You might also like these recipes for Italian bread, ciabatta and sourdough focaccia. Of all the breads I make, this classic bread from Tuscany, called Pane Toscano, is one of my favorites. It’s probably the bread I make most frequently in my kitchen, even more than sourdough bread, and the reasons are obvious: a crisp but not heavy crust and a soft, pillowy crumb, which makes it perfect for dunking it into soups or sauces....
on Dec 30, 2020 We’ve been mixing and experimenting with cocktails this week, and guess what? We created the perfect winter cocktail! It’s our take on one of the most classic cocktails, the Old Fashioned. We’ve elevated this classic with a lovely twist that’s perfect for the cold winters. We love our whiskey so trust us when we say this cocktail is amaze!! I always wondered why the cocktail was named Old Fashioned....
You might also love these recipes for healthy vegan brownies and vegan keto brownies. If you love chocolate – and if you say you don’t, I won’t believe you – you will adore these vegan breakfast brownies with hot chocolate frosting. I call them breakfast brownies because we have them for breakfast. Honest. And why not? They are all whole wheat, they’re sweet but not cloying, they’re packed with fruit (applesauce) and they have absolutely no fats added to them....
These Butternut Muffins were a bit of a gamble. I had some butternut squash puree and some blended tofu from making my Vegan Mango Pie and I wondered why I couldn’t just marry these two into a blissful breakfast food. And just like that, these delicious muffins were born. Butternut Squash Muffins are great breakfast material. Or pre-breakfast material, or even brunch material. They are made with whole wheat, include a veggie, and pack a protein punch with the tofu....
Here is a delicious collard greens side you’ll be wanting to make again and again. It’s super easy, it is quick, needing just a few minutes to go from scratch to done, and it requires only a handful of ingredients. But best of all, it’s so delicious, you’ll effortlessly convert a greens-hater or two. Collards, like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale, are cruciferous vegetables, which makes them super healthy. They have a very pleasant, slightly earthy flavor and are quite delicious in recipes like vegan Portuguese caldo verde and Kashmiri style collard greens....
Sometimes you need to shake things up. Grilled chicken can be a trap. You get into a rut – making the same 3 dishes over and over. Vietnamese grilled chicken is a new take on backyard grilling If you’re stuck there, Vietnamese grilled chicken is for you. Bright citrusy flavours. A bit of smoke. A hint of chili. The tang of ginger. It all comes together in this dish. Vietnamese grilled chicken is a great way to bust out of your grilled chicken funk with a bang....
on Mar 27, 2024 Like most festivals, Easter too is incomplete without friends, family and of course, good food! The simple joy of sitting around a table with all your loved ones, talking, laughing, and passing around plates of delicious food is what Easter means to me. But planning an elaborate Easter lunch is definitely not easy. Don’t worry though, because I am here to make this a whole lot easier for you!...
Cauliflower is delicious in any recipe, from aloo gobi to a creamy cauliflower curry to crispy roasted cauliflower and chickpeas. Now try cooking this easy and swift recipe for air fried cauliflower, and even if you didn’t love this awesome veggie before, you will be head over heels. The great thing about this recipe is it goes from scratch to done in about 15 minutes, if you include the time needed to cut the cauliflower and season it....
Aval Upma is the Tamil cousin of Maharashtra’s celebrated Kande Pohe, and it makes for some delicious tea-time tiffin (as South Indians call their snacks) or a hearty breakfast. The base of the Aval Upma is aval which is nothing but flattened rice flakes that cook up in no time at all (you can easily find these at Indian stores or online). In fact, it takes a lot less time to cook up this perfectly sumptuous dish than you’d honestly believe....
I love potatoes. And I love Indian cooking. So Bombay potatoes are a dream dish for me. If you like potatoes, this could be your new favourite way to cook them. For an Indian dinner anyway. This is a thick curry. A dry curry almost. Like a crazy seasoning paste on potatoes. Not like the usual saucy curries you get at restaurants. That’s what makes it special. Intensely flavoured. Perfect against the mild taste of potato....
on Feb 14, 2016, Updated Apr 07, 2021 Chana aloo might not be the fanciest recipe out there, but it sure spells comfort. I always make a big batch of this easy chole aloo masala because it refrigerates really well. Plus, there are so many ways you can have it. I generally serve this once with bhatura, once with naan or paratha, and once with rice. That’s how much we love this dish....
This is the other end of the spectrum. Go for gold. Pull out all the stops. If you love chicken tikka masala you need to try this version. Not everyone wants to go the distance. I get that. For some people tomato soup and garam masala is good enough. I am not one of those people. If you are not one of those people read on. Chicken tikka masala has humble roots Indian cuisine is old....
on Sep 21, 2020, Updated Oct 05, 2021 We LOVE chinese food. And we looove those typical chilli and garlic packed spicy noodles at Chinese restaurants. We made Pineapple Fried Rice last time and it was such a smash hit at home AND with our readers. Today we’ve made another staple Chinese dish which checks all the necessary boxes to make it to our favourite food list! Did you know?...
on Sep 08, 2021, Updated Oct 05, 2021 I have no idea what the origins of this recipe are. I have no idea if it’s Indian or Chinese but its so dang good! You cannot go wrong with deep fried anything. Testimony to the fact are gobi manchurian, crispy thread paneer, veg cutlets and samosas. But deep fried spinach just takes the cake! It’s so dang good. And nobody can blame you for not eating your greens....
Curd, or yogurt, and more specifically curd-rice, is mighty important stuff to a South Indian. When my in-laws visit, they are happy enough to drink their coffee with soymilk and they love the vegan sweets I make, including dairy-free Indian sweets. But when it comes to curd-rice, they just have to have the real thing – at every meal. I remember a Tamil friend’s father who, no matter which part of the country he was traveling in and how hungry he was, would refuse to eat at a restaurant unless he could order curd-rice....
I have been nursing a cold – it’s been more like a series of colds, really – and when I have one of these, all I can think of is a hot, steaming bowl of soup. Sometimes, I actually manage to get myself into the kitchen to stir one up, like this divine and very seasonal Curried Cranberry Soup that’s fragrant with soothing ginger and hearty with beans. I had some cranberries sitting in the refrigerator after Thanksgiving, and this was the perfect way to use them up– a little unconventional, but delicious nonetheless, and the Vitamin C in the cranberries seemed a welcome combatant to fight the cold....
on Oct 11, 2024 What if I told you that this paneer curry is made completely from pantry staples but delivers the same sharp and rustic flavors like that from a dhaba!? You’ve got to try it for yourself! While I still love my simple paneer curries like my Palak Paneer and Matar Paneer, there’s just something about an extra-luscious dhaba style paneer masala served with some naan on the side....
on Apr 30, 2020, Updated Aug 18, 2020 A good korma can seriously beat everything else, except butter chicken in my book but a good korma is also hard to make. I’ve had some really bad ones that are cloyingly sweet from too much sugar in the curry or just bland. Korma has an underlying sweetness to it, but not from a sweetner. It comes from onions that are cooked slowly till they gain colour and get mildly sweet in the process....
School opens today, and if you’re a parent, you know exactly why my nerves feel more than a bit frazzled right now. The past few days have been a whirl of homework packets to turn in, school supplies, orientation, parents’ night and a million other little back-to-school nitty-gritties for our incoming middle schooler. It promises to be a busy year, for him and poor us, and on top of all that sits the big question: how do I make sure my no-longer-so-little boy eats well?...
There’s just something about grilled chicken that makes me smile. Not really sure why but I love it. I’m always looking for new ways to spice up the blank canvas that is chicken. Garlic ginger grilled chicken is the latest addition to my palette. Garlic ginger grilled chicken is wonderful in it’s simplicity This is a simple recipe. But sometimes simple is great. Japanese cooking in general is all about relatively simple ingredients and incredible attention to detail....
