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Fresh diced vegetable salad and sharing my diabetes diagnosis story

April 13, 2019 By Nelson Cardoso 6 Comments

Sharing more healthy recipes When I first took a bite of this diced vegetable salad, my first thought was how delicious the salad and dressing tasted. I knew it was a healthy dish, but flavour was my main focus. After doing a little research on each of the ingredients, I found out that this one dish contains vitamin B, C, E, K, calcium, minerals, folate, potassium, fibre and antioxidants. Now that's icing on the cake... but a whole lot healthier than icing and cake 😂. We've ...

Chili pepper and jalapeño hot sauce

March 31, 2019 By Nelson Cardoso Leave a Comment

Michael's asked for a long time! Michael, our older guy, has become quite the hot sauce connoisseur. He's asked me to try making hot sauce for a long time. The other day, as I was choosing hot peppers at the grocery store, I finally felt inspired. The hot sauce recipe we're sharing with you today isn't the type of sauce that leaves you in tears and begging for milk 😂. It's a thick garlicky mild sauce. Think of it as a cross between Frank's Hot Sauce and Sriracha, both from a ...

Easy Sea Bream on the Grill (sargo)

March 17, 2019 By Nelson Cardoso 2 Comments

Delicious and rustic Today I'm sharing one of my favourite Portuguese fish dishes--Sea Bream. It's called Sargo in Portuguese. I'm not sure if this is exactly the same fish I used to eat while living in the Azores, but it looks and tastes a lot like it, so I'm going with it. It's definitely from the same family. Until this week, I had never cooked sea bream or sargo. I ate plenty of it when I was younger. My mom cooked it beautifully. I didn't just eat it at home. I'd even order it ...