My adult son, who lives with us, enjoys espresso coffee every day. We don’t have an espresso machine, so, when he is home, he ‘fixes’ his coffee that we do have to make it taste a LOT like the espresso mochas that he likes so well.
With our regular coffee, …

It is a very rich and tasty recipe. Everyone would like this dish. This dish is normally prepared during festival time. It is not suitable for sugar patients as it is made only out of cashews and sugar.
Ingredients:
Cashewnuts : 200 g
Sugar : 200 g
Method :
1. Soak cashewnuts in water …

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 would like to share with you a very simple delicious and very quick Thai-style corn soup; it makes a great starter or an easy lunch. This recipe takes less than ten minutes to prepare and cook. The ingredients here serve four people.
You will need
Half a teaspoon of sesame …

I am easily bored with vegetables and salads, but am always trying to get more servings of vegetables and fruits into my diet. I found this recipe in a cook book my mom had in her house, called Inspired by Ingredients, when I asked her if she had any …

I really like jams and I eat them every morning. There’s no better jam than the one made at home. I usually make fig and plums jam, chestnut jam, apricot jam and similar usual jams. About a year ago a friend gave me the recipe for a jam of …

Here is an easy way for you to make some great salmon patties. First take a can of salmon and toss it in a bowl and take out the small white bones (some people eat these as they are really soft, but I prefer to pick them out). …

Cashew Chicken
My mom is always trying new recipes and then sending them to me.
She sent me this Cashew Chicken Recipe and the first time I made it
for my family they both said it was Ok. Well I really liked how easy
it was to make and I thought …

The sweet corn soup is my all time favourite soup, which is little sweet and little salty. Especially the soft and tasty sweet corns are my weakness, which I always love to eat from the soup. I always have this soup whenever I visit any restaurants. …

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 …

A lot of the pizza places and the majority of sub shops I’ve been to serve their own versions of an Italian sub. I like ordering Italian subs, because even though I never know exactly what’s going to be in them, they’re usually filled with a lot of …

This dish requires several small, oven-safe ceramic pots with a lid. Each pot is a separate serving, so if you’re expecting a company of 6, you will need 6 pots.
First, you dice mushrooms, if you are using fresh ones, and slightly roast them in butter. If you are using …

Nuts like hazelnuts and other types of nuts are really delicious, if you want to mix them up with a snack like ice-cream. Here is my own made up recipe for Ice Cream with Nut and Oreo Crunchie that I sometimes serve for myself while watching a good DVD …

Kalakand is a very rich sweet dish, which is also treated as a very special sweet dish. This sweet dish is either prepared or bought from sweet stalls during the very special occasions. Milk is the main ingredient to prepare this sweet dish.
Ingredients: milk solids 1 cup, …

This potato recipe is a favorite of mine, both to make and to eat. The side dish is always a favorite at parties and family gatherings. Whenever I am asked to bring a side dish to pass, I usually go for this recipe because it’s a hit …

Cool Banana Pops make for a refreshing and tasty treat during the hot summer months. You will need a banana, popsicle stick, some peanut butter, and a bowl of nuts. First, take a banana and peel it. Cut the banana in half. Then, take a popsicle stick and insert …

I really like lemon bars and lemon pies, so when I found a recipe for lemon cookies I decided to try it. I found the recipe in the Favorite Name Brand Bake Sale Cookbook. I’ve made several recipes from this cookbook, and most of them were excellent, …

When I began taking up culinary arts as a hobby, I was fortunate enough to find a website online that helps people new to cooking and provides the fundamentals to help me become a success in the kitchen.
The website is maintained by a professional chef named Danilo Alfaro. He …

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 …

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 …

This is a tasty Indian chuney which suits well for Idlis, dosas (pancakes), as well as rotis.
Ingredients:
Onions-3
Ripe red tomatoes-4 of medium size
Red chillies-6
Salt
Oil
Curry leaves
Mustard sedds-1 spoon
Cumin-1/2 spoon
Blackgram-1/2 spoon
Haldi-1/4 spoon
Method:
Heat 5-6 spoons of oil in a pan. Fry onion pieces and red chillies in the oil till the onion …

I have been eating gumbo for a couple years now it is so fulfilling a good. At first when I was younger I hated gumbo and never like what people had put in it but as I got older I had manage to make my own gumbo and start …

The mushroom fried rice is one of my all time favourite rice recipe as it is very tasty to eat and also very easy to prepare. The mushrooms are good for our health too. My kids also love to eat the recipes made using the mushrooms. …

Lemon rice is very simple and very tasty dish. This is the one which I like always because it is very tasty and very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
One cup of boiled rice, 3 tea spoons of oil for seasoning, lemon juice, green chilly paste and salt according to taste, …

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 …

This recipe is one of my favorites and it’s very easy to make. In Greece, we usually make this food on 25th March which is a national and religious celebration and the main dish of the day is fish, usually cod. Either fried, boiled or cooked. On that …

We can prepare the very much natural and tastier and nutritional mixed fruit jam at home very easily.
Here are the ingredients:
Take one cup of papaya, cup of banana, cup of pineapple, cup of black grape, cup of orange fruit, cup of apple (all the fruits must be pealed and …

Cool Whip cookies are cookies that are super easy to make and taste awesome. They turn out really soft and really yummy! You can make these with your kids who love helping mommy cook. They are treat sure to please anyone’s tummy! Because they are so versatile, you can …

Fiesta Rice is one of the Specialty of Filipinos. I love the Toppings on the top of it.It’s the Mixture of different foods and that’s the reason why they Call it Fiesta.I am sure anyone will love it.
The Following are the Ingredients and Steps:
3/4 Kilo Miraculous Rice,cooked
1/2 Cup …

Ingredients:
Cooked rice- 2 cups
Yoghurt 1-2 cups
Salt as per taste
Mustard - 1 teaspoon
Garlic - 5-6 flakes
Peppper whole - 8-10 seeds
Cumin seeds- 1 teaspoon
Red chilli - 3-4
Curry leaves - a few
Balck gram split - 1 tea spoon
Sunflower …

The story behind this recipe is that I was out with friends at a Greek restaurant, and they ordered saganaki for an appetizer. My friend said that when she traveled in Greece many years ago, this dish was her favourite, and since then, she looks for it whenever she …

I think the next time that I have the urge to eat Sourdough Bread, I would just buy it. For making it is really not easy, and I have a frustration time making it. That’s because the overall effect is that the outer part of it is cooked …

The onion paratha is a kind of instant recipe, which can be prepared as a break fast and also for the dinner as our choice. The ingredients are very simple that we have at home always. This gives great taste with the curd or with the mango …

1 lb beef
2/3 cup chopped onion
1 cup mashed potatoes (thick)
1 egg
Parsley or parsley flakes
Salt, pepper
Flour
Vegetable oil
Boil and grind the beef. Roast the chopped onion in vegetable oil until yellow and add to the beef. Add mashed potatoes, egg, parsley, some salt and pepper. Mix it all well together with …

Ingredient:
Lau 500 gm (fresh)
Mustard Seeds 1 teaspoon
Mustard paste 1 teaspoon
Salt 1 teaspoon
Green chillies 4 to 5 in number
Garlic powder 2 teaspoon
Sugar 1 teaspoon
Oil
Method:
Clean Lau with plain normal clean water and slice it into small pieces
Add Oil in a vessel and heat it up on medium flame
Add sliced Lau, Green …

This recipe is something that I have fun doing and it makes around 1/2 cup. It can also be kept in the fridge for about a week, without getting stale. Ingredients are as follows:-
2 cups lightly packed fresh parsley, roughly chopped
3 scallions, thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 …

A couple days ago, I decided to make bran flax muffins according to the recipe from allrecipes.com. The recipe was rating really high and had almost 300 reviews, so I thought… why not to try it out? But honestly I was not too impressed. I mean they are ok …

As the name itself suggests, it an Australian dish. It holds the proud distinction of being the most popular dish in Australia. One would find hot meat pies anywhere in Australia. But you need not travel all the way to Australia to taste. Anyone can prepare it sitting at …

Masala dosa is another interesting recipe and it is also the very popular India breakfast which can be prepared very soon just in few minutes. And also it is very tasty.
Ingredients:
3 cups of rice, one cup of white gram, one cup of rice flakes. Now soak all …

Our family likes potatoes, and I’ve got several different ways of cooking them (alternating just mashed and fried gets old pretty fast). Here is one of our favorites, Potato Patties. They are easy to make, and once the potatoes are boiled it does not take much time at all. …

Pimento Cheese Dip
Yields about 1 ‘ cups of dip
1 cup dry curd low-fat cottage cheese
1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
1 four ounce jar pimentos, thoroughly drained
1 teaspoon onion powder
cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese (approximately 2 ounces)
Place all ingredients except Cheddar cheese in a food processor or blender. Cover and …

I am a huge soup fan; I love eating it, and I even enjoy making it, because I always make a huge batch, freeze it in one or two portion sizes, and pack it for lunches for my family. I find that most soups taste even better after being …

It’s not hard to make Moroccan Tomato Soup. I love this recipe at times, especially when I have a sore gums or something. I will make it a point to prepare this recipe. Of course you will need tomatoes for this recipe. And some salt, pepper …

Are you planning for an upcoming party? One of the hardest things to decide on when planning for a party is the menu. Because let’s face it. Food is always the center of attraction in any party. The music could be great, the decors, the service, but if the …

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 …

I like to drink coffee. Cause I’m an insomniac, I find it really helps in boosting my awareness to the world (aka keeping me awake). Lately I’m bored with my Nescafe instant 3-1 mix :D so I tried to make something new. After many trials and errors, I invented …

This is a very old recipe and a classic. My family loves this and I make this for a ’special’ treat for them. I hope you enjoy this one.
Crumb crust:
1 1/4 c. graham crumbs
1/4 c. butter or margerine
1/4 c. granulated sugar
Set aside 1/3 c. of this mixture. …