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One-pot pasta recipes are becoming increasingly popular among busy families like mine, who desire quick and easy meals without compromising on taste and nutrition. They offer a perfect balance of flavors, nutrients, and convenience, making them a great choice for weeknights. In this blog post, I’ll share some benefits of one-pot pasta dishes along with key components that make them so delicious and nutritious. I’ve also included a collection of 30-minute recipes for one-pot pasta, that are a snitch to put together....

Updated Sep 25, 2024 Amidst all the picnics and barbecues happening this summer, 4th of July is one of the most feel-good days of them all. You’ve got perfectly warm weather, great company, sparks flying (literally), and the best cookout food. Just plan out a quick menu from the ideas below and you’re set! I’ve got all the classics in this list, plus a few unique ideas to bring some excitement to the table....

Sep 12, 2023 If you suffer from an autoimmune disease, diabetes, heart disease, gut disorders or any other inflammatory condition, incorporating more of these simple foods into your diet is a smart idea. Can changing your eating habits help to improve your overall health? You betcha! Every time we eat we have the option to choose foods that are inflammatory or anti-inflammatory to the body. Foods that hurt our overall wellness or boost our overall wellness....

Enjoy this healthy and quick side dish any night of the week! If I haven’t convinced you to invest in an air fryer from all of my other delicious air fryer vegetable recipes, these air fryer green beans might just do the trick. These green beans in air fryer are the perfect weeknight-friendly side dish that’s ready quickly, requires minimal prep, is made up of just a few ingredients, and is, of course, delicious!...

About Almond Milk Almond Milk is a popular plant based milk option for many. As fancy as it may sound, the Almond Milk recipe is quite simple as it is made by just blending fresh soaked almonds with water and straining the mixture to get rid of the solids. I could never consume plain milk even with sugar. After trying Almond Milk a couple of times, I’m literally hooked to it....

I often make rice dishes like pulao at home. So along with trying out different varieties of pulao, I also try out varieties of raita. We always prefer veg pulao or veg biryani with a raita. Specially during summers we prefer to have raita or yogurt as a side dish. The norm is to make Onion raita or Boondi raita or Cucumber Raita which are our favorites. But sometimes I skip making these raitas and try different recipes....

One humble, not so popular plant is the colocasia, which is not just useful for its root vegetable (arbi) but also for its leaves. The leaves are used to make many unique recipes in the regional cuisines of India. A few recipes that I make with colocasia leaves are – Alu vadi, Alu chi patal bhaji (colocasia leaves gravy) and this Arbi Ke Patte Ke Pakode. This is an easy recipe for crisp and scrumptious pakoras made with colocasia or arbi leaves, gram flour and basic Indian spices....

This recipe has been handed down to me by my one and only mother. I may only ever change a couple things, but really, this is perfection. The beef mixture inside this Beef and Pumpkin Shepherd’s Pie is like beast mode a la Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator of Shepherd’s Pie…or Cottage Pie. Whichever one rocks your socks. So much happening it may not be like your normal average Shepherd’s Pie, but since when are we normal anyway?...

Have you ever heard that the phrase “cellar door” is the most beautiful-sounding phrase in the entire English language? I would like to petition that “jammy pockets” take its place. Jammy pockets, as in, “this maple-scented blueberry tea cake is full of jammy pockets.” Jammy pockets make the world a better place. This sweet little cake, with its delicate, maple-infused crumb and jammy purple pockets, is naturally sweetened and made entirely with whole grain flours....

About This Recipe It is been a long time I shared any cauliflower recipe. So here goes this delicious cauliflower biryani with South Indian flavors. This biryani has a lot of spices but they blend beautifully and give a really good flavor and taste. This cauliflower biryani is dum cooked but not layered and everything is cooked in one pot. While preparing South Indian versions of biryani, I always use seeraga samba rice – which is a fragrant variety of short grained rice cultivated in South India....

About Cheese Naan Naan is a leavened flatbread, which is traditionally cooked in tandoor (a clay oven) but can also be roasted on a tawa or skillet. Naan is a well known flatbread in Indian, Caribbean and many other Asian cuisines. The Cheese Naan is one of the widely popular naan versions in India. This recipe of Cheese Naan Bread without any yeast is a simple one that you can refer to, and make for your family, friends and guests at home....

Special occasions call for cake, and cake calls for cream cheese frosting. Am I right? No? If cream cheese frosting is wrong, I don’t want to be right. The best cream cheese frosting is lusciously creamy, sweet and tangy. It’s the perfect counterpart to sweet, tender, fluffy cake. To make it, you’ll only need a few basic ingredients: cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Cream cheese frosting is undeniably fantastic on carrot cake, so I’m sharing this recipe just in time for tomorrow’s carrot cake recipe....

An easy chicken recipe with crispy chicken drumsticks, chicken thighs and bacon. This Coq au vin gets everybody talking! Serve with creamy mashed potatoes, rice or cauliflower mash smothered with butter! The most delicious chicken dinner is ready on the table! COQ AU VIN RECIPE Coq Au Vin, translated as Rooster In Wine, is traditionally made with chicken on the bone and red wine (traditionally Burgundy. But any wine could be used, with Riesling being a popular choice)....

About Date Cake Date cake is a favorite with us. No wonder, I make this on days when we crave for sweets or desserts that are healthy. This Date and Walnut Cake recipe is almost a decade old that I had posted many years back. I have been making this Date Cake for many years now. It simply never fails and you get the perfect date loaf every time. My recipe always impresses my family and friends....

Dhaba style Keema is my husband’s favorite curry to cook. It’s his Sunday-night specialty ;-)). And for a good reason. This rich, intensely infused curry tastes like it’s been cooking for hours, and feels like a treat. This recipe is an Instant Pot adaptation of hubby’s Dhaba Keema, but since he makes it on the stove more often, I’ve included that version as well. What is Dhaba? Dhaba is a roadside restaurant commonly found on highways and truck stops throughout India....

Beep beep. Boop boop. One zero one zero zero zero one. I. Am. Recipe. Robot. Yeeeeesh, sorry, I am a little sleep deprived over here. I’ve been working almost around the clock on the cookbook manuscript, analyzing the logic and clarity behind every list and instruction, while trying to make the head notes as informative and entertaining as they can be. I read through all 115 recipes yesterday with a fine-tooth comb....

About Garam Masala Garam Masala is an fragrant and complexly flavored spice blend. Garam is the Hindi word for “warming,” or “hot”, while the word Masala means a blend of spices. Garam masala is therefore a term that refers to a slightly spicy, warming spice blend. Made with a mix of whole spices that are fragrant, pungent, sweet, hot and smoky – all the integral flavors of Indian cuisine! Using garam masala as a spice blend in your food not only adds aroma and flavor to your meals, but also helps to warm the body, and also acts as a digestive aid....

The brown armchair in my living room has become the scapegoat for everything that is wrong with my life. It’s not a bad-looking chair, really. It has a nice shape and swivels around in a circle. The nubby brown fabric, however, hangs onto dog hairs for dear life. It will soon be a sweater chair. The longer I sit on my couch and stare down the sweater chair, the more I despise it....

Enjoy this Mediterranean chicken on a Greek salad, or pair it with saffron rice or quinoa tabbouleh salad for a hearty dinner. Chicken is a wonderful lean protein that takes on any flavor you use to season it. And my go-to Greek marinade made with pantry staples flavors the chicken in a quick 15-minute marination time. I usually meal prep a double batch on Sundays and use it for multiple meals throughout the week....

Since posting this incredibly popular Honey Garlic Butter Salmon, I’ve been flooded with so many emails from my loyal readers asking for a shrimp version. Therefore due to popular demand, here it is! The best buttery honey garlic shrimp to hit your dinner table ready in less than 10 minutes, and tastes better than any restaurant! No marinading needed! HONEY GARLIC SHRIMP This Honey Garlic Shrimp recipe comes to you adapted from our Browned Butter Honey Garlic Shrimp....