Okra - Peanut Fry !!!! by sri vidya

Fries !!! My hubby's fav... I usually don't go for fries as they consume lot of oil and time though!!! But my people always need some or the fries while having dal, sambar or rasam. So got to make one each day...And sometime i divert him giving some chips or some papads to skip this!!! And today as my main event is to make a recipe…

BADAM HALWA by Anitha Saravanan

Bagel Upama ! by Manju Nair

Ever thought of eating Bagels other than with cream cheese :-) Well heres a lovely Indian twist to the all time American breakfast favourite...We bought these Garlic and roasted Onion Bagels with Poppy and Sesame seed topping and I thought why not make Bagel upama with it. You can use even plain Bagels to try out this recipe...…

Coconut Chicken and Potato Curry by Micheline

This spicy chicken/potato curry dish can be served with a side dish of basmati rice.

Exotic Spiced Pineapple Rice by Micheline

A spiced, fruity, nutty basmati rice dish that looks, smells and tastes exotic.

Curry chicken with cilantro lime sauce by Kimi

This dish has the right amount of flavor and captivated the taste buds of even my four year old daughter who loved it.

The Banana Split...Deconstructed. A Light Variation On A Classic! by kathy gori

This is a post about Banana Splits and a confession. I have to be thoroughly honest here and say that I'm not an expert on banana splits. In fact I've never eaten a banana split. It's not that they haven't looked good, and I'm sure they taste great,…

World Class Tomato Salad For A World Cup Final Match by kathy gori

All Saturday before the World Cup was to be played I had Tapas on my mind. Maybe it was Spain being in the finals, maybe it was that psychic octopus from the German zoo. Who knows why one gets tapas on the brain, but there they were. So did that make me go on a quest for tapas? No. It did make me go looking for a recipe for that days'…

Pôtoler Dorma by PreeOccupied

Green Beans With Someting Extra! Plus A Giveaway! by kathy gori

I never was a big green bean fan growing up. Mainly because the beans I was usually served weren't green at all but rather grey and flabby, the 90 pound weaklings of beans. They didn't look like they were full of vitamins and raring to go to work on my system but rather as though they'd spent their short bean life couch-surfing and…

Meatless Monday, Take The Corn Off The Cob! by kathy gori

What should greet us this morning as we returned from our early morning coffee run to the Basque Boulangerie but a large turkey vulture sitting on the branch of a tree looking down at our house. "Whoa!" I thought. What a kickoff to Meatless Monday. Whatever that big bird was looking for, he was not going to find it in my kitchen…

Indian Hash Brown Salad..Plus A Giveaway!! by kathy gori

Hash brown salad? When I first mentioned that to Alan, he was all on board. Since the recipe involved two of his favorite things, Indian food and hash browns, he couldn't wait for me to fix it. Now when I think of hash browns, I usually think of two of my favorite diners in Los Angeles. Raes' ,where we spent many Sunday mornings…

Channa Masala by John Spottiswood

This is one of my favorite Indian vegetarian dishes. I always load up on a few helpings when I'm at the buffet! Chick-peas are great for you, and filling too. This fabulous recipe is adapted from a classic by Madhur Jaffrey. I made it a bit more healthy. Use more butter and less oil if you want a richer flavor and don't care…

Green Beans, Blue Skies. The Perfect Do Ahead Cook-Out Salad. by kathy gori

I keep waiting for the sunshine here in Sonoma. Right now the fog is blowing around in wisps and the wind is shaking the blossoms out of the trees and it's chilly out. There is more rain predicted for the next week and my friend Diana the checker at…

Gujarati Vegetables With Lime And Cilantro! by kathy gori

Ever since Paula Wolfert gave me a Clay Coyote Flameware skillet the other day, I've been jonesing to use it. However, at the same time I got the skillet, I also got all inspired to fix some meatless Indian raw salads that I'd learned of from a cookbook she'd also given me. I kept staring at the beautiful Flameware skillet up on the…