It is fresh flavored, naturally sweet, and super nutritious. Not to forget, super delicious too! This recipe is one of the most fun ways to harness the goodness of summer fruits and include them in your daily diet. This smoothie also makes a great party beverage and can be whipped ahead of time. Whip up this summer delight and allow yourself to ferry to a paradisiacal tropical island with the very first sip....
So, Friday evenings are always family pizza and movie night in our house. We bake and eat pizza, cuddle with kids, watch an old classic movie and try to cherish these little moments. 🙂 This Sweet and spicy tofu pizza is my family’s favorite pizza. If given a choice, my kids would really eat this pizza every night. 🙂 Inspiration! This Sweet and Spicy Tofu Pizza is inspired by our local pizza eatery....
At times, we come across recipes that looks appealing but find that the listed oven temperatures are different than what we are used to. So this set us on a quest to convert the given oven temperature. Oven temperatures in United States are listed in Fahrenheit but in other parts of the world oven readings are in Celsius. Below I have complied a chart that shows oven conversions and gas mark....
This got me thinking about my favorite cakes and how many of them are made with oil. And it made me wonder about the butter-cakes in my life and if they, too, could work well with oil? (Chez Panisse Almond Torte—I’ve got my eye on you.) And it also made me wonder if my favorite oil-based cakes could be given the one-bowl treatment? I get lazier and lazier. The thing is, when cakes are leavened by baking soda or powder, as opposed to beaten whole eggs or whipped egg whites, not as much care needs to be taken with the mixing process: beat eggs, add wet ingredients, add dry ingredients, don’t over mix....
In late October, my friend Julie Majors pleaded with her newsletter readers to make these cookies. They taste like gingerbread, she wrote, but the “texture is chewy like the perfect brownie.” A photo revealing a cross-section that matched her description sold me, pushing the recipe to the top of my urgent to-make pile. But as things go, weeks passed, and then a month. I had almost forgotten about them, when Julie reminded us....
Earlier, I have always prepared my spring rolls with store bought wonton/spring roll wrappers but this time, I tried my very own homemade spring rolls wrappers and they were equally good. I make them in a large quantity and freeze them for future use. RECIPE DETAIL – Veg spring rolls are fairly easy to make and are prepared with fresh veggies. To begin with, wash, and finely chop all the veggies....
RECIPE DETAIL – I have baked potatoes for this recipe but potatoes can be pan tossed too. To pan cook potatoes- grease a tawa/griddle, spread a single layer of potatoes and toast them till crisp and browned. For the sauces I have used chili garlic sauce because it adds a decent amount of heat to a dish, but feel free to substitute it with teriyaki sauce or hoisin sauce. Very adaptive recipe....
I have to confess, on the first morning, when Stacy asked if I would like a gluten-free, high-protein pancake for breakfast, I was skeptical: if you know me, you know I live for toast. But I love trying new things, and I love seeing how other people cook. As Stacy made the batter for the pancakes, which she did in three individual bowls — each bowl receiving 1 egg, 1/2 cup quick-cooking oats, ground flax seed, cinnamon, sliced banana, water, and a scoop of protein powder — she explained why she had started making them: she had recently turned 50 and for health reasons, she needed to incorporate more protein into her diet, particularly in the morning....
What makes a great muffin? To me, it’s all about light, airy, and fluffy muffins that have a perfect puffed up semi-dome just like the ones you see at the bakery shop. Ingredients required to make Blueberry Muffins With Streusel Crumb Topping! How to make Blueberry Muffins With Streusel Crumb Topping? Egg-free Options! These Blueberry muffins with streusel crumb topping have been tested with an egg-free alternative. Some tested and tried options are:...
After a month of abstaining from serious dessert (inordinate amounts of dark chocolate, providing heaps of antioxidants, don’t count), a sugar craving and a magazine blurb had me unearthing baking pans and once again scribbling down butter, chocolate and brown sugar on my grocery list. The blurb described a treat offered at San Francisco’s Black Jet Baking Co — brown butter blondies made with Maldon sea salt — which I needed to have in my mouth immediately....
Buttermilk is magic. It turns everything into gold: super-moist, super-delicious gold. This morning I awoke needing a simple, summery, cake-like-but-not-dessert-like breakfast treat. One of Ben’s friends had crashed here last night, and I thought it only appropriate to treat him to a proper breakfast. In other words, I was craving sugar and carbs. But regardless, who doesn’t need a good, seasonal, berry cake recipe in their morning-treat repertoire? Nobody. And I have a recipe that fits the bill: buttermilk blueberry breakfast cake....
Make your dinner party planning a little easier by adding this creamy avocado ranch dip to the menu. Avocado dip is one of my favorite choices of appetizers and with this dip on the menu, your party is a guaranteed hit, trust me. This dip will surely impress your guests and will have them coming back for more! Why? Because this dip has everything, it is – CreamyHealthyNutritiousHas an amazing taste and textureAnd is simply out of this world delicious and can be enjoyed guilt-free!...
Its deep red color and perfect sweetness will satisfy your taste buds, and its brilliance will enchant your dessert-loving soul! Do bake these beauties to blend with your Valentine’s Day theme, and trust me, these cupcakes will be a visual treat that’s hard to resist! Moreover, these individual cupcakes are every cake lover’s dream dessert as they are portion-sized, and can be enjoyed guilt-free. The red food color is a significant game changer that lends these sweet stunners their unique name and identity!...
In addition to offering elegant but simple recipes, it’s all about Susan’s “get-ahead” and “stress-free” cooking philosophy. To this end, each recipe includes a “timing tips” box with bulleted action items, steps you can do in advance. How nice? I was immediately struck by this recipe, and Susan’s description: “A big platter of various halved and grilled heads of slightly bitter greens is a sight to behold and a cinch to prepare....
Every week our farm share arrives with boodles of onions, sweet, brilliant white (or purple!), oblong orbs. As is often the case with CSA produce, it can be hard to keep up, so when I find my vegetable bin brimming with onions on the brink of turning, I caramelize them and throw them on pizza or in pasta or in an omelet with goat cheese, which has become a favorite quick dinner....
With our step-by-step tutorial and a little effort, anyone can create rich and creamy mawa at home- the same taste and texture. Plus, each recipe is irresistibly good and mostly all done in 10-15 minutes of prep – it doesn’t get much better than that! Therefore, to help you better, I have added 6 techniques in this post on – how to make mawa – 5 ways of making mawa....
I couldn’t agree more. Upon seeing this segment, I felt inspired to cook up some of the Ranch Gordo beans I had picked up in San Francisco earlier this month. I have been wanting to incorporate more beans — such a healthy, affordable food, filled with protein — into my diet, and this salad has proven to be a great way to do so. I made this salad two nights in a row last week with my Alubia Criollo beans and various other goodies from my CSA — arugula, cherry tomatoes, chives, shaved zucchini and chopped orange....
Serve with freshly baked garlic knots and it will soon become a family favorite! Both crock-pot and stove-top instructions are included! I feel Instant Pot is the perfect kitchen tool to make simple weeknight meals. It’s an electric pressure cooker that can be a slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, a sauté pan, and yogurt maker all in one and not to mention, fewer dishes to clean. Now, to join the list of my Instant pot meals, here comes one more vegan soup – Instant pot Lentil barley soup that I make so often during winters....
It’s a simple vegan bread that comes together in less than an hour and makes for a quick and easy indulgent breakfast! This pan-cooked Methi paratha is an excellent make-ahead recipe for those busy mornings when you just want to grab some hearty bread to snack on. Speaking of a log, I like to wrap these methi flatbread rolls halfway into a foil so that they are easy to eat and mess-free....
It is prepared for the celebration of Diwali, Holi, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, and others. One can find a variety of ladoos in Indian cuisine, each equipped with different base ingredients such as semolina/ sooji, chickpea flour/ besan, wheat flour/ atta, rice flour, lentils flour, and include other flavorful ingredients like dry fruits, nuts, etc. Therefore, Motichur Ladoo collectively means ‘balls of crumbled pearls.’ While making the ladoos, the tiny pearls are gathered up to be rolled into small balls....
