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I’m about to make your Sunday morning a sunnier one with this Vegan Bananas Foster Bread Pudding. It’s so delicious, it’ll make you want to lick every last crumb from the bowl, and from the baking dish. Because it truly, honestly tastes like heaven. Or at least a piece of it. If you love banana bread, you will love this banana pudding for sure! I used my Vegan Olive Oil Brioche to make this Vegan Bananas Foster Pudding and it was really the perfect bread for it....

These Mushroom and Chickpea Turnovers are one of my son Jay’s favorite foods. Because they are crispy and savory and which child doesn’t love that? They also make a great snack or a lunchbox/brown bag and they are utterly delicious. You can even make them with my whole wheat puff pastry, making them even healthier. One of the best things about this recipe– one I know all moms will like to hear – is that it comes together in minutes....

on Nov 07, 2023, Updated Oct 14, 2024 These Diwali recipes are sure to make this festive season even more special! Pick your favorites and build your own menu – something that’ll work for you. And have a happy and safe diwali! As much as I love hosting for Diwali, I don’t enjoy the idea of spending hours and hours in the kitchen whipping up complicated recipes. For me, Diwali is all about enjoying my time with loved ones with good food and conversations....

on Oct 23, 2022

on Oct 19, 2024 Anytime I am hosting a party, pani puri is the first thing I add to the menu. There’s no one who can say no to that tangy, spicy, crunchy goodness, which makes this dish so party appropriate! This year instead of going the regular route, I wanted to add a little more flair and flavor to my pani puri. And that’s what me the idea of Anar Pani Puri!...

You might also like these recipes for pasta avocado and avocado chickpea salad. When life gives you avocados and you just don’t want more guacamole, try my Avocado Kababs. Avocados are among my most favorite veggies. After all, what’s not to love? They are creamily delicious, packed with healthy goodness, and who can hold a candle to that pretty pale-greenness? But avocados do present a challenge– other than knowing exactly when to open one, that is....

If you are an adventurer at heart and love spicy food, it’s a great idea to have on hand spice blends that span the globe, including harissa, berbere, garam masala and green curry paste. Each has the mojo to blow the flavor profile of a dish into stratospheric deliciousness and they can keep in the freezer or refrigerator for months. Another one of my favorite spice blends, one I use in all kinds of Italian dishes, is this Calabrian chili paste....

on Mar 14, 2018, Updated Aug 25, 2020 I had first cobb salad at Hard Rock Cafe when I didn’t even know what a cobb salad was. It was as American as it could get! Though now I’m thinking – who orders a salad at Hard Rock?🤔😂 It came on a huge platter with all the salad fixings arranged in layer. It was super pretty and super good! I didn’t share....

I’ve seen sun-dried tomatoes starting to appear on some of the bigger food blogs. Maybe they are coming back. Maybe it’s retro-cool. I don’t really care why – I’m just happy it’s happening. Winters are long in the north. Fresh tomatoes are a shadow of their summer splendour. Not really worth eating. Sun-dried tomatoes though – they work year round. A blast from the past. Chicken with sun-dried tomato cream sauce goes nicely with fried gnocchi....

on Jul 14, 2020, Updated Aug 15, 2020 The only way I want to eat a chicken salad sandwich is if it’s tossed in something creamy. Old habits I guess. Because chicken sandwiches meant shredded chicken and onions tossed in mayo spread between thick slices of sandwich bread. But we don’t do mayo anymore. I’m not a big fan of that aftertaste in my mouth that sandwiches full of mayo bring....

on Jan 17, 2018, Updated Aug 25, 2020 Seriously, that luscious gravy gets me hungry every single time I look at that picture. My husband and I both love a good beef stew. For us, it has to be thick, hearty, full of carrots, mushrooms and potatoes and tender, fall apart chunks of beef. And this easy instant pot beef stew is ALL OF that! This recipe is incredible easy....

on Dec 20, 2022 If you’ve grown up in India you’ve probably grown up eating Maggi for a snack! I am such a huge fan of these Instant Noodles that I get cravings even today. Which is weird I know because I’m 35 but you are never too old for Maggi Noodles! And if you’ve grown up eating Maggi you’ve obviously experimented with it. Everyone I know has their favourite way of eating Maggi and I knew I had to share my favourite Maggi recipes with you guys....

The simplest of foods can often be the yummiest, and this easy but classic Greek dish of gigantes, or giant beans, is a perfect example of that. Creamy lima beans are drowned in a tangy, herb-seasoned tomato sauce and the result is nothing short of spectacular – and extraordinarily delicious. The gigantes beans, also called butter beans for a good reason, become soft and creamy in the oven and the tomato sauce mellows into a rich, alluring sweetness....

on May 12, 2023, Updated Sep 26, 2023 This Ginger Chicken is a quick, dry-style chicken stir fry dish inspired by Chinese flavors that makes for the perfect appetiser or side dish. It’s sticky, garlicky, sweet and with that strong, bold flavour of ginger, of course! Drooling… They say some of the best discoveries are accidental, and that’s exactly what happened in our test kitchen when we started experimenting with infusing ginger and chicken flavours together to create this Ginger Chicken Stir Fry!...

Sunday mornings are not usually a good time to bake leisurely breakfasts at our home. There are errands to run, calls to be made to family overseas, people to catch up with and chores to catch up to. But when the promise of sweet vanilla is in the air, combined with the flap-flap of a pretty, yellow cornmeal batter in the stand mixer bowl and the jewel hues of fresh berries waiting to be scattered over the top of a crust that’ll bake into pure gold… who would not want to make the time?...

on Mar 10, 2015, Updated Sep 29, 2023 But sometimes these things happen, where for some indescribable, strange reason you can’t bring yourself to do something. Even though you know its easy, and you know you can. And then the day you attempt it, you realize that there was nothing to fear. It almost came naturally. Well the same thing happened to me last week. It all started with me attempting to make cream cheese from scratch....

Spotlight on black-eyed peas Black-eyed peas are actually beans. They are beige colored and rather distinctive because each bean has a black “eye” or hilum, where the seed was once attached to the pod. Like most beans, black-eyed peas, also called cowpeas, black-eyed beans and southern peas, are highly nutritious. They are loaded with antioxidants, fiber and protein and are a good source of complex carbohydrates, as well as calcium, magnesium, iron and vitamins A and K....

If you dream of smooth, creamy sauces that you can drizzle over just about everything to make them uber-delicious, you are in the right place. Because this sauce, guys, is the cheesy sauce to end all sauces. It’s even better than dessert. We are so addicted to it in our home right now that the other day, when Desi packed his brown bag lunch of eggplant pilaf, he drizzled this magic cheesy sauce over it....

on Oct 24, 2024 This year, we’re doing Diwali healthy-ish style. That means super fresh dishes made with ingredients that are good for you, without compromising on taste of course! This Moong Sprouts Apple Salad is one of those recipes and it’s perfect for your Diwali table. And trust me, this healthy sprouts salad is anything but boring! It’s herby, tangy, crunchy and slightly sweet making this a super refreshing appetizer to serve....

on Feb 09, 2023 I take my evening snacks pretty seriously! There are very few things I love as much as taking a break from work to sit in peace with a hot cup of tea and a snack. But since I don’t have a lot of time to whip up elaborate recipes in my little 5-pm break, I am always looking up easy evening snack ideas that are also delicious....