Serve a tasty fritatta for brunch along with tortillas, salsa and a green salad.

If you have not tried Ethiopian food, you should. New food tastes are always an adventure. This Ethiopian style spicy braised chicken recipe is not exactly authentic, but it is close to it.

A quick and easy stir fry meal. If you are having friends over for dinner after work you can do much better than take-out. Stir fry is a quick, fun and impressive way to make a tasty meal.

For a red, white and blue holiday, try Hot & Spicy's zippy White Dipping Sauce for raw or blanched vegetables and the Simple Red Dipping Sauce (serve hot or cold) for grilled meats or fried chicken cutlets.

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Make curry oil to saute shrimp, scallops or other firm fish. Add a good vinegar to the oil for a vinaigrette.

Chilled soup or vichyssoise makes a light lunch when served with lightly buttered toast points or melba toast. Or serve as part of a full meal. Salmon steaks are an excellent addition. See our easy salmon cooked in white wine recipe.

This is an easy curry recipe for those times when you have thawed the ground beef or steak but want something a little different.

If you like chickpeas you will love these curried chickpea patties.

Cucumber dill dressing with garlic, dill and a heafty bit of dry mustard moves this dipping treat far above those bland cucumber dressings.