Love easy potato side dishes? Then try my Baked French Fries or my Creamy Mashed Potatoes! It’s not summer without creamy, tangy potato salad! And this is sure to be your new favorite way to make it because you won’t have to stand over a hot stove watching the potatoes and eggs boil. Let your pressure cooker do the hard stuff! That’s right; you cook the potatoes AND eggs in the Instant Pot all at once....
This cocktail is super easy to make and doesn’t require a ton of expensive and fancy liqueurs either, in fact, you probably already have everything you need to make in your kitchen now and if not I’ve got all the tips you need to make the perfect Irish coffee below. What you need to make this recipe Coffee – make sure you use good quality strong brewed coffee it’ll make a huge difference to the overall flavor!...
published Jun 28, 2024 Karaage is an extremely popular Japanese dish featuring bites of juicy, tender chicken wrapped in a tantalizing coating. It’s enjoyed with just a spritz of lemon juice, dipped in creamy mayo, or tossed in spicy or garlic sauce — and it’s a real favorite of mine! And unlike battered katsu, the crispiness doesn’t come from a breadcrumb crust! It comes from a double frying technique that still keeps the inside moist....
Wishing all my readers a Very Happy New Year! Looking forward to yet another great year taking you all through ‘My Cooking Journey’. Thanks for all your support and encouragement. This is my first bake for the year. Thanks to Aparna for choosing this great bread as the bake for the month for ‘We Knead to Bake’ group. I was unable to bake it during the holiday season and hence thought would bake it as the first thing for the New Year....
How to Make Lemon Cupcakes Preheat oven to 375F. Add the sugar and zest to a food processor and pulse until the sugar is light yellow in color and the zest has been all broken up. This really infuses the sugar with a lot of flavor from the oil in the zest but you can skip this step and add the zest to the wet ingredients later on. In a medium bowl add the sour cream, melted butter, eggs, milk, sugar and lemon juice then whisk together and set aside....
After writing about street foods from Banaras and Pune, I am back in my hometown, Chennai. Chennai, the first place I want to go to when I go back home is to the beach. Getting my feet wet in the mild waters, running back along with the waves, taking a ride on the mini merry-go-rounds, and most importantly eating street food is some of the reasons I love the Chennai seashores....
Wraps are the easiest way to pack lunch or dinner when traveling. I make wraps once in a while for dinner and experiment with different fillings. Most of the time it is what I have in hand, but it will always include protein of some kind and few vegetables. I always happen to have canned beans in my pantry and this is how I use them. When doing this theme of wraps and rolls for Blogging Marathon this month, I wanted to showcase this Mexican bean wrap as it finds its way in my menu at least once in month....
Serve this delicious salad with Chicken Souvlaki for the taste of the Mediterranean! Warm weather is absolutely unimaginable without fresh, seasonal salads. If you are anything like me, you probably also default to what you know. The familiar and the comfortable are not bad things but they could get boring! Quickly. Fattoush Salad So let me introduce you to a new salad that is fresh, creative and all around delicious....
Start off by getting all your ingredients together. Don’t forget to lighten the flour before measuring it. If you pack the flour in the cupcakes will be dense and bready. If you want to see how to make my ultra moist (regular-sized) vanilla cupcakes check out this post with full how to video! It’s my most popular recipe! Steps to Make chocolate Vanilla Mini Cupcakes Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy in texture....
There is nothing like settling down with a mojito on a hot day in the summer! If you’re a mojito fan like me, why not set up a mojito bar at your next cookout? You can have my simple Classic Mojito as a foundation, and add this Mixed Berry Mojito as well as my Blood Orange Mojito and Cranberry Pomegranate Mojito for different flavor options! What better way to start off the week than with a cocktail....
Origin Story - Nila Sadam The Ritual Moon Rice is a direct translation from the Tamil words Nila Satham. It is a dish, or rather a ritual started when my mom was a kid growing up in a large joint family in South India. My mom would recount how her oldest cousin, Vijaya akka (older sister), would round up eight hungry, rambunctious, and squirmy children for dinner outside the house, where it was undeniably cooler than sitting in the dining room....
Craving orzo but can’t invest your time in a two-step bake? Creamy chorizo and spinach orzo is a risotto-style dish that is prepared stovetop and on the table in 15 minutes. Greek meatballs Locally known as keftedes, Greek meatballs are plump, round mouthfuls of well-seasoned ground meat usually served as a mezze dish with pita, salad and olives. A Greek dream! I love to stuff my meatballs into the pita with tomatoes, cucumbers and hummus or whipped feta dip....
This week for the blogging marathon, I chose to make three recipes from ‘How to make perfect series’ published in The Guardian. This definitely made for a very interesting read as chef Felicity Cloake, researched individual components of the particular recipe and came up with the best of the best. Onion Bhajias, or Onion Bhajis as she called them is always a pleasure to eat when we eat out in the Indian restaurants....
For more tikka masala goodness, check out Chicken Tikka Masala, or for another meat-free option, Vegetable Tikka Masala with Potatoes and Cauliflower! A beautiful curry has been a favourite comfort food of mine for a long time. My local Indian takeaway was on speed dial for whenever I needed food to give me a pick-me-up. Tikka masala is an absolute classic, with all sorts of delicious flavour and lovely colour as a bonus....
This recipe is sponsored by Challenge Butter. We’re using their European style butter to make today’s parmesan chicken cutlets in lemon butter sauce! Crispy, crunchy, and so addicting. These parmesan dusted chicken cutlets are mouth-wateringly delicious. Tender seasoned chicken that we’ll dredge with seasoned flour, beaten eggs, and finally a combination of panko and parmesan. But what makes these chicken cutlets unique is that the panko lends tons of crunch while the parmesan cheese gives them the most magical umami flavor....
Pair with this Grilled Halloumi Burger for the perfect summer meal! Remember the pasta salads you grew up with? Maybe you remember them fondly, but the ones I recall were almost always a bit disappointing. It’s not that they were bad, it’s just that they were mediocre. But other pasta dishes can be stunningly good, so why not pasta salad? It’s time to revisit this classic dish, which I have done here with Pasta Salad with Burrata and Lemon Basil Vinaigrette!...
Hearty Pasta with Chickpeas in under 30 Minutes! On days when I’m looking for a quick, simple, and nutritious last-minute dinner idea, pasta/noodles come to the rescue. With options like 20-minute one-pot pasta, easy vegan pasta salad, veggie stir-fry noodles, and this pasta e Ceci (aka pasta with chickpeas), I’m never lacking for ideas for quick meals that are packed with flavor, nutrients, and -in this case- an impressive amount of plant-based protein!...
Lovers of blackberries will swoon for this Wild Blackberry Pie with Honeyed Creme Fraiche! In the summer I like nothing more than a fruit filled dessert. The more fruit the better in all sorts of fabulous bakes! But summer also means that I don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen with the oven cranking out more hot air. In fact, I don’t to spend much time in the kitchen at all!...
What goes better with soup than homemade bread? Try making your own with our recipe Sourdough Bread for Beginners. Sausage is a perfect alternative to seafood in a chowder. Not only is it more affordable, it’s easier to work with in the kitchen for less ambitious cooks. You can’t go wrong! There are so many sausages to choose from out there, so you can really tailor this soup to your family’s taste....
Healthy High Protein Bread I love bread, even while avoiding gluten (which is where this traditional gluten-free loaf and gluten-free baguette come in). For the past 10 years, I have also been regularly making this high-protein bread with lentils, which my partner, in particular, adores. This recipe eliminates almost all ’empty calories’ (I’m looking at you AP flour). I believe, this is the healthiest bread that I created so far (while still being delicious) and therefore, I want to share the recipe with you....
