Perfect any time of the year, a Bay Breeze cocktail is simple, delicious, and refreshing. With only three ingredients, it’s a cinch to make. How long it takes: 5 minutes Equipment you’ll need: Ice, glass (or a pitcher if you’re making a big batch). Servings: 1 Looking for a summer cocktail? Pineapple juice reminds you of a tropical island, perfect for the balmy days of summer. Looking for a winter cocktail?...

A Bounty of Blueberry Recipes If you’ve been around for a little bit, you’ll know that blueberries are one of my favorite fruits to bake with. They can typically be tossed into recipes either fresh or frozen, and they have such a bright flavor and color (seriously, just look at my blueberry frosting!). Today, I’m collecting all of my blueberry recipes thus far into a neat and tidy list for you to choose from....

Semi-Homemade Pizza After posting two homemade pizzas from scratch, today I am going to share an easy peasy semi-homemade pizza (errr you can make this from scratch as well) prepared with bread. It’s the bread pizza topped with tomato-pesto sauce, vegetables and of course cheese. This bread pizza is a perfect after-school snack, or if you ask me, I would say its a ideal dinner/lunch too. When time is pressing or if you are too tired to prepare pizza from scratch this is one of the best bet....

5 Reasons to Try These Carrot Cake Cookies Carrot cake cookies are one of my kids’ favorite cookies, even if they are made with vegetables. I’ll admit though, I think a lot of their love for them has to do with the cream cheese frosting piled on top! A lot of thought and care went into developing this recipe all those years ago. I wanted cookies that were soft and moist, but still sturdy enough to hold copious amounts of frosting....

Recipe is very easy to make. All you need is just a few basic ingredients and you have a tasty condiment or side dish in no time. About the Recipe My family enjoys spicy chutneys aka pachadi. So, I am always looking for new chutney recipes to add to my repertoire. Like this delicious onion chutney or this sorakaya thokku pachadi. This carrot and onion chutney recipe came about when I bought a big bag of carrots from Costco....

Today is the last day for my ‘Lunch box’ theme and I have a filling and colorful Cauliflower fried rice. This dish is actually made with cauliflower rice instead of real rice. It is a colorful, veggie packed dish that is great to pack in the lunch box.Cauliflower rice has become quite popular recently and I finally got on the band wagon. I bought frozen cauliflower rice, but it can very easily be made at home....

Luscious black cherries combined with smoky chipotle chiles in adobo sauce make an unforgettable barbecue sauce that you’ll want to slather on everything! I pretty much can guarantee that everyone will be licking their fingers, trying to get that last bit of deliciousness. My mom spent hours a couple weeks ago slow cooking pork roast for pulled pork sandwiches. While the pork was fall apart delicious, her guests raved almost exclusively about the BBQ sauce she served....

How long it takes: 1 hour, 20 minutes Equipment you’ll need: Oven-safe skillet, oven Servings: 6 Okay, you know I’m not Julia Child! I try to keep recipes simple and accessible to every cook (sorry, Julia, not trying to draw comparisons here). This chicken fricassee recipe will take a little time in the kitchen but it’s not difficult. You can do it! Why This Chicken Fricassee Is Special So much flavor: I love it because it’s so good!...

Banana Bread Cookies The gourmet-cookie version of chocolate chip banana bread, these are the fancier, bakery-style sister to my banana cookies and everyone who has tried them has become obsessed. These cookies are soft, tender, and, most of all, amazingly flavorful (thanks to banana and brown butter!). I’m asked often what I do with my leftover baked goods and my sister, (Nikki, she helps me in the kitchen) takes most of them to her soccer teams (she’s on 4 teams!...

Incredible Chocolate Zucchini Cake “Your chocolate zucchini cake needs tweaking.” My mom said to me, scraping the last few fudgy crumbs from her plate onto her fork. “What? What’s wrong with it!?” All of my other taste-testers had raved about this recipe and I’d already marked it down as being perfected. I was in love with the rich fudginess, the deep, decadent chocolate taste and perfectly balanced moisture, the ✨perfectly✨ complementary chocolate cream cheese frosting, and honestly I was just stunned that she wasn’t....

Colorful Rotis Roti or Indian flatbread is traditionally served with dal and curries. But it is a very versatile flatbread, and you can substitute roti for tortillas and create zillion other recipes. You can make quesadillas, tacos, burritos, roti rolls/wraps, frankie with rotis. The kiddo loves the colors on his plate, and that’s when I thought of preparing these colorful rotis with Rotimatic. Now instead of plain roti, you can create colorful and flavored rotis with Rotimatic....

Christmas is just around the corner and sharing my favorite Christmas Tequila Drink – Cranberry Orange Christmas Margarita!! They are simply DELICIOUS, Easy, Crowd Pleaser, and the best of all – made light for you to have that second glass or so. If you have been reading my blog for some time now, you know that Margarita would somehow end up in our party menu and How can I let go of my favorite Christmas party without one 😉...

This is a luscious autumn dressing, with notes of maple, apple, stone-ground mustard, and freshly cracked black pepper. I’m so excited about this dressing, I could slurp it up like soup. Creamy maple dressing gets a little tanginess from Greek yogurt and apple cider vinegar. Maple syrup balances the tang and adds sweetness. With generous amounts of freshly ground black pepper and coarse mustard, this dressing has plenty of peppy flavor....

Spicy Korean pickles are a taste sensation. They are peppery, garlicky, and just a bit sweet. They are often served with Korean sloppy Joes or bulgogi. How long it takes: 15 minutes Equipment you’ll need: sharp knife, bowl Servings: 6 Korean pickled cucumbers are made with a good amount of red pepper flakes. Look for gochugaru, a staple in Korean cooking, which is coarsely ground dried chili peppers. It has a slightly sweet and smoky flavor....

The new recipe in my “easy dinner ideas” theme is a delicious vegetarian taco pasta salad with creamy avocado dressing. Earlier I had shared kanjiyum payarum and falafel salad, do check those recipes too. Pasta doesn’t have to be cheesy; you can make some filling pasta salad recipes that can be relished as a side or for any meal, and this taco pasta salad is one such recipe. If you love pasta like me, then do check out my 10 must try vegetarian pasta recipes....

How long it takes: 50 minutes Equipment you’ll need: oven, oven safe skillet Servings: 8 If you’re still feeling skittish about the chiles, you may leave them out of this recipe and it will still taste fantastic. However, I’d encourage you to give them a try! This easy egg white frittata is packed full with nutritious spinach and has lots of flavor thanks to the green chiles and green onions....

I love making healthy dips for game day snacks and movie nights. This green goddess dip and Indian style veggie dip are family favorites. Here, I have a creamy and easy to make onion dip. This is a great recipe to have in your repertoire because is tastes crazy good AND it is very easy to make. The base recipe for onion dip is from Alton Brown - it is a fool proof and everything is made from scratch....

I received a produce box from Farmbox Direct for review. All of the opinions in the post are entirely mine. This post contains affiliate links and I make a small commission if you choose to purchase it through my code/ links. What is Farmbox Direct? It is a weekly subscription service that delivers organic and natural produce straight to your doorstep. They bring you the freshest produce sourced by farmers and businesses local to your area....

Usually with left over idlys we apply idly milahai podi with oil and leave it overnight and have it the next day. Idly soaked in milahai podi and oil.. delicious. In my UG hostel they used to make idly upma.. Idly upma tastes depending on the sourness of the idly. I think I had too much of upma in my UG hostel, so thought of trying something different and easy at the same time....

Discover all the elements of gazpacho, a puréed soup served chilled, in a summery chopped salad: vine ripened tomatoes, red onion, crisp bell pepper, fresh cucumber, garlic, hearty croutons, extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar. Refreshing as the traditional soup, gazpacho chopped salad is rustic and simple. How long it takes: 15 minutes Equipment you’ll need: sharp knife, large bowl Servings: 8 What’s Gazpacho? Perhaps you’re not familiar with gazpacho....