Random recipes - page 405

A few weeks ago I promised to post the recipe for my Butterscotch Schnapps Bundt Cake. This was actually part of the Valentine's day celebration. It was a "spin off" of sorts from my Amaretto bundt cake that I've probably made 100 times. Since I have

What do you get when you combine chili with bow-tie pasta? You get "Picante Chicken Pasta" from Weight Watchers'. Don't scoff -- you were never tempted to dump a can of chili over your pasta, just once? I picked up a couple of these frozen entrees

Ingredients: Ridge gourd - 500 gm Green peas - 1/2 cup Onion - 1 Green chillies - 2 Turmeric - 1/4 tsp Red chilli powder - 1 tsp Salt to taste Mustard cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp Channa dal - 1/4 tsp Curry leaves - few Coriander leave

Pineapple sheera! Yum! One of my most favourite sweet dishes. Well, I have posted the recipe for sheera twice already but I was simply compelled to write another recipe again, adding pineapple chunks this time. Sheera is something I remember eating as a c

Zucchini is a very versatile vegetable. It can be used in many international dishes, but just like that can also be transformed into many Indian dishes. I make curries in the same way I make beerakaya (ridge gourd) and here used it in place of anapakaya (

Being born and brought up in Delhi, I thought I had had a taste of all Punjabi cuisine till I got married to a Punjabi. I realized there is much more to Punjabi food than Makki ki roti and Sarson ka saag just like there is much more to Southie cuisine

After the Chinese New Year, one of the festive goodies to enjoy is Fried Nian Gao. It is a round sticky brown cake made from glutinous rice and sugar. You can find them on display weeks before the Chinese New Year. It is auspicious to eat this cake during

Mathris are very popular snack throughout North India,There are so many ways to make and varieties of mathris ,in fact every household have their own recipe of this delicious snack .Specially in Uttar Predesh you will found mathris in almost every house.

"Pak Tong Gou" is basically White Sugar Cake in Cantonese. It is a popular and classic street food in Malaysia . It is a steamed white spongy cake that is springy and the texture resembles a honeycomb when sliced. This is one of the many simple joys of

One of my favorite Dish (R) Snack from childhood.In India we'll get this kadalai Urundai in small,small kadai(shop).I tried, it came out really good,that what we get in shops.Very healthy snacks for kids(for us also :) ) Ingredients: Kadalai/Gr

You know those stupid jokes that start with "how many ______ does it take to change a light bulb?" Yeah. I officially hate those jokes. It took me months to change four lightbulbs that progressively burned out. MONTHS! One burned out in Septem

Simplicity brings out the best in anything. It is said to be the first step towards attaining great things. Quite startling still, simplicity sometimes provides us with the grandest form of excellence ??? of perfection ??? of sophistication. Indeed, there

It?s so fun making pinwheels using these Tortillas . These can be easily found in Carrefour or Cold Storage . What about serving these pinwheels this Chinese New Year? These can make quick snacks for visitors. Together with 2 other Chines

I remember going to the home of my parents friends one night sometime in the mid-70 s and eating a dish called London Chicken . I don t know the exact recipe, but we all loved it so much that it became a dish in my own mother s cooking repertoire. Essen

Dosa,being the staple breakfast in many south Indian homes appears regularly on their breakfast menu.These days many people avoid eating them as it has large proportion of white rice which makes then feel it is bit unhealthy.For such kind of people brown

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. These days, we will get almost all the vegetables in all the seasons. When I see bottle gourd (Lauki, Halugumbala or Sorekayi) in supermarkets here in Bangalore, I always remember my mom growing this veggie in our

Ingredients:- Channa dal-2 cup(soak in water for 3 hours) Green chilies-8 to 9 nos(finely chopped) Cumin seeds-2 tsp Onions-2 nos(finely chopped) Sod-1/2 tsp Curry leaves-few Salt to taste Besan or Channa dal flour-1/2 cup Oil for deep frying

I have been wanting to bake a fruity flavored bread for awhile. Its seems like a fresh and delicious idea, but it also sounds like a pretty unusual thing to incorporate fresh fruits into bread recipes. Most of what I've seen are the fruits being placed o

I totally heart this ! Tender crumbs made moist with grand marnier. The 12-holes mini bundt baking tin from Aussie is put to good use finally ~ Yoo hoo... This recipe can yield 24 mini bundt.. so I actually had to bake this twice. Something which

Sharad punam is also known as sharad purnima or kojaagarti punam. It is celebrated on aso sud 15 - purnima. In sanskrit ko jaagarti means "who is awake?" It is said that the goddess of wealth Laxmiji moves around in the sky whole night asking ko jaagarti

Aloo Chole or Aloo Chana Curry recipe is a Punjabi dish that is served as an accompaniment with Indian flatbreads like chapathis, naans and especially bhaturas. It is made with potatoes and chickpeas (white chana / Garbanzo beans) in an onion and tomato b

I am one masala freak,if I find any new masalas(and ofcourse for vegetarian dishes)on the rack in any store I just grab them to my shopping cart.I have used many of the maharastrian masalas like goda masala,lassun masala,shenga masala,kopra masala,kolhapu

Bac Ha , the stem of Alocasia Odora (related to Colocasia), is something I had not used in my cooking until now. When D found it at a nearby Asian store, he bought some for us to try. One of my favorites to this day is Plantain stem (Vaazha Thandu)

Kandi Pachadi / Toor Dal chutney, Yellow Lentils are toasted to golden brown along with some asoefetida and then ground to a coarse paste with tamarind and red onions.. This chutney take s me back to my childhood where mom would make this chutney in a sna