I always wanted to prepare vegetable salad plus some kind of meat for our meals. I just got tired of putting chicken or salmon on it. This time I tried putting breaded shrimp and I must say that it turned out pretty good. This is indeed one of the …

Phad Thai is a very popular Thai dish, and easy to make. I learned to make it at the Koh Chang Thai Cooking School on Koh Chang, Thailand.
Phad Thai Sauce:
1/3 cup coconut sugar(or palm sugar) (If you cannot find either, try brown sugar)
3 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp tamarind juice
2 …

The Painkiller is an aptly named drink, because you won’t feel any pain after you drink one, or much of anything else for that matter. It’s especially popular in the British Virgin Islands, but I had several requests to make one when I was bartending in St. Thomas. …

Recently I learnt a very good snack by watching the cookery show in the television. That is stuffed potato. This is easy, simple to prepare and also look very attractive and delicious. When I prepared it most of my friends loved it and they have tried it …

This cake is really good and it turns out great. This cake doesn’t take long at all to make and is a great dessert to have around the house. I had learned how to make this recipe a few years back and I now make on occasions when ever …

I think one of my biggest challenges in the kitchen is finding recipes for appetizers and snacks that are filling and generally pleasing to a wide range of tastes. Most of my family and the majority of my friends enjoy Mexican food, so I often resort to making …

I love the Weight Watchers Tomato and Basil Chicken and for a while they were on special offer in my local supermarket so I bought quite a few. However, they are back at full price now and I have had to devise a cheap and similarly low fat …

Ingredients:
1. Moong Pulse – 250 gm
2. Sugar – 1 teaspoon
3. Red chilli – 1 to 2
4. Green chilli – 2 to 3
5. Garam Masala powder – 1 teaspoon
6. Salt – ? teaspoon
7. Jeera powder – 1 teaspoon
8. Ghee
9. Water
Method:
1. Fry Moong pulse plain without oil or ghee in a vessel on medium flame for 2 minutes and keep it …

1 teaspoon olive oil
2 tablespoons chopped shallots
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon grated, peeled, fresh ginger
1 cup dried apricots, chopped
1/2 jalapeno chile, seeded and minced
3 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
1 teaspoon grated lime zest
2 tablespoons raisins or dried cranberries
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds, toasted and ground
1/4 …

I am easily bored with vegetables and salads, but am always trying to get more servings of vegetables and fruits into my diet. I found this recipe in a cook book my mom had in her house, called Inspired by Ingredients, when I asked her if she had any …

Ingredients:
1 box of elbow macaroni noodles (Mueller’s is the best brand)
1 can of evaporated milk
1 egg
3 9.6 oz blocks of Kraft cheese (mild are sharp)
4 tbs of butter
Directions:
-Preheat the oven to 375.
-Open the can of evaporated milk and pour into a mixing bowl. Break the single egg and add …

If you can secure a fresh piece of tuna from your local market, then you really need to cook up this recipe. It is fairly easy, and very delicious. My family loves tuna, and I buy it fresh from my grocer whenever it is available, simple to make this …

Jambalaya is a great dish to have at family functions and has been one of the must have meals. I always had wondered what was in s Jambalaya and now that I make it myself, it makes really proud to make something so good. It takes about an hour …

My wife and myself always make our own preserve and our eldest sons favourite is grape preserve, he loves it and very often has it on toast for his breakfast and sometimes has it on sandwiches to take to nursery.
All you need for this lovely preserve is:-
1 kg of …

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 …

Pan Fried Chicken and Pear Salad
This is an extremely simplistic recipe with an amazing combination of flavours to tantalize your taste buds but also substantial enough to leave you feeling like you’ve eaten a good sized main course. Lets start off with a list of ingredients.
You will need ( …

It is very difficult to have consistently interesting dishes when you are attempting vegetarianism for the first time. Being somewhat of a picky eater as well as holding down a full time job makes for a complicated dinnertime. What I am usually in search of is a recipe that …

This dish requires several small, oven-safe ceramic pots with a lid. Each pot is a separate serving, so if you’re expecting a company of 6, you will need 6 pots.
First, you dice mushrooms, if you are using fresh ones, and slightly roast them in butter. If you are using …

Chocolate ice cream is every ones favorite ice cream. And it is very simple and easy recipe to prepare at home.
Ingredients:
1 liter milk, sugar 1 cup, chocolate bars 3,
Method:
First of all boil the milk and reduce it to half and now add the sugar and wait till it …

Are you tired of the usual spaghetti dinner? Do you want another way to feed your family pasta? I do. So I made this Penne and Meatball recipe to make a little twist on my family’s favorite dish. It is easy and very simple. All the ingredients are easy …

One of the first few dishes I have learned to cook when I got married was Chicken Curry, which also now happens to be my husband’s favorite dish at home.
The first time I cooked this dish for dinner I religiously followed the recipe I saw on the Internet. Eventually, …

After visiting Italy and Croatia last year, I developed a taste for antipasto. I found that the small servings of antipasto before a meal were perfect appetizers, and so out of the ordinary. I tried to find various recipes of dishes I had sampled in Europe, but this recipe …

You will need:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 1/4 cup oatmeal
Zest of 2 lemons 1 orange chopped(or grated) fine
Juice of 2 lemons
1 can(14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
Cream butter and sugar, add the flour and oatmeal to make a bit crumbly dough. Set aside. Stir juice and zest into …

A very famous Filipino recipe, this is one of the best main dish for me because it saves a lot of money and its very healthy, a dish full of vegetables you can add pork if you want make the taste more palatable. It is very simple to cook …

My wife has a great simple recipe for making the perfect roast potatoes. She normally makes these when we have a roast dinner on a weekend. The roast potatoes she makes are crispy and have a great flavour as they are mixed with herbs.
All you need to …

I do not know why, but lemonade at the fair always tastes so much better than lemonade that you get at a restaurant or from a canister. My sister gave me the following recipe and it taste just like the fair lemonade that you buy for several dollars …

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 …

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 …

This medium spicy kidney bean curry is easy to make, tasty to eat.This is like a good medicine for the women especially for those who are about to reach their menopause state.
The main ingredients you require:
Kidney beans - one cup
Tomatoes - …

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. …

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 …

I have tried looking for recipes of finger foods. I have this quest to be well-rounded in terms of my cooking skills. I patterned this recipe from Cosmopolitan magazine.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup olive oil
6 large garlic heads, peeled
24 1/2 inch thick slices baguette, cut at a 45-degree angle
1 …

I constantly try to find healthy but delicious recipes for salads in my ever-increasing effort to eat more vegetables and fruit. Lately, I have been trying some interesting salads, and this following recipe is definitely interesting. This has both fruits and vegetables as ingredients, and it is tasty. I …

Peel the egg plants and slice them into circles. Put some salt on each one and wait for 30 minutes - this will make the juice come out and help to get rid of the bitterness. Drain the circles, roll them in flour and fry in vegetable oil. In …

Kunda is a very popular sweet dish in south India. It is very popular because of its milky and yummy taste. It is available in all the sweet stalls. But guys it is also very simple and easy recipe to prepare it at home. I …

Ingredients :
Bread : 6 slices
Potatoes : 4
Red Chillipowder :1tsp
Salt - 2 tsps
Water - to soak bread
For curry :
Oil : 6 tbsp
Onions : 2
Red chilli powder - 1tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
salt
curd - 2 tbsp
Tomatoes - 8
Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
For filling :
Oil - 2 tbsp
Onions-2 big
Panneer - 25 g
Green …

I wasn’t going to post this recipe on the site. It was too easy. But when guests once again asked, “How do you fry such delicious potatoes?”, I made up my mind. That’s the thing: I don’t fry anything. I just rest for an hour and a half. It fries …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ingredients :
Palak (spinach) - 2 bunches
Masoor dhal - 1/2 cup
Onions - 2
Tomatoes - 2
Ginger, chilli paste - 2 tsp
salt and sugar to taste
Oil - 1tbsp
Method :
1. Cut palak finely and cook with enough water.
2. Cook dhal with little turmeric powder in pressure cooker.
3. Cut onions and tomatoes finely.
4. Heat …

I lived in The Netherlands for more than 2 years (studies and work), thus, I have a good personal experience of the Dutch cuisine. Coming from a country with a world wide famous cuisine, and after assuring you that I am the kind of the open minded person that …

I love to cook. I really enjoy cooking sauces, since I’m the sneaky cook who manages to grate up all those veggies some of the guys think they don’t like into my secret sauces! We like speghetti really well, and I try to keep it ever changing……as for the …

My cousin cooked this one time and I enjoyed it. My cousin gave me her recipe but it was too localized. I searched this online and found it at allrecipes.com. I studied the recipe and tried this and eventually I’ve developed my own. I incorporated some hints albeit the …

I am very happy to know that one of my French colleague at work knows how to eat Sago Pudding, an Asian type of side-dish or used for dessert mainly.
The key word recipe to this would be to make sure you boil water first. Ingredients like brown …