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One-Pot Spring Pasta

April 5, 2018 by Samantha 7 Comments

One Pot Spring Pasta in a bowl.

One Pot Spring Pasta is a quick, easy, and scrumptious way to pack in loads of spring vegetables into a one pot pasta kids love!!

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Filed Under: Dinner, One Pot/Pan, Pasta Tagged With: Asparagus, Easy, Pasta, peas, Quick, spring

Slab Breakfast Pie

March 17, 2017 by Samantha 16 Comments

This Slab Breakfast Pie is an easy breakfast recipe! Top store-bought puff pastry with eggs, bacon, and some mushrooms for an irresistible brunch! 

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Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: bacon, Breakfast, Brunch, Easy, Eggs, Mushrooms, Quick, simple

Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs with Thyme and Parmesan Soldiers

February 17, 2017 by Samantha 7 Comments

Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs with Thyme and Parmesan Soldiers eats like a major treat, but really it’s made in under 15 minutes making a perfect breakfast dish any day of the week. A twist on a classic soft boiled eggs recipe.  

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Eggs, Uncategorized, Vegetarian Tagged With: Bread, Breakfast, Brunch, Easy, Eggs, parmesan, Quick, simple, thyme, toast

One Pot Tex-Mex Rice

February 8, 2017 by Samantha 16 Comments

This post is sponsored by Minute Rice Canada as part of the#WeekdayWin campaign. My Kitchen Love has been compensated monetarily and with product, although all opinions remain my own. 

I’ve got another 15 minute meal alert! That’s right, from start to finish this One Pot Tex-Mex Rice is ready to rock the dinner table and your family’s taste buds. Thanks to Minute Rice’s Whole Grain Brown Rice that is ready to eat in 10 minutes, I’ve got a 6 ingredient recipe to fuel the family. And only 1 pot to clean. Greatest weekday ever! Even the tiniest pickiest eaters  will jump onboard to devour this dish (well mine did anyways).

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Filed Under: Beef, Dinner, Rice, Weekday Dinner, Whole Grains Tagged With: beans, beef, Corn, Dinner, Easy, kid-friendly, picky eater, Quick, Rice, simple, tomatoes, weekday dinner, weekday win

Lamb Salad Flatbread

January 30, 2017 by Samantha 8 Comments

I don’t often make things like bread or flatbread, but this recipe for it was crazy easy and quick. Plus, I swapped out the flour for a whole grain more nutritious one and my kids ate it all up! I had a difficult time with the title of this recipe, but really it’s just my usual m.o. A carb, a protein, and a boatload of fresh veggies with a simple mix of acid and oil to act as a dressing. This Lamb Salad Flatbread is easy enough to whip up during the week and a great way to work ground meat into meals.

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Filed Under: Dinner, Weekday Dinner, Whole Grains Tagged With: Dinner, Easy, flatbread, lamb, Quick, weekday dinner, wraps

Mini Blueberry Buckwheat Muffins

January 23, 2017 by Samantha 10 Comments

This post is sponsored by Love Child Organics. My Kitchen Love has been compensated monetarily and with product although all opinions remain my own. 

These Mini Blueberry Buckwheat Muffins are supposed to be for babies and kids, but in addition to my kids addiction to them, I too have one. They’re moist, light, and have a sweet bran muffin-like flavour, without much sugar and are gluten-free! I love that they’re perfect snack-size for the kids and I have zero guilt sending them off to preschool as they are completely nut-free and abundant in key nutritional elements like iron and Vitamin C.

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Filed Under: baking, Breakfast, Muffins, Uncategorized, Vegetarian, Whole Grains Tagged With: blueberries, buckwheat, Easy, kid-friendly, muffins, one bowl, Quick, school lunches, school snacks

15 minute Dinner: Broiled Salmon, Herbed Couscous & Salad

January 5, 2017 by Samantha 15 Comments

15 minute dinner: Broiled Salmon, Herbed Couscous, and Salad | My Kitchen Love

Healthy, quick, and easy 15 minute dinner of Broiled Salmon, Herbed Couscous and Salad, the whole family will love! A great easy dinner idea!

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Filed Under: Dinner, Fish, Seafood, Weekday Dinner, Whole Grains Tagged With: couscous, dinner in 30 or less, Easy, Fish, grains, Quick, salad, Salmon, Seafood, weekday dinner

Sustainably Caught – Spicy Tuna Tostadas

October 20, 2016 by Samantha 12 Comments

Spicy Tuna Tostadas | My Kitchen Love

Quick and easy meal idea! Spicy Tuna Tostadas are a fresh and bright way to use canned tuna. They feature a light tuna salad with a vibrant salsa and toasted tortilla base.

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Filed Under: Dinner, Fish, Seafood, Tacos Tagged With: Dinner, Quick, Seafood, tostada, tuna

Going Green – Spinach Pesto Israeli Couscous with Prawns

September 15, 2016 by Samantha 22 Comments

spinach pesto couscous with prawns on top

An entire package of spinach blended up into a basil and lemon forward dish that is ready in 15 minutes!! This Spinach Pesto Israeli Couscous with Prawns is an easy weeknight supper with a hearty and healthy pesto recipe as a base. 

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Filed Under: Dinner, Fish, Seafood Tagged With: couscous, Easy, Healthy, israeli couscous, no meat, Quick, spinach

Vietnamese Noodle Bowls

August 29, 2016 by Samantha 5 Comments

There are certain moments at the dinner table that are pleasing to me, in possibly odd ways. Not creepy, just unusual. Hearing the slurping sound of my young daughters gobbling up slippery fragrant noodles in fish sauce has to be one of those times. It’s as if the sauce acts as a grease to get the noodles moving as quickly as possible so that they can dig their tiny forks into more. Like dinner is a race to see how quickly the noodles disappear. Usually, that also means they thoroughly enjoy the dish as well. These Vietnamese Bowls use vermicelli  noodles which are a very thin rice noodles and they have the capacity to take on whichever flavours are poured over them, making them excellent for noodles bowls or for any kind of dipping in sauce.

Vietnamese Noodle Bowls | My Kitchen Love

Some people might think, fish sauce … gross. It’s not, at least it’s not when it’s mixed with other ingredients. If you remove the cap and take a whiff, it’s extremely pungent, as if you took a giant vat of salty small fish and fermented them for months and then lifted the lid to smell the vat. I wouldn’t recommend it. I only did it so that I may forewarn you not to. That being said, fish sauce is the key component to the sauce for this dish as it contains all the salt. There is no other salt added, and without the fish sauce, all the other flavours become bland, bleeding into each other without any direction. Fish sauce is readily available in most supermarkets and grocery stores in the Asian Foods aisle (meaning that it’s quite common and readily available).

Vietnamese Noodle Bowls | My Kitchen Love

This dish is light and Summery thanks to the cucumbers and fresh herbs. As you can see in the photo above, most of the bowl is actually cucumber chopped into a new shape (keeps the kids on board with all vegetables if I change the shape I serve them in on the regular). I could eat this type of salad for days without getting sick of it. Due to the fish sauce, it’s balanced between acid and sweet, like a good vinaigrette, but without all the pretense of add ons (like garlic or mustard) that can mask what you’re eating. This dish is kind of naked … everything shown in plain view and there’s no apologies for how salty sweet it is. It’s not crazy salty sweet, but rather the supple noodles, chewy pork and crunchy cucumbers keep the sauce in check.

Vietnamese Noodle Bowls | My Kitchen Love

No lie, I was nervous preparing a fish sauce based vinaigrette for my kids. It’s so strong that I thought it could polarize them the opposite way and result in them hating it and therefore hating dinner as well. Since I don’t make 2 dinners (ever) I was pretty nervous about serving this. I have found that almost every time I’ve felt nervous in this fashion I’ve been incorrect. Kids usually take to stronger flavours, well my kids anyways. I also have kids that hated pizza until they were almost 3 years old so we could be an abnormal family that loves bold food. 🙂

Vietnamese Noodle Bowls | My Kitchen Love

This recipe delivers 4 very large servings, although there’s not a ton of meat per serving, half of a pork chop per serving to be exact. If you have large meat eaters in your family, you may wish to double down on the pork in this recipe or supplement with something else (tofu?). This dish is primarily focused around the sauce with the noodles and salad. The limited amount of meat makes it feel lighter, while still satisfying those who need meat in every meal (hi Greg). The lack of meat and easy preparation of the noodles makes this entire meal come together in 20 minutes. Yup, 20 minutes. I know back-to-school is headed our way too, so let’s all lean on these quick, nutritious and simple meals together.

Samantha

Yields 4

Vietnamese Noodle Bowls

Thin rice noodles and thin grilled pork with a salty sweet sauce complimented by a lightly quick-pickled cucumber salad.

5 minPrep Time

15 minCook Time

20 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

  • 2 x 1" thick boneless pork chops
  • 2 tsp vegetable oil, such as grapeseed oil or canola oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 x 400 grams package vermicelli noodles
  • 1 long English cucumber, cut into matchsticks or spirals
  • 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp garlic
  • 4 tsp vegetable oil, such as grapeseed, olive oil, or etc.
  • Optional garnishes: thinly sliced chile peppers (Thai chilies)

Instructions

  1. Cook noodles as per package instructions. Rinse with cold water and set aside.
  2. Meanwhile, using a sharp knife, cut each pork chop crosswise (horizontally) into 4 very thin pieces of pork, giving you 8 thin pieces total.
  3. Preheat grill or a large skillet to high heat. Using skewers, thread thin pork chops (do not use skewers if using skillet). Rub chops with 2 tsp of vegetable oil and season very lightly with salt and pepper. Place on grill or in skillet and reduce heat to medium. Cook for 3-4 minutes and flip once grill marks/browning appears. Cook on second side for about 3 minutes until meat is browned and cooked through.
  4. While meat is cooking, in a small bowl combine fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, brown sugar, garlic and vegetable oil. Whisk until complete combined. Set aside.
  5. Place noodle and pork on a platter and top with sauce. Top dish with sliced basil leaves.
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