Grilled Eggplant and Roasted Red Pepper Sandwich with Halloumi

Up next for my homemade roasted red peppers was to use them in a sandwich along with some grilled eggplant and halloumi. Halloumi is a Greek Cypriot cheese that fries well, retaining its shape rather than melting and gets 'squeaky' once fried. Simple fried halloumi with a splash of lemon juice is amazing all by itself but it also makes a great addition to a sandwich such as this one! I am still...

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Roasted Red Pepper and Goat Cheese Alfredo Pasta

Another thing that I really like about this time of year is all of the red peppers that are around. Not only are they plentiful but they are also cheap and every year at this time I head down to the farmers market and pick up a large basket full of them. By far my favourite thing to do with red peppers is to roast them and luckily roasted red peppers keep well in the freezer so I roast most of the...

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Recipe Box Feature

A while ago I added the Recipe Box feature, the My Recipe Box link in the menu at the top of Closet Cooking, that allows you to easily save recipes to your recipe box, create meal plans and automatically generate grocery lists. These features are provided by ZipList and they have an app so you can take your recipes, meal plan and grocery list with you on your phone when you go shopping!For those...

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BELT (Bacon Egg Lettuce Tomato) Sandwich

I certainly have been enjoying a lot of BLTs these days with all of the beautiful local, field ripened beefsteak tomatoes around! It can sometimes be difficult to imagine improving on an already amazing sandwich like the BLT but adding an egg is a good place to start! There are a lot of ways to add an egg to a BLT but the first thought that comes to my mind is in the form of a quick and easy egg...

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Chicken and Avocado Enchiladas in Creamy Avocado Sauce

Chicken and avocado enchilada recipes have been making their way around the food logging sphere lately like these spicy avocado chicken enchiladas on the novice chef, these chicken and avocado enchiladas on gimme some oven and these avocado cream and chicken suiza enchiladas on foodie crush and given my obsession with both Mexican cuisine and avocados it was only a matter of time until I made some...

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25 Fabulous Fall Recipes

Fall is here and with it, some cooler weather! When fall rolls around, menus start to change due to the cooling weather, different produce being available and to the fact that we are no longer as concerned with having the oven on. This means that things like roasts, soups, stews and other comfort dishes will be back on the menu! Lets also not forget about all of the great fall produce including...

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Bacon Double Cheeseburger Soup

Fall is officially here and as if on cue the cooler weather rolled in which is good because I can now get into all of those fall dishes that I have been holding off on like soups! This is quite a relief in that I have had the idea for this bacon double cheeseburger soup burning a hole in my mind pretty much all summer and I was just waiting for things to cool off a bit before making it. The idea...

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Corn and Black Bean Huevos Rancheros with Roast Zucchini Salsa

When I made the corn and black bean tacos with roast zucchini salsa a while ago I made sure to make enough that there would be leftovers because I always like using leftovers to make other dishes. One thing that I had on my mind when I made the tacos was to use some of the leftovers to make a breakfast version inspired by the idea of huevos rancheros. These huevos rancheros are pretty similar to...

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BBQ Chicken and Peach Quesadillas

Peach season is quickly fading and I have been trying to enjoy them as much as I can before they are all gone for another year. In fact this week I may have gone a little overboard and gotten a few too many of them! Not to worry though as I have been happily coming up with new ways to use them including in these tasty peach quesadillas. The recipe could not be simpler, you just need some leftover...

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BLT Grilled Cheese (BLTGC)

I have really been enjoying all of the fresh, perfectly field ripened tomatoes a lot these days, especially in BLTs! I guess it was pretty much inevitable that at some point I would think about combining a BLT with a grilled cheese sandwich and this BLT grilled cheese, aka the BLTGC, is the tasty results of my wild musings! The recipe pretty much just wrote itself taking the buttered bread and cheese...

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Crispy Baked Eggplant Fries with Marinara Dipping Sauce (aka Eggplant Parmesan Fries!)

After the recent extraordinary success of the crispy baked portobello mushroom fries I was thinking about what other vegetables could be turned into fries and with the abundance of cheap eggplant these days, it seemed like the perfect candidate to try next! I was a bit worried about using eggplant to make fries as eggplant can have a lot of moisture, and no one want soggy fries, but given how addictively...

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The Best of Closet Cooking 2012 eBook Now Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple iTunes and Barnes & Noble Nook

Due to popular demand the The Best of Closet Cooking 2012 eBook is now available on the Amazon Kindle, Apple iTunes and Barnes & Noble Nook for your viewing pleasure. Ever since I published The Best of Closet Cooking 2012, a collection of the 25 tastiest and most popular recipes on Closet Cooking up until 2012, I have received requests to make it available on different readers in addition to...

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Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Zucchini

Zucchini is still plentiful and cheap these days and I have been trying to enjoy as much of it as I can while it is still available. I recently came across a recipe for chicken enchilada stuffed zucchini on Gina's Skinny Taste that sounded so good that I just had to try it! It has been a while since I last made stuffed zucchini and a chicken enchilada style stuffing sounded amazingly good! Don't...

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Tomato and Melted Cheese Open Faced Sandwich

Although the BLT usually steals the spot light at this time of year with all of the field ripened tomatoes around, another great way to enjoy them is simply in an open-faced sandwich covered in melted cheese. It is really hard to beat the tomato and cheddar combo, especially if that cheddar is all melted and good but throw a touch of tangy mayo and fresh cracked black pepper and you've really got...

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Corn and Black Bean Quesadillas with Roast Zucchini Salsa

When you make the corn and black bean tacos with roast zucchini salsa be sure to make a double batch as the leftovers are great in other dishes like these quesadillas. You really cannot go wrong taking the sweet caramelized corn along with the creamy black bean and the fresh and tasty zucchini salsa with a nice spicy heat and wrapping them all in a toasted golden brown tortilla along with plenty...

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Fig and Gorgonzola Crostini with Honey

Sweet figs and tangy blue cheese is a fabulous flavour combination and when I came across the idea for these fig and gorgonzola crostini on Tartlette I immediately knew that they would be amazing! In addition to the figs and gorgonzola, these crostini also have walnuts, thyme fresh cracked pepper and a drizzle of honey for even more sweetness to balance the tangy gorgonzola. The crostini are as...

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Guacamole BLT

This has to be one of my favourite times of the year with all of the fresh field ripened tomatoes! I am a big fan of tomatoes and it is hard to beat a field ripened tomato so I have been picking them up by the basket full lately. Of course one of the best ways to enjoy some tomatoes is in the ever so simple and yet ever so good, BLT! BLT's are great with just the bacon, lettuce and tomato but I...

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Caramelized Corn and Black Bean Tacos with Roast Zucchini Salsa and Roasted Poblano Crema

Summer is quickly coming to an end and although I looking forward to seeing all of the fall produce, I am not quite ready to let go of summer. In particular, I have really been enjoying a lot of corn on the cob and zucchini and I figure that I should get my fill of them while they are still plentiful! I had been thinking about using both the corn and zucchini combo in tacos for a while but I kept...

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Roast Zucchini Salsa

Not too long ago a made an absolutely fabulous swiss chard pesto that was really more of a combination of a pesto and a salsa, and I have been fascinated by the idea ever since. With all of the zucchini around these days I was thinking that a zucchini salsa/pesto would be a great way to enjoy some! At its base this zucchini salsa looks like a basic pesto with the basil being replaced by zucchini,...

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Roasted Poblano Crema

Sour cream, Mexican crema or if you are looking for a healthier alternative, Greek yogurt, are great condiments that can be used in all types of Mexican style dishes from tacos to burritos and beyond. Although it is super easy to just grab a spoonful of sour cream right from the container, why not take the opportunity to add more flavour to the dish by making a flavoured sour cream? With this in...

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Top 25 Sandwich Recipes

As many of you know, I am a huge fan of sandwiches! A sandwich is defined as two or more slices of bread with one or more fillings and there are just so many possibilities! At this point I have shared well over a hundred sandwich recipes with you and it was about time to gather up the best of the best, nothing but the tastiest, the top 25 sandwich recipes on Closet Cooking!Bacon Guacamole Grilled...

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Cheesy Zucchini Quinoa

One of my goto side dishes is a cheesy broccoli rice which is super easy to make and downright tasty. Ever since I discovered that quinoa can be a good substitute for rice in a lot of dishes I have been slowly remaking a lot of my favourite rice dishes with quinoa and it was time to try a cheesy broccoli quinoa. Well my intention was to make a cheesy broccoli quinoa but I really couldn't justify...

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Bacon Jam and Guacamole Quesadilla topped with a Fried Egg and Bacon Jam Vinaigrette Drizzle

Thoughts of bacon jam have been haunting me ever since my first batch ran out a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately it ran out long before I had finished using it in all of the things that I wanted to and I figured that that was the perfect excuse to make another batch! The next thing on my list to try were these quesadillas with bacon jam, guacamole and plenty of melted cheese. Despite the fact...

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