This crouton recipe is a variation of the one that I got from Alton Brown (from the show Good Eats of the Food Network). I tweaked it a bit to suite my tastes, and so far it has been a HUGE hit with my salad-loving family!
What I also love …

With the holidays coming up friends and families usually gather around, waiting for the holiday meal to be served. What can you do to sate all those watering mouths that are anxiously awaiting your perfect dinner? Serve a very simple, and extremely tasty cheeseball.
To make the perfect cheeseball you …

Trying to lose a few pounds after Christmas meant that I began to search out diet-friendly, low-fat and low calorie recipes using foods I really liked. One of the chicken recipes I came across was this following one. You can either remove the skin, making it even more low-fat, …

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 …

1 can of mushrooms
1 carrot
1 small onion (or a half of a larger one)
ring noodles (or any other kind of small, fine noodles)
Start boiling the water and, while it is getting to the boiling point, prepare the vegetables and the mushrooms. Dice the onion, peel and grate the carrots. …

Mint chutney is a very healthy side dish for plain rice.Here is my recipe:
Mint leaves -1 cup
Lemon juice-11/2 tbsp
Garlic -2 pods
Ginger-1 tsp chopped
Coconut -1/2 cup
Green chilly-2
Salt-as per taste.
Now grind all these.This is a vey healthy and easy recipe to be done at home.You can also use this chutney …

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 …

This is like one of the dish that I find to have a special place in my heart. I have tried this recipe and would like to share with everyone out there. I choose to serve my Oaxaco Tacos with my favorite beans or salsas. I …

My wife makes Tutti Fruiti ice cream quite well. I also help her in kitchen so I know how to make it. The process is not so simple as such though. It does require lot of stuff, so better make a list of them.
First of all Tutti …

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 …

I collect many things and one of them is cook books. New cook books and historic one of a kind. Tons and tons of cook books. One of my favorites is The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, Revised Edition, publisher: Hearst Books. You not only get the recipes, but the …

If you don’t want to eat prepared spaghetti sauce, this is an easy recipe. It’s healthy, fresh and will make your home smell good. You can use fresh tomatoes if you want. I use canned simply because it is easier. Easy Spaghetti Sauce tastes very fresh and we think …

Mixed vegetable soup is very nutritious soup and it is a very essential and vital soup for the kids. It is very simple to prepare it.
Ingredients:
Mixed vegetable chopped according to your choice, corn flour 4 tea spoons, sugar 3 tea spoons, salt to taste, black pepper powder to …

One of my favorite foods to cook would have to be lasagna. I love it! There is nothing better than pasta, cheese, and meat. If you are looking for something fairly easy to cook for dinner one night,then you should try this recipe out. It doesn’t take long either. …

This recipe is for 12 servings and if you are not suitable in using pernod, you can use other forms of ingredients. First of all, cut the melon in half and remove the seeds. Cut round melon balls by pressing large end of a melon baller deep …

Pizza Dip
Ingredients:
1. 8 oz Ricotta
2. ¾ cup Mayonnaise
3. 1½ cup Mozzarella, divided
4. ¼ cup Parmesan
5. ¼ cup Chopped Pepperoni
6. 1 teaspoon Garlic powder
7. 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
Method:
1 Mix all ingredients well, holding back ½ cup Mozzarella.
2. Spoon into ovenproof dish,
3. Sprinkle with remaining Mozzarella.
4. Bake 30 minutes or until …

Here are the steps in order for you to make Prawn Balls Coated with Potato.
Get some olive oil, some egg whites; around 3 or 4 in all and cornflour as well. If you have other forms of options for the type of flour to use for the …

The jeera is nothing but the cumin seeds, which are very good for digestion purpose. For this recipe we are using little more cumin seeds and also little more garlic which is very beneficial for our health. This recipe takes very less time for preparation and all …

3 tablespoons of borwn sugar
1 teasponn od cinnamon
1 can of cresent rolls
8 marshmallows
2 tablespoons of margerine
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Cover 8 muffin cups with a nonstick cooking spray. Mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon. Dip each marshmallow into the cinnamon and sugar mixture …

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 first started drinking vanilla milk when I was in high school because my mom would buy it all the time. Publix used to sell it as one of their products, but they no longer sale the rich milk which is why I had to do my best to …

When I turned twenty-one years old, I was able to drink alcohol legally for the first time so I wanted to have a delicious mixed drink at my birthday. I was going to have around thirty guests and gin is really popular among my friends so I decided to …

The other day, my husband wanted to eat one of those instant beef noodles. I stopped him and instead I made him a healthier and more delicious version of it, without the MSG and all the preservatives that you get from those instant noodles. It is a good thing …

The tomato soup is the very popular soup and it is the soup, which is liked by most of the people. But we don’t need to spend our money to have the tasty soup and we don’t even need to visit the restaurants to have the tomato soup …

Mushroom Manchurian is similar to the gobhi Manchurian. Note down the ingredients:
200 grams cleaned mushrooms, 15 garlic cloves chopped, ginger finely chopped, onion chopped for seasoning, coriander leaves chopped, corn flour 1 cup, Maida flour 1 cup, tomato sauce one bottle, Soya sauce 3 table spoons, salt to taste, …

Bread omlet is a very interesting recipe and very nutritional one too. It is very ideal recipe to have it for the breakfast.
Ingredients:
2-3 pieces of bread, 2 eggs, green chilly chopped, salt to taste, onion 2 tea spoons chopped, oil to grease it on the pan.
Method:
Make the small …

I get tired of potatoes quickly, and am always looking for new recipes to make potato dishes a little less boring. Other than the boiled, mashed, scalloped or baked, there are not a lot of choices that I have managed to find. I recently happened across this recipe by …

Here is an interesting recipe made using brinjols please note it down
Ingredients:
Brinjol 4 big size, onion 2 big size finely chopped, 3 big sized tomatoes chopped, coriander leaves, salt to taste, red chilly powder to taste, - tea spoon turmeric powder, 1 spoon taste maker.
Method:
First of all deep fry …

My girls and I are in the process of makeing Christmas ornaments for our tree as well as gifts. As a child my sister and I had made these with our mother. Of course we no longer had the ornament dough recipe, so I went online. There were so …

Everyone likes a nice potato salad in the summertime, which is fast approaching. However, in my house we never do things the same way as everyone else and I picked up this cooking habit from my mother.
This is a great healthy recipe (for those watching their waistlines…) and …

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 …

Ingredients:
6 big sized boiled potatoes, 2 big onions chopped, 3 big tomatoes chopped, salt to taste, red chilly powder to taste, garam masala 1 tea spoon, turmeric powder one pinch, sprouted moong dal 1 cup, sugar 1 tea spoon.
Method:
Now take a pan and put some oil for seasoning. Put …

Ingredients :
Raw banana - 2big (plantain)
Onions - 4 or 5
Garlic - 5 flakes
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsps
salt
chilli powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
jeera powder - 1/2tsp
mustard powder -1/2 tsp
fenugreek powder - 1/2 tsp
tomatoes - 1/2 kg
oil - for deep frying
Method :
1. Slice onions into 1 …

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 …

Upma is a very good breakfast in India. It can be prepared very quickly as all the ingredients are simple.
Ingredients: a cup of sooji(rawa), 3 table spoon of oil , chopped mix vegetable of your choice, onion and tomato chopped one cup, green chilly 3 finely chopped, salt …

The capsicum masala is a side dish, which is prepared to eat with the butter non-and the tanduri roties. I have also tasted the capsicum masala with the bread as a topping of which the taste was just great.
Ingredients: 3 big sized capsicum chopped big size, big size …

The mixed vegetable paratha is another kind of recipe, which is good to eat, and it is also very nutritious for kids. Especially those kids who don’t like to eat the vegetable for such people the mix veg paratha is an ideal food.
Ingredients: maida flour half cup, wheat …

I’m from the South and cobblers are a big deal where I’m from. There are various types of cobblers to choose from, but my all time favorite is the peach cobbler. There is this debate over which cobblers are the best: the soft, cake like cobblers and the pie …

Brownies are a great treat to have for the entire family. I often make them for my kids as treats or for dessert on certain holidays. They really enjoy them and so do I and it is really easy to make. It is a great way to come up …

The thought of Apple Omelet already makes me melt just thinking about it. If you haven’t try it before, you might wonder what it’s like actually. But it is so nice and the taste is out of this world. I consider this to be one of my …

There are many different variations of this chicken recipe; spices added, the kind of beer used, and even the cooking process itself varies from cook to cook. I’ve heard of a more time-consuming version where you marinade your chicken in beer for 8 hours first. Well, I’m not such …

12 cups of sliced potatoes
1 cup of chopped onion
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of celery soup
2 cups of milk
1 teaspoon of salt
pepper
Peel and slice the potatoes. Take a greased baking dish and spread 6 cups of sliced potatoes in the bottom. In a separate …

While preparing for a pot luck dinner my classmates and I were having before class one night, I was wondering what it was I was going to bring. I had signed up to bring cookies, however I wanted to bring not just any old cookie. No way, I wanted …

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 …

Ingredients :
Bengal gram dhal -1 cup
Onions - 2
For the gravy :
Onions - 4 (cut into thin long pieces)
Garlic - 2
Tomatoes - 1/4 kg
(Blanch in hot water, remove the skin and make it into a paste)
Grind together :
Onion - 1
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Garlic - 4 flakes
Red chillies - …