All of the flavours of buffalo chicken wings in an easy to make chicken meatloaf! Buffalo chicken wings are wings that are covered in a hot sauce and often served with a blue cheese or ranch dipping sauce along with carrot and celery sticks and this is a take on those flavours in meatloaf form!...

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All of the flavours of a Cuban style picadillo with capers, olives and raisins with chicken! A Cuban style picadillo is a dish that typically includes ground beef, bell peppers, onions, garlic, oregano, cumin, bay leaf, tomato sauce, olives, capers, and raisins. This version makes a simple substitution of sliced chicken for the ground beef....

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It’s often fun to change things up by serving breakfast for dinner! I mean who doesn’t love pancakes for dinner! I’m not talking about some lame toast and coffee breakfast or even a bowl of cereal breakfast but a hearty and tasty breakfast that you will look forward to having for dinner! Lots of breakfasts...

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A healthy and hearty lentil, chickpea and quinoa soup seasoned with curry flavours. 2026/05/03: This has been one of my all time favourite recipes! I find myself making it all the time and I thought that I would take the opportunity to update it with some new photos! Recently I have been enjoying exploring lentils...

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Easy slow cooker chicken in a tasty pickle salsa verde! Pickle salsa verde (link) is great all by itself, as dip with tortilla chips, but it’s also great ingredient in recipes like this slow cooker pickle salsa Verde chicken! This recipe is as easy as throwing chicken into a slow cooker along with pickle salsa...

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A tasty salsa verde with pickles! Salsa verde (a simple salsa made with tomatillos and jalapenos) and pickles are two of my favourite foods and they get even better when combined! This pickle salsa verde is the combination of the two recipes where tomatillos, jalapenos, onion and garlic are roasted before being pureed, along with...

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A collection of quick and easy recipes for the perfect Mother’s Day celebration! Mother’s Day is coming and a great way to show her how much you care is with some home cooking! Start the day off right for mom with breakfast in bed or a special brunch and then keep things going with some...

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Mexican style simmered beans with chorizo sausage and bacon! Frijoles charros, aka charro beans, is a super simple dish where dried beans are slowly simmered with bacon, chorizo sausage, chillies, tomatoes and seasonings. The recipe is as easy as soaking beans overnight, cooking bacon, sausage, onions, chilies, garlic, and cumin, adding the beans, broth, and...

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Closet Cooking celebrates 19 years of sharing tasty food and recipes! I can’t believe that it’s been another year! What a tasty year! It was filled with plenty of fun and new recipes! As I look back over the recipes shared in the last year I see a wonderful variety of: mains, sides, appetizers, desserts,...

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All of the flavours of white chili chicken, made in a slow cooker, in a tasty burrito bowl. White chili chicken is a chili made with chicken, green chilies and cream, it’s one of my favourites, and you can’t go wrong making it in a slow cooker before throwing it into a burrito bowl! This...

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