Potato salad is a must on Sundays or any special occasion if you live in the South. There is something about it that just pulls the entire meal together, and it is one of those side dishes that is easy to make and it can be eaten at room …

I love pancakes and that is why I want to try each and every pancake recipee that I find or hear about. One of these recipees that I recently stumbled upon is a North African pancake recipee. It is specifically from Algeria, where you can find many great and …

I have always had the hardest time making any sort of fudge, until my mother-in-law gave me this simple recipe. It takes approx. 6 minutes to make, and not once has it come out either falling apart, or so runny you can use it as a topping on icecream.
I …

As a former bartender, I think I sometimes take it for granted that drink recipes that may seem simple to me aren’t as commonly known to the general public. I think the pina colada falls into this category. I think the first thing you should understand is …

I always want to bring out my creativity and introduce to my kids surprising weekend meals. Unfortunately both my kids are boys, and are not really interested in cooking coz they claim it is a girl’s thing. I just let them participate by helping me prepare the ingredients and …

Blueberry & Avocado Smoothie is a healthy beverage drink that I love to make during those really hot weathers that appear humid too. I don’t normally buy it outside that much because I find it a bit of a waste of money. Unless I have a strong urge …

I don’t want to brag about my 20 years of cooking experience, but it is from that experience that I learned to create so many new dishes that are not just great for day-to-day meals, but for parties and picnics as well.
With parties serving almost the same menu …

Ingredients:
Half liter milk and some fine quality rice of about 250 grams, and take some sugar(may be 250 grams), now finally take some ghee (4 table spoons of melted butter) and some finely chopped nuts according to your choice to garnish it with.
Method:
Now first of all wash the rice and …

Vegetable ingredients: red cabbage, lettuce, one small red onion, several radishes.
Dressing: combine 6 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of mustard, 1 teaspoon of honey, and some salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
Finely chop the cabbage, place it into a salad bowl and add the dressing. Leave for 1 hour. …

Granted, spring has just really kicked into gear, but this recipe is one of my favorites all year along but, particularly in the winter. But now that the gardens are being set, turn to it in July and August for this supper time treat.
2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
2 …

Wonder what it would taste like if you mix fish and fish together? Here in this simple to make dish, I shall list down the steps and in my personal review, I think it scores a 7-8, depending on your type of taste-buds. I am not really that …

This is a quick, easy and hearty meal for those days when you don’t feel like cooking, are in a hurry or just want a hot comfort food.
It’s cheap to make and serves ten with leftovers. My family likes it and I don’t mind cooking it because it is …

Recently I had what some people would call a hankering for strawberry pie. I was craving something sweet, and I was reminiscing about the strawberry pie my family used to get from a small family-owned restaurant in my hometown. Unfortunately, I now live several miles away from …

I have to admit that I’m one of those people who have never been to a state fair or carnival, but somehow I have managed to get my hands on the funnel cake that is served there. There was a restaurant of some sort that used to be located …

The small vegetable market where I shop for my weekly fresh fruits and veggies had a sale on lemons, so I purchased a full bag, and then went looking for recipes which had lemons in them. I found the following recipe in a magazine, and tried it out. The …

Last Friday I was at home and I realised there was nothing else to eat for dinner except some frozen fish fillet in the fridge. Since I usually hate fish with a passion, I decided it would be best to google a recipe I have not tried before to …

I am always searching for ways to make vegetables more interesting, especially during the holiday season when I have company for dinner or have to take a dish or two to friends’ houses. I was so tired of the usual veggies and dips, so I began to search out …

The payasam is a sweet dish, which is an Indian traditional sweet dish. It is prepared using the sweet potatoes. This recipe is very tasty. I do prepare it normally during the festivals as it takes less time for preparation.
Ingredients: sweet potato ½ kg which is scraped …

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 …

Cut lettuce, tomatoes, and cream cheese, not too finely. Peel and grate carrots. Combine the vegetables and the cheese, add some canned corn (drained). Sprinkle some salt and dress with olive oil. Carefully stir the salad, mixing the ingredients together, and serve. Store leftovers refrigerated, not very long as …

If you are expecting some visitors on a special dinner, here is one meal I would like to suggest, and hope you would trust me on this. I have help dinners on special occasions, and parties, and picnics, and I do all the cooking, so I somewhat know which …

Brownies are a great treat to have for the entire family. I often make them for my kids as treats or for dessert on certain holidays. They really enjoy them and so do I and it is really easy to make. It is a great way to come up …

The ingredients required are: 2 cups of Cheddar Cheese Grits (you can just use regular old Quaker Oats Grits and doctor it up with some cheese and butter), Oil for deep frying, 4 wonton wrappers, 8 (or how many people you want to serve) wonton wrappers, 8 medium shrimp, …

Finger chips is a very interesting and very tasty recipe, which every one of us like. Even my children love to eat this snack. I prepared it once at home and that was so tasty; I hope u too will try this one.
Ingredients:
Potato cut in to the …

Capsicum is a very nutritional vegetable and it is very good for our health. I know many recipies which can be made using the capsicum, here is an interesting recipe and I hope u will like it.
Ingredients:
Capsicum 250 grams chopped medium size, 2 big onions chopped medium size, …

The grated coconut chutney is very popular chutney in India. Which is used with the idly, dosa (Indian breakfasts) and also it can be a good combination with the bread, burgers and even with the pizzas.
Ingredients:
Grated coconut 2 cups, peanuts powder 1 cup, red chilly and the …

Ingredients:
Kabuli chana- 1 cup
Finely shopped onion pieces- two spoons
Black pepper powder- ½ spoon,
Chilli powder- ½ spoon
Lemon extract- 1 spoon
Coriander leaves- a few finely chopped.
Salt as per taste
Preparation
1.Soak kabuli chana(white big size) overnight.
Take pressure cooker and add chana,salt,pinch of turmeric powder and water and let it cook for 6 to …

2-3 eggs
2 carrots
1 medium size onion
2 medium size tomatoes
1 sweet pepper
Garlic powder
Salt
Vegetable oil
Chop onion and fry in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes. Peel and grate carrots, finely chop tomatoes and pepper (remove the pepper seeds first). Add carrots, tomatoes, and pepper, stir, and fry on medium heat until soft. …

During the winter time, nothing is better than a nice bowl of hot soup. For this winter, I always make one specialty soup for those extra cold days: Lipton’s creamed corn noodle soup.
I first discovered the Lipton recipe on the side of a box of soup I purchased a …

I am a big risotto fan, but am tired of my old recipes. I was searching specifically for risotto recipes, and found one that sounded unique and delicious, so I printed it off and tried it the next day. Like all risotto, there is a bit of work involved, …

Idly is the famous breakfast in south India and it is served with the chutney made of grated coconut.
Ingredients:
Take 3 cups of idly rawa, one cup of urad dal (white gram) and one cup of rice flakes and soak all of them separately. After 3-4 hours now grind …

As always, nobody ever seems to cook a Sunday roast like your Mother did when you were a child. This is my Great Grandmother’s recipe for crown roasted rack of lamb with garlic and rosemary which has been passed down to myself, and now my daughters. We always use a …

Triple Chocolate Turtle Fudge is the absolute best fudge on earth! It is worth the wait of three hours to fully enjoy the dreamy taste this delight will induce on your sweet tooth. Add rocky road ice cream on the side and you’ve got a rich person’s choice of …

If you are tired of the usual green and Caesar salads, this is a great recipe to try, particularly if you are a seafood fan like I am. While I have tried and made plenty of salads that contain shrimp or even salmon, this one was the first one …

The next recipe as well as the others I will present here is part of my personal collection of recipes.
It is also a specifically Romanian recipe, This dish, like the “meat in cabbage” (”sarmale”) dish
is not met in the kitchen of any other country. In Romania the highly seasoned …

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 …

Masala dosa is another interesting recipe and it is also the very popular India breakfast which can be prepared very soon just in few minutes. And also it is very tasty.
Ingredients:
3 cups of rice, one cup of white gram, one cup of rice flakes. Now soak all …

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 …

Here are the steps in order for you to make Prawn Balls Coated with Potato.
Get some olive oil, some egg whites; around 3 or 4 in all and cornflour as well. If you have other forms of options for the type of flour to use for the …

The potato parath is also very easy to prepare but this is the paratha, which gives the maximum taste. These parathas are also very soft to eat. They have the perfect taste and do not need any kind of side dishes to eat it with.
Ingredients: wheat flour …

Ingredients:
Mixed fresh, ripe berries (can be blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, raspberries, red currants and strawberries)
Fat-free plain yogurt
100% fruit peach spread
Granola with no added fat
This recipe is actually a mixture of brightly colored ripe sweet berries and are layered in parfait glasses or something. I love this recipe because of …

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 …

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 …

I am always on the lookout for recipes that you can bake in one casserole dish, because I like being able to make it up ahead of time and then bake it closer to dinner. I also like making a large amount so that I have plenty of leftovers …

Ingredients:
Take one kg chicken which is cut in to pieces, half cup of black pepper corns, half tea spoon turmeric powder and salt according to taste. 5-7 cloves of garlic and some curry leaves, 3 tomatoes chopped and one big onion sliced, one tea spoon coriander powder, 5 cloves, …