I’ve been slowly making my way through Rick Bayless’ Mexico One Plate at a Time. I’ve been a fan of the PBS series in the past. The recipes I have tried from his book have included hits and some misses. For the most part, this one was a hit.
I …

This cake is a pain to make, I tell that upfront to everyone who asks for the recipe. The process is not hard but time consuming, which can be rather annoying in our day and age of everything instant. However, to me, the result is well worth the trouble.
Take …

I found this recipe for Blueberry Cheesecake Bars in the Favorite Brand Name Bake Sale Cookbook. I was perusing the cookbook for recipes I’ve never tried, and the combination of blueberries and cheesecake in a bar sounded really good. I was also drawn in by the photograph …

I will present next a recipe perfected by me during over 15 years, namely apple pie. Almost everyone knows how to make a
certain kind of pie but following my advice you will get a pie almost perfect. What really matters to the apple pie
is the mode of preparation …

In the following I will present another receipe harvested from the local folklore. I have prepared it several times
and each time I learned something new. It is especially about the prior preparation prior of the game (specifically the rabbit).
which I learned on to, let’s say, my own skin.
You must skin …

Ingredients:
Take 8-9 medium sized potatoes and boil them, chop 3 big sized onions. 4-5 green chilies finely chopped a pinch of turmeric, 4 table spoons of refined oil, cumin seeds � tea spoons, 2 tea spoons of sugar and salt according to taste.
Method:
Now first of all peal off the …

I was looking through a magazine looking a different recipes when I cam across Great Grilled Burgers, which look really good and tasty. I am a big burger person, I just absolutely love burgers, and I usually make my own burgers from home but wanted to try a different …

This may sound new. It is indeed new. Holiday shrimps is one of the very recent recipes I have developed. For over a very long time of cooking experience, I never limit myself to whatever I know. I always find means to discover new things to serve on the …

Here is an idea for your next meal that you can prepare. I am reviewing this food option, Curry Prawns with Ketchup Boiled Eggs and giving some basic cooking tips.
Not everyone hates ketchup. I am a fine with this sauce and there are lots of food ideas …

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 …

Chapathi is Indian flat bread which is very tasty and nutritious to eat. It can be eaten with any other side dish made of vegetables.
Ingredienst:
Wheat flour 2 cups, some water to make the tight dough, salt to taste and 2 tea spoons of oil.
Method:
Take the wheat flour and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It is a very rich and tasty recipe. Everyone would like this dish. This dish is normally prepared during festival time. It is not suitable for sugar patients as it is made only out of cashews and sugar.
Ingredients:
Cashewnuts : 200 g
Sugar : 200 g
Method :
1. Soak cashewnuts in water …

ingredients:
tamarind (paste) :3tablespoon
redchilly :2 numbers
pepper :1tablespoon
cuminseeds :1/2tablespoon
garlic …

Vanilla cupcakes are my absolute favorite and they are just so addicting to me. I love to make them with my kids as our family time or when we are going to an event. I even made them for my son’s class one time and they absolutely loved it. …

I have searched every health food store I could find in 3 different states to find a sweet and sour sauce with no refined sugar, no preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup, etc. I sadly concluded there was no such sauce… until I found a recipe for one …

I had my first Reuben sandwich at a restaurant in the Caribbean that was owned by a couple from New York. Although a Reuben is usually made with corned beef, they served theirs with a choice of either pastrami or turkey. I had a turkey Reuben the …

Ingredients for making koftas :
Cauliflower - 1 medium sized
Ginger - 1tsp (cut into long thin strips)
garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
milk - 1/2 cup
corn flour - 2 tsps
green chillies - 2
bread crumbs - 4 tsps
paneer - 4 ounces
ghee - for frying
salt
Method : To prepare kofta :
1. Cut cauliflower into …

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 …

Do you like chocolate pancakes? What about strawberry? Or perhaps cinnamon? Whether you answered “yes” to any of those or none, it is easy to create a batch of flavored pancakes just for you. What I do is I use my favorite pancake batter, put all the ingredients in …

Because I live so close to Little Italy and am able to find great Italian ingredients, I have been looking for recipes containing Italian cheeses and meats. This following recipe caught my eye in a magazine, because goat cheese and pancetta are two ingredients we purchase whenever we can …

I love sugar cookies that are soft. And I finally found a recipe that will help me make them this way. Everyone in my family raves over them. They are the best.
In a medium bowl, combine 3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, and …

I saw this recipe in a cookbook. Ever since I saw I wanted to make it, so the other night for dinner I did. It turned out great, everyone loved it. Well everyone except for my sister but she doesn’t really care for chicken. Everyone else loved it and …

Though we really have no leftovers when it comes to chocolate cakes, I really left four slices when we once bought just to try this chocolate cake mousse. But since this recipe (I also found this in our cookbook) requires a lot of different kinds of …

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, …

This is a quick recipe for a tasty appetizer called in our family “Garlic Mushrooms On A Toast.” The dish is good as a quick snack for two, and also works well as an appetite teaser for larger companies.
We use regular champignon mushrooms sold in grocery store, nothing …

Pav Bhaji is one of the famous chat item of India.I used to prepare this often when we invite our friends to our house.It is easy to prepare but tastes much.Everyone will like it.
Ingredients:
tomato–2 or 3
potato-2
peas,bellpepper,beans,carrot,corn–in small amount.You can opt for the …

The masala dosa is prepared for the breakfast in south India. The dosa is very crisp and it delicious food which is eaten with the potato subjee (for which I have given the recipe in my earlier recipes) or else it is also eaten with any kind of …

This recipe is best served with a rice pilaf or java rice. This will be sure loved by every family member. I always impress my friends with this dish! My friends thought at first that I ordered it from some professional chef. Little did they …

One of my family’s favorite treats is fried Vidalia onion rings. However, I have always had trouble getting the batter and the frying down pat so my onion rings are usually always mushy. I saw this recipe online and I decided to try it to see how it worked. Actually, …

My famous turkey tacos are just that. I guess, famous amongst my friends and family is more accurate. Everyone who has had them always comes around for more. So, I hope you will try them and let me know if you enjoyed them too. Here …

In my search for an affordable, easy, and good dessert; I stumbled across one of Food Network’s program and saw Panna Cotta. Unfortunately, I was not able to catch all the ingredients needed to make this dessert. So, I checked it out on their website only to find out …

This is a “fancy” potato dish that I usually make for company, or when I want to have our family dinner look a little special. It takes some extra effort to make, but, in my opinion, it is well worth the trouble.
What you need is several large potatoes, some …

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 …

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 …

A lemony-zing that everyone will surely enjoy. These are very simple to make and taste great! You can top with your favorite frosting instead of using the glaze. I make these all the time and use frosting sometimes, they are great if you store in the …

This summer season we had plenty of mango crops. Out of which, we have chosen most sour and tasty mangoes that will give more longetivity to the pickle. Normally mangoes will be green in color and might weigh in between 400-1500 grams. We have selected one of the best …

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 …

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 …

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. …

I had never made stuffed peppers until I tried a recipe for Stuffed Green Peppers in the Favorite Brand Name Simple 1-2-3 One Dish cookbook. I thought it was a really good recipe, so when I found another recipe for stuffed peppers in the same cookbook I knew …

Recently I learnt a very good snack by watching the cookery show in the television. That is stuffed potato. This is easy, simple to prepare and also look very attractive and delicious. When I prepared it most of my friends loved it and they have tried it …

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 …

The coconut soup is very tasty and very nutritious soup. It is very interesting soup which give u a very unique taste when it is served hot.
Ingredients:
Coconut milk 3 cups, normal milk 2 cups, water 1 cup, salt to taste, sugar 4 tea spoons, black pepper crushed - …

Peach is a great dessert to have for all occasions. In my family we look forward to having peach cobbler at holiday family functions. Peach Cobbler is very good especially with some nice vanilla ice cream. You can eat it warm when it is freshly out the oven or …

The vegetable salad is a very very important part of our breakfast of even the dinner. I prepare many kind of vegetable salads, which are not only tasty but nutritious ones. I feed it to my children every day to keep them fit and fine.
Ingredients: vegetables chopped …

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

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 …