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You might also like these recipes for classic vegan scones and vegan strawberry scones. Scones are often on our weekend breakfast menu, and these vegan cranberry sourdough scones are our current favorites. I’ve always loved scones because they are so versatile–perfect for breakfast, brunch or a snack and even dessert. And it’s fun to shape them any way you want. Although I usually go with the traditional wedge shape, of late I’ve been cutting them into squares with my square 3-inch cookie cutter and I just love the look....

Mushrooms can be a loaded topic at our home. I love them, Desi loves them sometimes, and Jay thinks they are the ghastliest thing to have ever sprouted into existence. Jay is certainly not the only child to balk at mushrooms – most kids find their slimy texture and earthy flavor hard to stomach, and you can tell them how nutritious they are until you’re blue in the face but is there a child who ever ate anything because it’s good for them?...

This is also delicious food, and it’s incredibly kid-friendly, so you’ll have every reason to want to make it. And make it again. What you’ll love about this recipe It’s hearty comfort food, food that’ll fill your belly and put a smile on your face. The flavors are a lot like those of a vegan lasagna.It comes together mostly–or entirely–with pantry ingredients.It’s deliciousIt’s immensely kid-friendly.It requires hardly any prep—all you need to do is chop garlic and if you have pre-chopped garlic, good for you....

Be sure to check out more of my mushroom recipes, including mushroom bourguignon, mushroom ragout and mushroom osso bucco. Mushrooms are plentiful in Fall, and I can’t think of a recipe I’d rather put them in than this quick and easy vegan Mushroom Pasta. This is a simple pasta, requiring just a little more effort than if you were making Aglio e Olio. It needs seven ingredients, most from your pantry, and it is ready in under 20 minutes....

on Jan 02, 2016, Updated Nov 17, 2023 If you like sweet breakfasts, then I highly recommend you to try this Vegan Spinach Ginger Smoothie Bowl. It’s a really simple and delicious way to start your day on a wholesome note. This vegan smoothie just requires a handful ingredients like spinach, ginger, frozen bananas, and coconut milk to give you a concoction that is delicious and wholesome to keep you satiated until lunch....

on Dec 04, 2019, Updated Aug 22, 2020 December is definitely my favorite time of the year. It really kicks in those vibes and a month with a vibe like that deserves some kick-ass recipes. For example – this delicious Vegetarian gravy. Made with aromatics, spices, herbs, red wine, and mushrooms, this gravy is truly a flavor bomb. For the holiday season, I love serving this with mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, and stuffed chicken....

You might also like Greek lemon potatoes, rosemary roasted potatoes and roasted fingerling potatoes. Recipes made in the air fryer, like air fryer tofu and air fryer French fries, make easy, healthy and delicious snacks. Here’s one more for that list: air fryer potatoes. They are super crispy, loaded with flavor, and they can do triple duty as a tasty side for breakfast, lunch or dinner. They are also really good for you because not only do you use less oil when you air fry the potatoes, but the seasonings that go on the spuds - turmeric, cayenne, garlic and mint - are all healthy additions....

on Sep 26, 2015, Updated Apr 19, 2021 I never post two days in a row, but there are times when you try something out, and if you don’t share its awesomeness with the world immediately, you don’t deserve to be called a Food Blogger. And that’s what this Badass Lamb Meatball Burger with an insane Whiskey Sauce is all about. It all started with the sauce actually. We recently had Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey at a friends place and were floored!...

A north Indian style Baingan Masala or Eggplant Masala puts in a frequent appearance on Indian restaurant menus, like that other popular masala dish, a chana masala. But making a restaurant style Baingan Masala at home is easy and the rewards are infinitely greater. For one you can make it as low in fat as you want with ingredients you pick and choose and know are fresh. Most baingan masala recipes start out by deep frying the eggplant but we air-fry it without oil and combine it with potatoes, because eggplant, potatoes and peanuts?...

A well executed main deserves a well executed side. Boiling some carrots and tossing some butter on them. That’s OK but it isn’t great. Maybe for a Tuesday night dinner. But not for Saturday. Not for guests. And definitely not for holidays. For holidays you want something special. Something that stands up to your wonderful main course. Balsamic roasted carrots aren’t really much more work. But so much better. There’s something magic about roasting root vegetables....

One pot roast chicken dinner. Like the 1950s. But a whole lot better. Because it’s Indian-ish. They didn’t have it all that wrong back then. Chicken and potatoes. Roasted together. Tasty stuff. A bit tricky to get both done at exactly the same time. But tasty stuff. If you nail it. Now imagine. 1950s concept. 2020s thinking. Tandoori spiced roast chicken. Coconut curry sauce. And perfectly cooked potatoes. That is just good living....

The tang of the vinegar, the mustard and that hint of heat from the chili powder. Perfect. Carolina mustard sauce is a fantastic alternative to tomato based sauces. Carolina mustard sauce is perfect with pork I don’t really get the tomato sauce and pork thing. In general I don’t really get it for anything but chicken. Mustard and pork. That makes sense to me. Or no sauce at all. If you nail your BBQ why hide it?...

Forget take out. This is better. And it will be piping hot when you sit down to eat. This isn’t the super funky smelling, fishy pad thai purists fresh from the streets of Bangkok are looking for. But it’s not the super watered down lowest common denominator version either. No ketchup here. No soy sauce. But no dried shrimp either. But way closer to Bangkok than Denny’s for sure. Probably not far off your local Thai restaurant....

on Jun 05, 2023 Evening snacks are a big deal in this house. All of us love taking a little break from work to grab a bite and sip on a cup of chai. Which is why it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I am always trying out new snack-y recipes that are not just delicious, but also quick and easy. And believe me when I tell you that this chilli cheese garlic bread is one dish you just won’t be able to have enough of....

And you can make it at home. It’s not hard. You can even cook the lentils the day before and finish them off when it’s time to eat. Great fast food. They call this Dhaba style in India. Dhabas are restaurants along highways. Comfort food done restaurant style. Cheap and delicious. Guess everyone wants that on road trips. Yabba doo. Two blasts of flavour make dal tadka special The two stage flavouring is what makes them....

I haven’t posted a non-sourdough bread in a while, so I thought I’d remind you about this amazing and easy French Bread recipe I shared with you all the way back in 2009. It’s my favorite French Bread and I make it ever so often, as do so many of you who have written to tell me all about it. My recipe’s still exactly the same, but I’ve updated this post with new photographs, because the old ones were, well, to put it nicely, dated....

on Oct 13, 2015, Updated Apr 19, 2021 Anybody who’s grown up in an Indian family will agree that the festive season is the beginning of incredibly delicious, but rich, high calorie food. But if you’re on a diet or trying to eat healthy and are looking for healthy dessert ideas, I’ve got you covered! Enter: This Healthy Quinoa Apple Kheer. This kheer is ‘healthier’ than traditional Indian sweets, which is really saying something!...

on Jul 12, 2023 Seafood, especially prawns and fish, are a regular part of our weekly menu. For the longest time, we would go out and buy fresh fish the morning I planned to cook it. But over the last few years, I have switched to frozen fish for a number of different reasons. One being that most likely fresh fish isn’t exactly fresh, especially if you live in a city like Bangalore which isn’t near the sea....

You might also like these recipes for sourdough pretzels, hot dog pretzel buns, and whole wheat burger buns. Here’s a comprehensive guide to making the most perfect bagels you will ever eat. Best of all they are so easy to make – beginner-level easy, in fact. And they have everything you look for in a bagel: a chewy, dense but soft crumb, a deliciously shiny and pleasantly stiff crust, and incredible flavor!...

If you love fermented foods and understand the immense benefits they bring to your health, you should be making Idli, a five-ingredient food that originated in south India and has dug roots in kitchens across the rest of India and in Indian kitchens around the world. South Indian dishes popularized by restaurants, like dosa, adai, sambar, and pongal, are usually immensely healthy. And that’s more true of idli than almost any of these other foods....