Whenever I want to impress my dinner guests (or possibly alienate those who with unadventurous palettes) I whip up a batch of Vatapa - a Brazilian fish soup with beer and coconut milk as main ingredients.

It's mind-blowingly delicious and even better on the second day.

Here's the recipe: http://www.nibbledish.com/people/thunderboy/recipes/vatapa--fish-soup-with-coconut-milk

What's your fave delicious-if-slightly-weird recipe?

Black bean hummus! Just use black beans instead of chickpeas/garbanzo beans, and lime instead of lemon. So good!

My friends always laugh at me because when I'm reaallly hungry I have the weirdest combinations ever - Egg fried pasta with cheese, sweetcorn and Teriyaki sauce was probably the best concoction. So so good.

When I'm not being strange and craving bananas on pasta(also quite nice), I like to impress with my mum's lentil curry which I can't find the recipe for now, but is full of apple and pears and other delicious things.

Has anyone ever had a "mexican lasagne?" I'd never had one until a few weeks ago when my flatmate made it. It's like lasagne but with tortilla wraps instead of pasta and a more chilli-con-carne-ish filling.

Grilled Chicked Served with Chickpea Salad and Pitta Bread

Chickpea, Feta and Coriander Salad

serves 4 to 6 as a side dish or 2 to 3 as a main course (I normally half the amounts for dinner for 2 with grilled chicken and pitta bread)

200ml olive oil
2 red onions, finely sliced
5 cloves garlic, finely sliced
2 red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 x 400g tins chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 bunch spring onions, finely chopped
1 bunch fresh coriander, parsley, mint or basil (I use a mix of coriander and mint)
juice of 1 lemon
250g feta or goats cheese, roughly chopped

1) Heat half the olive oil and sweat the red onions and garlic for about 5 minutes, until soft. Add the red chillies and give it a stir. Allow to cool, then season very well with salt and pepper.

2) In a large bowl, mix the onion and oil mixture with the chickpeas, spring onions and herbs. Add the lemon juice, mix well and season. Add some more of the remaining 100ml of olive oil if you want to make it more luscious and sloppy. Add the cheese and mix carefully. Check the seasoning again and serve.

Coriander Chicken

Serves 4

200g Greek yoghurt (half a big tub)
juice of 2 limes or lemon
1 tsp coriander seeds, lightly crushed (I use dried coriander powder instead)
1 tsp sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 bug bunch coriander (approx 25g), roughly chopped
4 skinless free-range chicken breasts, cut into strips
olive oil

1) Mix the yoghurt with the lime juice, coriander seeds, and salt and pepper. Mix the chopped coriander in with the yoghurt, Add the chicken and mix well. Marinate this for anything from 1 hour to overnight.

2) Turn the grill up high and spread the chicken onto a baking tray or roasting tin. Drizzle with some olive oil and grill for 7 to 10 minutes, turning the chicken occassionally as the yoghurt chars quite easily. When it's cooked through, serve hot or warm with the chickpea salad.

It's so tasty!

We like to get together with our friend "The Captain" and cook the craziest food we can find. It doesn't necessarily have to be crazy so much as take a really long time, in which we can drink beer and talk smack.

Recently we made Chorizo, prawn and black bean tostones with passion fruit habanero salsa.

And. They. Were. AMAZING! Seriously. So good. The tostones are made by frying plantains, smushing them flat and refrying them.

Check it out here. http://loverssaintsandsailors.blogspot.com/2011/02/cooking-with-captain.html

Sarah Von, I'm putting your crazy fish soup forward for our next bash!

i LOVE coleslaw in the summer, but not the usual way with so much mayo and sugar. weird ones with tamarind, sesame oil dressing and toasted almonds, or creamed avocado, garlic and ginger dressing, mixed with a huge bowl of shredded crunchy vegetables. OMG. i miss summer.

I make that too!

Bacon-Jalapeno-Asparagus Risotto!

I made it up last week and it is THE BEST.

Here's the link to the recipe: http://canadiantwentysomething.blogspot ... sotto.html

Seriously...try it.

This isn't so much a recipe (I'm not much of a cook!) but one weird snack I've had is cream cheese spread on a tortilla and then sprinkled with brown sugar. We ate it at summer camp when we ran out of everything else on our overnight! Actually pretty good.

Sugar-free tofu "cheesecake" or flourless, sugar-free oatmeal "cookies".
Recipes found at my blog: http://settingupmystones.blogspot.com