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How to Make Food taste Better

February 14, 2025 by Tania 1 Comment

Stirfried chicken and rice

For most people making food taste better can feel like another language altogether. If you don’t cook for a living, and don’t consider yourself a great cook, then some of these strategies could be useful to put some zing into your creations. Here are some great ideas to amp up the taste!   Secrets of…

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Filed Under: cooking ideas, News and New Things Tagged With: cookery methods, how to add flavour, how to cook, how to make taste better, layering flavour, Recipes

How to make no bake Caramelised White Chocolate and Strawberry Cheesecake

July 29, 2024 by Tania 1 Comment

No-Bake-Caramelise-White-Chocolate-Strawberry Cheesecake.

Creamy and light this cheesecake has caramelised white chocolate and a crunchy Oreo base. Even better, it has Strawberries and Jelly. So, read on… how to make a no bake caramelised white chocolate and strawberry cheesecake. What is a no bake cheesecake? There are two types of cheesecake. Baked and No-bake. A baked cheesecake has…

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Filed Under: Cakes and Decorating, Chocolate, RECIPES Tagged With: Chocolate, Cream cheese, desserts, how to make a cheesecake, jelly, no bake cheesecake, Recipes, strawberry cheesecake, white chocolate

Dry Brined, Miso, Maple and Butter Basted Roast Chicken

November 16, 2023 by Tania Leave a Comment

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This Miso, Maple, and Butter Roast Chicken is a feast. It is tender and golden burnished to perfection. The secret lies in the dry brining and the continuous basting when baking. Brining. What is it? It’s a method of preparing meat for cooking. It involves using salt to draw out moisture and then reabsorb it…

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Filed Under: Chicken and Poultry, Gluten Free, Holiday, RECIPES Tagged With: basting, Chicken, Chicken recipes, Dinner recipes, ecconomical christmas dinner, Maincourses, Recipes, roast chicken

Pumpkin Soup loaded. A bowl of comfort.

August 20, 2019 by Tania 12 Comments

Pumpkin soup in a black bolw with salsa and chips

This is not your ordinary Pumpkin soup it’s loaded with all the goodies. Thick and packed with flavour it’s a bowl full of comfort you can have on the table in around 30 minutes Pumpkin Soup that’s loaded with goodies and bound to become a favourite in your house There’s nothing more comforting than a…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Soup, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: bowl food, dinnerfood, food for families, loaded soup, Maincourses, Pumpkin, pumpkin soup, Quick dinners, Recipes, Soup

Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

February 5, 2019 by Tania 10 Comments

Peanut Butter cookies, vegan

These Vegan cookies are crunchy and have a great peanut flavour. I love using crunchy peanut butter for these and they make the best ice cream sandwiches! Whether you are Vegan or not these are the best cookies. Have you ever wondered how you can make cookies without eggs or butter?. Well read on. Making…

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Filed Under: Biscuits, Cookies and Slices, Vegan, video Tagged With: cookies, cooking with peanut butter, easy vegan recipes, Peanut Butter, Recipes, Vegan, vegan baking, vegan cookies, vegan cooking

Lemon Tart with Mango and Passionfruit it’s Vegan

December 5, 2018 by Tania 4 Comments

Lemon Tart, vegan with mango

This Vegan Lemon Tart will leave you wanting more. Its light and extra lemony and goes well with Mango and Passionfruit Vegan Desserts You would have to have been living under a rock to not have tried some kind of Vegan dessert by now. Veganism has crossed the road and got to the other side…

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Filed Under: Desserts, RECIPES, Vegan, video Tagged With: baking, cruelty free, desserts, lemon, lemon desserts, Lemon Tart, Recipes, Tarts, Vegan, vegan lemon curd

Banana Peanut Butter Cookies

September 30, 2017 by Tania 6 Comments

Banana Cookies with peanut butter

These Banana Peanut Butter cookies are probably the easiest thing you will ever make.  Yes I know that scooping the peanut butter from the jar and eating it from a spoon is even easier but…..this is the next best thing. I love peanut butter without reservation. The crunchier it is the more I love it….

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Filed Under: Biscuits, Cookies and Slices, Gluten Free, RECIPES Tagged With: 10 minute cookies, 4 ingrdient recipes, baking, cookies, cooking with kids, cooking with peanut butter, gluten free, glutenfree baking, Peanut Butter, Recipes, stir together cookies, the easiest cookie recipe

One Pot Chicken Risoni Pasta, fast bowl food.

March 29, 2017 by Tania 21 Comments

One Pot Chicken Risoni

One Pot Chicken Risoni Pasta is all about flavour and ease. Let’s face it though it feels a bit virtuous, a bit like cheating and why not, cooking everything in one pot can feel like a holiday. What? A holiday in the middle of the week? Yes please! One Pot Chicken Risoni is one of…

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Filed Under: Chicken and Poultry, One pot cooking, RECIPES Tagged With: bake and eat, baked chicken, Dinner., family food, one pot chicken video recipe, One pot cooking, one pot dinners, orzo, Recipes, risoni

Sbrisolona Almond Nutella Crumble Cake

December 4, 2016 by Tania 10 Comments

Sbrisolona Almond Nutella crumble

Sbrisolona. Almond Nutella Crumble cake is really like a crunchy tart. It’s also known as Sbrisolina a treat from Lombardy in Italy. Easy to make and SO delicious. Don’t forget to watch the video……. I always have so many things I want to cook at Christmas and yet not many of them ever come to…

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Filed Under: Biscuits, Cookies and Slices, Chocolate, Desserts, RECIPES Tagged With: almond and nutella crumble cake, baking, christmas baking, cooking with nutella, easy christmas desserts, Italian Desserts, my Kitchen stories, nutella, quick christmas baking, Recipes, sbrisolina, Sbrisolona

Roasted Pineapple, Chilli Salsa Pork Steaks

October 16, 2016 by Tania 22 Comments

Pork and Pineapple

A completely delicious and quick weeknight meal that looks like you’ve spent hours in the kitchen?. Yes please. Roasted Pineapple Chilli salsa Pork is my new favourite! This is quick and easy. The only secret here is to make sure you don’t overcook the pork. I follow the timing rules when cooking these steaks and…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Lamb/Beef/Pork, RECIPES Tagged With: cooking with pork, easy cooking, Easy dinners, Grilled pork and pineapple, Maincourses, pineapple salsa, Pork, pork steaks, Quick dinners, Recipes, roasted pineapple and chilli salsa, Roasted Pineapple Salsa, sweet and sour, Weeknight dinner

Salmon tray baked with two Minute Noodles

September 28, 2016 by Tania 9 Comments

Baked salmon with two minute noodles

Easy Baked Salmon with Two Minute Noodles Now this Easy Baked Salmon with Two Minute Noodles is one of those dinners you will be putting on rotation at your house. Hey I know this because it’s so delicious and so darn easy. I wish I was eating it right now. It takes about 20 minutes…

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Filed Under: Asian, RECIPES, Seafood Tagged With: 30 minute dinners, after work food, Baked salmon, Dinner., Easy Baked Salmon, Easy Maincourses, eat quickly, fast food, gourmet fast food, love seafood, Maincourses, mykitchenstories, Recipes, Salmon

Spooky Halloween Eyeball Slice

September 9, 2016 by Tania 4 Comments

Eyeball slice

What on earth could be better for Halloween than an Spooky Eyeball Slice. Come on! This Spooky Halloween Eye Ball Slice is so easy it practically doesn’t need a recipe. It’s not the best darn slice you have ever eaten but it is loads of fun for kids to make and eat at Halloween ….

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Filed Under: Biscuits, Cookies and Slices, Holiday, RECIPES Tagged With: condensed milk slice, easy slices, eyeball slice, Halloween, Halloween Eye Ball Slice, Halloween treats, Recipes, slice for kids, trick or treat

Caramelised Pork Belly. My Taiwan Inspiration

September 4, 2016 by Tania 18 Comments

Easy Caramelised Pork Belly

This Caramelised Pork Belly is utterly delicious and really easy to make it’s my Taiwan Inspiration food. This is the easiest way to cook Pork Belly. It has no crispy crackling but it does have the soft unctuous texture that everyone loves about Pork Belly. It also has a sweet caramel exterior and its simplicity is what…

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Mint Hummus, Lamb and Crunchy Carrot Salad

July 14, 2016 by Tania 18 Comments

Mint hummus and lamb

Mint Hummus, Lamb and Crunchy Carrot Salad is a classic pairing. The tahini dressing with all those crunchy healthy bits makes a perfectly impressive and delicious combination Mint Hummus is perfect with lamb I’ve just come back from holidays. You must know how that feels? After 4 weeks away, I am still not sure where…

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Filed Under: Lamb/Beef/Pork, RECIPES, Salad Tagged With: BBQ dinners, Cooking Lamb, easy Lamb dishes, Easy Maincourses, how to make mint hummus, lamb with mint, lamb with mint hummus, Mint Hummus, Recipes, recipes for hummus

Green Pancakes, Bananas and Honey Lemon Syrup

July 7, 2016 by Tania 24 Comments

Green pancakes on a white plate with bananas

Green Pancakes….. they are really good looking don’t you think?. They are quite surprising. I love the combination of bananas and lemon syrup and I bet you will too These Green Pancakes Bananas and Honey Lemon Syrup are the best surprise you can have. So just why are they a surprise? Well it’s about the…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Brunch, RECIPES, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: banana pancakes, breakfast, brunch, crepes, crepes with honey lemon syrup, green pancakes, half baked harvest, lemon recipes, Pancakes, Recipes, spinach pancakes

Pumpkin Chickpea Salad with Feta Chickpea Water Mayonnaise

June 25, 2016 by Tania 12 Comments

Pumpkin Chickpea Salad

Pumpkin Chickpea Salad with Chickpea Water Mayonnaise, you do not want to miss! Pumpkin Chickpea Salad with Feta Chickpea Water Mayonnaise. I think I have just invented a new thing. The Dinner Salad. We will get to the chickpea water mayonnaise in a minute because you really DO NOT want to miss it. I had…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, RECIPES, Salad, Side dishes, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: Chickpea water mayonnaise, chickpeas, Dinner Salad, Easy dinner, Easy food, Feta Mayonnaise, Maincourses, Pumpkin, Quick dinners, Recipes, Salads

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Tania Cusack Hi, I'm Tania and this is My Kitchen Stories. I share all kinds of recipes here. Most recipes are quick and easy, just perfect for families. BUT, you could also find vegan, cakes and desserts too. Come and have a look around Read More
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