I lived in The Netherlands for more than 2 years (studies and work), thus, I have a good personal experience of the Dutch cuisine. Coming from a country with a world wide famous cuisine, and after assuring you that I am the kind of the open minded person that …

Vegetarian cooking is becoming more and more popular as people are becoming more health conscious. One of my favorite vegetarian cookbooks, and one that is perfect for someone who is just getting started in vegetarian cooking, is How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman, I do not cook …

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 …

Ingredients :
Gram flour : 1 cup
Rice flour : 1 cup
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Cooking soda - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1tsp
Onions - 3 nos
Green chillies - 4
salt
Curry leaves and coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
Oil
Method :
1. Add salt, chilli powder, to gram flour, rice flour and mix well.
2. Mix ghee, and …

Who does not like pancakes for breakfast? They are fluffy, delicious, and filling, but most people are too busy or just too lazy to go through the process of making them from scratch. Box mixes are an easy alternative, however in a time where we really do not know …

This is not really a direct sort of recipe for making vegetable stock, but rather what one can do to get as close as possible to a vegetable stock. This is a recipe that I have experimented and I think has a special place in my heart. …

Ingredients:
semolina(sooji) - 1cup(200gm)
onion - 2 medium size
tomato - 2 medium size
greenchilly - 3
ginger …

Pancit canton is a Filipino-Chinese noodle dish that has been an all time favorite in many homes. It is a common birthday or holiday food, though it can also be served on ordinary days. It has many variations, some pancit canton recipe has been passed on from generations to …

1 kilo prawns, deveined, but with the heads left on
1 head garlic, sliced crosswise
1 tbsp dried chili flakes
1 tsp Cayenne pepper
100 grams butter
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 tsp lemon zest
Salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
Clean the prawns by placing them under the water. Do not remove …

Well my friends today I want to share a recipe with you, which is healthy, full of nutrition, easy to cook, and really delicious. It is called “Corn with white sauce”. To make “Corn with white sauce” for 2 people, we are going to need the following ingredients:-
1) 100 grams …

Boil the beets, from 40 minutes to over 1 hour depending on their size and quantity. If you’ve got only 2 or three medium sized ones, 40 minutes will be enough. Large ones, bigger than a tennis ball, should be cooked for over an hour.
Let the cooked beets cool …

You will need 1 can of salmon, 1,5 cups of cooked rice, and 1/3 cup of finely chopped onion, some salt and mayonnaise.
Cook rice and let it cool off. Open the can of salmon, drain. Carefully remove bones and pieces of skin and cut the salmon into small pieces. …

My sister taught me how to cook a recipe that she actually learned from our mother. She is the eldest in the brood so while I was still young and was only playing she was in the kitchen helping my mother and hence was able to learn all the …

Ingredients:
1 piece ham, 4tbsps cream corn,chopped onion,4 tsps grated cheese,1 egg
Method :
1. Heat oil, stir fry chopped onion in wok.
2. Add cream corn, egg and stir well. Turn off the stove. Fill the aluminium foil cups with the mixture.
3. Cut ham into 1 inch cubes, …

This recipe has been passed down from my grandmother to my mother and then to me and my brothers. I’ve never heard of anyone else making tacos quite like this.
You will need:
4 cups of oil
salt to taste
2 cups shredded cheddar
2 cups diced tomatoes
2 cups shredded lettuce
3 pounds thawed …

In what comes next I will reveal as I used you another recipe that is specifically Romanian. This is called stuffed peppers.
Stuffed peppers, like highly seasoned forcemeat balls (mititei), meat cabbage (sarmale) or minced meat croquette (parjoale)
are very common to traditional meals.
I learned to cook stuffed peppers from my …

I’m a huge fan of pizza in general, and I love to experiment with different homemade pizza recipes. I’ve been hooked on Boboli pizza crusts for years, but until recently I didn’t think to check their website for recipe ideas. I used to top my Boboli crusts …

Everyone looks for a nice and healthy breakfast that can be quickly and easily prepared! Bean Squares is one such breakfast that I can prepare easily and serves my nutrition requirements. This Mexican started contains a base of cracker biscuits topped with peanut and cream and the taste is …

Two nights ago, my husband craved for some seafood paella. Its been a year since we last ate one. So the following day, I went to Walmart and check out some of the basic ingredients of Seafood Paella and I am lucky that its just a one-stop grocery and I …

This recipe is for chicken fans who enjoy the broccoli flavor.
For 4 servings, you will need 4 medium size chicken breasts, 1 can of Campbell’s cream of chicken soup, 1 pack of shredded Cheddar cheese, and 1 back of frozen broccoli.
Cook your broccoli, drain it, and let it cool …

Kulcha is another kind of Indian flat bread, which is preferred by most of the Indians as a breakfast. This is very soft and also looks very attractive. It is very thin and round in shape. The kulcha can be served with any kind of side …

Using carrots we can make a very interesting and nutritious subji (side dish). Which takes very less ingredients and is very tasty to eat. Try it.
Ingredients:
Carrots half kilo, onion 2 big size chopped, tomato 4 medium size chopped, 10-12 cloves of garlic, turmeric one pinch, salt to …

When I first got hold of packed couscous while I was in the US, I was excited to try it. When I tasted it, the taste was dry and very bland. When I searched some recipes online to check if how we can make couscous taste good, I encoutered …

One of my families favorite evenings are when we have breakfast for dinner. My girls are not big breakfast eaters early in the morning so this is perfect for a brunch or for us a dinner. You can get creative with this recipe and make …

I have always been intimidated by the thought of making a cheesecake, pies I have a handle ok, but cheesecakes seemed daunting. While thumbing through a Taste of Home holiday cooking magazine I ran across the picture of a delicious looking cheesecake and the recipe promised that it …

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 …

Mushroom Manchurian is similar to the gobhi Manchurian. Note down the ingredients:
200 grams cleaned mushrooms, 15 garlic cloves chopped, ginger finely chopped, onion chopped for seasoning, coriander leaves chopped, corn flour 1 cup, Maida flour 1 cup, tomato sauce one bottle, Soya sauce 3 table spoons, salt to taste, …

Ingredients:
1. Prawn – 250 gm.
2. Lau – 500 gm (fresh and sliced)
3. Mustard – 1 teaspoon
4. Salt – 1 teaspoon
5. Green chilli – 4 to 5
6. Tamarind powder – 1 teaspoon
7. Ginger paste – 1 teaspoon
8. Jeera powder – 1 teaspoon
9. Sugar - 2 teaspoon
10. Oil
11. Water
Method:
1. Add oil in a vessel and heat it up
2. Fry Prawn on medium flame …

The mushroom fried rice is one of my all time favourite rice recipe as it is very tasty to eat and also very easy to prepare. The mushrooms are good for our health too. My kids also love to eat the recipes made using the mushrooms. …

Allrecipes.com is a great web site for people who need to cook. I want to point out that I did not say for people who love to cook because Allrecipes.com is so much more than just telling you about cooking. Allrecipes.com has something for everyone! I have searched the …

1 medium size cabbage
2-3 carrots
1 large Polish sausage
1/3 cup of water
1/2 cup of ketchup
3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 teaspoon of salt
Chop up the cabbage into small pieces, just a bit larger than how you would make cole slaw. Peel the carrots and grate them. Put the cabbage and carrots …

This is my version of Shepherd’s pie. It is very easy and is a family favorite. All that is needed is mashed potatoes, one pound of ground beef or ground turkey, a bag of mixed veggies, and cheddar cheese.
I usually make my own mashed potatoes …

Ingredients :
Big Onions - 2
Small Potatoes - 1/4 kg
Curds - 1cup
salt
Oil or ghee- 2 tbsp
Cardamom- 3
Turmeric powder
Grind together:
Coriander leaves - 1bunch
garlic - 5 flakes
Green chillies - 5
onion -1
Cinnamon - 1inch piece
cloves - 2
Method :
1. Cook potatoes in pressure cooker
2. Peel the skin and keep aside
3. Cut onions into fine …

This is my grandma’s recipe of fried potatoes that I loved when I was little. I’ve noticed that no other way to cook potatoes can duplicate the taste. The process is easy enough, although it might take time since you actually cook the potatoes twice - well, sort of. …

I have not met anyone who doesn’t enjoy the warm and gooey taste of a rice krispie treat. With the snap crackle and pop of the krispies and the sweet deliciousness of the marshmallows. But with this recipe for this tasty dessert altered by changing the kind of krispie’s …

I found some great recipes by Brandon Boone in a magazine the other day, and I promptly tried several of them. This following recipe was just for the sauce, and although the recipe did not call for this to be poured over pasta, I did use bowtie pasta with …

Our family likes potatoes, and I’ve got several different ways of cooking them (alternating just mashed and fried gets old pretty fast). Here is one of our favorites, Potato Patties. They are easy to make, and once the potatoes are boiled it does not take much time at all. …

I love salads so much. To create this salad, I try out this particular recipe and mix and match. I make this salad about an hour or so before intending to serve it. This is so that the flavors will intensify. I also used garlic …

Chocolate Souffle has one of the best taste of chocolate form ever. I always see this type of menu served in pastry shops and cake shops and I wonder what it’s like to make one. Luckily, I have the chance to learn this from my relative and she …

Do you love to eat Baked Salmon Fillet? I do, sometimes and instead of the normal fish fillet types of fish, sometimes eating a Baked Salmon Fillet menu is a fresh change.
It ain’t that hard to make this menu as well. You need a good amount of flour, …

Pepper Chicken Baked Potatoes is pretty easy to make. The only key essence to this would be to bake your potatoes well and easy. You will need some cut onions, lots of nice bits chicken, and mix and match of everything from chicken wings right up to chicken …

If you, like so many of us, work all day at a job that actually pays you, and then, rush home to begin your next job……dinner and such, this should be helpful to you! This dinner is made quickly, easily, can be done by anyone, while ending up looking …

I grew up in South Carolina when I was young and so I know a bit about what good southern cooking tastes like. When I find green beans that crunch when I bite into them, I can’t stand it! I’m used to eating mushy, cooked all day long green …

A very popular snack in southern India, among Malay and Chinese communities. I like this tasty and crispy snack made out of simple ingrediets at home. All that is needed is an achappam mould. Yesterday I tried out this recipe and it was the first time I …

I always wanted to prepare vegetable salad plus some kind of meat for our meals. I just got tired of putting chicken or salmon on it. This time I tried putting breaded shrimp and I must say that it turned out pretty good. This is indeed one of the …