A lot of the pizza places and the majority of sub shops I’ve been to serve their own versions of an Italian sub. I like ordering Italian subs, because even though I never know exactly what’s going to be in them, they’re usually filled with a lot of …

I never tasted hollandaise sauce until I ordered eggs benedict. It was my way of expanding my tastes in food.
When my plate arrived to my table the sauce looked good, but I wasn’t sure what to make of it since it was made from uncooked eggs yolks. However, when …

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 …

Tomato sauce is readily available in the market. But it is full of preservatives. So we can prepare the tomato sauce at home for less cost which is healthier and fresh one.
Note down the ingredients:
500 grams of tomatoes, cup of sugar, salt to taste, 3 table spoons …

The coconut masala is also called as the coconut chutney and it is used to eat with the bread, brown bread and even with the plane rice. This recipe is not only simple it is also a nutritious food as we are using the grated coconut to make this …

I was first introduced to coconut shrimp when I lived in the Caribbean. A lot of restaurants in the islands offer it on their menus. I can’t remember the specific restaurant I first tried it at, but I know I was hooked on the taste the first …

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 …

Ingredients:
Butter-flavored vegetable oil cooking spray
Granulated sugar
Stick margarine (softened)
Pureed drained apricots and canned in juice
Large egg whites
Low-fat buttermilk
Whole wheat pastry flour or whole wheat flour
Ground cinnamon
Baking powder
Ground cardamom
Sweetened dried cranberries
It is really up to the individual as to how much these ingredients you want to add on or …

1 medium size cabbage
2-3 carrots
1 large Polish sausage
1/3 cup of water
1/2 cup of ketchup
3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 teaspoon of salt
Chop up the cabbage into small pieces, just a bit larger than how you would make cole slaw. Peel the carrots and grate them. Put the cabbage and carrots …

This is one of the best cookies on earth!!! My mom used to make this on tea parties, yet she always believe coffee is bad for kids so she doesn’t bake this on weekends no matter if we beg her to. But I hang around the kitchen a lot …

As an alternative to chicken as the main spread for those who are diet conscious, there is one recipe I learned from Men’s Health Magazine. It uses Corned Beef but it has rich in tomato. Though sandwich is not always our first meal of choice, I wanted to develop …

It is a very rich and tasty recipe. Everyone would like this dish. This dish is normally prepared during festival time. It is not suitable for sugar patients as it is made only out of cashews and sugar.
Ingredients:
Cashewnuts : 200 g
Sugar : 200 g
Method :
1. Soak cashewnuts in water …

As a present from my mother, she got me a cookbook called Cooking for Kids. This cookbook is great for anyone who has children elementary age or younger. They have receipes for everything from snacks to meals. For every holiday they have different recipes for the …

Blueberry Dumplings
This is an American Indian treat. It is called ‘Blue Dumplings’.
1. 1 qt fresh or frozen blueberries
2. 1 qt apple juice
3. ½ teaspoon salt
4. Add sugar or sweetener to taste.
5. 2 cups biscuit mix
6. ½ to ¾ cup milk
Method:
Simmer blueberries in juice for 30-45 minutes.
While they simmer, …

Top Secret Recipes, the website that has the clone recipes of restaurant food, has always been a favorite of mine. I enjoy just reading the free recipes, and trying to make the recipes, just like the food I have been served in restaurants.
Top Secret Recipes has evolved, from …

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 …

If you love to picnic, you will love this recipe. It is perfect for taking to family gatherings and is so easy to make. Simply mix the following ingredients together.
2 15 ounce cans dark red kidney beans that have been drained (I also rinse my with cold …

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 …

One breakfast creation of mine that I like to enjoy in the morning is pretty simple to make. What I do is I crack one, sometimes two, eggs in a bowl. I then take a fork and break up the eggs. I then microwave the eggs for two minutes …

Ingredient:
Guava 10 to 12 (ripen)
Sugar 700 gm
Permitted Red colouring 1 teaspoon
Water
Method:
Clean the Guavas with plain normal clean water
Slice the Guava into small pieces
Take the seeds out of it
Add Water in a vessel and heat it up on medium to high flame
Add the cleaned and sliced Guava in it
Boil it …

1 medium size onion
1 medium size boiled potato
8 slices of bacon
8 fresh mushrooms (champignons)
4 large tomatoes (or 6-8 small ones)
4 eggs
3 tablespoons shredded cheddar cheese
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon real butter (do not substitute with margarine)
1 tablespoon snipped parsley
Salt, pepper
Pour olive oil on a large frying pan, add butter …

Won tons are actually Chinese food. It can be eaten fried or steamed. It’s also good when added to soup making it its main attraction. For me won tons are very fun to eat, they’re delicious and very flavorful. I tried making this won ton soup …

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, …

If you like cheese than here is a cheesy recipe which you simply would love to savor.
Ingredients required
A cup of melted cheese
Few large size potatoes
A big size Radish
Two big size onions
4 tomatoes
Green chilly
Salt as per taste
First of all cut the potatoes and the radish into thin slices and wash …

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 …

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 …

The mango pickle is a very well known item, which almost every one love in India. It is served with the curd rice or with the plane rice. It also best suits with the bread, or the paratha.
Ingredients: 2 raw mangoes, red chilly powder 3 tea spoons, …

Although I am trying to eat more vegetables, plain old boring green salads are not my favourite way to incorporate healthy food into my meals. I am therefore always on the lookout of new salad and cooked vegetable recipes. I also bought the chickpea salads at the deli counter …

I really like jams and I eat them every morning. There’s no better jam than the one made at home. I usually make fig and plums jam, chestnut jam, apricot jam and similar usual jams. About a year ago a friend gave me the recipe for a jam of …

Potato paratha is the very famous Indian break fast which not only very easy to make, it is also very tasty.
Ingredients:
Boiled potato 2, 2 cups of wheat flour, salt to taste, green chilly paste to taste, oil 2-3 spoons.
Method:
Pell off the potatoes and mash it, now add the salt …

I like pocket size viands which gives you controlled amount as to how much you will take. Just like this recipe that was released by Knorr, this is like Shanghai rolls which allows you to limit your bite by selecting a few sizes of rolls. This recipe gave me …

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 …

A lady that I used to work with would make a wonderful dessert called Dump Cake. I’d never heard of Dump Cake before and had no idea what it was. Dump Cake doesn’t look like much; it’s not a fancy dish at all. But this amazing dessert will surprise …

I love chocolate cakes, and this dark chocolate cake mix has proved to be very good. The mix comes in a 18.25 oz box, with a protective plastic bag inside. The cake is very easy to make; the clear directions are given on the back of the box. Basically, …

The jeera rice is nothing else but the rice with the cumin seeds. This rice is very interesting and it is also very good for digestion as we are using a lot of cumin seeds to prepare this recipe. This rice is liked by most of the …

Palak paneer is the side dish which can be served with the paratha (flat bread)
Ingredients:
Spinach 2 bunches, green chilly paste to taste, salt to taste, cottage cheese 200 grams chopped, butter 3 tea spoons, garam masala 1 tea spoon, the paste of boiled tomato and onion 1 cup.
Method:
Now take …

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 …

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 …

Ingredients:
Half liter milk and some fine quality rice of about 250 grams, and take some sugar(may be 250 grams), now finally take some ghee (4 table spoons of melted butter) and some finely chopped nuts according to your choice to garnish it with.
Method:
Now first of all wash the rice and …

Before we had our two children, my wife and I went to grease and had a great time with great food and great wine. one of our favourite starters was called Avgolemono which means egg and lemon. It is a soup and my wife tried it one night, …

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 …

I like meatloaf. However, my husband is not a fan of it. I was looking online for a new recipe for meatloaf. I was hoping to find something different enough that it might appeal to my husband. I found a recipe for a cheesy meatloaf. …

Mousaka, I dare to say is the most popular and well known dish of the Greek kitchen. It’s a combination of vegetables, meat and a thick white sauce and it’s really delicious. It’s a summer dish but you can make it any time of the year if you can …

Coconut and Bread combination, you will experience what taste and satisfaction really means.
I have been trying a combination of foods for a long time. In my combination reverie, I never came across the satisfactory taste I had in bread and coconut combination.
I was at friends place having fun, playing …

Macaroni salad has gone a lot of modifications and this recipe is one of those. I got this when this was published with the Lady’s Choice advertisement.I tested this last Christmas. Below is the recipe and my opinion about it.
Ingredients:
700 ml Lady’s Choice Mayonnaise
1 1/2 packs elbow macaroni 200 …