I am a huge fan of cashews and anything sweet. So when my aunt gave my mom this recipe several years ago, it became one of my favorites. And it is so easy to make.
First you mix the following together: 1 1/2 cups of flour, 3/4 …

Clearly one of the simplest salads of all to make is the cucumber salad. With only a few ingredients, you can really add a lot of zest to a common dish. This simple recipe calls for only a few ingredients: cucumbers, red peppers, …

Crabs night has become a recent tradition as of late for my family because it’s one of few meals where you can really indulge with your hands without raised eyebrows.
Usually when I cook crabs I do so in a large pot with quite a number of seasonings and spices …

I make alot of candies and cookies for the holidays. When it comes to fudge I have tried several different recipes. I have made it from scratch, where you have to let it boil to a soft ball stage or check with a temperature guage to make sure it …

If you like seafood you will love this recipe. It is another ‘mezes’ dish but you can also cook it and enjoy it as a main dish with a fresh green salad and fresh bread. Don’t forget the cold beer or the wine. The difficult part would be to …

I tried a funnel cake for the first time when I went to a city function. I saw a lot of people walking around with it and I heard about it before but never knew exactly what it was. It look good so I definitely wanted to try it. …

This is my favourite recipe for making guacamole and was given to me by a friend of mine. This recipe I am about to give you is a very easy and very quick guacamole. It is really tasty and I would really recommend it. It goes great with …

I love Spicy Peanut Chicken very much! For this recipe, I love the flavor of spiciness, a bit of sweetness and the elements of peanut very much. If you want to give a bit more oomph, you can use flour or cornflour to bring out the chicken saucy …

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 …

The mushroom Manchurian is another favourite recipe of mine, which I prepare every once in a weak. My parents love it too. The soft and juicy mushrooms give a great taste when it is deep-fried and spices added. Just try this recipe which I hope u …

I’m not much of a cook but there are times when I want to whip something up and prove to my family and friends that I too can be good at cooking or baking. So whenever I have guests around I always make it a point to serve something …

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
cinnamon sugar
cinnamon chips (optional)
I am sort of a spice addict, so when I found out there were cinnamon cookies that don’t taste like snicker doodles I was immediately all over trying them. This …

I’m a huge fan of pizza in general, and I love to experiment with different homemade pizza recipes. I’ve been hooked on Boboli pizza crusts for years, but until recently I didn’t think to check their website for recipe ideas. I used to top my Boboli crusts …

The chocolate milk shake is the heartbeat of almost all the children. And this is the very easiest milk shake for the mother to prepare. I have such a wonderful recipe of chocolate milk shake which can be prepared instantly just in few seconds.
Ingredients: cooking chocolates or …

This is a great appetizer I have made for parties and other get together for years. It has gotten to the point when I am invited to an event, I am asked to bring my tuna stuffed jalapenos. These are actually great for people who do not even like …

If you don’t want to eat prepared spaghetti sauce, this is an easy recipe. It’s healthy, fresh and will make your home smell good. You can use fresh tomatoes if you want. I use canned simply because it is easier. Easy Spaghetti Sauce tastes very fresh and we think …

The masala rice flakes is a very popular Indian breakfast which is not only tasty to eat it is also cooked using very less ingredients and in very less time. Try this one .
Ingredients: rice flakes one bowl, onion chopped ½ cup, tomato chopped ¼th cup, oil 4 …

I was looking for a soup recipe that was suitable for a cold winter’s day that was tasty and satisfying. A friend gave me this recipe originally as a diet soup. Made of mostly vegetables it was very low in calories and quite tasty. Another friend …

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 really love to cook and here is an appetizer that I would love to share with you all. This is like a fresh bite-size appetizer that requires little hassle at all and I love to dress it up beautifully in a nice presentation; courtesy of my own …

Ingredients:
Take a cup of puffed rice and 2 tomatoes finely chopped, one big onion finely chopped and a bunch of finely chopped coriander leaves and 2 boiled and mashed potatoes. Now take the green chilly chopped and ginger and also the Garam masala (spice) according to taste. The …

Perhaps the first that will come up when you put on the search keywords “free cooking recipes” will be this link: http://www.freecookingrecipes.net. That is on top of my list when I did search for a free recipe online. Believe it or not I had once searched a website instantly …

Carrot halwa is a very nutritious and tasty indian sweet dish. Carrot is very important for growing children. For children who do not like to eat carrot either raw or cooked, you can try giving this sweet dish and they will ask you more.
Ingredients required:
Carrot - 1/2 …

I know there are a lot of recipe sites out there. I probably belong to some of them, but there is one that is particularly easy to use, colorful, informative, eye appealing and has some of the greatest recipes around.
Some of the better points of this web site …

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 …

Ingredients:
Take one table spoon of butter, and 300 grams of shaved chicken sliced, one big sized onion chopped, 50 grams of mushrooms chopped, 4 table spoons of tomato puree, and 6-7 cloves of garlic. Finally some salt and pepper according to taste.
Method:
Now take a frying pan and melt …

I have not come across a cheese dip in the grocery store that makes use of blue cheese, so after some experimentation, I have come up with, I think, a dip that offers up an authentic and potent blue cheese dip. What I start out doing is dump about …

After mastering Beef Taco salad, one thing I was excited about is Burritos. I often purchase a small serving of it in a local mall and I have my own recipe for it too. I also love burrito as a snack because it contains meat but not as heavy …

A neighbor of mine gave me a whole pumpkin when he arrived from their province. Thinking of the different ways on how I could cook it and as to how many recipes I’d be able to make with a whole pumpkin made me have a research …

The paneer bhurji is my favourite recipe. The paneer is the cottage cheese. This dish can be served with the roti or the rice. This is the tastiest recipe among many recipes, which I have tried.
Ingredients: the cottage cheese chopped 2 cups, onion chopped 3/4th cup, tomato …

Ingredients :
Onions - 2
Tomatoes - 3
Diced white pumpkin pieces - 2 cups
salt
sugar - 1/2 tsp
oil - 2 tsps
Grind together :
Coconut (scraped) - 1/4 cup
red chillies - 5 to 6
garlic - 3 flakes
cumin seeds - 3 tsp
garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Method :
1. Cut onions into long thin pieces and …

Coconut and Bread combination, you will experience what taste and satisfaction really means.
I have been trying a combination of foods for a long time. In my combination reverie, I never came across the satisfactory taste I had in bread and coconut combination.
I was at friends place having fun, playing …

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 …

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 …

I am sure there is already a recipe out there like this but I though this one would be easy especially for mothers that have kids at home and trust me i have 4 kids so I know what being a busy mom is all about.
First, I …

I am a big fan of food blogs. One of the food blogs that I think is worth mentioning is that of Ree Drummond also known as the Pioneer Woman. I always have a fun time reading what she posts. Her recipes are not only very easy to make, …

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 …

Black Pepper Fried Chicken is another nice dish that I love making. I learn this from my friend, when I was down at her place the other day. She gave me some interesting tips and I have followed that since.
You will need bread crumbs, a bit …

While preparing for a pot luck dinner my classmates and I were having before class one night, I was wondering what it was I was going to bring. I had signed up to bring cookies, however I wanted to bring not just any old cookie. No way, I wanted …

This recipe is very popular in Southern California and it has many variations. My sister and her family make this often, not just for breakfast either. In restaurants all over California, this type of omelet is always on the menu. You can use home-made salsa if you have time, …

I bought a container of Vigo Italian Style Bread Crumbs with Imported Romano Cheese from my local grocery store, because I wanted to use them to make a meatloaf. The meatloaf turned out great, but I had a lot of extra bread crumbs, and I wasn’t sure what …

Living in Alberta, Canada, on and off for several years, I have had to get over my former aversion to game meat. I slowly but surely began to try meats that were new to me, such as buffalo, bison, elk, and other such meats, even though it took a …

4 good size chicken breast
1 teaspoon butter
1/2 cup of milk
Boil your chicken breast just like in the original recipe for chicken and dumplings. Once your chicken has cooked, pull it off the bone. Put all chicken back in the broth you took it out of and bring to a …

Stuffed Mushrooms
Makes 36 mushrooms
Serving size: 6 mushrooms � Yields 6 servings
These are delicious to eat year round. They go especially well with a garden salad, sliced zucchini or sliced tomatoes for a nice lunch. They are low calorie, low fat and low carbohydrates. This makes a …

The carrots are good for our health and using the carrots if we can make a very interesting recipe then it becomes an ideal recipe. Such a recipe is nothing else but the chilled and yummy carrot milk shake, which I am going to write the recipe of.
Ingredients: …

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 …

Because it is the season for parties and food, I recently began searching for interesting and unique appetizer recipes. I found one that is amazing, and everyone that has tasted it so far was extremely complimentary. I never actually made potato skins before, because I thought they would be …