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 …

If you are someone that is looking for a basic, mild salsa and would like to make your own, and thus get more salsa for your money as opposed to purchasing jars of it in the grocery store, it is not that difficult. This is the first salsa recipe …

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 …

Almost every family in the country knows that grits are almost always apart of the breakfast meal. My family enjoys grits almost every morning. There are a new type grits I just tried and they are called parmesan cheddar cheese grits. You need four cups of water, 1/2 teaspoon …

I am a huge cilantro fan, and am always looking out for recipes which use fresh cilantro. I found this recipe in a cookbook by Jane Butel, called Hotter than Hell. This meal, which my husband made last week, is unique in that it has a crunchy texture, as …

The vegetable kurma is a side dish, which suits best with all kinds of roties and nons or even with the bread. It also proves to be very good combination with the plane rice. This dish is spicy and delicious to eat.
Ingredients: finely chopped carrot, French …

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 …

We just made these for lunch, and they are great! Quick, easy, and fairly healthy. They are also very portable, so they make good lunches for work or university.
Ingredients:
chicken (either the stir fry meat or the pre-packed kind)
red pepper
spinach
hoisin sauce
Tortillas (we like the flavoured kind)
Directions:
Cook the chicken. We like …

Just the other day, I made seafood paella. I bought all the necessary ingredients which all come in large quantities. In short, I have leftover ingredients including mussels. I do not want it to stay long on my freezer so I decided to gather all my creative juices and …

We know about the sambar the recipe for which I have given in my previous review. Now I am going to share the recipe of the rasam, which is just like sambar, but it is little different in taste and also in ingredients. This is also …

There are many versions of this kind of Chicken Potato Salad in the internet or in various cookbooks. However, this one is a personal favorite. The combination and ratio was passed on from my great grandmother’s kitchen to our family’s youngest generation’s. In making our CHICKEN POTATO SALAD, you …

Carrot halwa is a sweet dish, which is again a very nutritious and rich recipe. This sweet dish is best for the growing kids and even for elders.
Ingredients:
Carrot grated 2 cups, milk 2 cups, sugar 2 cups, fresh cr�me 1 cup, cardamom powder for flavour, edible color.
Method:
First of …

I come from a big family and we always spend weekends together on picnics, beach get-togethers, or even watching basketball games! You see, if you have a big family, you will never run out of fun. There’s always something to do every weekend.
I am sort of the cook in …

I collect many things and one of them is cook books. New cook books and historic one of a kind. Tons and tons of cook books. One of my favorites is The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, Revised Edition, publisher: Hearst Books. You not only get the recipes, but the …

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 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, …

Preparation of this mouth watering dish is very easy.
. Take two big capsicum and cut them into medium sized pieces
. Take pan and add sunflower oil and let it heat up
. Add half spoon mustard,Half-cup sliced onions,one spoon chopped garlic,one spoon chopped ginger and fry till the onion turned …

Ingredients (for two people)
1/2 kg tuna fish
1/2 apple, peeled & chopped
1 teaspoon of Apple juice
1/2 table spoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 table spoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
1 tea spoon lemon juice
1 onion
1 big tomato
fresh coriander leaves
1 onion - minced
1 big tomato …

Pumpkin 500gm
Garlic Powder 2 teaspoon
Salt 1 teaspoon
Jeera Powder 1 teaspoon
Green Chillies 2 to 3
Sugar 1 teaspoon
Oil
Water
Method:
Clean Pumpkin with clean normal water
Peel it and slice it into small pieces
Add oil in a vessel and heat it up on medium flame
Fry Jeera Powder and Green Chillies on medium flame for 2 minutes
Add …

Steamed Oysters with Vegetables is a nice combination. Not everyone like to eat oysters, and I used to hate oysters so much. Because I have had one bad experience of eating some bad and stinking oysters that I think the cook during that time did not take the …

This is not really a direct sort of recipe for making vegetable stock, but rather what one can do to get as close as possible to a vegetable stock. This is a recipe that I have experimented and I think has a special place in my heart. …

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 …

The mango pickle is a very well known item, which almost every one love in India. It is served with the curd rice or with the plane rice. It also best suits with the bread, or the paratha.
Ingredients: 2 raw mangoes, red chilly powder 3 tea spoons, …

The bushwacker is a delicious, deceptively strong, and refreshing frozen drink that is very popular in the Virgin Islands. They’re available pretty much at every bar and restaurant in the islands that has a blender. I served a lot of bushwackers when I was bartending in St. …

Ingredients :
Basmati Rice : 1 cup
Ground tomato paste - 1 cup
water - 1cup
green chillies - 4
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
peeled small onion - 10
Garlic - 4 flakes
Peeled green peas - 1/4 cup
lemon - 1/2
salt
ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
coriander leaves
cashew nuts
cinnamon, cardamom, clove, bay leaf
Method :
1. Wash rice …

This gravy can be used as a sidedish to rotis,parathas.You may also stuff this inside the tortillas.It can also be added in the cooked rice to get a new type of variety meal.Most of the people wont like eggplant.But you will fall in love with eggplant after …

If you want a very tasty meal, listen up. Make HOBOS for yourself and you will be enjoying a great tasting meal.
HOBOS are so easy to make, and there a few variations. You can add ingredients to make each HOBO a special meal for every member …

The chocolate ice creams are the mostly liked ice cream among all the varieties of ice creams. We don’t need to empty our pocket to buy this one from the shop; we can prepare the very tasty chocolate ice cream very easily at home. Just note down the …

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 …

Do you ever get tired of the usual dessert in your table? Our family does. So my late grandpa formulated a Yummy Tapioca & corn Dessert for a change. The recipe was passed on to my dad, and then to our generation. It is very simple to make and …

This is one healthy soup I would be sharing with you today. I know it because this is something I experimented on my own, developed for some time, and perfected it finally. My Lentil Soup is great for dinners or huge meals when there is plenty of guests. If …

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 …

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 …

This is a yummy little recipe that is easy to prepare and those who like spicy enjoy it so much! Stuffed Jalapenos are great for parties or when you need finger foods that aren’t messy.
1 can pickled, whole jalapenos
1 package cream cheese, softened
1 small onion, finely diced
1 tbsp whole …

This is a very popular Orient cake.
Ingredients:
1 pack sheets of pastry
Sugar
1 pack of butter
200 grams of walnuts
Sunflower oil
Put a layer of sheets of pastry into well-oiled baking dish, spread sugar and walnuts, then put the next layer of pastry sheets and again spread with sugar and walnuts. Repeat this …

My wife has a great simple recipe for making the perfect roast potatoes. She normally makes these when we have a roast dinner on a weekend. The roast potatoes she makes are crispy and have a great flavour as they are mixed with herbs.
All you need to …

This is simple and sweet Halloween creation that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. The hardest part about making this snack item is the ghost shapes. First though, let me tell you what you will need to pull this off: white bread, whipped cream cheese and black …

I love all the Aidel’s products. This happens to be my favorite of the dinner sausages they offer. One of the things I like most about this line is that they have so many flavors. Each one tastes a little different. I typically cook my …

I love scallops very much. They are very delicious and I love the unique taste of scallops so much, like I’ve said. For this recipe, I mix it up using my own favorite taste bud, which is Cedar Cheese. And the recipe for today is Baked Scallops …

Chocolate ice cream is every ones favorite ice cream. And it is very simple and easy recipe to prepare at home.
Ingredients:
1 liter milk, sugar 1 cup, chocolate bars 3,
Method:
First of all boil the milk and reduce it to half and now add the sugar and wait till it …

I’m not a huge fan of nuts in my desserts, but I make exceptions when it comes to pecans. I love eating pecans plain or in pies, so when I found a recipe for Praline Pie I decided to try it. I found the recipe in the …

Hmmm… This is one of my all-time favourites! The taste of the milky spicy chicken and the curry taste burying into my tongue is always a wonderful dining experience for me. My kids love this recipe. My family are crazy over this. What is with dish that makes it …

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 …

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 know that many of you people like to eat Macaroni with cheese, so for you I want to share a very easy to make recipe of “Macaroni cheese”. Like I said that it is easy to prepare, and it is too much tasty, specially kids loves to eat …