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 …

When you are in a hurry or are simply too lazy to cook up a full dinner, a great solution awaits! These simple veggie pizzas were a quick creation of mine when I had limited supplies and a lot of hungry mouths to feed one night. Requiring minimal effort, …

This is wonderful curry to taste with rice or roti. And is very easy to prepare. Try it and see.
Ingredients
1.Brinjal - ½ kg.
2.Green Mutter (dried)- ½ cup
3.Drum stick- 2-3
4.Tomatoe- 2
5.Ginger- small piece
6.Garlic- 5 flakes
7.Mustard- ½ spoon
8.Cumin seeds- 1 spoon
9.Green chillis - 2
10.Onion - 1 big
11.Turmeric powder- ½ spoon
12.Chilli powder- …

The vada pav is the very special chat recipe of the state called maharastra in India. It is a kind of fast food. The procedure is quite simple and it is also easy and ideal food to prepare it for the teatime to serve it to the …

This receipe is very easy to make and kids will like it.I used to prepare this during festive time.
Ingredients Needed:
1.vermicelli(broken)—1/2 cup
2.Milk— 1 cup
3.Sugar—1 cup
4.Ghee—2 tbs
5.cardomom—3 pods
6.cashew and raisins
Procedure for Preparation:
Fry the vermicelli in ghee .Until the broken vermicelli becomes golden color,fry it.Try to keep the flame as small as …

This recipe is what I call “one for the boys” for my husband and his friends love this whenever they bond over bottles of beer and wine. This dish never fail to give me unsolicited praises from the gang. They always look forward to their drinking …

Pastitsada
This is the favourite dish of the Corfiot people on Corfu island of Greece. If you ever visit Corfu, go to one of the local-traditional tavernas and try it. The locals usually cook it on Sundays (and quite spicy)where all the family is gathered around the table and …

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 …

You will need 1 can of salmon, 1,5 cups of cooked rice, and 1/3 cup of finely chopped onion, some salt and mayonnaise.
Cook rice and let it cool off. Open the can of salmon, drain. Carefully remove bones and pieces of skin and cut the salmon into small pieces. …

This is one of the ‘mezes’ dish in Greece. They serve it in any restaurant or traditional Greek taverna or in any of the small places they call “ouzeri” and you can find hundreds of small dishes like this. This one is sort of a dip, although the translation …

The spinach is a leafy vegetable, which contains a lot of Iron content. Particularly those who have low haemoglobin count in their body for such people the spinach soup is the ideal one which is also tasty. I recommend this soup to be taken by all the …

I love to cook and my wife loves fish and would rather eat fish than meat, so I often do her stuffed squid. A Greek friend of hers gave this recipe to her and it is simple to do and tastes great the measurements I am going to give …

This recipe is actually can be considered as a vegetarian meal and you may substitute the vegan for butter, like I did. I kind of like using margarine as it tends to be salty, so I find that I don’t need additional salt when using margarine. If …

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, …

There are 3 cuisines that I love —“ Asian, Italian and Japanese. The last one I must confess is something that I still am eager to learn. For me, Japanese cooking is somewhat complicated and requires long hours in the kitchen. Also I have to brush up on certain …

When I was in high school, our band would take an annual trip to NYC to see a Broadway musical and experience a different kind of restaurant than we were used to. The first time I went with them, we saw “1776″ and ate at a German restaurant …

Ingredients:
1. rice 1 cup
2. mint leaves 1/2cup
3. onion 2
4. green chilli7
5. grated coconut 2tsp
6. oil 3tsp
7. salt to taste
method:
1.cook rice and keep it a side
2.take a pan and put 1tsp oil and fry green chilli and mint leaves
3. the grind mint leaves,green chillis ,coconut and salt
4. now pour the remaining …

This is another appetizer that to me is a great one and I love serving my family this whenever I am free. I love cooking them with butter and it kind of adds a nutty flavor because of the high temperature, the butter do melt. So, I …

It was Sunday yesterday and everyone was at home. Sunday is my favorite day of the week because I get to spend it with my family. We sometimes go out but more often we stay home and just watch TV or put on a DVD. Since everyone was in, …

I want to share this yummy recipe with all.
Items needed to prepare this dish :
Grated carrot : 1 cup
Grated cabbage : 1 cup
Grated cauliflower : 1 cup
Onion (Big) - 1 cup (cut into small pieces)
Green chillies : 5 nos.
Corn flour : 1 tsp
soya sauce : 2 tsp
Tomato ketchup : …

I love to eat, and although I’m not much of a sweet tooth, I do love to make desserts.
One of my favorites is Vanilla Ice Cream cake. The lazy way.
-Take two large sheet cakes and cut in half.
-Spead each piece of cake with softened vanilla icre crea. You …

To prepare Delicious Coconut Rice you need to have following ingredients
. one coconut
. 1 cup of rice
. 10 long green chillies
. 2 cloves
. ½ inch cinnamon stick
. one big onion
. 2 teaspoon garlic-ginger paste
. ½ cup of vegetable oil
. few coriander leaves
. salt as per taste.
Extracting Coconut milk:
.Break the …

I am always looking for creative and new things to do with vegetables, because I don’t find vegetables all that exciting, but they are good for you, so I try to eat them daily. Always looking for recipes for vegetables, I recently got one from my Italian friend, for …

When I’m at the mall, the aroma of freshly baked cookies coming from the food court is usually almost irresistible. Every once in a while I’ll buy a couple of cookies, but they’re usually outrageously priced, so I always feel guilty about splurging later. Recently when I …

I love the normal light coffee mixture for this Coffee Cake Recipe. I learned to make this from my late grandma and she was an expert making this. Really missed her so much. She told me that elements of butter or margarine is very important and I …

The first time I had ever tasted a pina colada was when I was in college at this Caribbean club. It seems like every college city has a Caribbean club.
I think I paid around five dollars or more, and it came in a huge glass with an umbrella. The …

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 was thinking of food I can serve as appetizer or my cousin’s birthday party, and my friend recommended me this recipe for smoky canapes which serves 20 people.
What you need are:
8 ounces of reduced-fat cream cheese (soften them first)
4 ounces of crumbled blu cheese
1 tablespoon of Worcestershire …

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 am a big pasta fan and an even bigger seafood addict, so any dish which combines these two food groups is a real hit for me. I grew a bit bored of clam linguini, so I went online to look for a linguini recipe with other seafood, preferably …

Paneer paratha is another very interesting recipe. Paneer is nothing else but the cottage cheese. Note down the ingredients.
Ingredients:
Cottage cheese grated 1 cup, onion chopped and fried - cup, salt to taste, coriander leaves chopped, black pepper to taste, oil 3-4 spoons, wheat flour 2 cups.
Method:
First of …

Here are the following steps to make pizza on a peel. First of all, sprinkle a teaspoon of cornmeal evenly over the pizza itself. This method is recommended by my friend and I think it is a fine way of the method of peel and stone. …

When I took over Thanksgiving dinner chores for my family a few years ago, I barely knew how to cook a turkey. I’d already made the classic mistakes of not giving the turkey enough thawing time and leaving the giblets inside the chest cavity with previous turkeys, but …

Chicken & Vegetable Bread Roll is a light snack lunch that is kind of easy to make. The taste is around 7 or 8 depending on the ingredients that you can modify to suit your taste buds.
I use white bread for this recipe; and white bread has …

The upma is the very easiest break fast which can be prepared just in 20 minutes without any kind of preparations done before for this recipe. This recipe is not only easy it is also a kind of tasty and enjoyable food along with some pickle.
Ingredients: sooji one …

My famous turkey tacos are just that. I guess, famous amongst my friends and family is more accurate. Everyone who has had them always comes around for more. So, I hope you will try them and let me know if you enjoyed them too. Here …

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 …

Who does not like pancakes for breakfast? They are fluffy, delicious, and filling, but most people are too busy or just too lazy to go through the process of making them from scratch. Box mixes are an easy alternative, however in a time where we really do not know …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Collard Greens is a southern tradition that families have been cooking for years. Especially for the holidays like Christmas and thanksgiving I just love making Collard Greens. It has such a unique taste to it and is very yummy. It is fulfilling and you can season it to the …

Oreo Cheesecake is very delicious! I love it, and sometimes, I replace the Oreo with chocolate chip cookies or other types of flavors like butterscotch and nut types of cookies.
In making cheesecake, whenever I have a taste, I will always remember the essence of vanilla. It …

I first heard of Quiche was during the episode of “Friends”, the sitcom. Then I saw it at Starbucks one time. Then just lately I saw it outside the label of a famous corned beef. A quiche is a baked flan or tart with savory filling. It is like a …

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 …

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 …

I have always loved Rice Krispie bars, but growing up my mother added a twist to them. On top she would put caramel and chocolate and they were to die for. You have to try this recipe for yourself and you will see why I went gaga …