Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts

Friday, May 28, 2010

Indian Food Recipes - An Easy Way to Delicious Indian Meals

Around the world, lots of people are not having too many options to choose delicious recipes. Especially, for vegetarians, they are thinking that they do not have too many options. The vegetarians in the United States are required to eat these vegetables as raw or uncooked one. However, in Indian recipes there are so many options to have a delicious vegetable meal. With these Indian recipes, the vegetarian food lovers will not feel the same old, boring and dull taste with old ones. If you are savvy in food, the Indian food recipes are the best and delicious food for your taste.

When it comes to flavoring, the Indian food recipes are having a wide array of choices. Even though, for those who are not able to eat vegetables are also still tasting that mouth watering zest without any chicken or any other meat used as ingredients. In the subcontinent, there are more that twenty eight states and more that fifty languages and more that hundred different cultured people are living in this country. The culture and off course food plays a significant role in their unity in diversity. Every state has created its own impact on history, traditions, culture and important one is food. And also preparing tasty Indian vegetarian recipes, every state has its own style. In that style, every home has their own way to prepare these Indian food recipes.

These India vegetarian recipes cannot be served as a combination food; they are designed to be eaten collectively. For example, if you want to eat these curried vegetable or chutney, do not try to eat it by itself. You need to combine it with some rice or bread or with some other recipes. This type of collective eating, you will not get any digestion problem, and it will help you enjoy the meals. To make a complete Indian meal, you need to combine these Indian vegetarian recipes according to the basic principles of cooking. You need to use lots of spices and garlic, ginger with onions. For a simple meal, there are only a few varieties are available, for parties, there are lots of varieties of vegetarian recipes you need to prepare. Everybody thinking that preparing this Indian food is a real hectic work in these days. You need to prepare lots of things before you try to prepare Indian food recipes.

Nowadays, the internet technology is helping everyone to prepare these foods without any stress. There are some esteemed websites providing a lot of information to the people, who want to taste the Indian delicious food. All that you need to do is a small search in internet to collect this information.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Three Quick and Easy Family Breakfast Recipes

Even though I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I'll admit that it's also one of the hardest to go to a lot of trouble for during the busy weekday. We've never been big breakfast eaters at my house, in fact, cold cereal or toaster waffles are the usual fare on any given Monday through Friday morning around here. But, on the weekends we often like to whip up a big breakfast for the whole family and then actually sit down at the same table and eat it together. Wow, that's a feat in itself anymore!

The same old tired bacon and eggs do get boring after awhile however, so I've found some yummy breakfast recipes that meet my 'quick and easy' criteria. Since I have a picky preschooler who loves eggs but is on a 'no pancake' kick lately, I wanted a couple of really good recipes that will satisfy grown-up as well as kid tastes.

Quick and Easy Maple Toast and Eggs

12 bacon strips, diced

½ cup maple syrup

¼ cup butter

12 slices white bread (firmer texture is better)

Salt and pepper to taste

Cook bacon in skillet until crisp and then drain on paper towels. In a small saucepan, heat syrup and butter until the butter melts. Trim crusts from bread and flatten slices with a rolling pin. Brush one side with syrup mixture and press each slice into an ungreased muffin cup with syrup side down. Divide bacon among muffin cups. Break one egg into each cup and then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover with foil and bake on 400F for 20 minutes. Serves 12.

Quick and Easy Farmers Breakfast

6 bacon strips, diced

2 tbsp diced onion

3 medium potatoes, cooked and cubed

6 eggs, beaten

Salt and pepper to taste

½ cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Cook bacon in skillet until crisp and drain on paper towels. In the bacon drippings, sauté onion and potatoes until potatoes are browned. Pour eggs into skillet and cook until eggs are set and cooked to desired doneness. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with cheese and bacon; let stand for 2 minutes or until cheese melts. Serves 4.

Quick and Easy Egg and Biscuit Breakfast

2 tbsp butter

8 eggs, beaten

1 - 5 oz can evaporated milk

1 - 8 oz package American cheese, cubed

1 tbsp prepared mustard

1 cup cubed cooked ham

1 - 10 oz can refrigerator biscuits

Melt butter in skillet. Add eggs and cook until set. In a saucepan, combine milk, cheese and mustard and cook until cheese is melted. Remove from heat and fold in ham and eggs. Pour into a greased 8 inch greased baking dish. Separate biscuits and place on top. Bake at 375F for 20 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown. Serves 4.

Friday, March 5, 2010

All-Time Favorite Baked Dessert Recipes

Dessert is usually served at the end of a meal. It is usually sweet and very flavorful. Usual desserts served after meals are:

o Cookies
o Cakes
o Ice cream
o Pastries
o And Candies

Here are some dessert recipes you can try at home:

1. Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

o ½ cup white sugar
o ½ cup butter flavored shortening
o 1 cup packed light brown sugar
o 2 eggs
o 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
o 1 teaspoon baking powder
o 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
o 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
o ½ teaspoon salt
o ½ teaspoon ground cloves
o 1 cup raisin
o 3 cups rolled oats

Directions:

o Preheat your microwave or oven to about 350o F.
o In a big bowl, smoothen together some butter, butter flavored shortening brown sugar, eggs, white sugar and vanilla until creamy.
o Combine the baking soda, flour, cloves, salt and cinnamon.
o Mix in the raisins and oats.
o Bake it for about ten to twelve minutes until it becomes golden and light (but do not over bake).
o Let it cool down for two minutes before you remove it from the cookie sheet.

2. Banana Split Dessert

Ingredients:

o 2 sticks of butter
o 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
o 2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
o 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
o 2 eggs
o 4 bananas
o 1 lg. cool whip
o 1 can drained crushed pineapples
o ½ cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

o Combine two cups of graham cracker crumbs with one stick of butter.
o Spread this into a closed pan and refrigerate.
o Combine two cups sifted confectioner's sugar with two eggs, one stick of butter and one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
o Beat it for about five minutes until it becomes fluffy.
o Spread over the first mixture.
o Slice four to five bananas over the cream mixture.
o Spread one can of drained crushed pineapple over the bananas.
o Spread the large cool whip over the pineapple.
o Sprinkle chopped walnuts on the cool whip.
o Keep this refrigerated until ready to serve.

3. Baked Fudge Dessert

Ingredients:

Batter
o 3 tablespoons shortening
o 1 cup flour
o ¼ teaspoon salt
o ½ cup chopped nuts
o ¾ cup of sugar
o 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
o ½ cup of milk

Directions:

o In a large bowl, combine sugar, cream shortening, baking powder, flour and salt.
o Add, alternately, the milk and chopped nuts.
o Pour it into an eight inch ungreased pan.

Toppings:

o ¼ cup of cocoa
o ¼ teaspoon salt
o 1 cup of brown sugar
o 1 cup of boiling water

Directions:

o Blend cocoa with brown sugar and salt.
o Sprinkle it over the batter.
o Pour the boiling water.
o Bake it for about 375o F (approximately 40 minutes)
o Serve this warm with ice cream.

4. Baked Banana and Peach Dessert

Ingredients:

o 2 peaches, chopped or sliced
o ½ teaspoon of vanilla
o 1 tablespoon of sugar
o 2 bananas, sliced in half lengthwise

Directions:

o In a small sauce pan, mix in vanilla, sugar and peach puree.
o Heat it onto a boiling stage.
o Cover and allow simmering for about one minute, stirring occasionally.
o Place the banana half in small baking dishes or squares of foil
o Cover each half banana with 2 teaspoonful of peach sauce.
o Fold the foil, closing and placing it inside the baking sheet.
o Bake this for about 400o F (approximately 15 minutes in the oven).
o Serve warm.