Black Eyed Peas Curry

  I really should have posted this recipe before New Years since in the South (Southern USA), it is believed that eating Black Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day brings prosperity. I like to collect good wishes and blessings from anywhere I can. We ate this recipe on New Year’s Day, so let’s see how [...]

Eggnog Bread Pudding & a Giveaway

    My favorite dish of the holidays has to be Eggnog. I didn’t know what Eggnog was till my first year in this country. Now come Thanksgiving time, I pick up Eggnog by the cartons at the grocery stores. I buy them all – Soy Eggnog, Coconut Milk Eggnog, Chocolate Eggnog, Whole Eggnog, Light [...]

Goat Cheese Spinach Chicken Meatballs

There was no turkey or mashed potatoes or any pumpkin on my dining table this year. We are in India at the moment where there are very few i.e. 1 or 2 restaurants in the entire city of millions that host Thanksgiving for the expat population. But there was this amazing gratitude lesson for my [...]

Roasted Cauliflower Salad in a Pomegranate Reduction + Tips on creating a winter salad

A slight deviation today to showcase a recipe that you may want to include on your Thanksgiving table. I am sharing a recipe by Chef Kristi Ritchey from the LA based Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop. After a life-long struggle with her weight, Chef Kristi Ritchey lost 110 pounds—and has kept it off for five years and [...]

Strawberry-tini for kids for Valentine’s Day

Strawberry-tini for kids for Valentine’s Day… Valentine’s Day is around the corner and the best presents I get on this day are the presents made by my preschooler asking me to be her Valentine. I know this is shortlived and soon in the not so distanct future she will only want to give cards and [...]

Red White and Blue Zoku Frozen Pop

Happy July 4th!  America is my adopted country and I love it for what it has given me.  I have always considered myself a citizen of the world.  Born in a different country, grew up in another for early part of my life, went to boarding school in a remote area where there were kids [...]

Healthy Alternatives to Thanksgiving recipes

With Thanksgiving around the corner, most of us will be induling in a day of utter indulgence and mindless eating.  Here are some ideas from askdrsears.com on healthy alternatives to use for your recipes.    Instead of… Try… Instead of…  sour cream, try… low fat plain yogurt (great in dips, you can’t even tell!). Instead of… gravy and butter, try… cranberry [...]

Recipe: Mummy Muffin Pizza

I was so inspired by the healthy Halloween Treats by FamilyFun that I decided that this week Simone and I will try one of the recipes from it.  We decided to make mummy pizzas at home.  We also made our pizza sauce from scratch and used peas instead of olives for the eyes. Here’s our [...]