I love crunchy, fresh salads with a light dressing. This easy garden salad is all about that. You can quickly put it together and pair it with pasta or pizza, sandwich or soup for a complete meal. Olive Garden is one of our favorite restaurants, and if we are dining in there or taking to go, salad and minestrone will be there in our order for sure. I love the crunchiness of the Olive Garden salad....

Watermelon Ginger Beer Granita (4 Ingredients) Okay, Everyone, ‘Father’s Day’ is just around the corner (June 18, 2017) and I’m so ready with this Watermelon Ginger Beer Granita. And 3 more drink recipes to help you bring a smile on your Dad’s face 🙂 I dedicate today’s post to all the wonderful Dads or ‘Super-Man’ as many of us know them as – We Love You Dad !!! I’m ‘Daddy’s Girl’ and I say it very proudly as my dad has always me the freedom and believed in me + my dreams....

What is Whole30? I already have a complete guide to Whole30 available (complete with helpful tools, tips, and grocery store recommendations) – it’s perfect for beginners, so I won’t recap all of that, but we’ll do a quick overview. You can also learn everything you’d like on the official website (I always frequent the website each time I do a Whole30) but basically, it’s 30 days without added sugar, sweeteners (natural and artificial), grains (gluten and non-gluten), legumes (peanuts, peas, and soy included), dairy, gluten, and alcohol....

Tutti frutti cake is quite popular across India, and most bakeries in India carry them. It’s soft and moist with those delicate crumbs; it’s oh-so-delicious. Here is my version of eggless tutti frutti cake I baked this loaf for this Christmas, but it’s a great cake to bake year-round and an excellent snack for kids. If you want an easy cake to bake this holiday season, give it a try, and you will love it....

Butter Corn Masala Corn Sweet Chutney Flavored Corn I am back with my blogging marathon and this week’s theme is “One appliance and 3 recipes” and of course I picked slow cooker as my appliance. It’s been long time since I posted any slow cooker recipe. So to balance that, I am going to post back to back slow cooker corn recipes for the next few days. I think this summer, I posted quite a few summer specials including popsicles, ice-creams, lassi and of course mango recipes....

How long it takes: 10 minutes Equipment you’ll need: blender or food processor Servings: 12 Beautiful. Don’t you just love that creamy green tint? I think I could paint a wall with it. Then I could just head to the “Green Goddess room” whenever I wanted. Better than store-bought. You can buy Green Goddess dressing in a bottle at the grocery store but I guarantee it won’t taste anything like homemade....

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of news/articles/pics about this “Green Smoothie/Juice”. It’s like suddenly popped up everywhere from your fav local juice store to coffee shops, malls, eateries. You get them cold pressed/Juice/Smoothie/Bottled. So, I also tried my first smoothie at our local juicing store and kinda liked it…..though not at the first sip but yeah it grows on you. What I liked most about it, that it helps us consume the daily amount of fruits n veggies without chomping it down with a sigh !...

Because why eat soup out of a regular bowl when you can eat it out of a bowl made of bread? On Monday, when I shared my broccoli cheddar soup recipe, I promised that I’d soon be sharing a bread bowl recipe for you to put it in. Well here it is! This recipe is perfect for the beginner bread baker. It’s simple with only a handful of ingredients, can easily be cut in half if you’re not trying to serve 6, can be made with or without a stand mixer, and yields a sturdy bowl-shaped loaf of bread that’s great for filling with your favorite soup or dip....

Easy Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites These soft pretzel bites are a favorite party snack, and they’re SO easy to make! Enjoy soft and warm, fresh-from-the-oven pretzel bites with that iconic soft pretzel taste and texture, right in your kitchen. Sprinkle your pretzel bites with coarse salt, roll them in cinnamon sugar, or serve them as a party-ready appetizer with your favorite dipping sauces. Once you’ve made homemade soft pretzels, you’ll never return to storebought again!...

Baking is a chemistry, and it probably comes as no shock to you that the way you measure your ingredients is critical to the success or failure of your recipe. Just about every recipe on my site uses more flour than just about any other ingredient (except maybe sugar) and knowing how to measure flour properly is critical. If your homemade brownies have ever turned out too cakey, your chocolate chip cookies too flat, your birthday cake too dry or your sugar cookie dough too crumbly, you might have mis-measured your flour....

The ULTIMATE Birthday Dessert While many ice cream cakes are madeof just ice cream, that’s never been my favorite way to enjoy them. I like real cake layers in mine, and that’s exactly how I designed today’s ice cream cake recipe! Punctuated with fun sprinkles and frosted with stabilized whipped cream, never has a cake screamed it’s time to party so much since my Zebra cake! My ice cream cake recipe consists of fudgy, rich chocolate cake layers and an incredibly easy ice cream center (no ice cream machine needed!...

Instant Pot Dosakaya Pappu | Yellow Cucumber Dal After posting quite a few North Indian and North Eastern state recipes, I am back with a South Indian recipe. This dal is one among the comfort and staple food of Andhra/Telangana region. We all know that Andhra and Telangana are known for their different varieties of pappu or dal recipes. Every dal recipe is unique and flavorful. But among all of them my favorites are the simple tomato pappu and this dosakaya pappu....

Just picked out some raw mangoes from the grocery shop this weekend and thought of sharing some simple mango recipes, and here I am with the mango lentils curry or pacha manga kuzhambu as we say in Tamil. Pacha manga means green or the raw mango in Tamil, and kuzhambu is the curry. Kuzhambu or Sambar or Dal- Usually, for kuzhambu, we don’t add lentils, but for this kuzhambu, we add toor dal....

We all prefer easy dinner recipes, especially after a long tiring day. This broccoli dal tadka is one such recipe. It has the combined goodness of lentils and broccoli along with the flavors of cumin seeds, ginger, and garlic. I love to sneak in vegetables in my dal or the lentils. I have a few recipes like sobji dal (mixed vegetable lentils), yellow cucumber dal, tender jackfruit dal on my blog already....

This raw or green mango pickle is one of the straightforward pickles to make. It is also called vendaya mangai. Periyakulam, my native, is nicknamed Mango Town, and I mentioned it in the Maavadu post. Mango grooves surround the nearby Sothuparai dam and Periyakulam pond. (It is the dam across the Varaha River or the Varaha Nadhi.) So, there is nothing to say about fresh mango and maavadu availability in Periyakulam....

I love biryanis. I love making them and eating them. It is that love that made me try quite a few varieties from all over India. Being a Hyderabadi, I have a delicious Hyderabadi Biryani recipe that is a sure hit every time I make it. Kerala Style Cooking: So in my quest to try other biryani recipes, I have a variation from Kerala that is packed with flavor and tons of veggies....

It’s a great way to use leftover rice. All you need to do is blend the rice, flavor it up with your preferred condiments, and dry in the sun. That’s it. It is as simple as that. You can prepare them in bulk during summer and store them. These leftover rice fryums are- Super easy to make No special equipment needed Best way to use the leftover rice And they are vegan and gluten-free....

Theme: A-Z Dishes from Andhra Pradesh Dish: M for Menthi kura Pappu Letter M stands for fruits & veggies like Mamidikaya/ Mamidi pandu (mango), Menthikura (fenugreek leaves) etc. For today’s post, I made a simple dal with Menthikura. I planted methi in my container garden and used it to make this tasty dal. Methi is probably the easiest to grow, sow some methi (fenugreek seeds) and within a week you have tiny methi leaves growing....

Happy Friday Peeps and I’m calling ALL my Spicy and Mexican food Lovers as we are talking Mexican Crab Ceviche Recipe today. Ingredients Mexican Crab Ceviche Recipe 1/2 Cup Cooked Crab – chopped 10 Cherry Tomatoes – thinly chopped 1 Small Red Onion – thinly chopped 4 Tbsp Frozen Corn – thawed 2 Tbsp Orange Pepper – thinly chopped 1 Avocado – thinly chopped Juice of 1 Lime Few Sprigs of Cilantro – thinly chopped 1 Tbsp Hot Sauce 1 Tsp Taco Seasoning 2-3 Tbsp Sour Cream – optional As a lot of you know I’m a huge fan of Mexican food, so much so that I can literally eat it everyday!...

Growing up, kosambari, is the only raw salads I have had. Once in awhile, my mom would serve fruits and honey salad. I remember enjoying jackfruit and grapes mixed with honey. (Yes, we add honey to the super sweet jackfruit) Also, I love to relish pineapples and guava with a sprinkle of red chili powder and fruit chaat. After coming to the US, I got hooked with all the side salads and dressings....