Everybody loves to have salad, if not once in a while, at least one meal in a day. Salads had become so popular due to its being so healthy and easy to prepare. However, people start to get tired of the same common salad served over and over, the …

This version of Vegetable Lo Mein is my own creation after trying out several other recipes. It’s a vegetarian main dish that tastes very delicious and is also healthy. This recipe makes enough for a family of 4-6 people. Cut down on the amounts of all ingredients if you …

Tangy Holiday Yogurt Dip
Serve with crisp vegetables. Yields 1 cup of dip
1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
2 tablespoons chili sauce
1 to 2 teaspoons prepared horseradish
Mix all ingredients. Then cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.
This is a great yogurt dip to use for the holidays or …

A friend of mine who completed Culinary School several years ago recently gave me her copy of On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals, second edition, as she had purchased the fourth edition of this book. All of the information in the second edition is still relevant today, …

When I took over Thanksgiving dinner chores for my family a few years ago, I barely knew how to cook a turkey. I’d already made the classic mistakes of not giving the turkey enough thawing time and leaving the giblets inside the chest cavity with previous turkeys, but …

To prepare Delicious Coconut Rice you need to have following ingredients
. one coconut
. 1 cup of rice
. 10 long green chillies
. 2 cloves
. ½ inch cinnamon stick
. one big onion
. 2 teaspoon garlic-ginger paste
. ½ cup of vegetable oil
. few coriander leaves
. salt as per taste.
Extracting Coconut milk:
.Break the …

Ingredients :
Potato : 1/2 kg
Onions : 3
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Green chillies - 8
Salt
Sugar
Coconut - grated - 1 cup
oil - 2 tbsp
Method:
1. Cut Onions finely
2. Make paste of ginger and chillies
3. Boil potatoes, peel and mash
4. Take three extracts from coconut and keep separately
5. Heat oil in a pan, …

I first started drinking vanilla milk when I was in high school because my mom would buy it all the time. Publix used to sell it as one of their products, but they no longer sale the rich milk which is why I had to do my best to …

I came across this recipe for Mexican Lasagna in the Favorite Brand Name Simple 1-2-3 One Dish Cookbook when I was looking for different ways to cook ground beef. The recipe met my main requirement, which is that it has to be easy to make. I’m also …

I am going to share a recipe today, I really love to eat. And also I just love to make it.This dish is called “Pulao”. It is made with simple ingredients, and it is too much tasty. And this dish is ideal for main course. To make “Pulao” we …

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 …

Ingredients:
Eggs 3, onion chopped 2, tomato chopped 2, red chilly powder and salt according to taste, turmeric powder one pinch, butter 2 table spoons and coriander leaves to garnish.
Method:
Now heat the pan and put the butter and melt it. After which take the chopped onion and fry it. …

This receipe is very easy to make and kids will like it.I used to prepare this during festive time.
Ingredients Needed:
1.vermicelli(broken)—1/2 cup
2.Milk— 1 cup
3.Sugar—1 cup
4.Ghee—2 tbs
5.cardomom—3 pods
6.cashew and raisins
Procedure for Preparation:
Fry the vermicelli in ghee .Until the broken vermicelli becomes golden color,fry it.Try to keep the flame as small as …

One of the things which I had been searching for was the perfect easy brownie recipe since many of the times I don’t have the perfect ingredients to make perfect brownies, and other times I don;t have the time to spend a year and a day following a complicated …

Chocolate Bananas with Ice-Cream is sinfully delicious. Sometimes, I need fattening food to make me happy and truly feeling full. My family love this so much, and me and my siblings take turns to prepare this once in awhile, especially when we have some guests over, and we …

I have searched the world for the perfect crab cake, and so far, there are several in the running for the best yet. However, I rarely have attempted to make crab cakes myself, but I found a recipe that I had to try, and the results were crab cakes …

Ingredients :
Green gram - 1 cup
Onions - 5
Green chillies - 3
Tamarind - small lemon sized (soak in little water)
Oil - 1tbsp
Dhania powder - 2tsps
jeera powder - 1/2 tsp
red chilli powder - 1/2tsp
salt
sugar - 1tsp
Method :
1. Soak green gram for 10 hrs in enough water.
2. Strain and tie it in …

I don’t tend to want to hate my food, but I really find this recipe, Red Beans and Rice not to my liking.
However, my family whole family love to eat this; I don’t know why. Minus me, of course. But my late grandmother (from one side …

Spring, and summer! It’s time to make Salads. I’m a big salad fan!
Everyone in our house likes salad. I make many different salads in spring and summer. Here is one of my favorite salads.
Pasta Salad
1 lb. box Tri colored Rotini
Pepporoni, deli sliced ham, Sliced cappocola
Broccoli crowns ( cut …

Carrot halwa is a very nutritious and tasty indian sweet dish. Carrot is very important for growing children. For children who do not like to eat carrot either raw or cooked, you can try giving this sweet dish and they will ask you more.
Ingredients required:
Carrot - 1/2 …

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 …

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. …

Vanilla milk shake is so simple and it is very very easy to prepare. It is the favorite drink for all the members of my family. It hardly takes a few ingredients but still it is very tasty and ideal drink to have it in the hot …

This recipe goes together with the quick and easy custard cream recipe. No need to spend hours making a tart crust anymore.
Ingredients:
150g Pancake mix
1 tbsp milk(add a little more if dough is too dry)
40g unsalted butter
How to make:
Preheat oven to 180 C
1.Mix all ingredients together into a medium …

German Chocolate Cake is one of my favorite desserts and I always use to look forward to having it at family functions until I was taught how to make it myself. It is really easy and doesn’t take long at all for preparation or to make. This turns out …

A great dish to make in the Fall when there are alot of pumpkins around, or anytime you have extra butternut squash form your garden. This wonderfully creamy roasted pumpkin soup is delicious served with french bread, bread sticks or large salted pretzels.
Begin by cutting one large pumpkin, or …

I prefer fruit juice over other beverages. I got for a jog on alternative days in the morning and when I return back, a good fruit juice compliments my breakfast perfectly, along with some snacks.
Papaya shake is quite easy to make, and I have them occasionally. I don’t stick …

I love scallops very much. They are very delicious and I love the unique taste of scallops so much, like I’ve said. For this recipe, I mix it up using my own favorite taste bud, which is Cedar Cheese. And the recipe for today is Baked Scallops …

When I turned twenty-one years old, I was able to drink alcohol legally for the first time so I wanted to have a delicious mixed drink at my birthday. I was going to have around thirty guests and gin is really popular among my friends so I decided to …

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 …

Here is a fun and tasty recipe I created last week. It was a big hit.The kids loved it, so I guess it’s a keeper. I call it Taco spaghetti. I had made Taco’s and had a lot of meat left over, so I decided the next nite to …

One of the most popular drinks in the Caribbean, especially St. Thomas and St. John is rum punch. For anyone not of legal drinking age, it’s fruit punch, which is the same thing minus the rum. In my days of bartending on St. Thomas and St. John, …

This Rainbow Cake is very interesting indeed. The colors are indeed representing of that like a rainbow; with so many colors striking through and really awesome looking.
But you have to prepare quite a number of ingredients. This recipe uses much amount of flour, eggs, sugar, some …

Cinnamon Apple with Ice Cream is yummy and tasty and something that I would always prepare for dessert whenever I have a craving for apple and cinnamon! Yes, that’s right and you can make this easily in the comfort of your own home.
You will need some apples; around 2-3 …

HEY THERE!
Have you ever wondered how to make Texas Blue Crab Cakes at home?
Well look no further, I have a recipe for great crab cakes, I make them for my husband and he LOVES them here it is
Ingrediants:
1 lb Lump Crabmeat
(carefully pick through to remove the shell pieces)
3/4 cups …

Upma is a very good breakfast in India. It can be prepared very quickly as all the ingredients are simple.
Ingredients: a cup of sooji(rawa), 3 table spoon of oil , chopped mix vegetable of your choice, onion and tomato chopped one cup, green chilly 3 finely chopped, salt …

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 …

This recipe Wholemeal Bread Chocolate Ice Cream is perhaps one of the easiest snack or dessert to make. This was taught by my boyfriend and I have picked up the tab since from him and he loves it every time I make this for him.
First of all, get some …

Since I live at least half of the year in Alberta, I have learned to cook —˜close to home’ and use some meat that I wouldn’t likely find anywhere other than this province. While I admit that I have not developed a taste for some of the gamier meets, …

Ingredient:
Rui Fish 500 gm
Garlic paste 2 teaspoon
Salt 1 teaspoon
Oil
Method:
Clean the Rui Fish well with normal clean water
Slice up the Rui Fish into medium to big pieces
Mix the Garlic paste with Salt
Spread this mixture all over the pieces of the Rui Fish consistently and keep it in a dish for …

My wife and I love to cook together and one of our favourite meats is pork. So we would like to share with you a very simple recipe for pork with sweet and sour pork. It is really easy to do and takes no longer than ten minutes from …

I like spaghetti so much! Specially when the pasta is really just right! Al dente as what some call it. In this recipe, tuna is used instead of ground pork or beef, and this sure is healthy. I didn’t use real chicken stock instead I just …

I like making my own Potato Salad with Eggs. It is one of the most convenient and simplest light dish and snack ever to make. It’s only the different ingredients that one use for their own preference.
You will need some potatoes; perhaps around 3 or more, depending on …

Peeled and sliced kiwis (about 3 large)
Peeled and cubed mango (about 1 medium)
Peeled and sliced bananas (about 2 small)
Peeled and cubed papaya (about 1 very small)
Hulled and sliced fresh ripe strawberries
Unsweetened grated fresh coconut or unsweetened or sweetened flaked coconut
Fresh orange juice
Orange-flavored liquid syrup
This dish personally to me is …

Ingredients :
Bengal gram dhal -1 cup
Onions - 2
For the gravy :
Onions - 4 (cut into thin long pieces)
Garlic - 2
Tomatoes - 1/4 kg
(Blanch in hot water, remove the skin and make it into a paste)
Grind together :
Onion - 1
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Garlic - 4 flakes
Red chillies - …

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. …

Here is a rich, filling dish for a cold winter night. You will need:
1 pack of egg noodles
1 lb hamburger meat
½ pack of sour cream
2 cans of cream & mushroom soup
1-2 small cans of mushrooms
½ stick of butter or margarine
1/3 cup of chopped onion
some garlic powder and salt
Start boiling …

Onion paratha is the flat bread made of chopped onion using the wheat flour. It is very tasty and nutritious recipe.
Ingredients:
Wheat flour 2 cups, water to mix the dough and to need it. Oil 3 - 4 tea spoons, 1 big onion finely chopped, salt to taste, red …

This is a good recipe for someone who likes to eat pasta and wants to try something a little different. First of all, you cook the tortellini according to package. Then you saute one onion diced, one cup of sliced fresh mushrooms, one green pepper sliced, one …