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Steaks grilled in the best South African tradition, served with grilled asparagus with orange and nutmeg Hollandaise, and cumin flavored chickpeas. This is not as challenging as it may seem as long as the orange juice reduction is ready in advance.

Serve with almond red sauce and jalapeño cream sauce. Prepare the sauces and reserve while cooking chimichangas. Traditional Mexican garnish such as shredded lettuce and cheese, sour cream, guacamole also go well with chimichangas.

A sample of simple Cajun cooking. The Cajun notes come from the seasoning and the way flavors are combined.

This sloppy Joe recipe uses ketchup, not tomato sauce, and it is the quickest one to prepare. So quick and easy, once you try this one you will wonder how you ever bought the sauce ready made before.

This is a slow cooking meat sauce, but this brings out more of the flavor, and, as kids love a sloppy Joe, why not take advantage and sneak some more vegetables in the sauce?

This tofu red Thai curry recipe is an example of how Thai cooking style enhances beautifully the otherwise bland taste tofu would have to produce a truly vegetarian main course.

Gambas al ajillo are very popular as tapas. The shrimp used for this recipe should not be excessively large. The kind of chili used for this in Spain is known as guindilla, a Spanish hot red chili of the thin and long varieties, usually dried.