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COCONUT SWEETS2 cups scraped coconut 2 ½ cups sugar1 cup milk 1 teaspoon butter or ghee½ teaspoon vanilla essence ½ teaspoon food colouring (pink or green)Take a thick -bottomed vessel and heat the sugar and ¼ cup water on high heat. When the sugar melts, add the cocoanut, vanilla essence, ghee or butter and the milk. Cook on medium or low heat till the mixture thickens and leaves the sides of the vessel. Drop a teaspoon of the...

My favorite gluten-free mac and cheese is also vegan and dairy-free. Seriously.Some folks do it up fancy for V-day. Lobster. Steak. Chocolate-dipped strawberries. Not us. This morning when I asked my husband what he wanted me to make for our Valentine's Day meal, he didn't hesitate.Mac and cheese. You? he asked.Mac and cheese, I answered.Read more + get the recipe >>...

Lazy Sushi -seasoned sushi rice topped with your favorite sushi toppings- is great for fun family dinners. If you are craving for sushi, and you cant afford it. Well, here is a good idea: Make lazy sushi!!! I have a few rolled Sushi recipes posted on the blog, even a Fried Sushi too. Hope you will enjoy this post. The idea came from Moms Dish. Ingredients: 2.5 cups uncooked sushi rice  "Nishniki"2.5oz...

Easy baked chicken and peppers makes a tasty weeknight supper.The local markets and farm stands are stacked with peppers of every color, size and shape, ripe and gorgeous and full of vitamin C. From round, crisp and sweet to curvy-sexy and fiery, peppers are abundant now, so flavorful and fabulous. Note: New Mexico green and red chiles are a blog unto themselves; find How To Make a Roasted Green Chile sauce here.Today I am sharing...

Eating more veggies is part of my new healthy food regimen (I refuse to call it a diet!) and sometimes when you are in a rush its hard to do this. Pasta is always a go to weeknight meal for me and this is the perfect dish to make when you are short on time. You may be thinking that pasta is high in carbs, which it is BUT everything in moderation, I say. If I had to give up pasta I would be a very unhappy person. I cant even...

By now, you all know what a hot tranny mess CupcakeCamp DC 2010 turned out to be, but like I said before, it wasnt all bad. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes (of so many cupcakes that should have been burned at the stake!), Rene from Rene Takes the Cake proved to be the one shining moment of the entire fiasco.  Renes winning Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcake topped with the Strawberry SMBC recipe shes giving YOU!!!Fresh...

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One of the most common "food wishes" I get is for tomato sauce. Even though Ive received hundreds of requests for my tomato sauce recipe, Ive resisted filming it for a few reasons.First, I always thought I would eventually put all my most requested, unpublished recipes on a DVD, and totally get rich. That scheme has been thwarted since, over the course of the last couple years, I filmed and posted just about every recipe that...

Nutty Pilaf Ingredients Oil ¼ cup Onion chopped 1 Carrot 1 Bay leaf 1 Garlic chopped 2 – 3 cloves Green cardamom 3 – 4 Walnut 25 gm Almond 25 gm Cashew nut 25 gm Coriander leaves ¼ bunch Rice 300 gm Cumin seeds 1 tsp Crushed black pepper 1 tsp Onion seeds 1 tsp Crushed coriander 1 tbsp Chicken stock 1 ½ glass Salt to taste Method Heat ¼ cup oil in a pan, add 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1 tbsp crushed coriander seeds, 1 tsp onion seeds,...