A very popular snack in southern India, among Malay and Chinese communities. I like this tasty and crispy snack made out of simple ingrediets at home. All that is needed is an achappam mould. Yesterday I tried out this recipe and it was the first time I …

Ingredients: wheat bread, fresh mushrooms (champignons), chopped onion, shredder cheddar cheese, salt, mayonnaise.
Cut each peace of bread in half. Fill a shallow dish with cold water and dip each breadstick in it (only with one side, and do not let it soak). Place the breadsticks on a greased cooking …

This is a great recipe that helps me start my mornings off in a good mood, and I love the way it makes me feel like I’m doing something healthy to help me and my family eat right.
One of my favorite ways to start off my day is …

Spinach is very rich in vitamins and it contains the iron content and is very good for our body. This is a very interesting recipe made using the spinach, just try it.
Ingredients:
2 cups of boiled rice, chopped onion 3-4 table spoons, oil for seasoning, 5-7 cloves of garlic, …

Do you like to taste this mouth watering Dish? Then why do you wait ? Start preparing it right now.Take one cup of rice, add two two cups of water and boil it till the rice is cooked well. Add ¾ th cup of grated jaggery …

Smores have always been a favorite of mine since I was a child. In the past years, I have discovered several ways to make a varitey of smores.
First of all, there is the traditional smore. Toast the marshmellow, then stick it between two graham crackers that have …

The paneer pakodas are a very interesting snacks, which are preferred to eat in the evenings with the cup of tea. The paneer is nothing else but the cottage cheese. Any kind of recipies made using the cottage cheese is very tasty. This recipe is really …

Whenever I want to cook, which isn’t too often, I would usually get recipes from cooking shows that I frequently watch or by searching the internet. The Pork Stroganoff is one of my favorite recipes and I got it from the internet. I’ve been cooking this for a long …

I was hosting a small get-together a few days ago, and I refused to make and serve the usual, boring appetizers and dips, the ones that are served at every home and office gathering. I also had a limited amount of time to spend cooking and preparing food, so …

I found this recipe watching a Japanese tv show. It’s a quick and easy way to make custard cream. No more tedious constant stirring over the stove top.
Ingredients:
1 tbsp pancake mix(key ingredient)
3 tbsp granulated sugar
2 egg yolks
150 cc(150ml) milk
How to make:
1)Mix all the ingredients together into a …

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 …

Bangan bharawa is a very traditional and a popular side dish in India. Which is actually served with the roti, tanduri roti. This is also the favourite dish for me and also for my mother. We enjoy preparing it and finally eating it.
Ingredients: grated coconut 1 cup, …

I have to admit I love soup, and I had never made Potato and Leek Soup from scratch before. I thought it would be very difficult, but I managed to find this following recipe, and it is not as hard and time-consuming as I had thought. It is delicious, …

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 …

I make a lot of Mexican entrees, but I’m always unsure about what to serve on the side. I wanted to find a good side dish to serve with tacos and enchiladas, so I started looking for recipes. The Favorite Brand Name Simple 1-2-3 One Dish cookbook …

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 …

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 …

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, …

The payasam is a traditional sweet dish that is prepared in every Indian house during the festivals or for any such occasions. It is also known as kheer. This is also very tasty and the milk is the main ingredient used in it.
Ingredients: milk 4 big glasses, …

Friends I just want to share an awesome recipe which I really like to make,and eat also.It is called “Noodles chop”.To prepare this dish we need the following ingredients,
1)Boiled noodles,(quantity as per your need)
2)Cabbage finely chopped,and boiled,
3)Carrot,
4)Beans chopped like noodles,and boiled,
5)3 Eggs,
6)Soy sauce,
7)Milk,
8)Cornflour,
9)Tomatoes,
10)Coriander leaves,
11)Refined oil for frying,
12)Salt to taste
Lets …

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, …

Prepare time: 15 mins
Serves: 4
Per serving: Kilojoules 931, protein 6g, total fat 20g, saturated fat 2g, cholesterol 0mg, total carbohydrate 6g, sugars 6g, fibre 4g, sodium 43mg
Ingredients: 1 carrot, 1 celery stalk, 1 red-skinned dessert apple, 1 cup mung bean sprouts, 3/4 cup alfalfa sprouts, 1/2 cup sunflower kernels
Oriental …

Stuffed Peppers are a tasty homemade dish that does not take too much trouble to make. The recipe I use requires 1 lb of hamburger meat, 1 egg, 1 can of tomato soup (it does not have to be Campbell, the no-brand-name version works just as well), a ½ …

I received a recipe recently from my sister for a new tasty way to prepare homemade chicken nuggets for my kids. When I tried it, I couldn’t believe how good it was. More importantly, my kids loved it so much they are begging me to make it …

I was first introduced to coconut shrimp when I lived in the Caribbean. A lot of restaurants in the islands offer it on their menus. I can’t remember the specific restaurant I first tried it at, but I know I was hooked on the taste the first …

For the holiday season, I have been searching for some different salads and appetizers, something better and more unique than the usual boring fare. I found some interesting-sounding salads, and tried out a few last week. The biggest hit of all of the salads, and the one that I …

I was searching for some unique and tasty, but non time-consuming, appetizers to serve for company over the holidays. I am a big fan of all shellfish and seafood, and scallops are my absolute favourite. They are naturally sweet and tender, and work well as appetizers and in main …

I was searching the Internet for an easy cold salad recipe to make to take to a barbeque when I found this recipe for Twenty-Four Hour Salad. I found it on allrecipes.com, which seems to be a great resource for a variety of recipes. The salad looked …

INGREDENTS:
-2 to three packets of noodles (i use indomie noodles)
-A tin of sardines (the type preserved in oil)
-2 piints of water
-One medium sized bulb of onion
-Green pepper,red pepper.
-1/8 pints vegetable oil
-one carrot
PROCEDURE:
1)Bring some water to boil, and while its boiling, break the noodles into reasonable sizes. put it in …

I have loved rice pudding for years and can not get enough of it. I was so happy when I first made it and now I make it any time I have the taste for it. This recipe is fairly simple and easy and it doesn’t take long to …

Ingredients :
High Protein Flour - 360g
Flour - 60g
Castor Sugar …

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 …

Every so often I host poker night at my home, and since I take pride in being a good host, I like to provide appetizers for everyone. I usually serve something easy like potato chips and sandwiches, but on one occasion I happened to have a little extra …

Making Vanilla Custard ain’t that hard. You just have to go with ‘practice makes perfect’ and you’ll be fine.
During my spare time that I could find, besides reading, I love to cook different recipes and modifying them according to my own personal tastes. To make Vanilla …

Coconut rice is a very easy and very tasty to eat kind of recipe which my husband likes a lot. Even I love to prepare it because it is very easy to make and needs very less ingredients.
Ingredients:
Rice one cup, 2 cups of coconut milk, some spices …

It turns out that French toast is a lot easier than I thought it would be to make. I loved having it for breakfast, even dinner sometimes, but I would only eat it if someone else was making it, or if I was at a restaurant. My …

I don’t know about you, but I love banana pudding! My little southern “MaMa”(grandmother) used to make it from scratch for family reunions, holidays, or when the grandkids came to visit. When I say scratch, I mean FROM SCRATCH and it was sooooo good! Well …

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 …

Although I am trying to eat more vegetables, plain old boring green salads are not my favourite way to incorporate healthy food into my meals. I am therefore always on the lookout of new salad and cooked vegetable recipes. I also bought the chickpea salads at the deli counter …

The tomato sauce is very commonly used in almost all the houses. Most of the kids love eating it with the bread and even with the roties(Indian flat bread). There are many kind of tomato sauces of many brand available in the markets but all of them …

When you picture Italian food, what comes to mind - pizza and pasta? Do panic when you think of high calories and high carbs? Think again.
This meal is a menu for a perfect Italian light dinner that combines the zest of organic goat’s cheese with the sparkle of red …

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 …

To prepare this delicious curry to take with hot plain rice , you need to have Pakodi (available in Bakery, sweet stalls, hotels) or you can prepare it at home.
Preparation of Pakodi
1.Take 250 gm of Bengal gram powder (basin) and mix it with enough water and make loose …

Baked Chicken Teriyaki is not that hard to make once you get the hang around it.
First important step is to get your pieces of chicken meat. I love to use chicken thighs and chicken breasts for this type of recipe. You need ingredients like black pepper, …

I took my wife out for a meal a couple of weeks ago. My mum and dad came down to our house to baby sit. My wife ordered the rabbit.
I like to cook and never cooked rabbit so as my wife tried the rabbit and liked I decided …