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It's crunch time kids. Time to seriously get out there and do some Christmas Shopping and start thinking about what we're baking for family, friends and neighbors. Somebody kick me in the rear to get me started will ya!! LOL!! We've got some pretty terrif

Quiche has become a regular in our home. I made one with leftover ham and spinach last weekend. It is very easy to make quiche with almost any ingredients you have inside your refrigerator especially leftovers like bacon, broccoli, leeks, mushrooms, onion

These are really really easy to make and there is not even any cooking involved. Is that cheating ? They were SO easy to make, it FELT like cheating. I made these at 3am on Saturday morning. No joke - honestly I did... On a Saturday, our shop NATURAL

Vankaya inguva karam / Egg plant curry,is one of the South Indian traditional recipe,which does not contain either garlic or onion and is a sathvik food item which goes well with south indian families..It can also be prepared as stuffed brinjal / egg plan

Capricciosa From all the flowers and well wishes, it kinda gives it away that this restaurant is newly opened. Its a new restaurant indeed but the food that it serves goes a long way back; back in 1978. I can hear some of you going "Oh another Japanese

We had a Halloween Fall festival at our house last night with some youth from our church and I thought it would be fun to do something a little different with the drink. After surfing the web for ideas here is what I came up with: Kids will stare

Puglia is becoming more and more famous around the world for the Altamura bread . This bread has been the first, in the bakery category, to receive the DOP seal (Denomination of Protected Origin) in Europe. The DOP recognition is equivalent to the DOC on

Tindora / Dondakaya Chutney is one of the most vital side dish of Andhra. There are so many varieties and variations ..Here is how I make ... Tindora/Dondakaya Ingredients:- Tindora/ Dondakaya - 2 cups Bengal gram /Chana dal -1 tbsp Spli

The very first day I spent in England, I threw my suitcase onto the stained mattress of the YMCA bed where I would lay my head for the next few months and looked around for a place to eat. At a local pub, I ordered a ?vegetarian fry up? and was se

Ingredients Spinach 1 bunch (washed and chopped finely) Onion 1medium (finely chopped) Dry red chillies 1-2 no. (broken) Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp Chana dal 2 tsp Thoor dal 1/4 cup(half cooked) Turmeric powder a small pinch

Traditional Indian food has protein but not enough. Though lentils (one of the sources of protein), milk and curd are enjoyed on a daily basis, the quantity isn t in large quantities. An occasional rajma (kidney beans) and channa (chickpeas) are thrown in

Macher Jhal , a tomato based fish curry which I make mostly with all types of Asian fish like Striped Bass, Mullet, Buffalo Carp and they just taste awesome. My husband introduced this dish to me as he says he remembers his mom preparing this everyday mor

This recipe is a combination of exceptionally nutritious vegetables(raw banana,drumstick and brinjal). During my childhood it was one of my favourite curry from my Mom's kitchen...Whenever i got the chance to cook this , it always brought back all those

Rose Cookies a traditional sweet delicacy made during Christmas! Rose Cookies are called as Rose De Coque in Portuguese and Goa, called as achu Murukku in Southern Region of India and called as Rosette Cookies in Scandinavia. Now it s famous as Anglo I

Lately, I have become a bit lazy about posting, because I have to study for my school exams right now. But in order to make it up, I look forward to sharing my delicious dessert with you that I had last Sunday. Filled rice dumplings are a very popular d

The title of this post speaks for itself. There aren t many ingredients involved to make this spectacular and I do mean spectacular vegetable dish. For those foodies who were at the 1st Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival back in November, you all know w

Bok Choy in Oyster Sauce Bok Coy in Oyster Sauce is a very popular vegetable side dish in Chinese Cuisines it is usually served as an accompaniment to dishes like roast pork, roast chicken, barbecue pork , Hainanese chicken rice to name some. It i

After taking two really good classes from Kathy Lehr at the Western Reserve School of cooking, I just had to sign up for the multi-grain class. Everything that she has taught so far has translated into direct and significant improvements in my bread and b

I came up with this recipe to use those Morello Cherries you get at Trader Joes but any canned cherries in light syrup/juice-- not heavy syrup-- will work fine. I used my tried and true cobbler recipe making a few tweaks to it. Ingredients Filling

This is a very popular feast sociality as well, remember that feast with all the meat? we had to come with few dishes to use it in, this is one of them. now, Roqaq is some sort of round shaped pastry, made of flour, water and salt. when baked it becomes b

I love vazhakkai (Raw banana / Plantain) very much. Mostly it is cooked in every household on the Amavasya (New Moon) day, as a part of the lunch to give thidhi (offering) to the family members who passed away. The recipes prepared on that day are not sup

I already have another version of this recipe up on my blog but Portuguese cooking as with many other ethnic dishes, is all about places, people and different parts of the country. I haven't really been making Portuguese food lately and I've been cr

I promise I promise, on my next trip to New York or better still, California, I have to, I have to eat at Thomas Keller's restaurant! I first learnt about Thomas Keller when I read Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour almost 8 years ago. I was intrigued whe

It's been a while since I left my job. Yet weekend brings the same kind of lethargic feeling which comes after slogging away through the whole week. Not that I get to sit with my manicured hands as a homemaker :-), but admittedly the pressure on my head i