Puff Pastry Cheese Straws

  My children have discovered puff pastry now and fancy themselves as gourmet cooks! I think puff pastry makes everything seem gourmet. Growing up, puff pastry dishes were the ones you ate out of the house, because you didn’t make it at home. Imagine my joy when I discovered puff pastry sheets a few years [...]

Baby Potatoes sauteed with whole spices

  Boy these are the cutest little potatoes one can find. They are called Pee Wee Potatoes and should be available at your local grocery store. They are the size of a grape and are just so cute that you will want to pick them up and take them home.   We brought the Pee [...]

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 [...]

Lemon Quinoa

This year I am going to feed my family more quinoa, more couscous, more faro, more wild rice, more brown rice, and more Indian breads (naan, roti, parathas etc.). I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions as I eventually drop them in frustration. Instead, I vow to make small manageable changes throughout the year. When something [...]

Cumin Baby Potatoes

Forgive me for not posting as frequently in the past few weeks. I have been traveling with my kids and we have been adventuring. My days have been spent showing them the different images of India, introducing them to their cousins and second cousins so they can create new bonds and memories. We wander through [...]

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 [...]

Crepes with pumpkin filling

I had always shied away from making crepes at home because it looked so complicated.I hesitated in making it at home the frist time but this recipe from Food & Wine Magazine made it look so easy that I had to try it. My first crepe was a disaster but once I got the hang [...]

Arugula Persimmon Salad

I’m honored to have been invited to submit this recipe to my fellow blogger pal, Cathy’s Healthy Thanksgiving Challenge. Her top 10 list for a heart healthy thanksgiving should actually be used year round. Since I was really attracted to tip# 7 – Go overboard on veggetables, I decided to make a salad for her [...]

Pumpkin Chocolate Milkshake

Nothing beats the feeling when you make a new recipe for the kids and the first word out of their mouth after eating (or sipping in this case) is – “delicious”. Well this is exactly what my 22 month old son said when he took his first sip of this Pumpkin Chocolate Walnut Milkshake. I [...]

Cauliflower Soup

Growing up I did not like cauliflower! I never understood the reason, the best I can think of as my older wiser self now is that I didn’t like its bumpy textured look. It was a struggle to get me to eat cauliflower considering cauliflower, potato and peas stew was a family favorite. My parents [...]

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