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Thyme Dusted Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Since we tasted sweet and salty sweet potato fries, we stopped ordering regular potato fries with burgers. Everyone in my family loves sweet potato fries but I often prefer to bake them instead of deep...

Savory Waffle and Grilled Portobello Sandwich

Everyone loves waffle for breakfast but my family also loves to enjoy waffles for lunch. I often make savory waffles for breakfast which we eat with cilantro chutney and they taste so delicious. Last we...

Roasted Sunchokes with Lemon Sage Dressing

Few years back, in fall-winter season, I saw these fresh gingers like roots in farmer market called Jerusalem artichokes (also known as sunchokes). This time of year many hard-to-identify root vegetable...

Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut squashes are best from early fall through winter. Due to a hard outer skin, I often roast squash to make curried sweet and sour squash during early fall (my family loves this dish), but these...

Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

Baking Season marks the beginning of Holiday Season and some days my oven works extra hours for me. To pay back to electricity Gods, I utilize my running (heating) oven to its fullest. Mostly, when you see a cake or cookie recipe here, it will be followed by a quick (or complex sometimes) oven baked s...

Meyer Lemon and Olive Oil Cake

I wanted to get into baking gear for the season but wanted to start with something semi-sweet. This cake was first for season and I love it. We both ate two slices each, even before I could click pictur...

Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Pockets

Halloween time is almost here. Last year, during Halloween, I sold a big batch of Jack-o-Lantern Pockets or Sandwiches (if you wish to call'em) in a bake sale. They were so hit; kids were "goblin" it up...

Kale Salad with Uniekaas Reserve and Walnuts

A glass of Pinot Grigio, Kale Salad with some grilled meat and you are set for an amazing weekend dinner. Two star ingredients in today’s salad: Uniekaas (or Unie Kaas) Reserve Cheese and Kale. I am fon...

Kimchi Mashed Potatoes Cakes

Like I wrote in my - 12 enhancers for mashed potatoes recipe, please consider this recipe a tale of re-purposing mashed potatoes. Plain mashed potatoes and I, nah, we never go along very well. In other...

Oven Roasted Lamb with Red Wine Reduction Sauce

One thing I am realizing about being health conscious and avoiding calories from our diet, I make very less meat at home. In-fact. I apparently posted just 5 or 6 meat recipes on ChefDeHome. It has always been about green salads, chicken and filling soups and all… But when I was going through my list...