It is good to surprise your family, or if you are so fond of throwing out big dinners, your guests, with exciting, yet amazingly delicious recipes once in a while. Not only you stir up the excitement in everybody’s dining experience, yet also give room to try new foods …

I tried mix and match this recipe that my friend had given. The recipe that I have tried before makes up to 7 cups and I think the taste is quite awesome.
Ingredients:
1 cup dried black-eyed peas; soaked for 2 hours or up to 8 hours
1 …

I have another interesting vegetable salad recipe, but here we are only using the tomatoes. The tomatoes contain a lot of C vitamin and they are very good for our health too.
Ingredients: red tomatoes 3 big size sliced, salt to taste, chat masala to taste, white …

A delicious sweet that is must and should in one of the Indian festivals is before you.All you need to have to taste this sweet:
1.Rice - one cup
2.Green dal (split)- ½ cup
3.Coconut pieces- ½ cup
4.Green cardamom-4
5.Sugar-3/4 th cup
6.Ghee-4 table spoons
7.Cashews and kissemess
Preparation:
1)Wash the rice and drain all the …

This Rainbow Cake is very interesting indeed. The colors are indeed representing of that like a rainbow; with so many colors striking through and really awesome looking.
But you have to prepare quite a number of ingredients. This recipe uses much amount of flour, eggs, sugar, some …

Using carrots we can make a very interesting and nutritious subji (side dish). Which takes very less ingredients and is very tasty to eat. Try it.
Ingredients:
Carrots half kilo, onion 2 big size chopped, tomato 4 medium size chopped, 10-12 cloves of garlic, turmeric one pinch, salt to …

This recipe is best served with a rice pilaf or java rice. This will be sure loved by every family member. I always impress my friends with this dish! My friends thought at first that I ordered it from some professional chef. Little did they …

Perhaps the first that will come up when you put on the search keywords “free cooking recipes” will be this link: http://www.freecookingrecipes.net. That is on top of my list when I did search for a free recipe online. Believe it or not I had once searched a website instantly …

Crabs night has become a recent tradition as of late for my family because it’s one of few meals where you can really indulge with your hands without raised eyebrows.
Usually when I cook crabs I do so in a large pot with quite a number of seasonings and spices …

Last Friday I was at home and I realised there was nothing else to eat for dinner except some frozen fish fillet in the fridge. Since I usually hate fish with a passion, I decided it would be best to google a recipe I have not tried before to …

I’d like to share with you a really simple Steamed Fish fillet recipe that my husband and I experimented on and have been enjoying immensely for months now. I serve this dish weekly, with three or four night intervals.
We choose from the Pangasius, Cream Dory and Sole fish variations …

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 …

I think it’s really time for everyone to try something new. Why is it that when there are special occasions, we always find chocolate cake, or brownies, or fruit cup cakes, and the same desserts served from the last party you went to. People can almost predict what is …

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 …

Ingredients :
Gram dhal - 1 cup
Finely cut mint leaves - 1 cup
Finely cut coriander leaves - 1cup
salt
Oil to deep fry
To grind
Ginger - 1 small piece
Green chillies - 10
Method :
1. Wash gramdhal well and soak in water for 2 hrs
2. Grind the soaked dhal coarsely
3. Add salt, coriander leaves, mint …

I planned on cooking pork chops for dinner the other week, and couldn’t decide what to marinate it with. So I looked online for some marinades and instead found a recipe for a cream cheese sauce. I experimented with it a bit, and ended up with this:
Ingredients:
- cup butter
- …

Growing up, whenever we had meatloaf, I frowned. I really could care less for it. But now that I am grown up, I long for my mothers meatloaf. I have never found her recipe, but came up with this one after countless tries at trying to …

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 …

I am so bored of the usual appetizers that everyone serves at parties or dinners, so this year I looked for recipes that are unique and something different from the usual vegetables and dip, spinach dip, salsas, wings and sausage rolls. I found a great collection of dip recipes …

Ingredients :
Green gram - 1 cup
Onions - 5
Green chillies - 3
Tamarind - small lemon sized (soak in little water)
Oil - 1tbsp
Dhania powder - 2tsps
jeera powder - 1/2 tsp
red chilli powder - 1/2tsp
salt
sugar - 1tsp
Method :
1. Soak green gram for 10 hrs in enough water.
2. Strain and tie it in …

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 …

The pies have always been existed the leading moment of the Greek traditional kitchen. The times that, our grand mothers with the poor cooking ingredients were making masterpieces of flavor and taste, have changed.
Nowadays, to many of us time does not allow anymore the pleasure of making homemade pastry …

Chicken & Vegetable Bread Roll is a light snack lunch that is kind of easy to make. The taste is around 7 or 8 depending on the ingredients that you can modify to suit your taste buds.
I use white bread for this recipe; and white bread has …

Almost every family in the country knows that grits are almost always apart of the breakfast meal. My family enjoys grits almost every morning. There are a new type grits I just tried and they are called parmesan cheddar cheese grits. You need four cups of water, 1/2 teaspoon …

Now the boiled vegetable masala with cottage cheese is another interesting and a very very nutritious recipe as it includes all kinds of vegetables, which are half, cooked and it also contains the cottage cheese, which is again rice in proteins and calcium. This is also very delicious …

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 …

I had baked a Cocoa Fudge Cake for my ex boyfriend before and he loved it very much. And I must say I made a good job at it, though that was around my first time trying out a Cocoa Fudge. If you dislike cocoa, you can also …

The payasam is a sweet dish, which is an Indian traditional sweet dish. It is prepared using the sweet potatoes. This recipe is very tasty. I do prepare it normally during the festivals as it takes less time for preparation.
Ingredients: sweet potato ½ kg which is scraped …

Hey there good people and fellow food enthusiats, I have a splendid little meal here to share with you, hope you find it as interesting as I do and hope you will share this with any and everyone just like I did.
For this recipe, you are going to need …

Ingredients:
1. rice 1 cup
2. mint leaves 1/2cup
3. onion 2
4. green chilli7
5. grated coconut 2tsp
6. oil 3tsp
7. salt to taste
method:
1.cook rice and keep it a side
2.take a pan and put 1tsp oil and fry green chilli and mint leaves
3. the grind mint leaves,green chillis ,coconut and salt
4. now pour the remaining …

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 a huge mushroom fan-I put them in every dish I possibly can, and I write down or print off every recipe with mushrooms in it that I can find. I was at a friend’s house last weekend and was helping her set up for a party. She …

1 lb of hamburger meat (or mix half hamburger and half pork, grinded)
1 medium to large potato
1 egg
1/3 cup of cold water
Onion powder
Salt
Vegetable oil
Peel the potato, grate it, and add to the meat. Add the egg, water, some onion powder and salt (I like these patties salty, so I …

Dutch Oven Snipe Apple Pie, so you�ve never heard of such a thing? Your probably not alone. Dutch Oven Snipe Apple Pie is something my son’s boy scout troop invented as part of an initiation ritual for new boys into the troop in the fall. What we typically would …

Dry fruit salad, this recipe is very rich in calories. But it is very tasty that it can�t be missed. It is very good for growing children. And for once in a while it can be prepared.
Ingredients:
Mixture of dry fruits according to your choice 1 cup, …

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 love salads so much. To create this salad, I try out this particular recipe and mix and match. I make this salad about an hour or so before intending to serve it. This is so that the flavors will intensify. I also used garlic …

I have never been a big dessert fan, but when entertaining, I find that most people like dessert. I decided to try to find some light dessert recipes, ones that won’t add to the over-eating and extra calories of the holiday season. I mainly looked up dessert recipes that …

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. …

I love the normal light coffee mixture for this Coffee Cake Recipe. I learned to make this from my late grandma and she was an expert making this. Really missed her so much. She told me that elements of butter or margarine is very important and I …

I always claimed that I wouldn’t go for as many pub lunches as I do if I could find decent recipes for such traditional pub fare as shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash, and steak and kidney pie. I guess my husband believed me because one day recently he presented …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …