This Chipotle hollandaise sauce is a spicy twist on a classic hollandaise sauce. It is made in a blender, rich, creamy, and ready in under 5 minutes. Drizzle this chipotle hollandaise sauce on eggs benedict, poached eggs, vegetables, meat, and fish. Hollandaise sauce is one of the five mother sauces of French cuisine and is made with egg yolks, butter, and some type of acid. The Traditional way to make hollandaise sauce is hard, fussy, and time-consuming. The blender method of ...
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Indo-Chinese Vegetable Stir-Fry Noodles
Indo-Chinese Vegetable Stir-Fry noodles is a super easy comfort meal that comes together in less than 30 minutes. The noodles are loaded with vegetables and flavored with soy, oyster sauce, ginger, garlic and served with chili vinegar. You can easily customize this dish to make it vegan and vegetarian friendly. Most of us have a memory of food that takes us back to our childhood or special moments in our lives. These Indo-Chinese vegetable stir-fry noodles remind me of my last birthday I ...
One Pot Kerala Chicken Stew (Ishtu)
Kerala Chicken Stew or Ishtu as it is called in Kerala is a very mild but flavorful stew. It is made with coconut milk, a few spices, along with chicken and vegetables. It is a light yet hearty stew that is great to make for a weeknight dinner. Kerala cuisine is famous for coastal and seafood recipes which are mostly prepared with fresh grated coconut or with coconut milk. One such popular dish is this Kerala Chicken Stew which is cooked in coconut milk and mild spices. The ...
Tandoori Cauliflower Salad with pickled onion and cilantro dressing
This Tandoori Cauliflower Salad is jam packed with flavor, textures, and utter deliciousness. Made with cauliflower marinated in yogurt and spices baked in the oven till crispy and tossed with fresh veggies, pickled onions, and cilantro dressing. The most well-known tandoori dishes in America are tandoori chicken, chicken tikka and naan. In India the tandoor (Indian clay oven) is used to cook a variety of dishes from meat to fish to vegetables such as cauliflower. The key to tandoori ...
Masala Butternut Squash Fritters
These Masala Butternut Squash Fritters are crispy on the outside tender inside, and served with a delicious creamy sweet spicy sauce. Masala means spices, and these fritters are definitely spiced up. A perfect weeknight meal done under 30 minutes, minimal ingredients and minimal effort During the winter months there is an overabundance of butternut squash, and I am always trying to find new ways to use it. I have roasted butternut squash, pan fried it, and now made them into fritters ...
Chinese Lemon Chicken
Chinese Lemon chicken with an addictive sweet and tangy sauce. An easy weeknight dinner much better than takeout! Happy New Year! I am sharing one of my favorite recipes to whip up for a weeknight meal Chinese Lemon Chicken. This recipe is a keeper because it requires a handful of ingredients and absolutely no chopping. Crispy pieces of succulent chicken tossed in a slighlty sweet and tangy sauce, what's not to like ? It is simple, easy, and scrumptious and that’s exactly ...
Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb
Growing up, my dad would make this Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb for special occasions and it quickly became my absolute favorite. Years later when I hosted my very first thanksgiving, I knew exactly what I wanted to make: Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb. It felt daunting to cook a rack of lamb because I had never done it before, but to my surprise, it was really simple. The rack of lamb is seasoned with rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper, and then topped with a mixture of butter-moistened bread crumbs, ...
Espresso Chocolate Pavlova
This Espresso Chocolate Pavlova is out of this world and I am so proud it. The Pavlova base has espresso powder and chopped chocolate that gets all melty in the oven, topped with chocolate whipped cream and dark Morello cherries. Espresso and chocolate are a great combination and they bring out the best in each other. The espresso powder adds the intensity, the chocolate adds richness and the cherries add the balance. It makes for a perfect holiday dessert as it is airy and ...
Roasted Butternut Squash with lentils, dates and fresh herbs
Most of the recipes that I share on the blog are things I grew up eating, but some stem from a craving. This roasted butternut squash and lentil dish falls into the latter camp. It’s something that I’ve been eating a lot of lately. Roasted Butternut Squash with lentils is a very simple vegetarian side dish that celebrates the winter squash and the addition of lentils makes it hearty. Butternut squash is roasted to perfection to bring out its natural sweetness, tossed simply with fresh ...
Skillet Apple Crisp
While I love making an apple tart or pie, sometimes I just don’t have the time or patience to do it. This Skillet apple crisp is the unfussy cousin of the apple pie, it is easy and quick to whip up and has the great flavors of an apple tart. The difference between a crumble and crisp?They are essentially the same thing, they both involve a baked fruit base with a layer of topping. The only key difference is that a crumble consist of flour, sugar, and butter ...