Idly is one of the Indian or I can say it as the south Indian recipe which can be just prepared within 10 minutes if we have prepared the batter for this just one day before. We can also store the idly batter in to the refrigerator for …

1 can of Bush Pork & Beans with Onion
1 piece of beef (it is up to you how big; if you like meat, put a large chunk the size of a stake)
1/3 cup of ketchup
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Boil the beef, take it out, cut into small pieces, and put …

Grits is a staple in the south. It’s a versatile grain that is mostly featured at breakfast, but can be prepared during other times of the day. For example, shrimp and grits are perfect for either lunch or dinner. Or you can make cakes with them and serve it …

Do you love macaroni and cheese? Well, who doesn’t. It is an all time comfort favorite of kids and adult alike but the question is: Do you usually get the boxed ones? Try this easy mac and cheese and you will come back for more. Well, it is really …

Easy Oven Fries
4 Potatoes
1T Olive Oil
Shake and Bake Mix
Scrub potatoes and cut into quarters. Place potatoes in a large bowl and coat with Olive Oil. Once potatoes are coated evenly, set aside.
Fill Shake and Bake plastic bag with mixture. Add potatoes and shake until evenly coated. …

Home style Chilie is one of my favorite recipies. It can be prepared in under thirty minutes from start to finish making it a great meal for nights when your in a hurry but don’t want fast food. It is designed to feed a family of six. The ingrediants …

Spring, and summer! It’s time to make Salads. I’m a big salad fan!
Everyone in our house likes salad. I make many different salads in spring and summer. Here is one of my favorite salads.
Pasta Salad
1 lb. box Tri colored Rotini
Pepporoni, deli sliced ham, Sliced cappocola
Broccoli crowns ( cut …

The dry fruits salad is something very different and very special recipe which can be prepared for a very special moments or it can also be prepared when we invite some very special guest to our home. This recipe is very rich in calories and is also very …

Smoky Mushrooms Spread
Yields approximately 1 � cups of spread
Per tablespoon: 2 calories, 1 g fat, 1 g protein, 2 g carbohydrates, 50 mg sodium
This is a great appetizer spread for all year round. It is best served over Melba toast or Ritz crackers. It is one of …

This has quickly become my favorite recipe when having a cook-out or contributing to a pot-luck. It is quick, easy, and delicious. My measurements are going to be guesses because I never measure when I make it, so eyeball it with me.
You’ll need:
3 regular sized cans of pre-diced potatoes
1 …

Ingredients :
Bread slices - 6
Gram flour - 1/4 cup
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
salt
Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
Grated onions - 1 cup
To Grind :
Green chillies - 3nos
Coriander leaves - 1 small bunch
salt
Ginger - small piece
Method :
1. Cut bread slices into 4 small pieces
2. To the …

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 …

I am not a potato salad fan, even in the summer when everyone serves it. I find it boring, bland and rarely tasty. I was complaining about this to a friend, and wishing that I liked this because it would be a good salad to serve when green or …

Ok, so I tried this rice pudding recipe, which I saw in my local paper. It had the odd requirement to add cornstarch, I guess in order to thicken it. I tried it and it was horrible! You could really taste the cornstarch. Yuck! I was so disappointed, as …

Ingredients :
Gram flour : 1 cup
Rice flour : 1 cup
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Cooking soda - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1tsp
Onions - 3 nos
Green chillies - 4
salt
Curry leaves and coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
Oil
Method :
1. Add salt, chilli powder, to gram flour, rice flour and mix well.
2. Mix ghee, and …

This recipe is actually a Kraft foods recipe that I found a few years back and altered. I love the ease of a crock pot but hate how so many recipes for it taste the same and this one does not taste like it came out of the …

I am one of the few people in my family that loves stew more than almost anything. I find that stew, while usually time-consuming, is nutritious, delicious, and fills me up. I also love the fact that I can spend the time to make a stew, and then freeze …

This is a quick, easy and hearty meal for those days when you don’t feel like cooking, are in a hurry or just want a hot comfort food.
It’s cheap to make and serves ten with leftovers. My family likes it and I don’t mind cooking it because it is …

Vanilla milk shake is so simple and it is very very easy to prepare. It is the favorite drink for all the members of my family. It hardly takes a few ingredients but still it is very tasty and ideal drink to have it in the hot …

I am always searching for ways to make vegetables more interesting, especially during the holiday season when I have company for dinner or have to take a dish or two to friends’ houses. I was so tired of the usual veggies and dips, so I began to search out …

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 …

What did you do with the Bloody Mary mix you had leftover after your last holiday party? Or that bottle you got at the office or neighborhood Pollyanna party when you don’t even drink? I think you’ll feel better after reading this that it doesn’t have to …

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 …

If you are expecting some visitors on a special dinner, here is one meal I would like to suggest, and hope you would trust me on this. I have help dinners on special occasions, and parties, and picnics, and I do all the cooking, so I somewhat know which …

Ingredients:
Take one kg chicken which is cut in to pieces, half cup of black pepper corns, half tea spoon turmeric powder and salt according to taste. 5-7 cloves of garlic and some curry leaves, 3 tomatoes chopped and one big onion sliced, one tea spoon coriander powder, 5 cloves, …

Chapathi is Indian flat bread which is very tasty and nutritious to eat. It can be eaten with any other side dish made of vegetables.
Ingredienst:
Wheat flour 2 cups, some water to make the tight dough, salt to taste and 2 tea spoons of oil.
Method:
Take the wheat flour and …

Here is a fun and tasty recipe I created last week. It was a big hit.The kids loved it, so I guess it’s a keeper. I call it Taco spaghetti. I had made Taco’s and had a lot of meat left over, so I decided the next nite to …

This recipe is for chicken fans who enjoy the broccoli flavor. I personally don’t like broccoli very much, but in this dish it tastes rather good.
For 4 servings, you will need 4 medium size chicken breasts, 1 can of Campbell’s cream of chicken soup, 1 pack of shredded Cheddar …

I have always had a love for baking. I think it stemmed from my mother because any time some one in the family had a birthday, every one wanted mom to make one of her cakes. Her frosting always turned out and was to die for.
Well, I …

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 …

1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground pork
1 egg
1/4 cup of chopped onion
3/4 cup of cooked rice (or 1/2 cup of uncooked instant rice)
2/3 cup of milk
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon of salt
some pepper
6-7 large cabbage leaves
Sauce: 1 can of tomato soup, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, 1 teaspoon …

This is a very interesting recipe and something different and yet very nutritious recipe.
Ingredients:
One cup of raw rice, mix vegetable chopped according to your choice, chopped onion one, chopped tomato one, garam masala 1 tea spoon, salt to taste and some green chilly chopped to taste, and finally 4 …

Ingredient:
Brinjal 250 gm (fresh and big)
Salt 1 teaspoon
Garlic powder 2 teaspoon
Oil to fry
Method:
Clean the Brinjal well with normal clean water
Slice the cleaned Brinjal into medium square pieces
Take Garlic powder and Salt in a dish and mix it together
Spread the Garlic powder and Salt mixture all over the sliced Brinjal …

Having sweet potato casserole is a fantastic side dinner for your completed meal. It has the best ingredients and it is a perfect southern dish. You can also prepare this with yams instead but I like it better with the sweet potatoes. If yo do want to use yams …

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 …

Ingredients:
for stuffing:
potato-2
green peas- 1/2 cup
onion- 1
ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
garam masala powder - 1 tsp
salt as per taste
green chilly- 3
oil - 2 table spoon
coriander leaves- 1/2 cup
for dough:
plain flour - 1 cup
semolina - 2 spoons
salt - very little
soda - a pinch.
for deep fry:
1/2 litre oil.
preparation:
stuffing:
1. Boil potatos and mash …

Bittergourd 250g
Mustard powder 30g (2 teaspoon)
Turmeric powder 15g (1 teaspoon)
Onions 50g
Garlic paste 30g (2 teaspoon)
Vegetable oil (4 tablespoon)
Salt to taste (? teaspoon)
Small green chillies 4
Cut the end sides of the Bitter gourd and slice them into finger strips.
Cut the onions into half-circles and green chillies into halves.
Heat …

Ingredients:
6 big sized boiled potatoes, 2 big onions chopped, 3 big tomatoes chopped, salt to taste, red chilly powder to taste, garam masala 1 tea spoon, turmeric powder one pinch, sprouted moong dal 1 cup, sugar 1 tea spoon.
Method:
Now take a pan and put some oil for seasoning. Put …

The bread omlet is my favourite breakfast, which is good to eat, fast to prepare, and not only that it is also very nutritious, because it is made using the eggs.
Ingredients: bread pieces 3, chopped onion 3 teaspoons, finely chopped green chilly ½ tea spoon, salt to taste, …

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 …

Even my little sibling could make this. With the supervision of an adult, in the first place. This is easy for those of us wanting to watch a movie late at night, and after coming back home, feel like wanting to eat a particular snack. No need …

This is a tasty, well known recipe with a slightly new twist. A good friend brought it to work over the holidays and shared this delicious dip with us. I took her recipe and tweaked it for my own family. So if you love spinach dip, but are really …

Fry or grill pork chops the way you would normally do. In a separate pan roast some onion in vegetable oil, sliced into rings or half-rings. Add one or two cans of mushrooms (depending on how many pork chops you’ve got; I love mushrooms, so for me, 1 can …

I recently went in search of a recipe book that I had misplaced, and when I found it, called Hotter than Hell by Jane Butel, I immediately printed off some recipes to try. The book has recipes from all over the world, and the only criterion is that the …

The kids who do not like to eat the vegetable for them, the paratha roll with vegetable is the ideal food, which can be prepared for the breakfast. It is very tasty, easy to prepare and takes very less amount of time for preparation.
Ingredients: wheat flour …

2-3 boneless chicken breasts
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
½ or 2/3 cups of instant rice
1/3 cup of water
salt
Place chicken breasts on a greased frying pan (if they are frozen, that’s okay, do not thaw). Fry them on low heat for about 10 minutes, turning over occasionally. Sprinkle …

The onion roti is some thing very special and very different kind of recipe, which is prepared in south India. It is not only tasty to eat, at the same time it is also considered as a healthy food. In India we eat it for a breakfast.
Ingredients: …