I <3 Bulk Barn..

Today I wanted to try a few recipes, so I needed to pick up a few things. The recipes I made are:

Brazilian Cheese bread
Lemon Basil Chicken

Here's what I spent today:

$2.99 Tim Hortons

Food Basics
$1.97 Eggs
$1.99 Granola bars (those really good ones that taste like a chocolate bar, were on sale)
5.08 chicken breasts

Bulk Barn
$1.53 Tapioca flour
$0.11 Basil

This is why I love bulk barn. I got 500g of tapioca flour for $1.53 when the same amount at the grocery store was more than double the price. I was considering getting it at the grocery store so I wouldn't have to drive to Bulk Barn, but you can't beat the price difference. Not to mention the $0.11 basil. Mind you I got a very small amount cause I've never really used it before, and I didn't know if I would like it. But I have enough for another round of that chicken recipe left.

The results of my baking are...bread is gross, chicken is good. It said to bake the bread until it started to brown on the top which I did. It was hard on the outside and the inside looked like it was barely cooked. Just looking at it, it looks yummy, but it tastes gross. It was also too much garlic, if I was to try it again I would use maybe half the garlic. The chicken kinda looks gross when its frying, but I tasted it, and it's actually good :)

Lately I have been looking into gluten free/wheat free recipes, which is how I found that bread one. I need to use the rest of the tapioca flour so I will have to find some more recipes that call for it.

My Portuguese Cooking Adventure

Hey everyone..sorry I have not written for a few days! Recently there was a death in my family and so I was not really in a writing mood, plus I couldn't really think of what to write anyways.

This week I tried some portuguese recipes from this cookbook that I got from the library. The recipes were called" Twice cooked potatoes" and "roast chicken with piri piri."

They both turned out to be absolutely delicious! The potatoes did take awhile, since you were suposed to boil them first, and then "slip" off the skins ( like its that easy). I am wondering if I peeled them before hand if it really would have made a difference.

First I had to make piri piri sauce. According to this book there is probably hundreds of ways to make piri piri, everyone kinda does it their own way. This book had 2 recipes and I made the simplest one where you basically just crush up some chili peppers and garlic and put it in a jar with olive oil and a bit of salt.

For the potatoes, you basically boil them, then take the skins off, cut them up and fry them with olive oil and butter, then adding salt and pepper (however you like) and coriander.

For the chicken, you basically take a few spoonfuls of the piri-piri, some coriander and lemon juice and marinate it in that for 2 hours then you put it in the oven! Pretty simple recipes! Here are the pictures.


I forgot to take a picture of the chicken by itself, so I just took a pic of both after I divided them into containers. It looks pretty good eh? If anyone is interested in the exact recipes, let me know and I will post them soon :)