I like to drink coffee. Cause I’m an insomniac, I find it really helps in boosting my awareness to the world (aka keeping me awake). Lately I’m bored with my Nescafe instant 3-1 mix :D so I tried to make something new. After many trials and errors, I invented …

I am a big pasta fan and an even bigger seafood addict, so any dish which combines these two food groups is a real hit for me. I grew a bit bored of clam linguini, so I went online to look for a linguini recipe with other seafood, preferably …

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
cinnamon sugar
cinnamon chips (optional)
I am sort of a spice addict, so when I found out there were cinnamon cookies that don’t taste like snicker doodles I was immediately all over trying them. This …

I never knew that chicken meat can also be used in making sweet and sour dishes. Pork and fish is what I usually cook until I learned this recipe from a Judy Lew’s Chinese Cuisine cookbook. I like the recipe because the ingredients used here are …

The pies have always been existed the leading moment of the Greek traditional kitchen. The times that, our grand mothers with the poor cooking ingredients were making masterpieces of flavor and taste, have changed.
Nowadays, to many of us time does not allow anymore the pleasure of making homemade pastry …

Ingredients
Black gram dal (Urad dal)- 2 cups
Big oninion - 1
Cumin seeds - 2 spoons
Curry leaves- a few
Salt as per taste
Procedure:
Soak black gram dal for two hours. And grind it to make fine paste. Donot add water while grinding. Because the dough should be tight enough to make vada. Now …

Ingredients:
Spring onions 4 bunches
Potatoes - 3
Tomatoes - 3
Onion - 1
Green chillies - 6
Curry leaves
Oil
Salt
Turmeric - 1/4 spoon
Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
Garam masala powder - 2 tea spoons.
Method: Cut onion into small pieces. Heat oil in a pan and add onion pieces, slit green chillies, and curry leaves. …

Ingredients:
2 Eggs
Salt
Black Pepper
1 Scotch Bonnet Pepper
Cooking/Vegetable oil
Bread
Butter/Margerine
Cheddar Cheese
Tomato (sliced)
Lettuce
Method:
Preheat frying pan with cooking/vegetable oil
Whisk together - 2 eggs with a pinch of salt and black pepper
Grate 1/2 scotch bonnet pepper and add to egg batter
Fry until golden but not crisp (fry crisp if desired)
Toast 2 slices of bread
Apply butter/margerine, cheddar …

I am always looking for creative and new things to do with vegetables, because I don’t find vegetables all that exciting, but they are good for you, so I try to eat them daily. Always looking for recipes for vegetables, I recently got one from my Italian friend, for …

I am a huge soup fan; I love eating it, and I even enjoy making it, because I always make a huge batch, freeze it in one or two portion sizes, and pack it for lunches for my family. I find that most soups taste even better after being …

Ingredients
Gram flour - 2 cups
Rice flour - 2 cups
Chilli powder - 3 tablespoons
Asafetida powder - 2 tablespoons
Butter - 100 gms
Table salt - to taste
Oil - for frying
Method:
Mix the rice flour and gram flour with chilli powder, asafetida powder, salt and butter. Take a little of this mixture, add water …

One of my very favourite meals in the world is the Vietnamese Subs, which can very in meat used (usually, beef, pork or chicken), and even styles. I have had great ones and mediocre ones, but finding a restaurant that serves good ones is always a priority when I …

I collect many things and one of them is cook books. New cook books and historic one of a kind. Tons and tons of cook books. One of my favorites is The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, Revised Edition, publisher: Hearst Books. You not only get the recipes, but the …

As much as I enjoy slaving away in the kitchen, there are days when I come home tired from work and just need my favorite comfort food to snack on while checking out the latest on the television scene. When I say comfort food, I mean tortillas and anything …

Milk pudding is a wonderful and easiest recipe, which I make very often at my home and all the members of my family love to teat it. it is very tasty and just tastes like milk and is very good to eat. Here is the procedure:
Take a …

Cool Banana Pops make for a refreshing and tasty treat during the hot summer months. You will need a banana, popsicle stick, some peanut butter, and a bowl of nuts. First, take a banana and peel it. Cut the banana in half. Then, take a popsicle stick and insert …

Ingredients :
Rice - 1cup
Carrot - 3
Onions - 2
Roasted peanuts- 2 tbsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
salt
cinnamon- 1 inch piece
clove - 3
To grind :
coriander seeds - 2 tsp
jeera - 1 tsp
Red chillies - 4
Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
Roast all the above in little oil and grind
Method :
1. Cut onions into small pieces
2. …

Prepare time: 15 mins
Serves: 4
Per serving: Kilojoules 931, protein 6g, total fat 20g, saturated fat 2g, cholesterol 0mg, total carbohydrate 6g, sugars 6g, fibre 4g, sodium 43mg
Ingredients: 1 carrot, 1 celery stalk, 1 red-skinned dessert apple, 1 cup mung bean sprouts, 3/4 cup alfalfa sprouts, 1/2 cup sunflower kernels
Oriental …

Kalakand is a very famous and tasty dessert in India. It is very rich in calories but very very tasty dessert. It is also very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
Cottage cheese 1 cup, sugar 3/4th cup and, condensed milk 1cup and some ghee (3-4 tea spoons of melted butter)
Method:
First …

I started to love Dumplings when i was still young. My Grandmother used to do some dumplings . At First i was so afraid to it because i thought that there is something inside it like cat or rat because many people told me so that’s why i am …

Most of my friends and family members think I’m a little strange because I’m not a huge fan of ice cream. I don’t dislike ice cream, but it’s definitely not the first thing I would order if I were presented with a list of dessert options. However, …

This recipe for Hawaiian Strawberry Pie is very delicious. It takes awhile to make, but is definitely worth the wait. The pie makes 6 to 8 pieces depending on how small you cut the slices.
6 oz graham cracker pie crust
2 cups sliced strawberries (preferably fresh)
3 oz package strawberry …

Ingredients:
1 box of elbow macaroni noodles (Mueller’s is the best brand)
1 can of evaporated milk
1 egg
3 9.6 oz blocks of Kraft cheese (mild are sharp)
4 tbs of butter
Directions:
-Preheat the oven to 375.
-Open the can of evaporated milk and pour into a mixing bowl. Break the single egg and add …

I am a kind of person who needs lots and lots of vitamin C cause i could get cold easily. During these rainy days (Indonesia), I have to consume lots of vit C and i don’t like eating supplement or any vit C in a tablet kind (even effervescent …

Another favorite dessert of mine are parfait. I have tried mango and strawberry before but I was looking for something homemade and more exotic rather than traditionally Western. I have tried banana crepe but it tasted sour. I tried Banana Parfait. I got a recipe from a local magazine …

I really like lasagna. It is also a dish my whole family enjoys. However, I do like to find easy to make meals. I normally make lasagna using recipes that don’t require the noodles to be cooked ahead of time. The lasagna would taste OK …

The lasagna in which I had cooked needed the ingredients Mozzarella cheese, Cheddar cheese, Parmesan cheese and cottage cheese. It also included hamburger meat,Rojo sauce, and lasagna noodles. First you cook the meet then break it up into small tiny pieces. Then you poor the hamburger into the sauce …

12 cups of sliced potatoes
1 cup of chopped onion
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of celery soup
2 cups of milk
1 teaspoon of salt
pepper
Peel and slice the potatoes. Take a greased baking dish and spread 6 cups of sliced potatoes in the bottom. In a separate …

Black Pepper Fried Chicken is another nice dish that I love making. I learn this from my friend, when I was down at her place the other day. She gave me some interesting tips and I have followed that since.
You will need bread crumbs, a bit …

I love extremely easy to cook dishes and snacks/delicacies, and here is a simple to make type of snack or dessert that you can serve for your family or guests. I call it my Pancakes on a Platter recipe.
Alright, you know the taste of pancakes, right? Very fluffy …

Ingredients :
Potatoes - 5, Onions-3, Fresh curds-1 cup,Ajinomoto-1/2tsp,green chillies-3,salt-as required,red chilli powder-1 tsp, oil-enough to deep fry,bengal gram flour-2 tbsps,baking powder-1/4 tsp, garam masala powder-1/4 tsp
Method
1. Cook potatoes in pressure cooker till half cooked.
2. Peel outer skin and dice into big cubes.
3. Sprinkle little salt, baking powder and bengal …

These is a very easy to make and very good taco dip. I’ve taken it to several parties and served it at my own house and it has always been eaten up, with many people asking for the recipe. I found the recipe in “Treasured Recipes” cookbook.
2 …

I’ve never made any type of muffins from scratch. I love homemade muffins, but I’ve always shied away from making them because I thought the process would be too complicated. Recently I decided to cook a homemade beef stew for dinner, and I thought that cornbread would …

Hello people,
Today I am going to present you the simplest recipe that you will ever try: sausages in pastry. With only 2 ingredients needed, I promise you even a child could do this.

The other day I was just staring at my refrigerator, not knowing what to eat. I had different …

Smores have always been a favorite of mine since I was a child. In the past years, I have discovered several ways to make a varitey of smores.
First of all, there is the traditional smore. Toast the marshmellow, then stick it between two graham crackers that have …

When I was in high school, our band would take an annual trip to NYC to see a Broadway musical and experience a different kind of restaurant than we were used to. The first time I went with them, we saw “1776″ and ate at a German restaurant …

I was thinking of food I can serve as appetizer or my cousin’s birthday party, and my friend recommended me this recipe for smoky canapes which serves 20 people.
What you need are:
8 ounces of reduced-fat cream cheese (soften them first)
4 ounces of crumbled blu cheese
1 tablespoon of Worcestershire …

For the holiday season, I have been searching for some different salads and appetizers, something better and more unique than the usual boring fare. I found some interesting-sounding salads, and tried out a few last week. The biggest hit of all of the salads, and the one that I …

Ingredients : The items needed to prepare this simple and tasty dish are :
Onions (big) -3
Green chillies -6
Tomatoes - 2 or 3
salt
Bengal gram flour - 1/4 cup
oil - 2 tbsp
seasoning - mustard, black gram
dhal - 1tsp
Curry leaves and coriander leaves for garnishing
lime juice - optional
Method :
1. Cut onions, …

As an alternative to chicken as the main spread for those who are diet conscious, there is one recipe I learned from Men’s Health Magazine. It uses Corned Beef but it has rich in tomato. Though sandwich is not always our first meal of choice, I wanted to develop …

Pastitsada
This is the favourite dish of the Corfiot people on Corfu island of Greece. If you ever visit Corfu, go to one of the local-traditional tavernas and try it. The locals usually cook it on Sundays (and quite spicy)where all the family is gathered around the table and …

Gobhi Manchurian is the favourite evening snack for my children. And it is also the favourite snack for all the children. Here is the recipe not it down.
Ingredients: cauli flower finely chopped 2 cups, tomato sauce 1 cup, salt to taste, black salt 1 tea spoon, …

I am always on the lookout for recipes that make salads less boring. I never look forward to plain green salads, so when I found this recipe, I was pretty excited. The blue cheese got me interested, because blue cheese is one of my very favourite foods of all, …

I love to cook and my wife loves fish and would rather eat fish than meat, so I often do her stuffed squid. A Greek friend of hers gave this recipe to her and it is simple to do and tastes great the measurements I am going to give …

My grandmother would usually be the one to always make the hot water cornbread until I decided to learn how to make it one day. It is very good and it is just a little different from the regular cornbread. This one is fried while the regular one is …

Although I am a huge seafood fan, I am a bit ambivalent about trout. Yes, I
have caught a rainbow or cutthroat trout and then fried and eaten it that night, but compared to salmon, halibut, tuna and cod, I find trout to be less tasty and quite dry. However, …

Rawa(semolina) kesari:
ingredients:
semolina(rawa) :1cup(200 gm)
sugar :1 1/2cup(300gm)
ghee :100gm
cardamon …

A delicious sweet that is must and should in one of the Indian festivals is before you.All you need to have to taste this sweet:
1.Rice - one cup
2.Green dal (split)- ½ cup
3.Coconut pieces- ½ cup
4.Green cardamom-4
5.Sugar-3/4 th cup
6.Ghee-4 table spoons
7.Cashews and kissemess
Preparation:
1)Wash the rice and drain all the …