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Recipe Phirni ...Light Rice Pudding and Neebu ka Sharbat ...Fresh Sparkling Limeade (The final installment of recipes used in my Taste of India menu.)

Phirni ...Light Rice Pudding and Neebu ka Sharbat ...Fresh Sparkling Limeade (The final installment of recipes used in my Taste of India menu.)
Well. It's been a heady, exotic, seductive journey over the past week for me...a week that included an in-depth, hands-on immersion into Indian cuisine. A journey that was over too soon...but won't be shelved! I can now put a[...]

File Gumbo Light
In our family, gumbo was chicken, shrimp, sausage, crab bodies and file, period. No okra. Light on the rice. There was really no big brouhaha about the roux. You made a gravy base; no big deal, gravy was made all the time. Now I know[...]

How to Lighten Up Your Recipes
I think January has been a successful month in the Great Food Adventure ! Here's a little round-up of this month's lightened-up favorites: Lighter Chili Lighter Mac & Cheese Baked Fish & Chips To round[...]

Strawberry Angel Food Cake Roll
Let me just start by saying I realize that these pictures are horrible...not my usual horrible but extra horrible (and yes, I use this disclaimer often). While this dessert tasted amazing it did cause me a little grief.[...]

Recipe Angel Food Cake with a Honey Lemon Yogurt Sauce

Angel Food Cake with a Honey Lemon Yogurt Sauce
I've always loved angel food cake. Growing up I remember my great grandma made it every year and its was the best angel food cake I've ever had. I've always been reluctant to try it from scratch because let's admit, its[...]

Couscous salad
Couscous salad While I have made couscous salad before, this was more or less the lean version of the one I did before. I was just reading the other recipe and realizing it’s really not that much different, but ok… it definitely[...]

My Favorite Quiche!
***It's not often that a recipe is worthy of re-posting. I think I've only done that once or twice in the entire time I've written this blog. However, this is one of those rare occasions. Back in 2009 when Brad and I[...]

Persian Inspiration
The weather's been hot enough here lately to remind anyone of the Sahara ? it was 45 degrees Friday. So hardly surprising that we didn't feel like having the usual suspects of dal and sabzi for dinner over the hot, hot weekend. In fact, the[...]

Christmas Green Beans
For the next week or so I’m going to be giving you guys some Christmasy recipes that are perfect for this time of year. A lot of the Christmas food I grew up eating is similar to the Thanksgiving food here as it seems the two holidays[...]