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 …

Ingredients
Black gram dal (Urad dal)- 2 cups
Big oninion - 1
Cumin seeds - 2 spoons
Curry leaves- a few
Salt as per taste
Procedure:
Soak black gram dal for two hours. And grind it to make fine paste. Donot add water while grinding. Because the dough should be tight enough to make vada. Now …

I don’t like hashbrown. One time I had the occasion to eat it at Shakey’s Pizza because my officemate insisted in trying it. It tasted like old potatoes which was just repacked just to avoid waste. It was awful but since we need to eat potatoes for our potassium …

I like this recipe for its truly homemade taste. The ingredients below will make 3-4 servings. You will need:
2 large, skinned chicken breasts (or 3 medium size)
3 medium size potatoes
2-3 cans of mushrooms
1 cup of finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon of flour
1 cup of milk
Salt, pepper to …

For a while, I have been experimenting with a relatively simple although fairly tasty recipe creation that I would like to share. If you like garlic and cheese, I think this recipe may be one that you will like. First of all, you will need bread. Pick any kind …

I love white chocolate a lot, and it is my favourite chocolate. I am always looking for recipes with white chocolate in them, so when I found this recipe in a local community magazine, I immediately bought all the ingredients and tried it out. Needless to say, it was …

Chocolate Souffle has one of the best taste of chocolate form ever. I always see this type of menu served in pastry shops and cake shops and I wonder what it’s like to make one. Luckily, I have the chance to learn this from my relative and she …

When my wife was pregnant with our second child, she had cravings for anything pickled, so my mum gave me a recipe for me to do and it is so easy to do.
All you need is
About two kg of baby aubergines
1 large bunch of parsley chopped finely
2 whole garlic …

The vet paratha roll is a very interesting dish which is not only easy ot make and also very healthy as it includes a lot of vegetable.
Ingredients: maida flour 1 cup, wheat flour 1 cup, finely chopped vegetable 2 cups according to your choice, Salt to …

Everyone looks for a nice and healthy breakfast that can be quickly and easily prepared! Bean Squares is one such breakfast that I can prepare easily and serves my nutrition requirements. This Mexican started contains a base of cracker biscuits topped with peanut and cream and the taste is …

This recipe everyone like especially kids and also adults. I usually make them for my kids’ birthday parties. It’s easy to make and fun. And yummy too! Here’s the recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
1 packet of Marie biscuits
1 cup coconut (crushed)
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 tin condensed milk
METHOD:
1. Crush biscuits
2. Mix all ingredients together
3. Roll …

Cake Icing is not that hard to make. I learned the basic steps and here I would like to share with you guys. I would rate it based from my own personal review and experience making it later.
In order to get that creamy and very soft texture, you …

Recently, I bought 2 pounds of frozen cooked shrimp because there was a really good sale at my grocery store. I love shrimp, but I had a lot of it and I was getting tired of eating shrimp cocktail, so I wanted to find an easy shrimp recipe. …

This summer season we had plenty of mango crops. Out of which, we have chosen most sour and tasty mangoes that will give more longetivity to the pickle. Normally mangoes will be green in color and might weigh in between 400-1500 grams. We have selected one of the best …

Here is a nice meal to serve for special birthday dinners. Could be a nice surprise treat for the birthday celebrant himself too. Peach-Glazed Pork Chops comes unwrapped in a pretty, peach glaze and makes dining a wonderful experience…
Great meals like this one is relatively simple to prepare but …

This is one of the best recipes. I make my favourite dish - spaghetti with mandarines very often. I can eat it even everyday! Why? Because if you have taste it one time, you’ll love it.
Here is an unusual combination of two products: serious spaghetties and fresh joicy mandarins. …

I ate tuna salad sandwiches all of the time when I was a kid. I used to like them pretty plain with only tuna fish and mayonnaise on white bread. I still enjoy eating tuna salad sandwiches, but now my tastes are a little more sophisticated. …

I have always loved a good sandwich. While most people find sandwiches boring, or only for lunch, I have enjoyed making very unique and unusual sandwiches for both myself and my family over the years. I actually used to be known as the Sandwich Queen at work, because all …

This is one of the recipes which uses Tahini, a sesame paste used frequently in Middle East and Mediterranean cooking. I was told by Marie Claire Magazine that this can be bought in specialty stores and supermarkets but I did cannot find it here. I found one when I …

Potato paratha is the very famous Indian break fast which not only very easy to make, it is also very tasty.
Ingredients:
Boiled potato 2, 2 cups of wheat flour, salt to taste, green chilly paste to taste, oil 2-3 spoons.
Method:
Pell off the potatoes and mash it, now add the salt …

Ingredient:
Bombayduck Fish 600 gm
Red chilli powder 6 gm
Garlic half teaspoon
Cumin powder 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Tamarind 20 gm (seed less)
Vinegar 12ml
Oil
Method:
Clean the Bombayduck Fish with normal clean water and keep it in a dish
Add Red chilli powder, Cumin powder, Salt, Tamarind and Vinegar in a dish and mix them and …

I am always on the lookout for new and unique chicken recipes, because I eat and serve chicken a lot, and I get bored pretty easily. This recipe is very tasty, and the flavour is a bit of a change from the usual roast chicken, mainly because of the combination …

You may be thinking that a dish as simple as instant grits wouldn’t require a recipe, per se. Well you are in fact - wrong. In fact, making instant grits taste like they’re not instant requires a bit of skill. What you have …

Mixed vegetable paratha is very easy and very very nutritious recipe. It is an ideal recipe for the breakfasts.
Ingredients:
Finely chopped vegetable of your choice. Salt and garam masala to taste, wheat four 2 cups, oil 3-4 spoons, water to mix the dough.
Method:
Now take the flour and using …

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 …

Whenever I am entertaining family and friends at my home, I like to make sure there are plenty of deviled eggs to go around since they are a staple appetizer in the south.
Since I’ve learned how to make deviled eggs they are my go to appetizer because they …

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 …

I am a vodka freak. I love cocktails and better news is, I love making my own cocktails than ordering it in a bar. I get to choose my own ingredients and other things that I want to put inside my glass. The result is one happy me. I …

The raw mango chutney can also be used as a sauce, which can be served with the bread sandwich, rice and also with the roties. The main ingredient to prepare this chutney is the raw mango, which is very sour.
Ingredients: we need to take 3 big sized …

I love potatoes. French fries are my favorite, but I also love a hot or cold potato salad to compliment any meal. My mother taught me how to make this type of potato salad. You will need six white potatoes, one half sup mayonnaise (or you can use real …

Ingredients :
Rice - 1cup
Thor dhal -1/2 cup
Tamarind - 1 lemon size
Potato- 2
green peas-1/4/cup
peeled small onion - 1/2 cup
salt
ghee
cashewnut-5
To prepare masala powder
Red chillies - 10
coriander seeds - 2 tsp
fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
urad dhal - 1/2 tsp
gram dhal - 1 tbsp
cinnamon, clove
coconut (grated) - 2 tbsp
Fry all the above masala …

My husband loves caramel apples and every once in awhile we will make them at home so he can have them as a treat. I saw the recipe for making them online and I really liked it.
The recipe includes:
4 apples- I used Fuji apples because that’s what I had …

I just love Burrito Wraps very much. The flour-taste, the tortillas, I should think and the juicy and nice meat inside are just so, so awesome. I love Burrito Wraps of any kind; be it a home-made one or the ones which I buy from restaurants or at …

Ingredients :
Potato : 1/2 kg
Onions : 3
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Green chillies - 8
Salt
Sugar
Coconut - grated - 1 cup
oil - 2 tbsp
Method:
1. Cut Onions finely
2. Make paste of ginger and chillies
3. Boil potatoes, peel and mash
4. Take three extracts from coconut and keep separately
5. Heat oil in a pan, …

Like I said before, starting 13 years ago I collected some recipes thinking to edit my own receipe book.
This is another recipe harvested from local folklore, specifically Romanian. As each recipe which I will
present here this recipe has been tried by me several times and each time I got …

Lately we have been having a heat wave where I live and if I turn on my oven it makes my kitchen so warm it is unbearable. I normally use my crock pot for winter and fall, but it works perfectly for an easy dinner that keeps your …

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. …

My wife and I love to cook together and one of our favourite meats is pork. So we would like to share with you a very simple recipe for pork with sweet and sour pork. It is really easy to do and takes no longer than ten minutes from …

I make the best fish soup well according to my wife anyway, and it is easy to cook and very tasty and healthy too. You can put as much or as little fish in as you like it is down to personal taste.
All you need for my fish soup …

One of my families favorite evenings are when we have breakfast for dinner. My girls are not big breakfast eaters early in the morning so this is perfect for a brunch or for us a dinner. You can get creative with this recipe and make …

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 …

Oriental cooking has always fascinated me. The preparation and cooking time requires hard work and dedication. While I was growing up, I was just content in watching our family cook whip up such mouth-watering dishes and then when I entered adolescence I began creating exotic and oriental dishes. As …

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 …