Who doesn’t love the smell of freshly baked bread??? I think it’s one of the best smells in the whole world! Everyone should get to have fresh baked bread, even those on specialty diets. Well, now you can in the comfort of your own home! This is the same type of bread maker Tim gave me for Valentine’s Day last year. It is the best machine on the market and I’m very excited to give it to one of my beloved readers....

This healthy broccoli cranberry salad is a play on the one my aunt used to bring every year to our Christmas dinner. Like this Broccoli Cauliflower Salad, it’s a little bit naughty (ahem, bacon), a little bit nice (the recipe contains no mayo; also bacon is pretty nice), and the festive red-and-green colors make it fit for a holiday spread. My aunt’s original broccoli salad recipe called for a creamy mayo-based dressing, but I opted for a lighter vinaigrette-style dressing instead....

Bruschetta Bruschetta is one of those foods that’s impossible to eat elegantly. When you gorge on a crunchy piece of bread that’s piled high with tomato, dripping with juices and olive oil……well, in my world, the best I can hope for is that I don’t end up with a tomato-mud-slide down the front of my top. That there’s juices on my chin goes without saying! And I’m totally ok with that....

There are a zillion recipes to make these and they all vary slightly in the proportions & ingredients. This Butter Murukku Recipe is a classic one and is what we make at my Mom’s home. I also guess this is a standard recipe used by many South Indian home cooks. About Butter Murukku Butter Murukku is a classic spiral shaped rice flour snack flavored with butter and spices. These are a popular festive-treat from the South Indian Cuisine and are made during Krishna Jayanthi, Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi and Sankranti....

The crunch, taste and texture of one-pot capsicum pulao make it a delicious addition to potluck and party menus. Before you learn how to make the best capsicum rice, let’s find out what goes into this quick and easy dish. About Capsicum Rice A delectable dish is made with rice, assorted bell peppers, peas that have been infused with aromatics like onions and garlic. The warm ground spices and herbs imbibe their flavors into the vegetables and cooked rice....

Cauliflower Cheese A really great Cauliflower Cheese recipe has been on my radar ever since I experienced a great example at a well-known steakhouse in Sydney some years ago! There’s plenty of recipes out there that tell you to just boil up some cauliflower, cover it in a béchamel sauce, throw in some cheese, and bake it. While that’s totally fine, you do end up with that distinctly sulphurous, boiled cauliflower flavour (not my favourite taste in the world) and run the risk of patches of watery sauce....

So what do you need to know to make a cheese omelette? You’ll need to know about and gather all the different ingredients to make it, to start, and then you need to learn how to prepare the omelet. It’s surprisingly easy! Once you’ve made the omelet, there’s endless ways to serve it and even different techniques to change it up for next time. After you have this cheese omelette there will be a next time....

I have grown up eating many kinds of Indian chicken curries from various regions as my mom is a food enthusiast. We would get to eat them during the weekends with rice & jowar roti. So making a good chicken curry is something I learnt from my mom. I have shared lot of chicken curry recipes on the blog which I make for my family. But this post on a basic chicken curry was something I thought will be helpful for the newbies....

This post is sponsored by Danish Creamery. All opinions are my own and I only share products I personally love. Thanks for supporting the brands that make this site possible! This chicken Divan casserole recipe (a.k.a. chicken broccoli Divan) is the ultimate cozy comfort food! With a few simple ingredients and no “cream-of” soups, you can make this healthy chicken broccoli casserole recipe with only 10 minutes of hands-on prep time....

This post is sponsored by FAGE, but all opinions are my own. Cozying up with a bowl of a creamy chicken stew is one of my favorite things to do. From this rich Chicken Paprikash to my Brazilian Paprika Chicken Stew with White Beans and Chicken Cacciatore, you will find a plethora of recipes for you to try tonight. Chicken Paprikash, Chicken Paprikas, Paprika Chicken – you will find lots of variations of this dish, with slightly different names....

Satay Chicken Curry (Malaysian) “I rarely leave comments on blogs…but I am going OUT OF MY MIND about this recipe. Seriously, it’s the best thing I’ve ever cooked. My partner actually thinks I ordered it from a restaurant and am trying to pretend like I cooked it!” – Kellie, 22 May 2017 As you can see from the date stamp of the above reader feedback, this Satay Chicken Curry is a recipe I published years ago....

I considered titling this recipe “chocolatier red velvet cake” and keeping the “b” word out, for fear that you would be completely offended by it, but this seemed unfair to beets. After all, carrot cake (like the Kitchen Sink Carrot Cake in my cookbook and this Gluten Free Carrot) enjoys love and esteem. Why not a beet cake? Both root vegetables are naturally sweet, making them ideal for baking desserts....

This is a classic chocolate mousse made the proper French way, as served in fine dining restaurants. Less cream, more chocolate, a more intense chocolate flavour and a beautiful creamy mouth feel. A classic, proper Chocolate Mousse recipe I’ve never been 100% happy with the various chocolate mousse recipes I’ve tried in my lifetime. Not fluffy enough, not chocolatey enough, too sweet, grainy, etc etc. Many “easy” chocolate mousse recipes tend to use too much cream so the end result is more like custard, rather than aerated like real chocolate mousse should be....

(This post is sponsored by Kozy Shack. However, all opinions, content and chocolate pudding obsession are my own!) Excuse my lack of modesty, but I’ve seriously outdone myself with this dessert parfait. It is absolutely to DIE FOR! Perfectly creamy and sweet with a little crunch from the cashew crumble! Even Tim, who is not into sweets, couldn’t wait for me to finish photographing these little babies so he could dig in....

This recipe also shares two little known Chinese restaurant secrets so you can make a stir fry that genuinely is as good as your favourite take out! Chop Suey – Chicken Stir Fry Chop Suey is just a slightly westernised version of a classic, basic Chinese stir fry. Because of this, there really aren’t hard and fast rules about what goes in it, but the general characteristic is that the sauce is a fairly light brown colour, there is plenty of it (and you know I love my sauce!...

I couldn’t very well have made a two ingredient dough pretzel bites recipe without trying out a cinnamon sugar version now could I? And boy am I glad I did! I have always loved cinnamon sugar pretzel bites (hello Auntie Annie’s) and this no yeast version stands up to the original in a big way. Be warned - these sweet bite-sized pretzels are highly addictive. They’re also incredibly quick and easy to make with two ingredient dough....

(This post is sponsored by the folks at The Seeker Wines, but my love for their Riesling is all my own!) I simply live for dishes like this! Hearty, comforting chicken or beef that cooks for a long time and taste like… love. Yes, that’s the thought I was looking for. This Coq au Riesling tastes like love! Yesterday, when Tim got home from work, he told me he could smell something delicious from the hallway....

Eating this creamy cucumber salad made me realize that I overlook cucumbers more easily than I should. For whatever reason, cucumbers aren’t usually an ingredient that I choose to make the centerpiece of a dish I bring to a barbecue or potluck. When I do, it’s as a supporting ingredient, like in this Greek Salad or Salmon Salad. This creamy cucumber salad made me rethink my ways. I see now that not only do cucumbers have star power, they are an ideal addition to a larger potluck spread....

I hope you guys had a wonderful Halloween and that you maybe made one of my Halloween themed recipes! As you all know, I worked during Halloween, so I couldn’t celebrate. :( But I still got to semi-dress up (I wore a witch hat to work) and have a little fun. Also, we dressed our dog Lola as a little witch and it was a huge success! Everybody stopped her in the streets, complimenting her costume....

Homemade Pumpkin Gnocchi The first gnocchi I ever made turned out black. Wait – not even black. If it was black, you might get away with claiming that it’s exotic, or coloured with squid ink. Mine were grey. I had slaved over them for hours. Made the classic way using mashed potato, I painstakingly followed every step in the lengthy recipe. I could envisage how impressed my family would be when I serenely placed the gnocchi in front of them, how they would praise me and exclaim how perfectly pillowy they were....