Taste of the Week
Crispy Oven-Baked Pork Cutlets
If you're looking for an ultra easy, yet very delicious pork dish to serve on weeknight, this recipe is definitely for you. Click on "DIG IN" for suggestion on what to serve with the cutlets.
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Can everyone cook? That’s a question I’ve been asked frequently since I published the first cookbook in my Everyone Can Cook series in 2003. More than nine years later, and seven books into the series, my response to that query has remained the same: Yes, they can!
To me, it’s not whether or not you can cook; it’s whether or not you have the desire, the confidence and the inspiration to do so. If you have those traits, learning to cook, or improving the cooking skills you already have, can be a very tasty experience.
If you don’t have those traits, I hope that my cookbooks and this website will help you develop them. But I’m also writing for those of you who already enjoy cooking, but are seeking a reliable source of straightforward but delicious recipes, great cooking tips and other practical culinary information. See "What's Cooking" below for links to my recent newspaper columns, recipes and other exploits.
Thank you for visiting my website!
Eric Akis
What's Cooking
Spot Prawns 101 | May, 2013 | Food column
B.C. spot prawns are in season and if you would like to learn how to cook these tasty crustaceans read my newspaper column today, which also includes three fine recipes. To see the story click here timescolonist.com
All about leeks
My Victoria Times Colonist newspaper column May 15 was all about leeks and offered three tasty recipes to use them in a soup, dip, and baked oyster dish. To see that story click timescolonist.com
Seafood Crepes
In my Ask Eric newspaper column May12, I answered a reader's request for a seafood crepe recipe. The one I cooked up sees a fine ricotta mixture rolled into crepes with shrimp and crab. After baking, the crepes get topped with a full-flavoured, yet easy to make creamy tomato pesto sauce. To see the story click here timescolonist.com
Sumptious Butter Chicken
In my Victoria Times Colonist newspaper column May 5, I assisted a reader who was looking for an easy Indian butter chicken recipe by providing one. To see the story click here timescolonist.com
Everyone Can Cook Everything
The Canadian Press did a story on Everyone Can Cook Everything that ran in many Canadian newspapers and included three sample recipes. Click here to read the story on the Winnipeg Free Press website winnipegfreepress.com. Click here to see the recipes winnipegfreepress.com. You can order this photo-rich, 400-page-plus hardcover book by clicking on books above. The book is also availble as an ebook at itunes
Thrifty Foods Recipes
I create four recipes each week for Thrifty Foods, an ever-expanding British Columbia-based supermarket chain. They appear in their flyer each week and on their website. On the menu this week are lentil and chickpea salad; polenta pizza with sausage, fennel and asiago cheese; grilled lamb chops with minty marmalade sauce; and banana cupcakes with chocolate chips and pecans. To view those recipes click here thriftyfoods.com.