Black Pepper Recipes

Most cooks today don't appreciate the plentiful and inexpensive supply of a spice that was once so valuable and rare it was sometimes used as currency. Its merit was so high that many of the Europe...

Spiced Chickpea Flat Bread

Spiced Chickpea Flat Bread is always served in all Indian weddings to accompany curries. However, this bread has so much flavor, you will enjoy it alone or with just some melted butter or pickle on the...

Low Calorie Honey Mustard Dressing

This low calorie salad dressing takes less than 5 minutes to assemble and has fresh lemony taste. 1 tbsp of Honey Mustard Dressing is perfect for one medium bowl of Spring Greens Salad. Enjoy more salad...

Goat Cheese and Mushroom Stroganoff

Recently a Stroganoff recipe inspired me so much, I decided to make it no matter what. Since I watched Mr. Alton Brown cook mushroom Stroganoff on a FoodNetwork show, I was waiting for groceries day to...

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...

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...

Warm Swiss Chard Salad with Peppery Dressing

This fall salad can be served warm or at room temperature. This is my special way to feed veggies to my family. Paring veggies with some nice, tangy and lite dressings elevates their taste and whole fam...

Grapes and Brown Lentils Salad

Sometimes certain recipes are as easy as 1-2-3 and this grape and lentils salad is one of such recipe. Other than cooking the lentils till they are just tender (which requires almost no attention), you...

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...

Smoky Tofu and Pickled Radish Breakfast Wrap

Who does not want a healthy dose of whole grain in the morning? A healthy breakfast is start of a good energized day and you can try these whole wheat breakfast wrap to feel the difference among having...

Salmon with Citrus and Thyme

Grilled Salmon is famous for a reason – its celebration of health and taste at the same time. In my opinion, omega-3s rich seafood should be cooked with less oil and lots of citrus and that’s what I am show casing in today’s recipe – Salmon wrapped in foil and grilled with lots of citrus flavor- lemon...