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Tips for Creating A Stress-Free Easter With Easter egg hunts, family gatherings, church and festivities, Easter is a holiday that so many love! While it’s fun to host holiday gatherings, it can also be very stressful. We have some great tips that will help your Easter be enjoyable without all the fuss. Do as much of the work as you can well beforehand. Planning the menu, grocery shopping, cleaning the house, setting the table and even preparing some of the dishes can be done in advance....

Easy Panna Cotta Recipe This Panna Cotta with Raspberry Coulis recipe was a big YES, YES! Everyone really liked it. We tried panna cotta for the first time years ago in an Italian restaurant and since then we have been hooked! What not to love? It’s rich and silky and makes a perfect treat that takes only minutes to make! it’s actually almost as easy as making Jell-O out of a box....

Frosted Fall Perfection! When fall has finally arrived, our family is all about the pumpkin recipes! While we love traditional Homemade Pumpkin Pie we also have some unique dessert favorites like our Pumpkin Lasagna, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread and today’s pumpkin bundt cake – a new favorite! Cake is perfect for sharing and this beauty is a great addition to a holiday spread! It’s filled with warm spiced flavor, a delicious contrast to the tangy cream cheese frosting....

We love dips, and especially sweet ones! If you’re also a fan, you’ll love love our cream cheese fruit dip and nutella dips! Only 4 Ingredients Today’s treat is one I made awhile back. It’s called Pumpkin Dip. It was SO easy to make and was the perfect treat for dipping Gingersnaps and Nilla Wafers in – especially around the holidays. We love that this only takes a few ingredients – cream cheese, marshmallow fluff, pumpkin puree and cinnamon....

Let’s talk about this super grain quinoa pasta tossed in nutritious arugula walnut pesto with sweet burst of roasted fresh corn and sun-dried tomatoes .. mmmm delish! and very healthy too. I mean who can say no to pasta and if it’s made with quinoa. It’s a dinner dream come true where healthy meets seamlessly with deliciousness. This quinoa pasta is our new family favorite. I stumbled upon Quinoa pasta while my routine grocery shopping and couldn’t wait to try it out....

How to make Finger Millet Sweet Porridge Cook time – under 10 mins Serves -1 Ingredients needed Finger millet flour/ragi flour – 1/4 cup Milk – 3/4 -1 cup (boiled) Palm jaggery or palm jaggery crystals or jaggery – 1 tbsp Dates -3-4 Walnuts -2 tbsp Almonds (blanched) – 4 Preparation Soak almonds in hot water for 10 minutes.Remove the skin and chop it. Chop dates and walnuts into bite sized pieces....

Prep Time : 15 mins Pinto Beans-3/4 cup Finely chopped onions – 1/2 cup Garlic paste -1/2 tsp Fresh Tomato puree -1 cup Tomato Ketchup -2 tbsp Chilli Powder – 1/2 – 3/4 tsp Cumin Powder -1 tsp Salt to taste Oil -1 tbsp Method Note If you cannot get pinto beans, use kidney beans or rajma. It can be refrigerated for a week and used when needed. If you found this post useful, I would really love it, if you pin it or share it with your Facebook fans or Twitter followers or Google+ circles today....

Before we start, can we take a second to look at how smooth that is? Like butta’. Okay, let’s proceed. You guys know I love cauliflower. In fact, I just did a huge post highlighting all the ways cauliflower can be used in your kitchen and I need to add this beauty to it. Cauliflower is like the most transformative veggie, so much so, that you can even turn it into hummus!...

It is that time of the season when I thoroughly enjoy Salted caramel flavor. For years this salted caramel death by chocolate cake was my favorite and now I have added these insanely easy mocha cupcakes to my repertoire as well. Coffee + Chocolate + Caramel = Heaven! Salted caramel mocha is my favorite coffee flavor that I got introduced to at Starbucks. Since then I am completely spoilt. I love it so much that I started making my own version at home and slowly added this decadent combo to my desserts....

Prep Time : 5 mins Curd (Thayir) – 1 cup Water (vellam) – 1 1/2 cup Salt (uppu) – as needed Green chillies (pachamulagu) – 1 Shallot (Kunjulli) -2-3 Ginger (inji) -1/2 inch piece Curry Leaves (kariveppila) – 5-6 leaves Check out my another version of Spiced Buttermilk and also Kerala’s popular Moru Curry. Note – You can skip shallots, if you do not prefer, but it tastes so good and it is good for the health....

Simple Buttercream Buttercream , Basic Buttercream ,American buttercream , baker’s buttercream whatever you want to term it , this frosting is by far the most easiest and widely used / preferred frosting in the world. Be it filling, icing, crumb coating, piping and decorating – you can use it many ways and for various other baked goods apart from cakes. You can never go wrong with buttercream as its very sturdy and forgiving in nature ....

Slow cooker rice pudding is a cinch to make, especially since it’s all done in the crock pot! My family finished off this rice and milk treat so fast that next time I’ll be making a double batch. Be sure to also try Bread Pudding, Easy Rice Pudding, and Sticky Toffee Pudding. Slow cooker for the win! Cooler temperatures are upon us, and at my house that means it’s time for comfort food!...

An easy pairing to this spinach artichoke stuffed chicken is a salad. I love Caesar Salad and Pesto Salad, but any of your favs would be perfect. Spinach and Artichoke Chicken Since chicken is our go-to meat, we love finding new and delicious chicken recipes. Since we’ve been long-time fans of Spinach Artichoke Dip, we thought we’d combine the two to make a Spinach and Artichoke Chicken recipe. The result was rather simple, but cheese, delicious and very flavorful....

Adding fruit to pancakes are a great way to switch it up, and when strawberries are in season, we make these for breakfast all the time! If you like fruity pancakes, you’ll definitely want to try apple pancakes, banana pancakes, and blueberry pancakes! Who loves Strawberries? Who else is excited for spring? These strawberries and cream pancakes are perfect for celebrating the season! They’re bursting with strawberry flavor and topped with an amazing homemade strawberry sauce....

Prep Time : 10 mins Instant Couscous – 1/2 cup Jaggery – 3/4 cup grated Raisins – 3 tbsp Cashew nuts – 6 -7 Almonds – 5 blanched and slivered Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp Ghee/clarified butter – 2-3 tsp Method More Couscous Recipes Couscous with vegetarian sauce Couscous Salad Couscous with mushroom and peas Couscous with cauliflower Read More

These Sweet Honey Muffins would be the perfect addition to any meal, like my famous chili, but especially to any holiday get together. Soft and sweet When I saw these “Grandmas Honey Muffins” I knew I had to try them! After all, we love muffins! After putting my little spin on it and making sure they were perfection I turned to my tasters. 🙂 Everyone loved these simple and sweet honey muffins!...

How to make Sweet Potato Kheer Prep time – under 10 mins Cook time -under 30 mins Serves -2 Ingredients needed Sweet Potato – peeled and grated – 3/4 cup Milk – 3 cups Dates – 8 Almonds – 10 Cardamom powder -1/4 tsp Cashew nuts -5-6 Raisins -10 Preparation Wash, peel and grate sweet potato. Soak dates in 1/4 cup of hot milk for 15 minutes. Grind it to a smooth paste....

Chocolate chip cookies are my perfect go to cookie. While the classic is my fave, I do love to mix it up at times with my Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie, and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie. An especially chewy classic Chocolate chip cookies are an American classic! They are a best loved treat in our home. This version is extra chewy and delish! Over the years I had read that to make a cookie chewier one thing you can do is increase the amount of brown sugar....

While classic Peanut Butter Cookies are amazing, a soft and chewy cookie cannot be beat! Take our Chewy Sugar Cookies for example—I think they’re even better than the original. How All PB Cookies Should Be! This classic cookie recipe is one we’ve been making for a long time. It’s our family’s favorite version of peanut butter cookies! There are so many different types of peanut butter cookies, but these ones are simple, chewy and SOFT....

Prep Time : 10 mins Basmati Rice – 1 cup Onion – 1 Ivy Gourd/Tindora – 250 grams / 1/4 kg Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Salt needed Fresh Lemon juice – 2 tsp (optional) Masala Paste – Fry and Grind Oil – 3/4 tsp Cumin seeds (jeera) – 1 tsp Red Chillies – 5 Garlic cloves – 5 Pearl onions – 10 Grated coconut – 2 tbsp For the seasoning Oil – 3 tbsp Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Curry Leaves – a sprig For garnishing Fresh Coriander Leaves – 2 tbsp finely chopped...