I have done many variations of grilled prawns over the year, with varying ingredients. I have served prawn skewers as appetizers or even as the main meat course for dinner. This recipe adds the taste of lime, and is delicious, as well as simple to make.
Ingredients:
12 bamboo skewers
24 large …

I had never heard of Chicken Continental until I heard Naomi Judd mention it on the television show The Talk recently. I love finding new recipes for everyday foods like chicken, so I looked up the recipe on the Internet. I was surprised to find the recipe …

This is one of the ‘mezes’ dish in Greece. They serve it in any restaurant or traditional Greek taverna or in any of the small places they call “ouzeri” and you can find hundreds of small dishes like this. This one is sort of a dip, although the translation …

If you have ever visited a Roly Poly restaurant, you will know that this place serves all sorts of rolled tortilla sandwiches. I fell in love with the Santa Fe chicken sandwich which has melted jalapeno cheeses, chicken, and tomatoes. This version is very similar, but has …

This polenta torte comes from The Accidental Vegan by Devra Gartenstein. It is a luscious, unusual dish that is perfect for anyone who loves mushrooms! I am a mushroom fan, so I happen to think this is one of the best dishes out there. It is best if you …

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 …

Stuffed Fish Potato is another amazing recipe that I love during my ‘fishy’ days. Get some bread crumbs, eggs, flour and some potatoes.
First of all, boil your potatoes and then to get that ‘mixed’ effect, ground and mash them nicely and gently. You will see a nice texture. …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

A friend of mine who completed Culinary School several years ago recently gave me her copy of On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals, second edition, as she had purchased the fourth edition of this book. All of the information in the second edition is still relevant today, …

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 …

Last night for the first time, I cooked Salmon Stirfry. I’m sure there are many ways to fix it but I think that this recipe was really easy and somewhat fast. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who is just learning to …

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 …

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 …

Smorrebrod, I recently discovered in a magazine, is a Danish open-faced sandwich with literally means —˜buttered bread.’ Basically, smorrebrod is slices of bread, usually rye or grain, with is buttered and heaped with different toppings. This meal is eaten as dinner, and is eaten with a knife and fork. …

Do you like chocolate pancakes? What about strawberry? Or perhaps cinnamon? Whether you answered “yes” to any of those or none, it is easy to create a batch of flavored pancakes just for you. What I do is I use my favorite pancake batter, put all the ingredients in …

My daughter had a little girlfriend stay over last weekend. We thought it would be fun to make homemade pizza’s. I got out my usual pizza dough recipe, then realized my husband had gotten quick rise yeast instead of regular. With the quick rise it takes a lot less …

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, …

Ingredients :
Black gram (whole) - 250 g
Garlic - 4 flakes (cut into thin round pieces)
Ginger - 1 tsp full (cut into long thin stripes)
chilli powder - 1 tsp
salt to taste
water
ghee - 1tbsp
fresh cream (whipped) - 1/4 cup
Method :
1. Fry the garlic in ghee, add water and ginger. Put dhal …

The spinach is very good for health. I prepare many kind of recipes using the spinach such as the spinach soup, spinach pakoda and many more. The spinach rice is a very simple recipe and is also very nutritious. The spinach is very rich in iron …

Pork Chops: even the name itself sounds boring already. If not cooked perfectly, tastes more boring either. No matter how good the food it, diners will always get bored if you come up with the same thing over and over again.
As a mother and a cook, I could notice …

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 …

I usually pick up a complimentary magazine at my local liquor store called Flavours, and there are always great recipes inside. This following recipe is by Brandon Boone, and he wrote an article with several recipes that he said are not very time consuming to prepare and cook, and …

This curry is tasty to eat and very simple to make.
Ingredients required:
1. Fresh Beans ¼ kg
2. Potato -1
3. Tomato-1
4. Onion-1
5. Garlic - 3 flakes
6. Mustard-1/2 teaspoon
7. Chilli powder-1 teaspoon
8. Oil-3 spoons
9. Salt as per taste.
Preparation
1. wash beans and cut them in to small pieces.
2. Take one potato, peel it …

Carrot halwa is a sweet dish, which is again a very nutritious and rich recipe. This sweet dish is best for the growing kids and even for elders.
Ingredients:
Carrot grated 2 cups, milk 2 cups, sugar 2 cups, fresh cr�me 1 cup, cardamom powder for flavour, edible color.
Method:
First of …

I would like to provide the recipe for Bhel puri which is a famous North Indian chat food (or) fast food.It is quite simple to make Bhel puri because it involves no cooking or no boiling.
First of all,few cups of puffed rice should be taken in a bowl.Few coriander …

Bread pudding is very easy to make. If someone comes home suddenly, and if there is nothing to serve, bread pudding is very handy as everyone will have bread and milk at home.
My two year old son loves this recipe. Even a fussy child would love to eat this.
Ingredients …

The mushroom soup is the favourite soup for my kids and even I like this one a lot because it is very easy to prepare and is very nutritious for kids.
Ingredients:
Mushroom 6-8 finely chopped, corn flour 3 teaspoons, salt to taste, white pepper powder according to taste, coriander leaves …

One of my favorite appetizers is the spinach dip that my aunt usually brings to family events. It’s a cold dip served in a hollowed out round loaf of bread. Collectively, I think my family has a lot of great recipes, but I like my aunt’s spinach …

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 …

I love fruit salads. It is a great meal without any guilt after you eat it. There are conventional combinations that I know but later on it makes it too plain for your taste. One of the things I wanted to concentrate on is to focus on two fruits and …

I’m giving you the recipe for the chocolate cake shot, because it was an overall favorite for my customers when I was bartending in St. Thomas, USVI. I sometimes offered it as a means of suggestive selling, but more likely than not, people liked it so much they …

In India we need the different kinds of rasam recipes to have it with the boiled plane rice. Now I am going to write the recipe for the rasam, which gives the tangy lemon taste. It is spicy and juicy and proves to be a best combination …

This is a little stew that I threw together one evening when coming in, rushed and late from a long day at the barn. I had hungry children to feed and I was hungry, too! We eat fairly simple at home, but very healthy dishes with short time preparation …

Veal is such a under rated meat and it is so delicious. So one day when we where in Spain some friends of ours invited us over for dinner and we had veal stew and it tasted absolutely delicious so we got the recipe off of them and when …

I have been cooking for twenty years and have my favorite recipes that I follow. Occasionally, however one has to come up with their own dishes and one of my simplest dishes is Lite Summer Pasta. When it’s a hundred degrees outside, as it gets here in Southern …

This is my grandma’s recipe of fried potatoes that I loved when I was little. I’ve noticed that no other way to cook potatoes can duplicate the taste. The process is easy enough, although it might take time since you actually cook the potatoes twice - well, sort of. …

I am a very frugal minded person, so when I find a new recipie for everyday things (that usually cost loads at regular store) I try it and then play with it until it is exactly how I want the product to be. Here is one for a …

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 …

If you like seafood you will love this recipe. It is another ‘mezes’ dish but you can also cook it and enjoy it as a main dish with a fresh green salad and fresh bread. Don’t forget the cold beer or the wine. The difficult part would be to …

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 …

Normally, when one talks about Satay, the main ingredient that comes to mind would be either chicken or beef meat. But I tried out this rather new recipe and I’m not sure if others have tried. I call it my Satay Fish. Very easy to make this, …

2 pounds of hamburger meat
4 oz package of instant mashed potatoes
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 package of shredded cheese, mozzarella and chedder pizza blend
1/4 cup chopped onions
1 tablespoon of butter
Paprika, garlic salt, and worcestireshire sauce.
This meal is great. Who doesn’t love meat, potatoes, and cheese. This dish …

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 …

The secret of this recipe comes from a professional chef who had told me one simple thing: in order to make sure your ribs turn out soft, you need to boil them first. So, here is the process: boil the ribs for 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the …