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You can never go wrong with muffins for a portable breakfast option, my family loves cranberry muffins, pumpkin muffins and these fabulous chocolate muffins. Looking for more family friendly breakfast recipes? Be sure to check out my list of 30 Kids Breakfast Ideas! Muffins are always a great treat, but when you add chocolate chips to the mix, it really takes things over the top! These chocolate chip muffins take just minutes to make, and have plenty of chocolate flavor to please both kids and adults....

Look, I know everyone and their mother is already baking with pumpkin, but I just can’t do it. I’ve never fully understood why everyone rushes to bake with pumpkin all September long. By November they’re over the pumpkin craze and just move straight into Christmas baking. That I can kind of understand, but I’m someone who likes to celebrate Thanksgiving. Personally, I really don’t want to get sick of pumpkin before Turkey Day even rolls around....

Fresh fruit is great on its own, but when you pair it with a creamy chocolate dip, it becomes extra special. If you’re more of a vanilla fan, be sure to try my cream cheese fruit dip for a different flavor! I often serve up a plate of fruit to the kids as a snack or for a sweet finish after dinner. When we’re in the mood for a little chocolate, I whip up this easy chocolate fruit dip....

In my opinion, you can never have enough summer salad recipes! My family enjoys loaded grilled chicken salad, fresh and flavorful corn salad and this amazingly delicious vegetable salad recipe. Sometimes I’m just not in the mood for lettuce, and on those days, I turn to this crunchy chopped vegetable salads. It’s got plenty of great flavors and textures, and also happens to be quite simple to put together. Pair your salad with pan seared chicken breast, Instant Pot chicken thighs or manicotti for a memorable meal....

You can never have too many sweet Christmas recipes! Some of my favorites include peppermint bark, Christmas crack, Christmas popcorn, reindeer chow and this simple yet delicious no bake Christmas puppy chow. Chex mix, puppy chow, muddy buddies – whatever name you call it by, this chocolate peanut butter treat is always a hit! Christmas puppy chow features the classic flavors, with the addition of sprinkles and M&M’s for extra fun....

My parents have been married since they were eighteen (while my mom was eighteen and my dad was twenty-one) and not one of their seven kids are even close to being married. I just asked my nineteen year old brother and three of his friends (sorry for those awkward conversations guys) if they had a serious girlfriend. Not one of them did – let alone a girlfriend at all. I have not a clue why I was thinking of this topic, but I just think it’s funny how different things seem to be....

I know that everyone is excited for Friday, the weekend, and hopefully some serious chill time, but first some pie time! Or more specifically, pie parfaits, which feel fun and springy to me, so I’m very into them! And there’s even some chocolate too. Very fitting for a Friday, don’t you think? It’s been a long week over here with lots of snow falling (please no more!). I cooked many recipes, had a lot of failed recipes (yes, I promise it does happen and this week it happened A LOT)....

I find my husband raving about coconut cookies from his hometown bakery quite often.The discussion comes up mostly on weekends when we have the time to sit together for morning tea. I took the discussion a little further & asked him last week- after all what’s so special about them? Soft and chewy inside, crispy outside, overly sweet but something with a perfect balance of textures - a cookie that leaves behind ghee laden coconut taste in the mouth - his prompt reply made me wonder if he waited all this while to be asked 🙂 I knew what was baking for the next few weeks....

And here we are, the first recipe of the new year. I’m not sure I’m ready for another full year of recipes (when you start to think about it…it’s a lot of recipe). But ready or not I’m excited, especially for the recipes I already know I have coming. I wasn’t sure what to post today, I had some options, but this ended up feeling like a good fit. It’s healthy, but cozy....

When I’m entertaining in the fall and winter, I like to offer seasonal drink recipes such as a Christmas margarita, cranberry moscow mule, poinsettia cocktail, Kinderpunsch, Thanksgiving punch and this delicious cranberry margarita. You simply can’t go wrong with a mixed drink, and these cranberry margaritas are a fun twist on the classic margarita recipe. Cranberry Margarita Ingredients To make this recipe, you will need unsweetened cranberry juice, tequila blanco (silver tequila), triple sec (such as Cointreau), lime juice, grenadine, lime wedges, fresh cranberries, mint sprigs, sanding sugar and salt....

Let me start off by saying that deciding on today’s post was hard. With only a week left before Thanksgiving, I want each and every recipe to be so exciting for you guys! I couldn’t decide between an appetizer, dinner, or dessert. And as much as I wanted to do my usual sweet Tuesday, I opted for an easy appetizer instead. I figured it was probably what everyone would want most....

Starting the week off with a big bowl of color and comfort. I know the weeks and days are blending together after all this time at home. But carrying on with business as usual is kind of therapeutic for me. Mondays are often reserved for some of my healthier recipes. Therefore, continuing on with a healthier dinner idea just felt fitting. Throughout this time, I’m trying to treat my days as normal as possible....

My oven is broken…again. To a person who cooks all the time, this is the worst news. Evvvveeeer. Especially this time of year. All I want to do is roast this, bake that, broil this and toast that. To say I am bumming out is a major under statement. I guess it is not that bad, I do have a tiny little oven that does work… for now, but I am scared that since it is attached to the big oven – that doesn’t work – that it could go at any time....

Do you love noodles so much but don’t want to pile on, from all the white flour used?! Do not want to get the instant noodles but would love a bowl?! Do not want to go through the trouble of making noodles from the scratch?! Above all, are you bored of the usual dosa?! These dosa noodles are for YOU 🙂 On those days I am dead tired, dosas it would be for our dinner....

I spent the last twenty minutes procrastinating writing this post by scrolling through instagram and snapchat. It was such a long, jam-packed weekend that I think my brain is just a bit tired, and the thought of thinking up a fun post for you guys seemed a little too daunting for the moment. But…I am now ready, and I’ve got lots to say. <–hello second wind! Speaking of the weekend, I hope you guys all had a great one!...

So the husband turned a year old couple of days ago and for the tired, just-back-from vacation souls that we were, I couldn’t plan anything better. For one, most of my pantry was empty except for the absolute essentials and the house looked tornado hit, literally. The husband couldn’t care less and was little happy that I was not fussing over his special day but I was not the one to let it go....

If I am grateful for one thing this year, amidst a lot of other stressful stuff going on – it is my food experimentation that is keeping me very happy. I made recipes like Murungai Keerai Dosai, Avakaya and Mamak Mee Goreng – some of these I never imagined to blog about. Continuing with my experimentation, here comes my most easy Eggless Waffles recipe! It would be an understatement to say that making Waffles at home has been my dream come true....

I figured it would be nice for me to show you guys exactly how I do it. I think it is a pretty awesome method. Plus, I am giving you a few of my very favorite butters to slather on to all the that perfectly charred corn. First, you’re gonna want to preheat your grill to high heat. Then completely remove the husk from the corn. Now rub the corn with olive oil and season with salt and pepper....

There’s nothing my family loves more than chocolate and peanut butter paired together. It has always been the family “vice”. Universally, it’s a flavor we all love and could easily enjoy weekly – and sometimes we do! With the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day both on the horizon, I have two focuses for the month when it comes to desserts…recipes for a crowd, and all things chocolate. If they happen to be easy, and even somewhat wholesome, that’s just an added bonus!...

Takes 15 minutes to make carrot kanji and about 6-7 days for sun fermentation! This traditional indian beverage is salty, tangy and mildly spicy. Also, lets not forget its vibrant, eye catching purplish-red color, beautiful right? Confession Time: It wasn’t until recent years that I truly savored the unique piquant flavors of recipes like amla chutney and kaanji. Despite its appealing appearance, I don’t recall relishing a glass of kaanji as a child, although my gradmother used to make it throughtout the winter -spring season....