When I moved recently, I temporarily stayed in a studio at a hotel. I had a stove top and a microwave, but I didn’t have an oven. I really started to miss baking cookies in the oven, so I had to get creative in my new little …

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 …

Mashed Potato Homemade Style is very fun to make. Amateurs and pros can do this recipe and make it one of the fun ways to serve your family and love ones.
First of all, get around 6-8 potatoes in handy. And get your electric mixer appliance ready as well. …

The Favorite Brand Name Simple 1-2-3 One Dish cookbook is one of my favorite cookbooks because the majority of the recipes really are simple, and one dish recipes make convenient meals. I also really like this cookbook because there are photographs of all the recipes. I often …

The following is another great recipe from the Hotter than Hell recipe book by Jane Butel. This one takes a bit of time to cut up all of the vegetables, but the cooking time is very fast. One tip that I have discovered from cooking this is not to …

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 …

I enjoy Christmas aside from having a bonding of our whole family. I have the chance to eat my Auntie’s Specialty. It’s a Philippine Version of Spaghetti with the name of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce White Fish and Dried Fish.It is very unique because the Ingredients are truly made …

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 …

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 …

Ingredients :
Sugar : 250 g
Maida : 200 g
Eggs - 7
Venilla essence - 1tbsp
butter - 250 g
coco powder - 50 g
Baking powder - 2 tbsp
To prepare icing
Butter - 100 g
Icing sugar - 200 g
Method :
1. Mix baking powder and half of coco powder
2. Mix sugar and butter and beat it …

I discovered artichokes while travelling in Spain a few years ago, and while there are not many recipes out there for dishes containing artichokes, and sometimes you have to look a lot before finding fresh artichokes to buy, they are well worth the effort. The following is a great, …

This is by far the best bread I have ever tasted. It is slightly sweet and is best eaten warm with lots of butter or margarine if you are vegan. I usually serve it with preserves and jams. Compliments just run in when I give a loaf as a …

I remember when I used to work for a breakfast/dining restaurant where I worked on the morning shift, and nothing but breakfast items were ordered. My boss told all the servers that we should eat everything on the menu to get a glimpse of how each item tastes. The …

Just about anyone can make this recipe, Vanilla Ice Cream. You will need lots of egg yolks because in order to get that flurry vanilla flavor come out, you would definitely need it. Get around 8 to 10 egg yolks.
Prepare some vanilla essence in handy beside and also …

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 …

Ingredients:
Black gram dal - 1 cup
Rice - 2 cups
Fenugreek seeds - 1 …

When I first started learning how to cook from scratch, one of the first things I wanted to make was homemade pasta. My family loves to eat pasta for dinner—”which seems like we eat a variety of pasta for dinner every night—”and I find myself spending probably half of …

Kalakand is a very famous and tasty dessert in India. It is very rich in calories but very very tasty dessert. It is also very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
Cottage cheese 1 cup, sugar 3/4th cup and, condensed milk 1cup and some ghee (3-4 tea spoons of melted butter)
Method:
First …

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 …

Pecan Pie is a fun and rewarding tasty treat that I love making no only for special occasions bu as well as when ever I have the cravings for it. It is really good and quite different from other pies but in a good way. The pecans make it …

I admit to not really liking duck as far as food goes. I am unsure whether I have just had it so rarely that I haven’t found a dish that I like, or whether the thought of eating an animal that I think is cute is somehow not my …

Today I want to share a recipe with you, which I just love to eat, and this dish is very famous in Bengal. It is called “Aloo Posto”.”Aloo” means potato, and “Posto” means poppy seeds. And this dish is a fine combination of both potato and poppy seeds. And …

I love pancakes and that is why I want to try each and every pancake recipee that I find or hear about. One of these recipees that I recently stumbled upon is a North African pancake recipee. It is specifically from Algeria, where you can find many great and …

Pudina is the bunch of mint leaves. Mint leaves are very good for our body and we can make an interesting juice using the mint leaves. Try it. It is very good for hot sunny days.
Ingredients:
Mint leaves one bunch, tamarind pulp 1 cup and salt 1 …

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’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 …

Ingredients :
Basmati rice : 1 cup
Green peas (peeled) - 1 cup
small onions (peeled) - 1/2 cup
water - 1cup
coconut extract - 1 cup
oil - 2tbsp
ghee - 2 tbsp
cardamom, cinnamon and bayleaf
salt
To grind :
Peeled small onion - 10
Garlic - 6 flakes
Green chillies - 6 nos
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
shredded coconut- 2 …

I created my own recipe for chicken pot pie one night when I was trying to make a meal out of leftovers. I had two large cooked chicken breasts from the previous night, and I was trying to figure out how to make them stretch so I could …

Sweet Cornbread is very good and the sweet part is just simply meaning with sugar added to it. Some people just make it without the sugar but I love the taste of it when it has lots of sugar added to it. This is a quick recipe to make …

I am a fan of Chowking Spicy Chao Fan, but because I live far from Butuan city where the only Chowking fast food chain is located in our province, I decided to create my own version of Spicy Chao Fan so to satisfy my occasional craving.
Chinese Chao …

Mutter paneer is another kind of interesting side dish, which is very famous and is prepared mostly in the Punjab state in India. This is the favourite dish of my kids and even my husband. The main ingredients are the green pees, which is called as mutter …

I don’t tend to want to hate my food, but I really find this recipe, Red Beans and Rice not to my liking.
However, my family whole family love to eat this; I don’t know why. Minus me, of course. But my late grandmother (from one side …

Here comes a very simple, and easy to cook, recipe for goulash. The taste is spicy and the meat of an overwhelming delicacy.
For four people you take:
1 kg. mixed meat (pork and beef) cut the meat into 1 inch squares.
1 kg. onions small cut
a bit of olive oil
1 cup …

The tomato chutney is little salty, little tangy and a little spicy, but it is very tasty and gives a great taste when eaten with the bread or sandwich or even with the buns. it is the recipe which my mother has thought me and I prepare it …

Ingredients:
4 Lbs Beef Short Ribs
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup peeled chopped carrots
1 chopped yellow onion
4 cloves minced garlic
3 tablespoons tomato paste
14 1/2 ounces of diced tomatoes in juice
1/4 cup cider vinegar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tsp dried mustard
1/4 tsp allspice
1 to 2 cans beef broth
Heat oil in pan and brown …

Potato Salad is my absolute favorite dish and look forward to eating it at family barbecues and functions. A lot of people take turns making the potato salad each year and I wanted to finally learn how to make it myself. Every bodies potato salad is different and has …

This recipe, Cocoa Milk Cake is very yummy and cocoa taste-like that I am already salivating just thinking about it. I think young teenagers would even find making this easy and interesting. Here are the basic rules.
You need flour, of course and depends how much that you want …

This is a delicious combination of chocolate and cheesecake together. It is very easy to make and will tastes great. This quickly became a family favorite with my family.
For the filling you will need two eight ounce packages of cream cheese, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoon …

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 …

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 …

Smores have always been a favorite of mine since I was a child. In the past years, I have discovered several ways to make a varitey of smores.
First of all, there is the traditional smore. Toast the marshmellow, then stick it between two graham crackers that have …

I’m giving you the recipe for the chocolate cake shot, because it was an overall favorite for my customers when I was bartending in St. Thomas, USVI. I sometimes offered it as a means of suggestive selling, but more likely than not, people liked it so much they …

I just invented this new wrap sandwich to help my energy levels out. And I am so happy with the even energy this wrap gives me, I had to share it!
Ingredients:
1 can of Pink Salmon, drained
A good handful of fresh spinach leaves, chopped
2 to 3 TBS of your favorite …

I like simplicity when I’m in the kitchen, but I’m always looking for new recipes to try. I’m often short on time, but I still like to use a little creativity rather than resort to making meals that come out of a box or a can. Macaroni …

2 lbs of lamb meat
1 large onion (or 2 small ones)
10 slices of wheat bread
Vegetable oil
Salt, pepper
Cut the meat into small pieces, add chopped onion, some salt and pepper, stir and let it sit for 2-3 hours. Place the bread in water, take it out and press it hard …

Tomato salad is very easy and it is also very tasty. This salad is healthy and can be a good combination to the plane rice. This is the recipe which needs very less amount of ingredients and very easy make at any time because the ingredients used …

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 …