It’s Food Matters Project Monday… I have to say, at first, I wasn’t excited about this week’s pick… I even almost skipped it entirely, but I’m so glad I didn’t! Flipping through any cookbook, this would never be a recipe I would stop on. The original recipe calls for blue cheese, which I don’t care for. And creamy, cheesy pasta dishes aren’t exactly my thing (I’m lactose intolerant, it’s not my fault)....
I don’t know if it’s possible to have too many cherry tomatoes. But if you do, roasting them is the perfect way to eat a whole bunch at a time. They shrivel up into the sweetest, tangiest little bites – which are perfect to toss into simple bowls full of greens and grains. Around this time last year I posted this slow roasted tomato pasta. This year, I’m cheating the slow roast....
This noodle bowl is one of my favorite “bowl food” recipes. “Bowl food” always has a mix of delicious veggie-heavy ingredients with varying tastes, textures, and flavors, with a hearty base underneath. It’s fun to eat because you get something a little different in each bite. The inconvenient thing about component bowls is that all those components can take time to prepare. Chopping and cooking raw plant-based ingredients is time-consuming!...
What I Used: Makes 8-10 cookies Soy flour – 1 cup Maida – 1/3 cup Oats – 1/4 cup Butter at room temperature – 3/4 cup Powdered sugar – 1/2 cup (this makes the cookies mildly sweet, so you can adjust according to your taste) Cinnamon powder – one pinch (optional) Salt – one pinch How I Made It: Sift the maida and soy flour with salt until its totally blended....
I don’t care if it’s taco Tuesday, taco Wednesday, or taco Friday… to me, any day is a good day to stuff things into tortillas! Some people buy a loaf of bread every week as a grocery staple – I buy tortillas. So naturally, my on-hand tortillas came in handy as part 3 of this week’s meal plan. Here are the ingredients that I started with: from the Mango Black Bean Ginger Rice Bowls: – a chunk of green cabbage (always trying to find a use for leftover cabbage!...
This month, we have a ton of airplane travel coming up. Not to complain, but travel is one of those things where I LOVE the destination(s) but don’t love the journey… especially the food that’s available during the journey, a.k.a airport food. It’s become my habit to bring my own food on the plane, and with 12+ hours to France(!) on Friday, I’m making a tasty to-go hummus wrap. These wraps would be great for school lunch boxes as well!...
I’m making this spinach quiche recipe for Easter brunch this year, and I’m already looking forward to it. It’s a change from my usual breakfast casserole or frittata, and though it’s (much) more time-intensive, every second is worth it. This spinach quiche is melt-in-your mouth delicious. It has a buttery, flaky crust and a custardy egg filling that’s flecked with tender spinach, green onions, and salty feta cheese. If you’re tempted to try it, you can find my step-by-step guide to how to make quiche below, complete with all my best tips for quiche success....
Sugiyan / Sukhiyan Recipe Preparation time: 1 hour Cooking time: 30 minutes Makes 12-15 sukhiyan Recipe source: Amma Ingredients: 1 cup of green moong dal / green dal 1 cup of grated jaggery (or brown sugar) 1/3 cup of grated coconut 4-5 cardamom pods (powder the seeds inside) 1 cup of all-purpose flour (maida) 1/4 tsp of baking powder A pinch of baking soda 1 tsp of sugar A pinch of salt Oil for deep frying...
Moving on. This is by far the most gorgeous recipe video I have ever seen. I hope the husband-wife team behind Tiger in a Jar come up with more. I really wanted to bake the cake and post the video together but that would mean holding this back from you for that much longer. So here goes. Use headphones. For the full beet cake recipe with measurements, visit this page in Tiger in a Jar....
We love a good burger, so we spent a few days researching our favorite way to make the best hamburgers. We learned that simple is best when it comes to homemade burger patties. There’s no need for extra ingredients! For thinner, more caramelized and crispy burgers, see our homemade smash burgers! I love these juicy burgers so much (especially with our homemade burger sauce). To use ground turkey, take a look at our juicy turkey burgers and if you’d like a vegetarian option, I love these veggie burgers!...
Our love of crab cakes runs deep. We both grew up in Maryland, so our summers were full of sunny days, creamy crab dip, cracking crabs, sweet corn, Old Bay, and crab cakes when we were lucky! We’ve spent years zeroing in on our favorite crab cake recipe, and this is it! You’ll find lots of crabmeat and very little filler. For more crab recipes, see our easy crab dip or these crab and cream cheese wontons (also called crab rangoon)....
Pin Couscous, rice and roasted meat – yum again. Pin Shawarma – total YUM. We had the yummiest chicken shawarma in Ibn Batuta Mall in Dubai. It cost 6dhm and is easily the best shawarma I have tasted! Pin Weird black olive salad – erm.. not yum. Pin Surprisingly, we found a lot of good bread and pastry in almost every buffet we had. A welcome breakfast, for sure. Warm rolls with butter melting between them....
Pin So here is the recipe from the horse’s mouth. Thank you Seetha aunty for introducing me to this lovely and authentic recipe :). For a sweet kozhukkattai recipe, check out this vella kozhukkattai recipe, popularly made during Ganesh Chaturthi. Upma Kozhukkattai Recipe How to make Upma Kozhukkattai: Heat oil in a wide bottomed pan and when hot enough, add the mustard seeds and wait until they pop. Then add the chana dal, curry leaves and red chillies and fry on low heat for a minute....
I even checked Youtube but nothing useful came up. Then I just guessed my way through it and turned up with pretty awesome vegetable puffs. Here’s how. Pin How to Thaw and Use Puff Pastry Sheets: Take out the packet about 2 hours before you want to use it. Mine took about 2.5 hours to thaw completely and become soft. It will be a big block. Place it on a liberally floured surface and roll it out firmly to about 1/2″ thickness....
With holidays around the corner, we’ve got the scoop on how rising costs might hit our holiday celebrations in 2024. Armed with all this new knowledge, we’re creating fresh, budget-friendly recipes that your family will love and conducting a sweepstakes to give 10 lucky Americans the chance to win a $1,000 grocery store gift card. Key Findings Nearly one in four Americans have used savings to pay for groceries this year....
If you’re looking for kitchen gifts for the home cooks in your life, you’ve come to the right place! Below, I’ve rounded up the best kitchen gifts of 2024. They include ideas for everyone on your list: the home baker, the vegetable lover, the cook who’s obsessed with meal prep, that person who lives for their morning coffee, and really anyone who loves cooking. These kitchen gifts range from all-star appliances to handy cooking tools to high-quality food items....
Looking back now, I can’t believe that there was a time when I hadn’t heard of migas. Growing up in the Midwest, I ate muffins for breakfast every morning. When I went to college, I started each day with a bowl of oatmeal. If you asked me where to find great migas, I would have looked at you like you were crazy. But in Austin, migas are everywhere. Go out to brunch, and they’ll be on the menu....
Ingredients: (to serve 2): Carrots: 2 small Beans: 10 Raw banana (vazhakka): 1 small Drumstick: 1 Brinjal: 2 Tomato: 1 big Cucumber: 1 small Ivy Gourd (kovakka): 6 Raw mango: 1 Green chillies: 6 Freshly grated coconut: 1/2 cup Jeera powder: 1.5 teaspoon Curry leaves: 2 strands Onions: 1/2 finely chopped Coconut oil: 3 tablespoons Curd: 3 tablespoons Salt: to taste How to make Aviyal: Put the hard-to-cook vegetables together (carrots, beans, drumsticks, green chillies, mango, ivy gourd) with water just to cover them and 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder....
What’s all the fuss about banana bread, you ask? Well, you have to try it to know why. I still don’t know why this is called banana ‘bread’ instead of cake but I do know that it’s actually somewhere in between and tastes awesome toasted and slathered with salted butter. This is also a fool-proof banana bread recipe. Really. Just throw some things together in a bowl, whisk it and bake it to get this awesome loaf full of yummy banana flavour....
Of course, the first thing you need to get is an oven. I have already done a lot of research and posted about it types of oven and how to choose an oven. The next thing is definitely baking trays and pans. There are lots of variety here in terms of what you can get and it can get confusing. However, the basic must-haves according to me, are below: – Square and round cake pans, preferably Springform Pans, since it’s very easy to get the cake out of the pan after baking Round springform pans are easier to get and may be slightly more expensive than normal pans but its definitely worth it and you will find yourself reaching out for one of these most often....
