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Cream of Fennel Soup
One of the best things about cooking is making soups. Ahem – if you said, “What’s so great in making soups? Its darn easy?” – I would say ,” EXACTLY”. They make my life so much easier. There have been umptee (read full article)
Recipe Redux
Some of you may recall my post from a few weeks ago detailing the scrumptious Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cherry Cookies. If you missed it, here is the post. I loved everything about those cookies - the chewy insides, the crunchy outsides, t (read full article)
Desert Walking
Yesterday I did a virtuous four mile walk with my family along a canyon and through the badlands along a dry gulch in Death Valley. We climbed around 500 feet and descended the same during the course of the walk which took around three hours. It wa (read full article)
Low-Calorie Creamy Balsamic Salad Dressing
This recipe is for Crystal, who specifically requested a low-calorie salad dressing in a comment on my vacuum-pack giveaway last week. Like her, I also can get in a rut with salad dressing since I eat a jar of salad almost every day. But making a (read full article)
Spaghetti Squash Curry
Indianizing recipes is, well, a force of habit! Especially when you want to try something new – the first thing that comes to my mind is how I can make it with ‘homey’ flavors. I am sure every person tries that! Get comfortable wit (read full article)
Grapefruit Ginger Bread
Adding fruits to breads has been always been a passion for me. I started it as a way to overcome my handicap. I dunno why, but I simply don’t have this habit of consuming fruits on a day to day basis! “What’s so hard about it?̶ (read full article)
Cooking For A Picky Eater
My husband Elvis has always been a picky eater. His family loves to tell me stories about his childhood when he wouldn't eat fish or any type of vegetable. When we were first married, he insisted on having "normal" food, meaning meat and potatoes, (read full article)
This eating out lark is bad news
The problem with having no kitchen is that you eat out all the time. The problem with eating out is that the portions are too big. Plus the food is generally pretty calorific. Plus there is too much temptation all round. I shall be astonished if (read full article)
Low fat Marble Chocolate Cheesecake
Recently when one of my Facebook readers – Pauline Heart asked me for Marble Cheesecake recipe for the upcoming Chinese New Year, I was reminded of this low calorie recipe from Cooking Light magazine which I had been meaning to try for a long (read full article)
Dehydrators & Dehydrated Food, Ep173
A few weeks ago I received a great request to go over the different appliances raw foodist use and which one’s I recommend. So today I talk about the dehydrator. I first have to say that you don’t need a dehydrator to be on a raw food die (read full article)
Healthy ways to add fiber to your diet
We all know that most Americans don't get enough fiber in their diets. Women should consume around 25 grams of fiber daily, and men should consume around 35 grams. If you want to increase your fiber intake, here are a few easy tips:Start gradually (read full article)
Khatta Dhokla
When I made Khaman Dhokla with amazing results, I had one reader Kavita interact with me about Khatta Dhokla! I promised her a recipe and here it is – 2 months later. Well its late indeed and I really apologize to many of my readers whose req (read full article)
Ethiopian Injera
For last few months I am in pursuit of happyness (guess I am watching too many movies) this Ethiopian delicacy called Injera. HOW MANY BOOKS have I researched, how many online resources have I waded through, is too brobdingnagian to elaborate here! (read full article)
Home cooking
We ate our first home-cooked meal in four days yesterday at a friend's house. Cottage pie. Yum. It was quite a relief to have something that didn't come with a side or a dipping sauce. (There was, of course, HP sauce on the table, but only the sm (read full article)
Curry Lentil Soup
Lentils are loaded with nutrients, fiber, complex carbohydrates, and folic acld. Lentils are a low calorie, low fat, and cholesterol free food. There are hundreds of varieties of lentils, with as many as fifty or more cultivated for food. They come (read full article)
Raw Eggplant Bread Sandwich Recipe, Ep164
Here a great low fat, raw alternative to bread– dehydrated Eggplant! Check out today’s episode where I show you how to make dehydrated Eggplant and a fabulous Raw Sandwich!!! The next 10 Day Juice Fasting Program starts this Monday (Febr (read full article)
Aloo Methi (Potatoes & Fenugreek Greens)
This dish reminds me so much of my mother. The effort she put in to make me consume these slightly bitter greens were myriad. She tried sneaking in so many dishes but I would always find out! Yes – I was that intelligent (!!). “Of all th (read full article)
PizzaExpress Leggera Wines
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a PR event at PizzaExpress in Mayfair. The event was a promotion for their Leggera range of pizzas and wines, and an attempt to interact with the blogging community. Several bloggers were invited, and no (read full article)
Fitness Challenge Q&A
Good morning! Remember when I had the opportunity to be featured in the "foodies" issue of Juice Magazine? Well, Juice – a weekly entertainment/what’s happening magazine for 25-34 year olds in my area – has recently launc (read full article)
Punjabi Cuisine & Awesome Punjabi Dishes
The cuisine of Punjab has an enormous variety of mouth watering vegetarian as well as non vegetarian dishes. Punjabi food is relished by people of all communities. Wheat is the staple food of Punjabis; however, they do enjoy eating rice on festiviti (read full article)
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