You might also like these recipes for stuffed vegan crepes and vegan omelet. My Savory Crepes with Wild Mushroom Sauce are exactly the kind of food I love to serve and eat for breakfast, especially on weekends or when I have guests I want to impress. They are decadent and delicious, of course, but they’re also nutritious and easy to make. In other words, they are all-round winners. No one will even guess these crepes are eggless and dairy-free....
Desi pointed me to a recipe for a savory squash and rice pudding in the Washington Post, and I became obsessed, the way I sometimes become obsessed with a recipe that sounds totally delicious but doesn’t work for me because it’s not vegan. The article said the pudding dated back to the early 1900s and had its origins in the South. That fascinated me, along with the fact that the flavors sounded so seasonal and so clean....
If you spend all your time before the holidays dreaming of the amazing foods you are going to cook up with the least amount of effort to impress those you love, put this Vegan Pot Pie on your list. It has a beautifully golden crust that makes the most delicious crispy, crackly sounds as you cut into it, and best of all you don’t actually have to make it–you can simply use store-bought puff pastry....
I love baking up a pie for the Fourth because I can make it in advance, and there’s never a better time to bake a vegan Peach Berry Pie than when the markets are overflowing with berries of all colors and ripe, juicy peaches. Besides, who doesn’t love pie? At our home, a pie goes down fabulously, no questions asked. While my vegan apple pie is Desi’s favorite, he pretty much adores just about any fruity pie, and so does Jay....
If you love a good vegan shortbread or vegan lemon shortbread, or shortbread-textured cookies like these vegan almond flour cookies, this vegan sablé is for you! Anytime is a good time for this tender, crumbly cookie, but I especially love baking up these delicious treats around the holidays. They make the perfect little gifts for family and friends! What is a sablé? A sablé is a French cookie with a “sandy” texture (sablé = sand in French)....
You might also like these recipes for traditional south Indian sambar, onion sambar and bitter gourd pitlai. When you’re been married to a Tamilian as long as I have, everyone pretty much considers you an honorary member of the club. But when it comes to my in-laws, nothing wins me more Tamil points than cooking up for them a fabulous south Indian meal with rice, sambar, rasam and a curry like this green beans paruppu usili....
on Nov 08, 2023 Some of my favorite recipes are the ones that are the result of several brainstorms and testing stages. The recipes with names you’d never heard of before (I mean, what is a naan bomb anyway!?)! I love when I can just be creative in the kitchen, and that’s how these Achari Paneer Naan Bombs were born. This recipe brings together some of my favorite things, just reimagined in terms of presentation and serving....
on Jan 17, 2022 Instead of reaching for that pack of chips when the 5 pm hunger strikes, try making a batch of these Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries this week. These babies come together together with just 4 ingredients and are just as crispy yet soft French fries we all love! Additionally, these sweet potato fries are loaded with fiber, potassium, and all that good stuff. Plus, making in this in the air fryer means these get crispy with ONE teaspoon of oil!...
Making a roux takes time. It’s time well spent when you’re looking for that rich, focus on the chicken and sausage kind of gumbo. Can’t beat it for that flashy cajun, explode in your mouth meal. This is more like a thick soup. It’s strikes a nice balance between meat and vegetables. It also leaves out the cup of oil you need to make the roux. Like I said – as healthy The okra thickens the gumbo some....
on Oct 23, 2016, Updated Aug 27, 2020 Soups are a staple in my winter diet, because in my opinion a bowl of soup during sweater weather is like the ultimate cosy day feels. I am not talking about those thin, water-y kinds that never seem to fill you up, but the creamy, chunky kinds that are comforting and insanely filling at the same time. For example, this Creamy Slow Cooker Chicken Barley Soup....
on Mar 10, 2022, Updated May 11, 2022 Falafels were my gateway to Middle Eastern food. I wasn’t prepared for what a flavour bomb these fried balls are. Falafel’s best friends: Hummus, Pita, Chickpea Salad. Make these together for an amazing Middle Eastern spread! Packed with a bunch of herbs and aromatic spices, falafels are easily one of my all-time favourite foods now. Most people don’t know how easy they are to make at home and you can control the flavours too....
on Apr 08, 2015, Updated Feb 03, 2022 I have a love-hate relationship with summer. I love the fact that I can gorge on Ice Cream, even for breakfast (Hello, Natural’s Tender Coconut- I’m looking at you!). Drink iced coffee all day and even use the coffee grounds to make me some awesome coffee scrub. Try out crazy granita flavors (Lemongrass – coconut – honey please), take cold showers without shivering....
on Nov 04, 2015, Updated Apr 19, 2021 I was supposed to bring you this easy 10 ingredient Sumac Chicken recipe a few days ago, because it’s the last thing I made for Denver before I came down to Raipur to meet my parents. But I got here, and fell horribly sick. In fact I’m still sniffling and coughing, which sucks, because I haven’t been able to enjoy my visit at all so far....
on Oct 15, 2020 I can never resist a good dip on the table. And I think dips are the perfect party food because they are so shareable. People can actually stand around a dip, keep dipping their crackers in while the conversations going. And they are always a cinch to make. The food processor does most of the job really. At most parties, I usually have three or four dips along with bowls of crackers to keep people munching while they get to know each other....
As the weather begins to cool down and Desi comes down with a cold, I can be sure – before the first achoo! – that there’s a request coming for Garlic Rasam, a spicy and aromatic soup that’s one of the most potent weapons to fight colds in a south Indian kitchen. It’s so effective, chicken soup would turn sour with envy. I got my flu vaccine at work the other day, after many years, mainly because with a little one in the house who’s a germ magnet, I spent most of last winter fighting off a succession of colds....
With summer beginning to slip away, I, for one, am making sure I can grab all the goodness it still has to offer, including delicious veggies in yummy salads, like chickpea avocado salad, vegan Caesar salad, beet salad and this scrumptious grilled corn salad with smoky, roasted or grilled corn. This is one gorgeous, colorful salad, with the grilled corn complemented by cherry tomatoes, basil and a creamy sesame seed dressing....
on Jun 23, 2017, Updated Aug 26, 2020 While I’m not here to start a debate, our appetite for seafood made me wonder how fresh is fresh when it comes to fresh prawns or for that matter, any seafood that you buy in the market. Logic obviously tells me that since Bangalore is a landlocked city, it can’t be selling seafood that’s really ‘fresh’. The catch comes from Chennai, Mangalore, Andhra Pradesh or Kerala....
on Jul 06, 2020, Updated Aug 14, 2020 Spinach is such a versatile ingredient and is loved all over the world! Thanks to Popeye, probably! Although we’re here to talk about cooking spinach, let me just put it out there that raw spinach is good for you too, and is packed with a tonne of nutrients. We eat spinach a few times a week in all sorts of things – curries, stir fries, in a smoothie, in salads, in a frittata (where you can easily hide it), stuffed in a chicken breast and our favourite – with ricotta in lasagna!...
This Indian restaurant lamb curry is nameless. There’s no long standing traditional dish behind it. It’s a bit of an accident really but a really tasty one. Lamb curry is about the spicing I set out to make a particular curry one night. Didn’t have the ingredients I thought I had so I had to improvise. And I came up with this lamb curry. Since then it’s become one of my house curries....
on Sep 20, 2016, Updated Oct 06, 2023 Guys how do I not have a raita recipe on this blog yet? I loooove raita in all shapes and sizes and flavors. I’m up for anything. Anything at all in my yogurt because yogurt is just the best. BTW we had a fantastic weekend last week! A close friend wanted to throw a surprise birthday party for her husband (who’s also a close friend) and the theme was New Orleans because he is crazy about NOLA....
