Olive Oil Recipes

Pressing tree-ripened olives extracts a flavorful, monounsaturated oil that is prized throughout the world both for cooking (particularly in Mediterranean countries) and for salads. Today's marketp...

Basic Rosemary Focaccia Bread

I love Italian style breads, warm freshly baked, dusted with pink salt flakes, dipped in olive oil, herbs, and balsamic dipping sauce... Yum! Isn't it? (and I am enjoying a slice right now while posting...

Zucchini and Peppers Grilled In a Foil

Its fun and very entertaining to cook everything on the grill for a grilling party. From everything I literally mean everything from appetizers to dessert. Everyone adored the Salmon grilled in foil rec...

Tuna Salad

This recipe is inspired from Tuna Salad recipe of Food Network Star Ms. Ina Garten. I have slightly altered her recipe to meet my needs by reducing the amount of lime and replacing it with sweet blood o...

Pebble Beans and Roasted Tomato Soup

This is fall soup series and today I am sharing with you Pebble Beans and Roasted Tomato soup. This vegetarian soup gets meaty nutty taste from pebble beans and smoky flavor from roasted tomatoes. Pair...

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 frying to cut on our oil consumption. I call them my no-guilt fries (far less oily than deep fried v...

Masala Hummus

Masala Hummus is my spicy and aromatic twist on classic Hummus recipe. I am sure you had Hummus a number of times but this spicy, creamy and garlicky Hummus will change your perception about it. And In-...

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...

Vegetable Goulash

Nothing tastes better than a bowl of warm stew on a cold winter evening. Traditional Goulash is Hungarian meat and pasta stew, usually seasoned with paprika and served with a dollop of sour cream. For m...

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...

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...