The palak paneer is the recipe made using the cottage cheese and the spinach. This is the side dish, which is served hot with the plane boiled rice, or even with the roti (that is Indian flat bread). It is very spicy yet tasty.
Ingredients: spinach 3 …

Whenever I’m expecting guests, I buy a carton of eggs and start preparing my famous egg salad. It’s so simple and so easy to make that it always comes as a surprise how my guests love it all the time.
First, boil some eggs, peel it, then dice it. You …

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 …

Well we just had this for dinner tonight, and I had forgotten how good this dish is! I have 3 grandkids who I cook dinner for every night. I am always introducing them to new dishes. I don’t like to cook the same old food, day in and day …

Ingredients :
Bitter gourd - 1/2 kg
Tomatoes - 2or 3
Big onion - 1
Sour curds - 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
chilli powder - 1tsp
ginger - 1inch piece
coconut - 1/4 cup scraped
sugar - 2tsps
oil
salt
Method :
1. Cut onions, mince ginger, chop tomatoes and keep aside
2. Cut …

The mix vegetable soup with cottage cheese is some thing little different soup then the normal mixed vegetable soup. This tastes even better then the normal one and it is also the healthy one for every one. Just try it and enjoy this tasty soup.
Ingredients: Ajinomoto …

Chicken & Vegetable Bread Roll is a light snack lunch that is kind of easy to make. The taste is around 7 or 8 depending on the ingredients that you can modify to suit your taste buds.
I use white bread for this recipe; and white bread has …

I found the idea to make Prata Egg Casserole pretty recently. That’s because I am totally inspired by the way a ‘murtabak’ is made, and I try my hands on making this particular menu.
Get some flour ready; the way that you are making a normal prata. I love …

Are you planning anything special? A luncheon perhaps, or a wedding shower, a party… I would like to suggest including Heartland Layered Salad in your menu. It is an artful garden salad that I’m sure will please any crowd in any occasion.
This menu is best to be kept bright …

One breakfast creation of mine that I like to enjoy in the morning is pretty simple to make. What I do is I crack one, sometimes two, eggs in a bowl. I then take a fork and break up the eggs. I then microwave the eggs for two minutes …

Dutch Oven Snipe Apple Pie, so you�ve never heard of such a thing? Your probably not alone. Dutch Oven Snipe Apple Pie is something my son’s boy scout troop invented as part of an initiation ritual for new boys into the troop in the fall. What we typically would …

Macaroni salad has gone a lot of modifications and this recipe is one of those. I got this when this was published with the Lady’s Choice advertisement.I tested this last Christmas. Below is the recipe and my opinion about it.
Ingredients:
700 ml Lady’s Choice Mayonnaise
1 1/2 packs elbow macaroni 200 …

Friends today I am going to share one of my favorite recipe with you, it is a very delicious dish, and it is very healthy too, and the best thing is that it can be prepared very easily. The dish is called “Steamed Fish”. I make this dish in …

Ingredients :
Moong dhal - 1/2 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Green chilli paste - 1 tsp
Finely cut onion - 3 tbsp
Finely cut carrot, beans, cauliflower, cabbage - 1/2 cup
salt
curds - 3 tbsp
cooking soda - 1/4 tsp
oil to deep fry
Method :
1. Wash moong dhal and soak in water for 2 …

Kesari bath is a sweet dish which is prepared with the sooji or rawa. It is an interesting recipe which can be prepared within few minutes. The ingredients are very simple which are always available at home.
Ingredients:
1cup of sooji (rawa), 3 cups of milk, some cashew nuts …

I had my wisdom teeth taken out and I needed to eat something that was smooth and light enough for me to eat. I was kind of picky on the soups I wanted to eat and this recipe has been the best one I have tried so far. The …

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 …

I admit to not really liking duck as far as food goes. I am unsure whether I have just had it so rarely that I haven’t found a dish that I like, or whether the thought of eating an animal that I think is cute is somehow not my …

Oka cheese is a very famous and well-loved cheese in Canada; it is made in Quebec, and is readily available throughout Canada and the northern US. If you cannot find this cheese, I would and have used a spiced Gouda cheese.
I made this recipe last week, and it was …

I love fruit salads. It is a great meal without any guilt after you eat it. There are conventional combinations that I know but later on it makes it too plain for your taste. One of the things I wanted to concentrate on is to focus on two fruits and …

I love to cook and I find it highly pleasurable, especially when people enjoy my cooking. One of my husband’s favourite dishes that I do for us if we need something quick is vegetable omelette. For this dish you will require the following ingredients to serve 2 …

Growing up, whenever we had meatloaf, I frowned. I really could care less for it. But now that I am grown up, I long for my mothers meatloaf. I have never found her recipe, but came up with this one after countless tries at trying to …

As a recently turned vegetarian I am always on the lookout for recipes that will make my dinners a little bit more exciting and help me keep away from the boring, flavorless slump of steamed vegetables. Also, I am very nutritionally conscious and therefore keep a close eye on …

The finess of herbs, combined with the creaminess of dijon, sausages and vegetables make this dinner dish a warming Winter delight. Serve hot, garnished with sweet fresh basil leaves, a green salad and buttered, hot crusty rolls.
Ingredients:
450 g (1lb) large herby pork sausages
350 g (12oz) wholewheat organic pasta …

I had been enjoying aioli sauce for about a year before I even knew what it was. When I was living in the Caribbean I used to get what I thought were some of the best burgers and fries I’ve ever eaten from a small island restaurant and …

Anything to do with oysters always has my interest. I love oysters-fresh, smoked, cooked, baked or even just raw. I like Malpeque oysters the best, but there are several types of oysters that can be used in a variety of different ways. When it comes to oyster recipes, I …

I don’t like hashbrown. One time I had the occasion to eat it at Shakey’s Pizza because my officemate insisted in trying it. It tasted like old potatoes which was just repacked just to avoid waste. It was awful but since we need to eat potatoes for our potassium …

The bread omlet is my favourite breakfast, which is good to eat, fast to prepare, and not only that it is also very nutritious, because it is made using the eggs.
Ingredients: bread pieces 3, chopped onion 3 teaspoons, finely chopped green chilly ½ tea spoon, salt to taste, …

Tomato sauce is readily available in the market. But it is full of preservatives. So we can prepare the tomato sauce at home for less cost which is healthier and fresh one.
Note down the ingredients:
500 grams of tomatoes, cup of sugar, salt to taste, 3 table spoons …

I was searching for new and interesting hors d’oeuvre recipes for the holiday entertaining season, and I came across an entire chapter in one of my mom’s recipe books devoted to canapés. I almost skipped that chapter, because for some reason, I always associated canapés with quiches or tarts …

Mushroom soup is my favourite soup. I love to eat a lot of mushrooms and the soup made of the same is also very tasty. Even my kids love it. Mushroom is also a healthy food which carries all the nutrition values. This is very easy …

A dimsum stall is located in front of our office. I visit it whenever I crave for authentic Chinese dimsum. I love the Xiao Long Bao, Beef Balls, Hakaw, Spareribs and Chicken Feet. As I love cooking, I decided to recreate the Dimsum Style Chicken Feet that I love eating. …

I learned to make this particular simple dish, Egg Salad Mix before and it is really easy and yet convenient to make. Here I go. You will need around 3 eggs or more, depending on the number of servings that you want.
Boil 3 eggs and after boiling, peel …

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 …

What is an Indian Tosey? It is actually in English called Pancake Crepes, and the taste is exactly that of a pancake plus crepes-like. Sometimes crunchy and gentle, and it goes easy on your throat. Very tasty.
This is a very popular Indian dish or menu …

I am generally not a big dessert fan, to either make it or eat it. I usually eat too much dinner to have room for dessert, and as well, I don’t have time to make a lot of desserts. I also find many desserts to be too sweet and …

One of my very favourite meals in the world is the Vietnamese Subs, which can very in meat used (usually, beef, pork or chicken), and even styles. I have had great ones and mediocre ones, but finding a restaurant that serves good ones is always a priority when I …

Ingredients :
Potatoes - 1/4 kg
Bread - 7 slices
Green chillies - 4 nos.
Mint leaves
Coriander leaves
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Amchur (mango) powder - 1/2 tsp
salt
Oil
Method :
1. Boil potatoes, peel off the skin and mash nicely
2. Put bread slices …

Tomato curry is a very special and different all purpose kind of side dish which is very very yummy. It needs very less amount of ingredients and is very healthy recipe. Not down the ingredients.
Ingredients:
Tomatoes 6 big size, onions 4 medium size, 8-10 cloves of garlic, green …

Shepaka, as the name may suggest is a mix of Shepherds pie and Moussaka. The beauty of it, as with many recipes, is it’s flexibility, being able to add or swap parts of the recipe and also the way of cooking it.
It is a layered dish and you must …

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 …

I first learned about this recipe through the Rachel Ray show. It’s now a Rachel Ray recipe. Rachel was featuring a lady (Stephanie) who has vowed to cook all of her meals in a crockpot for 1 year.
She talked about an enchilada recipe. I …

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, …

Now the boiled vegetable masala with cottage cheese is another interesting and a very very nutritious recipe as it includes all kinds of vegetables, which are half, cooked and it also contains the cottage cheese, which is again rice in proteins and calcium. This is also very delicious …

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 …

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 like pocket size viands which gives you controlled amount as to how much you will take. Just like this recipe that was released by Knorr, this is like Shanghai rolls which allows you to limit your bite by selecting a few sizes of rolls. This recipe gave me …

Earlier this year my husband I took our kids and a few of their friends to the Georgia State Fair. One of the main things that my girls wanted was a large funnel cake. Well they got one, but they were over $5 and they were tiny. We were all …

Entertaining at home is one of the things I like most. I always invite my relatives and friends for dinner. I either ask my housekeeper to cook or I call for delivery because cooking is not really my forte. But there are times when my womanly instincts kick-in and …