The next receipe I will present to you is less specific Romanian, but very often found on the Romanian feast dinner tables
of Easter and Christmas. Of course sponge cakes (’cozonac’ in Romanian) can be bought also from the store but using my recipe
described below that I tried and perfected …

Mousaka, I dare to say is the most popular and well known dish of the Greek kitchen. It’s a combination of vegetables, meat and a thick white sauce and it’s really delicious. It’s a summer dish but you can make it any time of the year if you can …

6 potatoes
1 large onion
5 eggs
2/3 cup milk
4 tablespoons butter
salt
Peel potatoes, dice them into medium size pieces and boil, but not until fully cooked; take the potatoes off the heat when they are still a little hard and drain. Place potatoes into a greased casserole dish, chop the onion and …

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 …

The ABS-CBN Magazine called Food came up with a Special Recipe Collection for different kinds of meals. I got the edition for main course because I know I am hopelessly deficient in cooking. I take my baking talent, that is, the ability to follow measurements to a tee, and …

Snip green onion into a bowl, add some finely chopped lettuce (approximately the same amount or less). Dice 1-2 hard boiled eggs and add to the salad. Sprinkle some salt and slightly stir, mixing the ingredients together. Dress the salad with mayonnaise. The salad is served as a side …

This recipe is not hard to make and is considered one of my favorite recipes of all time.
To make this, you will need chicken parts and this depends on what you like actually. As for me, I always prefer thighs and drumsticks since they are easy to …

I got this recipee from a trusted baker in my home town Algiers. It is basically a pizza dough that you can prepare in minutes and have your pizza ready in about 25 minutes from the time you started your dough. Befrore knowing this recipee, it used to take …

Ingredients:
10 pieces - skinless,boneless fish (Salmon, Tilapia)
1 small onion finely chopped
2 small tomatoes
5-6 garlic cloves
1 can - Coconut Milk
1 teaspoon - Red chillie powder
1 teaspoon - Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon - Mustard seeds
2 stems - curry leaves
2 - green chillies
2 tbsp of oil
Cilantro to garnish
Method:
Wash and clean Fish …

I found this recipe for Brownie Kiss Cups in the Favorite Brand Name Bake Sale Cookbook. I found it under the “Best-Selling Brownies” section. At the time, I was looking for a simple chocolate dessert recipe that I could make for a picnic I was attending, and …

Kesari bath is another kind of Indian traditional recipe, which is prepared in most of the festivals and functions. This is very very tasty and nutritional recipe, which any one can prepare as it is very easy to prepare.
Ingredients: sooji (rawa) 1 cup, sugar 2cups, milk …

I love the combination of cheese and chicken in my pizza recipes at times. Pizza is something that is not hard to make at all, if you have everything right, then you are set for it. Now here we go.
You need some good amount of cheese, and before …

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 …

When we are trying to avoid eating beef or pork, I began to think of substituting fish on most of my recipes. It is healthier and it is just as delicious. Egg rolls and spring rolls are family favorites. Hence, the birth of my tuna roll recipe. It is …

In order to make the cake the following are the Ingredients :
Condensed milk - 1 cup
Self-raising flour - 1 cup
butter(melted) - 60 ml (even ghee can also be taken).But butter is preferred rather than ghee as butter will give the softness to the cake.
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder …

The spinach contains a lot of iron content and it is very good for our health. Those who are lacking the iron content in the body for them the spinach is the best and the natural medicine
Ingredients:
Spinach one bunch, boiled potato chopped 1 cup, salt to taste, black …

The mushroom soup is the favourite soup for my kids and even I like this one a lot because it is very easy to prepare and is very nutritious for kids.
Ingredients:
Mushroom 6-8 finely chopped, corn flour 3 teaspoons, salt to taste, white pepper powder according to taste, coriander leaves …

I love entertaining and we have a lot of friends and family come over for diner parties. They all love my chocolate dipped fruit. It looks lovely and tastes even better. It is so easy to make all you need is the following.
225g / 8 oz …

This is a great gourmet tasting dip that is very easy to prepare. This is great on toasted bread slices or pita chips. I also used this as a vegetable dip and stuffed this dip into cherry tomatoes and served as an appetizer. You can use …

I never knew that chicken meat can also be used in making sweet and sour dishes. Pork and fish is what I usually cook until I learned this recipe from a Judy Lew’s Chinese Cuisine cookbook. I like the recipe because the ingredients used here are …

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 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:
1 piece ham, 4tbsps cream corn,chopped onion,4 tsps grated cheese,1 egg
Method :
1. Heat oil, stir fry chopped onion in wok.
2. Add cream corn, egg and stir well. Turn off the stove. Fill the aluminium foil cups with the mixture.
3. Cut ham into 1 inch cubes, …

Ingredients:
onion:2
potato: 250gm
Green peas: 100gm
carrot:3no
…

I’m from the South and cobblers are a big deal where I’m from. There are various types of cobblers to choose from, but my all time favorite is the peach cobbler. There is this debate over which cobblers are the best: the soft, cake like cobblers and the pie …

Ingredients :
Gram flour : 1 cup
Rice flour : 1 cup
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Cooking soda - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1tsp
Onions - 3 nos
Green chillies - 4
salt
Curry leaves and coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
Oil
Method :
1. Add salt, chilli powder, to gram flour, rice flour and mix well.
2. Mix ghee, and …

If you love to grill or you simply hate the clean up of cooking, you will love these Burger Foil packets. They are a cinch to make and clean up is a breeze.
To start, tear off fouur sheets of foil, making sure they are good sized. They …

Oriental cooking has always fascinated me. The preparation and cooking time requires hard work and dedication. While I was growing up, I was just content in watching our family cook whip up such mouth-watering dishes and then when I entered adolescence I began creating exotic and oriental dishes. As …

Most people don’t like taking brinjal but it can be quite delicious if cooked in the right way. I like brinjals and they are one of the many few vegetable I really enjoy. One of favorite item is the Roasted brinjals and I would like to share the recipe …

Last night for the first time, I cooked Salmon Stirfry. I’m sure there are many ways to fix it but I think that this recipe was really easy and somewhat fast. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who is just learning to …

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 …

Mushroom Manchurian is similar to the gobhi Manchurian. Note down the ingredients:
200 grams cleaned mushrooms, 15 garlic cloves chopped, ginger finely chopped, onion chopped for seasoning, coriander leaves chopped, corn flour 1 cup, Maida flour 1 cup, tomato sauce one bottle, Soya sauce 3 table spoons, salt to taste, …

I thought I would share one of my favourite recipes with everyone, as this is something I cook often, using any left overs from the previous nights dinner. Not only do I use up what has been left over before it has to be thrown out, but I …

It is not that hard to make Baked Custard. It’s best to serve this type of food menu cold, instead of just being baked.
But at times, I would love the aroma of a baked custard and that’s something unavoidable and I would eat it hot. Custards …

When I get tired of the plain boring rice that even the Chinese Fried Rice is not enough to satisfy my craving for something different, a recipe for a creamy pesto rice was born.
I experimented on it but it turned our pretty good. Well rice is like …

This recipe, Cocoa Milk Cake is very yummy and cocoa taste-like that I am already salivating just thinking about it. I think young teenagers would even find making this easy and interesting. Here are the basic rules.
You need flour, of course and depends how much that you want …

I was looking for some lower calorie pasta recipes after the usual over-indulgence of the holidays, and I found a few, including the following one. This one replaces half of the pasta with thin strips of zucchini, and uses low-fat ricotta cheese. This is about 280 calories per serving …

I enjoy Christmas aside from having a bonding of our whole family. I have the chance to eat my Auntie’s Specialty. It’s a Philippine Version of Spaghetti with the name of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce White Fish and Dried Fish.It is very unique because the Ingredients are truly made …

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 …

I remember a long time ago I didn’t like banana bread as a child but now that I am older I love it. My taste buds I guess changed over the years and I can definitely eat some banana bread. It taste great and when it is cook it …

According to Wikipedia, “vinaigrette” is a mixture of salad oil and vinegar. Often flavored with herbs and spices and other ingredients. This is commonly used in salad dressing. I had to search online the meaning of it after I read this recipe in Kris Aquino’s magazine. I find …

I personally love to eat cotton candy and so does my kids. It has been a favorite of mines since being a little kid going to carnivals and functions. There is just something about the taste that keep you wanting to eat more of it. It is very addicting …

8 lasagna noodles
2 cans of apple pie filling
1 container or ricotta cheese
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon of almond extract
¼ cup of sugar
1/3 cup of flour
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 tablespoons of margarine
1/3 cup of light brown sugar
1/3 cup of oatmeal
½ teaspoon of vanilla
Preheat your over to 350 degrees. Cook the lasagna …

I have been cooking for 20 years now. Apart from it is something I needed to do as part of my chores when I was little, I consider cooking as my passion too. I grew up cooking every single day of my life. And now that I have kids, …

One of my favorite appetizers is the spinach dip that my aunt usually brings to family events. It’s a cold dip served in a hollowed out round loaf of bread. Collectively, I think my family has a lot of great recipes, but I like my aunt’s spinach …

Are you thinking of ways to make yourself and your kids eat vegetables? I have the same problem with myself and my 3 year old niece. That is the reason to modify the basic meatloaf recipe my mother used to make. I made sure that in …