The Greek “mezes”
The Greek kitchen is very well known all over the world for its healthy ingredients in a great variety which derives from fresh local products. Pure olive oil, olives, dairy, herbs, vegetables in season, honey, seafood and fish are the components to create a complete and healthy …

Ingredients :
Tomato - 200 g
Onion - 3
Green chillies - 3
Curry leaves
salt
pepper
coconut - 1/2 cup (shredded)
ghee
coriander leaves
clove
Method
1. Chop tomatoes, and onions.
2. Grind green chillies, coconut, pepper and clove
3. Fry onions in ghee till it becomes translucent.
4. To this, add chopped tomatoes
5. When the mixture boils, add ground paste
6. Add …

I am a vodka freak. I love cocktails and better news is, I love making my own cocktails than ordering it in a bar. I get to choose my own ingredients and other things that I want to put inside my glass. The result is one happy me. I …

Top Secret Recipes, the website that has the clone recipes of restaurant food, has always been a favorite of mine. I enjoy just reading the free recipes, and trying to make the recipes, just like the food I have been served in restaurants.
Top Secret Recipes has evolved, from …

In my house, Betty Crocker has always been the standard. I grew up with all kinds of BC cookbooks. It’s been a long time, though, since a new one has been acquired. Recently, an opportunity came up to get a new cookbook, the Betty Crocker Country …

I planned on cooking pork chops for dinner the other week, and couldn’t decide what to marinate it with. So I looked online for some marinades and instead found a recipe for a cream cheese sauce. I experimented with it a bit, and ended up with this:
Ingredients:
- cup butter
- …

This is a tasty, well known recipe with a slightly new twist. A good friend brought it to work over the holidays and shared this delicious dip with us. I took her recipe and tweaked it for my own family. So if you love spinach dip, but are really …

This is one of the recipes features in Kris Aquino’s magazine from Chef Anton of Thuk Thai. However, the omelet is so plain and it does not have literally meat in it. I have incorporated my own ingredients to it.
Ingredients:
2 eggs
3 ml fish sauce
dash of …

4 good size chicken breast
1 teaspoon butter
1/2 cup of milk
Boil your chicken breast just like in the original recipe for chicken and dumplings. Once your chicken has cooked, pull it off the bone. Put all chicken back in the broth you took it out of and bring to a …

One of my favorite candy bars is the Salted Nut Roll. When I had these bars, they tasted so close to the Salted Nut Roll that this is one of my favorite recipes ever.
Base:
1 package yellow cake mix …

This is one of the best cookies on earth!!! My mom used to make this on tea parties, yet she always believe coffee is bad for kids so she doesn’t bake this on weekends no matter if we beg her to. But I hang around the kitchen a lot …

I like simplicity when I’m in the kitchen, but I’m always looking for new recipes to try. I’m often short on time, but I still like to use a little creativity rather than resort to making meals that come out of a box or a can. Macaroni …

I am not a big lamb fan, and even when it is prepared by gourmet chefs at fancy restaurants, it is just not my first choice. The only place that I can truly say I enjoyed lamb was in Morocco, because the dishes they cook their generally cook all …

We all know that the green cabbage leaves are so good for our eyes as it has a lot of a vitamin. Here I am going to explain an interesting recipe made using the cabbage. It is a side dish and we can serve it with plane rice …

Ingredients :
Maida flour - 1 cup
Vanaspati dalda - 2 tbsp
salt
ice water
Finely cut onions - 2 nos
Potatoes - 3
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
carrot -1
beans - 5
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
lemon - 1
oil
To grind :
Ginger - 1 small piece
garlic - 3 flakes
green chillies - 2
Method :
1. …

Mixed vegetable soup is another interesting soup, which is very healthy as it includes many kind of vegetable. It is also good for kids especially those children who don’t eat much vegetable.
Ingredients: corn flour 3 tea spoons, salt to taste, crushed pepper corn to taste, mixed vegetable according …

I recently went in search of a recipe book that I had misplaced, and when I found it, called Hotter than Hell by Jane Butel, I immediately printed off some recipes to try. The book has recipes from all over the world, and the only criterion is that the …

It turns out that French toast is a lot easier than I thought it would be to make. I loved having it for breakfast, even dinner sometimes, but I would only eat it if someone else was making it, or if I was at a restaurant. My …

Ingredients :
4 small bowls warm cooked sushi rice, 75g Japanese roasted eel, 3-4 pieces Japanese dried seaweed
Sushi Rice Seasoning : 1.5 tbsps sushi vinegar, salt
Method :
1. Mix sushi rice well with seasonings. Cut roasted eel into 4 pieces, set aside.
2. Divide the sushi rice into 4 equal parts. Put …

This is a snack like thing as well as could be taken as breakfast also. It can be prepared very easily in very less time and it tastes excellent. I like this a lot and it is mouthwatering when I think of it. It is good …

Take a large chunk of beef, the shoulder part used for pot roasts, and cut it into very thin slices. The best way to do it is to have the meat not fully thawed; when it is still a bit frozen, slicing is much easier. Preheat a frying pan …

This is a kind of juice, which can only be prepared using the raw mangoes during the mango seasons. This juice gives totally a different kind of experience and taste. Those who like the salty or tangy taste for them this juice will be an ideal drink …

To prepare this delicious curry to take with hot plain rice , you need to have Pakodi (available in Bakery, sweet stalls, hotels) or you can prepare it at home.
Preparation of Pakodi
1.Take 250 gm of Bengal gram powder (basin) and mix it with enough water and make loose …

Sweet Potato Pie for me has been one of those great desserts reserved for special holidays, but my craving would continue yearlong. I’ve had some of the best sweet potato pies and the ones reserved for your worst enemy: the type of sweet potato pie that was not strand …

This is a very interesting recipe and something different and yet very nutritious recipe.
Ingredients:
One cup of raw rice, mix vegetable chopped according to your choice, chopped onion one, chopped tomato one, garam masala 1 tea spoon, salt to taste and some green chilly chopped to taste, and finally 4 …

I like the variety in the Oprah Magazine Cookbook. It is a combination of healthy, unique recipes as well as some decadent recipes. It is also a combination of many different types of flavors and styles of food.
I consider this one of my favorite “browsing” cookbooks. …

My kids wanted to make some ornaments today, but we didn’t have any clay so I made my own. I followed the following recipe, and I have to say that I was very impressed by it. It was easy to make, did not make a mess, uses …

I love meatloaf because I think it’s a classic affordable meal. Although I love making it and eating it, I don’t think there’s one perfect recipe for it. I think meatloaf is a dish that’s meant to be experimented with, so I’m always looking for different meatloaf …

While preparing for a pot luck dinner my classmates and I were having before class one night, I was wondering what it was I was going to bring. I had signed up to bring cookies, however I wanted to bring not just any old cookie. No way, I wanted …

I like making hamburgers for dinner because it’s not a very time-consuming process, and my family enjoys eating them. Hamburger night is a fairly regular occasion in my household, so to prevent it from becoming too ordinary I like to experiment with different recipes. Recently I found …

Palak paneer is the side dish which can be served with the paratha (flat bread)
Ingredients:
Spinach 2 bunches, green chilly paste to taste, salt to taste, cottage cheese 200 grams chopped, butter 3 tea spoons, garam masala 1 tea spoon, the paste of boiled tomato and onion 1 cup.
Method:
Now take …

There are 3 cuisines that I love —“ Asian, Italian and Japanese. The last one I must confess is something that I still am eager to learn. For me, Japanese cooking is somewhat complicated and requires long hours in the kitchen. Also I have to brush up on certain …

The mixed vegetable palaw is very commonly prepared rice, which is liked, by most of the Indians. This rice is not only spicy and tasty it is also very nutritious as it is made using the boiled vegetables.
Ingredients: basmati rice 1 cup, mix vegetable chopped in …

I love to try and cook different things especially fish. Fish is my favourite food and I would to tell you how to do one of my all time favourite dishes, which is, fried mussels and beer. It is so simple to make and it tastes so …

Hey there good people and fellow food enthusiats, I have a splendid little meal here to share with you, hope you find it as interesting as I do and hope you will share this with any and everyone just like I did.
For this recipe, you are going to need …

Chips and dip are always a smashing success at any kind of home or holiday party. One dip that I have come to discover, and is always a sure bet for popularity at my home parties, is the Crab Fiesta Dip. It is quick and easy to …

This is a very nice recipe for anyone out there even if you do not know how to cook at all. Chicken Breast Peppered is very easy to make and very good for days that you are having pangs of hunger especially.
Get ready these ingredients, which would be 3 …

When I was pregnant with our first child I used to crave anything pickled, my Mom gave me a recipe for Tiny Pickled Tomatoes which I loved, I had the same craving second time around as well.
You will need the following list of ingredients to make the tiny pickled …

Ingrediens:
Slice of Bread
Red pepper
Vegetable oil
A pinch of Salt
It’s easy to cook and it’s tasty. Also, this could be one quick breakfast. You only need the ingredients which I have stated above and 5 free minutes before you rush to work. First, spread oil on top of a slice of …

One of my favorite desserts is mango float. It is because it is just light and not heavily sugared compared to a full slice of brownie or the ala mode version. It is just light and more so, the only thing sinful is just a small doze of all …

If you have ever visited a Roly Poly restaurant, you will know that this place serves all sorts of rolled tortilla sandwiches. I fell in love with the Santa Fe chicken sandwich which has melted jalapeno cheeses, chicken, and tomatoes. This version is very similar, but has …

Grape Jelly is another recipe that I’ve learned over the years to make. I think to learn to make Grape Jelly is a form of good investment, because it can also contributes to a good business idea plan.
The first mother of all steps would be to get …

I love this pancake recipe because it always works. If you follow the directions, you can be certain that you will have nice, yummy pancakes, easy to flip and not undercooked or burned. You will need:
1 egg
1 cup of sour milk (if you don’t have it, use regular milk …

The fruit salad is a very popular chilled dessert, which is liked; by most of the people and all the children love especially this food. Naturally even my kids are the fans of fruit salad. The fruit salad is very good fro health, because a lot of …

I love eating Taco’s while drinking low calorie beer with friends. I first discovered Taco in Cancun years ago. The local version here in my country is more localize. This recipe was published in Kris Aquino’s magazine. There were some ingredients which I omitted because I felt I did …

At the beginning I thought it was a joke. I found the recipe on the Internet and decided to give it a go. The worst thing that could happen was to end up with something inedible and spoil dinner completely. But I was willing to take that risk, for …

I think one of my biggest challenges in the kitchen is finding recipes for appetizers and snacks that are filling and generally pleasing to a wide range of tastes. Most of my family and the majority of my friends enjoy Mexican food, so I often resort to making …