My Favorite Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe This super easy chicken salad recipe is a long overdue addition to my collection of indulgent salads. While this recipe is new to the blog, I’ve actually been making it at home for the past 20+ years. It contains just 7 ingredients, including diced apples (a fun addition I picked up from my aunt!). The apples add an interesting sweet/tart pop of flavor in every bite, and I can’t even fathom making my salad without them now....

You’ll love this wonderful chocolate frosting! How can you go wrong with cocoa powder, butter, and powdered sugar? Whipped into fluffy delightfulness, homemade buttercream frosting will turn any cake into a confectioners’ delight. I love to top this homemade banana cake with chocolate buttercream. How long it takes: 10 minutes Equipment you’ll need: Large bowl, rubber spatula, and electric mixer Servings: 10 My grandma made a 9 x 13 cake every Saturday with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting....

My love for kootu recipes! Last month I posted a cabbage kootu recipe without any fresh spice mix. Now it’s time for chow chow kootu but with a freshly ground spice mix. I have already posted another chow chow kootu recipe made in Instant Pot without coconut. The spice mix is slightly different. Do check it out. I can hear you asking how many kootu recipes will I post. Sorry folks, I don’t know....

My daughter loves pretzels especially the samples given out before the pretzels stalls in the mall. Those little buttery sweet bites that leave your fingers with a fresh coat of sugar. Yup, you got that right - Aunt Annie’s pretzel bites. Who doesn’t like those. This homemade sweet pretzel recipe is just as delicious. Also they are easy to make and very addictive. The best part of this recipe is that they need about 30 minutes of hands on time and the rest is rising and baking....

Coconut Lemon Mousse Trifle can be enjoyed anytime of the year with a dollop of Reddi-wip® Coconut Non-dairy whipped topping. We love desserts and any of our big-small gatherings are incomplete without a homemade version. No matter how much food I might have cooked the party isn’t over till I serve a luscious dessert 😉 That also means, keeping in mind everyone’s different needs/diet, hence most of my desserts are Non-Dairy (Vegan) or Glutenfree So when I recently found these NEW Reddi-wip® Non-dairy whipped toppings at Walmart, it was LOVE at first sight!...

I got this recipe from my mom. When she came to US for the first time, I got the recipes for chutneys but missed the podis. But she wrote this down for me. Last week I was digging through the paper clipping and got it. I usually use frozen coconut for kootu and chutneys. I usually thaw the required amount before cooking. But for this Podi I went with the fresh one to get the authentic taste....

How long it takes: 30 minutes Equipment you’ll need: pasta pot, colander, large salad bowl Servings: 10 (generous) Creamy Southwestern Orzo Salad Always a hit! I often make this southwestern orzo salad to bring to potlucks and picnics. Everyone seems to love it and it makes a big batch of salad so there’s plenty to go around. I think it’s the taco vibe it has, along with the fresh sweet corn (who doesn’t like fresh corn?...

I love making quick small-portioned snacks in my air fryer. When I was making my hurigalu, I had the idea of roasting it in an air fryer, but I dropped it and went the traditional way. But ever since, I have wanted to make roasted beans in the air fryer. I have tried roasted garbanzo beans in the oven(oven timings included in the post), so I tried the same in the air fryer, super happy with the results....

This ‘Dal ki Goli’ or ‘Indian Lentil Snacks’ is one of my mom’s favorite recipes, especially for our after-school lunches. To begin with, my mom’s cooking was extremely popular among family, friends, neighbors, and so on and she had this knack of turning even the most bland/boring food into something extraordinary – finger-licking good! Dal or Indian Lentil or Indian Dhal, as many know it, is a common everyday menu in most Indian homes and also, definitely one recipe which many kids don’t relish much....

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Cute & Easy Easter Cookies Step aside, carrot cake–these Easter sugar cookies are about to take over as the star of the Easter dessert table! With their colorfully sugared bodies and and tiny icing faces, these cookies look just like your favorite marshmallow Peeps, minus the gooey filling. Besides their obvious cuteness, these cookies are so easy and fun to make. You may be familiar with my easy sugar cookie recipe, which is exactly what I’m sharing today, just in Easter form....

What is Besan Nankhatai – Chickpea Cookies? Besan Nankhatai is extremely and I would say that again extremely popular Indian cookie which is popularly known as Chickpea Cookies. They are usually eggless (unless mentioned otherwise) and are extremely crispy. I generally make a huge batch and store up to 2-3 months (if they can last that long, also I literally hide half of them) 😉 Perfect to eat anytime or goes great with tea/coffee....

Chocolate and orange is a delicious combination. Be it in puddings or in ice cream or in this delicious chocolate cake recipe. This is my adaptation of eggless chocolate cake recipe from Baker in Disguise blog. This is a super simple and easy to make cake. It uses vinegar to make it soft and fluffy without the use of eggs. I added orange flavor in the form of extract and zest to the basic cake recipe and it is absolutely delicious....

As much as I love to bake eggless cakes and cookies, I love to make quick desserts in the microwave, especially mug cakes. As these are single-serving, you can easily control the portions without worrying about overeating. If you don’t want to bake a big cake, these microwave single-serving cakes are your best bet. This eggless vanilla mug cake is the kiddo’s favorite, and it’s a staple in our household....

We’re granola addicts in our household. I have my standard recipe memorized but every time I make granola, it changes a bit. And of course, I don’t really measure at this point so it always turns out a bit different. This cinnamon flax granola has so many great nutritional benefits from the oats, cinnamon, flaxseed, and ground flaxseed. Flaxseed is a nutrition powerhouse, loaded with nutrients, omega-3 fats, and fiber....

After a small break, I am back with my cherry recipes! We picked many cherries (16 pounds) this season, and we made some cherry jam and cherry chutney. Now it’s time for a refreshing drink – cherry lemonade. I love pink lemonades, and I have already shared lemon curd lemonade with rose syrup. This time I thought of adding fresh cherries to make my pink lemonade. Let’s get straight into the details and procedure....

I have shared a few dosa varieties this year, and now it’s time for the next set. As a part of the blogging marathon, I picked up the theme A-Z dosas, and this month, I will be sharing dosa recipes starting with alphabet G, H, and I. Let’s start with G, and I have ghavan, no ferment rice dosa for the same. Ghavan or ghavane is a Maharashtrian-special dosa prepared with rice, water, salt, and oil....

French Cheese Puffs On a roll with the French cuisine this week! First the French onion soup and now these two-bite savory gougères! If you’ve never had gougères before, you might be a bit surprised by their unique texture. They’re very different from many other bready side-dishes you might have had and quite unlike my biscuits or garlic cheddar drop biscuits. While those are dense and full, “French cheese puffs” (as they’re often called) are light and airy with gigantic air pockets....

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say Mushroom? …..Pizza…..Soup……Stir-Fry……Puffs …..And how long does any of these take to make ? Maybe 20-30 minutes, depending on the recipe, along with tons of other ingredients. So next time when you think of Mushrooms, think about a quick, healthy and oh-yum omelette -‘Mushroom Omelette‘… Gourmet Mushroom Omelette Ingredients: 4 Eggs 1/2 Cup Sliced Mushroom – washed 1/4 Cup Onions – Chopped 2 Tbsp cream cheese – Room temperature (OPTIONAL) 1/4 Cup Parmesan Cheese 4 Tbsp Olive Oil...

Beets—you either love ’em or you hate ’em. How long it takes: 5 minutes to prep, 30 minutes to cook Equipment you’ll need: large pan with lid Servings: 4 Fans of beets point to their earthy sweet flavor and vibrant color as their key benefits, while detractors complain that they taste like dirt. (I’m convinced there’s some kind of genetic factor at play, like how half the population thinks cilantro tastes like soap....