When I’m entertaining I look for dishes that feed a crowd and look impressive. Some of my favorite side dish recipes include cranberry Jello salad, hashbrown casserole, slow cooker mac and cheese, corn casserole, hasselback potatoes and this decadent sweet potato recipe. Sweet potato casserole is great and all, but have you ever tried a sweet potato souffle? It’s a similar concept, except that the sweet potatoes are pureed into a super creamy mixture that adds great texture....

It’s been a long time since I posted a Paneer recipe and here is something that can be made in a jiffy – nothing elaborate or not much preparation needed. Tawa Paneer Masala gets its name due to the fact that it is made on a Tawa – a flat pan usually used to make rotis. This is very similar to the Tawa Pulao recipe, where cooked rice is mixed with spicy masala roasted on a tawa....

Hey, hi! Let me introduce you to quite possibly the best mussels. EVER. Okay, I know that’s such a bold statement, but I have a very deep affection for this recipe. Up until a couple of years ago I didn’t even know mussels existed. Well I guess I knew they existed, but I definitely had never had them. When I first began testing different mussel recipes, potentially for my cookbook, it took me no time at all to easily fall in love with them....

Pair these crumbly cookies with masala chai for tea time or serve alongside your favorite ice cream for a wonderful Holi dessert. In days leading up to Holi, one of my favorite things to do is to make a batch of instant thandai powder. Thandai is a refreshing milk drink popular in India during Holi. Thandai powder is is powered nuts & seeds bursting with aromatic spices like fennel, green cardamom rose and saffron....

Sharing our 24 Most Popular Thanksgiving Drinks today to help you find the perfect drink for your holiday gathering. This list has everything from pitcher-style drinks, like my Thanksgiving Cider Punch, to spicy a Ginger Apple Moscow Mule, to a warming Cinnamon Maple Whiskey Sour and Vanilla Espresso Martini, and everything in between. If you’re looking for the perfect cocktail or mocktail to serve this holiday season, you’ll surely find it here....

Hey, hi! Happy Monday!! It’s not quite fall just yet, but all of you who know me know that my love of autumn is strong. With the official start of fall only about a week away, I wanted to take time today to share our most popular autumn recipes. For as much as I love creating and sharing new recipes with you guys each season, I’m also excited about recipes I’ve shared throughout the years....

The 45 Most Popular Fall Recipes Fall is in the air! No, but really, it is. After returning from New York City on Tuesday night, I was presented with fall weather. Chillier temps and snow on the mountain tops, it’s officially time for all my favorite recipes of the year! You all know how excited I am for this season. So even though it comes a little earlier for us, I’m actually pretty happy about it....

Not sure about you guys, but I did not grow up eating potato salad. Potato salad was always one of those dishes that my mom told me to steer clear of at all family parties, so I did. Mom didn’t like potato salad for two reasons. Reason one, and probably most importantly, it was always served to her cold, and she is very much a hot food kind of person....

Sharing very exciting things today…the Half Baked Harvest Cookbook: 11 Bonus Under 30 Minutes Recipes with Pre-Orders! And just like that, we are only ONE week away from the release of The Half Baked Harvest Cookbook. It’s so hard to believe that the cookbook I worked so hard on is hitting bookstore shelves next Tuesday. Oh my gosh, how is this even possible? I am SO excited for you all to hold the book in your hands, read it, and most importantly cook from it!...

It’s actually only a tongue twister if you try saying if five times fast, but you know I love my wordy titles. SO. I am just going to make this short and sweet for you today, because I really think you should just drop whatever you are doing at the moment and start making these cookies. Like if you haven’t left for work yet, go make the dough now so it can sit in the fridge and you can then eat warm cookies when you return home tonight....

There is mashed potatoes (in the waffles!!), turkey (that your gonna butter up!), cranberry sauce, brie and some bacon if you are into it. Oh, and an egg. You need the extra protein for all that shopping today. Are you guys shopping today? I never have gotten into the whole black Friday thing. I just buy everything online and can pretty much always find a good deal. I learned from the best though, my mother is the ULTIMATE online shopper....

I made us a SAVORY breakfast today: a Turkish egg and quinoa breakfast bowl. I pretty much always post sweet breakfast recipes. I think it’s no secret that those are my very favorite. I love to photograph stacks of pancakes with butter melting across the top, french toast with maple syrup drizzling down the sides, and crepes stuffed to the brim with fruit. That being said, I also love a good eggy breakfast…only I almost always make them for lunch or dinner instead of breakfast....

After countless request and many attempts, I’m finally sharing my favorite gluten free and vegan chocolate chip cookies! So many of you have asked for these, so here they are! And while they’re not my mom’s chocolate chip cookies that I grew up eating, they are so delicious in their own special way. Everything you’d ever want out of a really good chocolate chip cookie. The Inspiration First and foremost, it was you guys....

This post is sponsored by POM Wonderful. Ingredients Raw walnuts Pure maple syrup Ground cinnamon Crushed red pepper Flaky sea salt Mixed greens Arugula Fresh pomegranate arils Cara cara orange Dried cranberries Crumbled goat cheese Extra virgin olive oil Balsamic vinegar Fig preserves Kosher salt and black pepper I’m not sure why winter gets such a bad rap when it comes to produce. Pomegranates alone are reason enough to LOVE the fall and winter produce seasons....

When I get a hankering for Japanese food, I recreate some of my favorite restaurant dishes at home including Japanese cucumber salad, yakitori, salmon teriyaki, a sushi bowl and these simple yet satisfying yakisoba noodles. Yakisoba Noodles Ingredients To make yakisoba noodles you will need vegetable oil, chicken breasts, a bell pepper, shredded carrots, shredded cabbage, garlic, ginger, green onions, yakisoba noodles, salt and pepper. To make yakisoba sauce make sure you have soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, sugar and sesame oil....

My Aunt Katie always used to call it Puppy Chow, so Puppy Chow it is. I am thinking that it is time I honor her this Christmas and make her recipe for Puppy Chow. Pretty sure my cousins would be down with this… as long as we get to eat her white lasagna (horrible photos – awesome recipe) for dinner first. AND trust me, Aunt Katie’s recipe for puppy chow is better than any other out there....

What are Achari Dishes? Achari comes from the hindi word “Achaar” which means pickle. Indian pickles are made using lots of bold spices and loads of oil. Achari dishes are cooked using those robust flavors to make curries or appetizers. Be it any region of India, the achar masala is quite pungent and sharp from spices like fenugreek (methi dana), hing(asafetida), mustard (rai) & nigella(kalonji) seeds. Achari dishes taste unique. My grandmother kept busy making homemade achaars using garlic, limes (nimbu achar) or chillies all year round and mom made a lot of achari dishes using those spice mixes....

I love a light and fresh salad such as cucumber tomato salad, Mediteranean farro salad or this delicious ahi tuna salad. We’ve all been there before – it’s dinner time and the last thing you want to do is cook a big meal. I’m continually creating convenient family dinners to make meal time a stress free experience. Dinner doesn’t get much easier than this ahi tuna salad. You can prep all of the ingredients up to a day in advance....

Amrakhand, special Mango Shrikhand officially makes it the first Mango recipe on this blog for this season. We have started to get good juicy sweet mangoes and it would be a cardinal sin not to make some delicious stuff with it. And here I have started off with an insanely easy but amazing dessert. The first time I heard of Shrikhand is from a television show when I was in high school (hah, long time I know :D) Shrikhand is made of thick, hung curd and powdered sugar....

Basically, they are spring in a cupcake, and basically they just make me smile. It helps that they taste amazing too. This was my fist angel food cake experience and well, let’s just say it will not be my last. So light and soft. AND the coconut frosting. I love coconut, and for me Easter and coconut just go together, hope you feel the same. I’ll make up for all the coconut soon....