I’ve been baking them for #MuffinMonday for 13 years!) these cheddar beer muffins are tender and savory. They are the perfect snack. Lately, you may have noticed, I have been baking smaller batches of muffins, either six or nine because 12 is a lot. This time, I baked 12 because 1. mature cheddar and 2. beer. I knew we would love them and I was right.&| Food Lust People Love
Creamy and sweet, this vanilla bean no churn ice cream is so easy and delicious! Since it’s strawberry season, add some fresh strawberry sauce. So good! Years and years ago, we were living in a small oilfield town in Brazil, about three hours up the coast from Rio de Janeiro. Shopping was a challenge but I managed to find most things we loved or I figured out how to make them myself. (| Food Lust People Love
These Copycat Hobi’s Bites Original Hot Crackers are crunchy, spicy and totally more-ish! When you cannot simply buy a favorite snack food, sometimes you just gotta make them yourself. A couple of years ago I invited a friend to join us for Sunday lunch and she arrived with hot boudin and Hobi’s Bites Original Hot Crackers to serve as an appetizer. The boudin - a Louisiana sausage made with| Food Lust People Love
Made with octopus caught in Channel Islands waters, this tender Jersey Octopus Ceviche is the perfect tart and spicy dish for a bright hot summer day. If you read my grilled octopus post a couple of weeks ago, you’ll know that our favorite eight-legged sea creatures have become quite a menace for folks in these islands that capture crabs and lobsters to sell as their livelihood. An octopus| Food Lust People Love
Chewy fudgy brownie on the bottom with pecan pie filling on top, these pecan pie brownies start with store-brought brownie mix. They disappear in a flash and are super easy to bake!A couple of years ago my mom was living with us on hospice care and I wanted invite her sister and nephews and their families over for Sunday lunch, to have a little time chatting and laughing together while Mom could| Food Lust People Love
A slightly sweet tender loaf, this steamed cranberry pecan honey bread is wonderful sliced, even better toasted, buttered or not. We loved it all the ways! When this month’s Bread Baker’s host proposed “steamed breads” as our theme for July, I thought, excellent! No turning the oven on when it’s roasting outside. Gently steaming something on the stovetop sounded ideal.A lot of the| Food Lust People Love
Made with the leftover end of baked ham and baby new potatoes, this creamy corn and ham chowder is rich and flavorful, a real bowl of tasty comfort.It’s summer in the English Channel but that doesn’t always mean hot days. Island weather is extremely variable, often windy and rainy, a combination that feels chilly, even if the temperature is in the 70s F or the early 20s C. We had one such| Food Lust People Love
These Nocciolata swirl meringues are made with a better quality chocolate hazelnut spread that doesn’t have palm oil or dairy. They are crunchy outside, a little chewy inside and just the right amount of sweet. According to Google, "Nocciolata is made with organic ingredients, including sunflower oil and cocoa butter, and is free of palm oil, artificial flavors, and preservatives, making it| Food Lust People Love
These roasted strawberry muffins are baked with intensely sweet summer strawberries, roasted to concentrate their flavor even more! It’s such a pleasure to sniff summer berries that actually smell like they should! Sweet and fragrant. Most of the year strawberry smell of very little, flown in from who knows where but this time of the year, they come from a nearby farm and I just can’t get| Food Lust People Love
The secret to tender grilled octopus is baking it first in slow oven then after seasoning with marinade, grilling it over hot coals till it’s charred and crispy on the edges. After several years of little of no octopus sighting in the Channel Islands, this summer they are back with a vengeance. According to the lovely ladies we buy seafood from, they are crafty and clever and somehow manage| Food Lust People Love
Firecracker hot dogs are made with soft yeast dough is wrapped around hot dogs on skewers then baked until golden. The skewers are topped with cheddar cheese stars. They are perfect for Fourth of July or any summer party and they are so easy to make!When our girls were young, about six and eight years old, we moved to Houston, Texas from overseas. It was the first time they had ever lived in the| Food Lust People Love
This Milk-Roasted Chicken is made with the deliciously odd combination of lemon and milk which creates the most tender chicken and a divine sauce. Add mushrooms and baby new potatoes for a one-pot meal.I first started making a version of this chicken after watching Jamie Oliver’s show Oliver’s Twist way back in 2002. The episode was called Big Grub for Big Boys and Jamie was cooking for his local| Food Lust People Love
These Marmite Butter Mashed Potatoes are a delightful savory dream on a spoon, made with yeast extract, butter, cream and milk. They are the perfect accompaniment to grilled steak or roast chicken. Marmite is admittedly a very divisive ingredient. It’s super salty and many people find its yeasty flavor too strong for their tastebuds. I like to think that maybe the naysayers just haven’t| Food Lust People Love
Also known as dangela, these Gujarati-style Savory Pancakes are made with dhokla flour: a mix of rice, chickpeas, pigeon peas and lentils. The fermented yogurt batter is traditionally cooked on a tawa or griddle.I first read about these wonderful savory pancakes on my friend Mayuri’s blog, Mayuri’s Jikoni. I had never heard of dhokla flour but I am often looking for ways to up our protein intake| Food Lust People Love
Made with equal parts roe and butter, along with the creamy fat, if desired, this lobster butter is a deliciously rich savory spread for bread, crackers or toast.A couple of years ago, at a huge book sale held in aid of Guide Dogs for the Blind – Jersey, I bought a little paperback called, The New Channel Island Cook Book. It is a wealth of knowledge (albeit a bit dated, published in 1989) about| Food Lust People Love
These crispy iron skillet chicken thighs turn out with the loveliest crunchy skin, lightly seasoned with just salt, black pepper and cayenne. Flattening them somewhat with a meat mallet makes them cook faster.This recipe is adapted from one in Cooking Light Magazine from way back in May 2015. I was introduced to it by a fellow blogger named Christiane whose blog was called Taking On Magazines One| Food Lust People Love
Cooking for people I love, creating deliciousness out of fresh ingredients, writing about my expat life enriched by food. That's what I do here.| www.foodlustpeoplelove.com
Sweet buttermilk pie is a traditional southern dessert with a creamy tart filling, topped with a generous helping of snowy white whipped cream. Add a little fruit too, if you like.| www.foodlustpeoplelove.com
Spicy Piri Piri Sauce makes a fabulous marinade for grilled chicken, pork or fish. Brush extra on as you grill too!| www.foodlustpeoplelove.com
The arranged marriage between Ms. Bloody Mary and Mr. Dirty Martini, this Dirty Bloody Mary Martini should please the lovers of both savory cocktails.| www.foodlustpeoplelove.com
