Tonight’s dinner – a bowl of warm Mexican corn soup and homemade honeycomb buns… yummy and goodness for all!! There is nothing better than the aroma of freshly baked bread in a house – warm, fluffy and delicious! These are just plain buns, baked in a honeycomb or beehive pattern – so light and airy. RECIPE DETAIL – Adapted from my pav recipe, I have used the same measurements except the flour....
Step 1. Marry someone strong who will do all the heavy lifting in the project. Step 2. Download Lynn Gillespie’s e-book Cinder Block Gardens for $19.95. Read the book. Step 3. Make a list and head to Home Depot, Lowe’s or your local garden shop. A pickup truck is handy for this trip. The supplies weigh in total almost 1500 pounds. Basic supplies include: • 24 cinder blocks ($0.79 each) • 2 bales 3....
Rice is a staple food of India and is composed of carbohydrates and some essential nutrients like thiamine, riboflavin, iron, potassium and many more. But for some people, eating rice on a regular basis may be of a concern. If cooked in the right way, you can reduce the starch/ carbs from rice and enjoy it guilt free. Learn how to cook rice that has less starch and is soft, fluffy and non-sticky at the same time....
Ricotta: A Love Story. Where to begin? I spent much of my life thinking I disliked ricotta, thanks no doubt to my introduction to it: dining hall lasagna and stuffed shells, whose fillings left me considering it nothing more than a grainy, watery, flavorless paste. Ina Garten and her recipe for homemade ricotta showed me the light, revealing how creamy and fluffy the good stuff can be. And Missy Robbins showed me that whipping ricotta — blending it in a food processor until smooth — can transform it into an entirely different product altogether: a pipable purée, light and smooth, not unlike a creamy, savory frosting....
Before making this soup, I had never read any of MFK Fisher’s recipes, which, I am learning, give the reader a lot of credit. Just as Alice Waters may assume you have a pig’s foot in your refrigerator, MFK Fisher assumes you know how to make a roux. There is no hand-holding in the direction, though her notes are detailed. For example, in the potato soup recipe, she insists you pass the vegetables through a strainer, and not just any strainer, “a fine strainer,” and continues to observe “increasingly that most average cooks … grow careless about sieves and strainers....
The delightful colors of the fruits and their divine flavors whipped into a smooth textured drink form the ultimate formula of this blissful recipe! This luscious drink made with a slushy blend of strawberries and mangoes is loaded with antioxidants and vitamins and is a perfect nutrient-rich recipe for the entire family. As I have opted for an alcohol-free daiquiri, you will find lots of mangoes, strawberries, and juices going into this recipe without any alcohol....
As five of us celebrated a quiet Thanksgiving down here in Virginia, the rest of my family journeyed north to Vermont to the shores of Lake Champlain for a wild gathering with my aunt and uncle. Upon returning, my mother gave me the full report: Of course, the turkey, which she had prepared, was over-cooked, gross and inedible but roasted Jerusalem artichokes saved the occasion as well as an orange-and-ricotta pound cake that her sister prepared twice during their five-day visit....
In May, en route home from the Pizza Night photoshoot in Northern California, I grabbed a cup of the overnight oats from the Dolores Park Cafe stand at SFO. I typically don’t love overnight oats from these places for a few reasons — they tend to be too sweet and the fruit included often is on its last legs — but I was short on time and craving something healthy-ish....
About this time of year every year, I wonder why I don’t make egg salad more often — it’s so good, it’s light (or can be at least), and it’s filled with protein to boot. Earlier this week, I made a recipe from Shed via Bon Appetit, and I am now wondering why for all these years I haven’t been pickling my hard-boiled eggs before turning them into salad. Yes, the pickling is more work, but the bite and flavor this extra step brings is well worth the effort, which, by the way, takes all of five minutes....
The yummiest Easter Mousse Cookie Cups are here to entice you with colors and flavor! My kids have grown up enjoying the playful Easter egg hunts, and each year, they ended their day coming home to me asking for something sweet. There was always a treat like – Eggless chocolate mousse brownie, vegan brownie sundae cups, or shortbread cookies waiting for them. Easter and spring have always been associated with the color green, so to create an Easter-themed dessert, I have made a buttery shortbread cookie base that is wonderfully crisp and is filled with a pistachio-flavored creamy mousse....
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Joshua McFadden’s twice roasted carrots, one of many delicious vegetable dishes I had made from his cookbook, Six Seasons. I’ve since discovered another one: roasted squash with yogurt, walnuts and spiced green sauce. The spiced green sauce, I learned, is called schug (pronounced skoog, sometimes spelled zhug), originating from Yemen, a blend of herbs, chilies, and toasted spices. Josh describes it as a “workhorse recipe,” and notes that at his restaurant, Ava Gene’s, they use it on everything: vegetables, grilled meats, and snacks of all kinds....
Sure, anything would taste pretty good once drizzled with chili-honey-butter, but sometimes vegetables need a little help — I could eat these every night. This flavored butter also calls for a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, which adds a really nice bite. I have used maple syrup in place of the honey, and recently, I have been using crushed red pepper flakes in place of the chiles de arbol, mostly for simplicity....
Last May I baked a sheet pan of cubed, marinated tofu. Twenty minutes later, I loaded the pan with kale and coconut, and what emerged shortly thereafter was a delicious, near one-pot wonder of a meal. This recipe introduced me to the virtues of the sheet pan supper — minimal fuss, acceptable mess, big payoff. Like the Instant Pot and Crock Pot, the sheet pan has a devoted band of followers....
Wellllllll, I replied, not really. I explained I favor dark meat chicken over light and that I only buy 80/20 ground beef. I confessed to never having cooked ground turkey and that bacon was definitely not lean. And the reason she likes those ribs so much is because of the fat. But I defended my choices, too, noting foremost that we don’t eat a lot of meat, and also that not all fat is bad....
Ladi pavs is a popular Mumbai bread that is often paired with batata vada and pav bhaji recipe. After trying out homemade Ladi pavs for years, I have now started making the healthier version – wheat ladi pavs at home. These ladi pavs are both super healthy and super delicious in every bite! Wheat Ladi Pav Recipe As an added bonus – these Wheat Ladi Pav Recipe can be fully customized....
Over the weekend, I said goodbye to my electric griddle, a gadget I’ve had for over a decade, one I’ve loved and hated over the years for various reasons: loved for its large, flat surface and, um, well, that’s really it. My electric griddle is big and cumbersome, awkward to find space to both use and stow. For 10 years I’ve used it solely for pancakes, which has been reason enough to hang on to it because I find cooking pancakes in skillets tricky — even in my largest skillet there isn’t enough space to maneuver a spatula around more than three pancakes....
Last Greek Easter while standing around the lamb turning on a spit, a few of my cousins confessed: These admissions, I should note, didn’t stop anyone from fighting over the crispy lamb skin, but they did inspire me to create a vegetarian chili recipe. Upon returning home, I set to work with a few goals in mind, namely ease and flavor: I wanted it to feel as effortless (or nearly so) as the weeknight chili recipe mentioned above, but just as satisfying with good heat, smoke, and heft....
These strong feelings stem partly from several recent failed experiments but also because I am realizing now truly wonderful homemade pizza is. Really, for me, the idea of a perfect dinner is this: several of these thin-crust pizzas (each topped differently), a salad (a homemade Caesar salad sounds nice at the moment) and a glass of wine. I can think of only one thing that might — MIGHT — improve this recipe: A wood-burning oven....
Add this to your meatless weekday lineup, and they will steal the show as a hearty, home-style, all-in-one meal. You will practically find every street with vendors selling Batata Vada Pav and people so crazily thronging these vendors to grab the delicious snack. The reason for the popularity of this snack is maybe in the ease with which you can just grab it and go. A city known for its busy lifestyle, Mumbai offers this snack that goes well with its fast pace, and you will find every Mumbaikar loving this snack to the core....
These Udon noodles are the quickest and easiest vegan weeknight meal that is packed with healthy veggies and robust chili garlic sesame sauce. Deliciously yum and ready in 30 minutes! Additionally, they are light on the stomach and easily digestible. Since these noodles have a neutral taste, they are often served in a hot noodle soup as it absorbs all the flavor from the sauce it’s being cooked in. Instead of soft-vacuum packet udon noodles, you can even use pre-cooked fresh udon noodles to save some time....
