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 :
Potatoes - 1/4 kg
Bread - 7 slices
Green chillies - 4 nos.
Mint leaves
Coriander leaves
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Amchur (mango) powder - 1/2 tsp
salt
Oil
Method :
1. Boil potatoes, peel off the skin and mash nicely
2. Put bread slices …

I love a good dip, and this easy to make, serve and eat Black Bean Dip is a must have in every cook’s kitchen! I serve this dip all year round to family and friends everyone adores the flavors and is amazed when I explain how simple …

Over the holidays, I spent a great deal of time searching out unique appetizers that I could serve for company during the seasonal dinners and parties. Loving seafood like I do, I especially looked for appetizers that used seafood or shellfish, and I managed to come up with several …

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 …

As the name indicates this fruit punch is mostly made of grapes. This easy to prepare mock tail is very nutritious and delicious and doesn’t take much time to prepare. Moreover it is a favorite among children.
To make it take 1 cup of orange juice, 1 cup of pomegranate …

Glazed Apple Cream Pie is a treat that I love to eat for dessert. It has its own unique taste and very soft to eat. It is magnificent and easy to cook. I like to make it during the holidays with family and friends and everybody can’t believe how …

Ingredient:
Rasgolla 20 pieces (It can be bought from any sweet selling shop)
Milk 1 liter
Sugar 100 gm
Method:
Freeze Rasgolla in freezer and cut it from middle into two pieces and keep it
Add Milk in a vessel and heat it up on low flame till it becomes half of original quantity hence …

In the Greek kitchen most of the times when cooking for our family and friends,we use our experience in making a dish which means that if something goes wrong the first time, the second time will be perfect. So, do not get dissapointed if you don’t succeed the first …

This recipe for Chocolate Velvet Pie came from the Favorite Brand Name Bake Sale Cookbook. I passed over this recipe many times before making it, because nothing about it really stood out. The cookbook didn’t have a picture of it, and it just seemed like a really …

Starting with 1995 I have gathered several dish recipes thinking to publish an origibal book of receipes.
This is part of this receipe collection.
I will present here some original recipes of Romanian dishes. I took this decision because in one of my visits in the U.S.
I was offered several …

When I was married 5 years back, I got many gifts by my friends relative and my colleagues. I like most of the gifts and I am also using those gifts even now. One of such a good gift is the pressure cooker. My aunty presented …

This is an easy recipe for a beet lover. Peel fresh beets and grate them. Dice some onion and fry it in vegetable oil until yellow. Add the beets, add more vegetable oil, sprinkle some salt and stir well. Fry on low heat for 10-13 minutes. Serve hot. Beety …

Beef Pares, which is beef cooked in broth served with stir fried rice and scrambled edd, has always been a comfort food for ordinary folks here in the Philippines and is mostly served in roadside carinderias (small restaurants). It is usually eaten at the start of the day to …

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 …

I am of the opinion that a meal that contains eggs can be eaten at any meal, at any time of the day. Eggs used to have a bad rap because of the cholesterol it supposedly contains; in reality, eggs are high in protein and low in fat and …

The masala dosa is prepared for the breakfast in south India. The dosa is very crisp and it delicious food which is eaten with the potato subjee (for which I have given the recipe in my earlier recipes) or else it is also eaten with any kind of …

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 …

My mom taught me the recipe for Deep Fried Omelette Bread. It is very easy to make this actually. I cook up this whenever I feel a bit hungry and needing something of a light snack. First of all, take at least 1-2 pieces of bread …

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 …

One of my favorite appitizers is the jalepeno popper. But they are so costly to order at a restaurant and even to buy them at the store. So I came up with a really great recipe that is so easy to make.
All you need is a …

I’m a salsa and chips lover. Nothing beats making a batch of fresh salsa to share with family and friends. Below is my recipe. Enjoy this any time of the year! You can double the recipe or cut back in order to suit how much you need at a …

If you are a fan of peanut butter or chocolate silk pies, and want to try something different for the holidays - this pie is an excellent choice. An extra bonus is that it is a no bake pie, so you don’t have to worry about doing your pie …

I love spinach. It isn’t always a favorite of my daughter. However, she has been liking spinach dip lately. I found a recipe for cheesy creamed spinach casserole. I thought I would give it a try since it sounded like something similar to a dip.
The …

Pumpkin 500 gm (fresh)
Besan 100 gm
Salt 1 teaspoon
Oil to fry
Water
Method:
Take Besan in a vessel
Add one cup of water in it and mix it well
Add Salt and stir well and keep it
Clean Pumpkin in normal clean water and peel it
Slice the cleaned pumpkin in to small pieces
Dip the sliced pumpkin into …

Ingredients :
Pineapple - 1 (raw)
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Oil - 3 tbsps
Salt
Grind together :
Coriander seeds - 1tbsp
pepper - 6
cumin seeds - 1tsp
red chillies - 5
mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
fenugreek seeds - 1/4tsp
Fry all these spicees in a tsp of oil till golden brown in colour. Add 1/2 cup grated …

Idly is the famous breakfast in south India and it is served with the chutney made of grated coconut.
Ingredients:
Take 3 cups of idly rawa, one cup of urad dal (white gram) and one cup of rice flakes and soak all of them separately. After 3-4 hours now grind …

Here is a rich, filling dish for a cold winter night. You will need:
1 pack of egg noodles
1 lb hamburger meat
½ pack of sour cream
2 cans of cream & mushroom soup
1-2 small cans of mushrooms
½ stick of butter or margarine
1/3 cup of chopped onion
some garlic powder and salt
Start boiling …

Sweet potato pie is a must serve dish at all holiday functions in my family. I love it and always look forward to eating it on each occasion. There is just something about the taste that just keep me addicted to it and wanting more. I love it especially …

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 …

This is a very nice recipe for anyone out there even if you do not know how to cook at all. Chicken Breast Peppered is very easy to make and very good for days that you are having pangs of hunger especially.
Get ready these ingredients, which would be 3 …

I made this a couple of days ago for an informal family celebration.
I served it with minted new potatoes and green beans but it would work equally well with a salad.
I felt it needed a sauce since the chicken was a little dry so I made a quick …

Tomatoes are powerful antioxidants that help protect our body against free radicals. It is a vegetable that is anti-cancer so I always make it a point to include tomatoes in my diet. I get my daily dose of lycopene by eating ripe red tomatoes. If you are one of …

I love the traditional (and somewhat unimaginative) apple crisp for dessert, because it is relatively nutritious compared to many other sweet dishes, plus it is simple to bake. I went looking for low-fat and low-sugar dessert recipes after the usual five-pound holiday weight gain this year, and I came …

Ingredients :
Jeera - 1 tbsp
Lemon - 1
green chillies - 10 g
bengal gram dhal - 20 g
Rice - 400 g
turmeric powder
salt
mustard seeds - 5 g
curry leaves
gingely oil - 3 tbsp
urad dhal - 10 g
Method :
1. Wash rice and cook. Spread it in a vessel and allow to cool.
2. Squeeze juice …

I always end up with left over bananas. And since I don’t want to waste food, I always turn them into something else like banana milk shake, banana pancakes and banana bread. Among these, Banana Bread is my favorite. Aside from the fact that it saves my bananas, other …

This is a great recipe for your very own chocolate cream pie. The best part is the Oreo cookie crust! I have made this for several different occasions, and everyone has loved it! You will need the following;
1 1/4 cups of white sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons …

My husband Steve loves Chicken Kiev as does our eldest Kurt here is my recipe for homemade Chicken Kiev. Here is what I use to make chicken Kiev for two people.
2 x 75g boneless and skinless chicken breasts, 40g unsalted butter, at room temperature, 4 tbsp chopped Parsley, …

The Carrot masala is another easy and interesting recipe, which is not only healthy, it is also very tasty. It is a side dish and it can be used with bread or roti or even with the plane rice.
Ingredients: Carrot 4-5 grated, garlic cloves 9-10, salt to taste, …

Ingredient:
Gourd 2 (fresh)
Moong Pulse 250 gm
Ginger paste 1 teaspoon
Mustard 1 teaspoon
Sugar 1teaspoon
Salt 1 teaspoon
Ghee
Water
Method:
Clean and slice fresh gourd into small pieces and keep it in a dish
Clean Moong pulse and fry it on medium flame for 2 minutes without oil and keep it in a dish
Add 3 cups of …

When I was a kid my grandmother made this recipe ALL of the time and I just loved it so much. I would literally beg her everytime I visited. “Chili dog Pie” has also been a big hit with my children and they literally beg me to make it …

Vanilla cupcakes are my absolute favorite and they are just so addicting to me. I love to make them with my kids as our family time or when we are going to an event. I even made them for my son’s class one time and they absolutely loved it. …

For those who enjoy making 30-minute recipes and who are on the look-out for versatile dishes to experiment, you may like to try Del Monte’s Pineapple Fried Rice recipe. It is a complete meal in itself.
Ingredients:
1/3 pc Chinese Chorizo diced (2 ½ tbsp)
3 Cloves garlic, finely crushed
1 …

Surprise your guests with this unusual appetizer. Prepare medium-sized tomatoes by cutting off the tops and removing the insides - seeds, etc. Turn the tomatoes upside down and let them sit like that while you are working on the stuffing, so that the extra juice comes out.
For the stuffing …

My kids love Kentucky fried chicken, but the fact is that KFC is getting way too expensive for a family to eat. However, its one of my kids’ favorite meals and I want to give them things they like within reason. So in order to do that I made my …