Posts

Stuffed bread is always exciting. Of late, I am obsessed with Parathas. And my very recent obsession is this deliciousness called Paneer Paratha – mildly spiced cottage cheese stuffed in Indian flat bread. As such, Parathas are wholesome and make for a good meal. With Paneer Paratha, it is as healthy as it is delicious. Paneer or Cottage Cheese is really delicious in curries and gravies. Once we start making Paneer dishes at home, we begin to realize that making restaurant style food at home is super simple!...

Today’s recipe is our family favorite – Pazham Pori. This is a speciality dish from Kerala and I have had the luxury of having it at my BFF’s place. Although it is super simple to make, it tastes great – especially with a hot cup of chaaya/tea 🙂 My most memorable incident regarding this recipe is during our honeymoon. We were staying in a boat house in Allepey and were getting royal treatment!...

Happy Christmas Drink Saturday! I’m overly excited today. For one, I adore this pomegranate champagne cocktail and have been envisioning it ever since I thought it up months ago. And two, it’s Thanksgiving night as I’m typing this, the snow is falling outside my window, and I’m more grateful than ever for all of you. Wow, this Thanksgiving was one for the books. We’ve never seen so many HBH recipes made in one day....

I grew up eating a lot of potatoes and that’s one of my best childhood memories. Given a chance I would survive on potatoes even now but adult life and all that, prevents it from happening. Anyway, one of the best ways to use potatoes is to make potato fry. Amma makes super crispy fry that is golden brown with right amount of spices. Almost every day we as kids would wait for her to bring the potato fry from the kitchen to dining area and gobble up a few pieces as it is....

I am one of those people who loves cabbage. Be it amma’s cabbage koora or my MIL’s cabbage kootu or my sister’s cabbage paratha I love them all. I add it in soups or in salads or in indianised noodles which gives the dish a crunch, making it feel fresh. I am sure one must have noticed, cabbage or aloo curry is a must in South Indian weddings. One of the main reasons for that I feel is the ease with which it can be prepared....

It is a known fact that we love mushrooms and my blog is a living example for the number of mushroom recipes that we try and make at home. From a spicy Chettinad Mushroom Biryani to a highly flavorful Chettinad Mushroom curry to Mushroom sauce Pasta to No Onion Mushroom Masala to Tandoori Mushroom Tikka to Mushroom Manchurian, I have a whole lot of mushroom recipes. And here is one more to add to that list – a simple yet really delicious and creamy Restaurant Style Mushroom Masala....

Roasted mushrooms make for a delicious appetizer, or serve them up as a side dish alongside bacon wrapped chicken, mashed potatoes and garlic knots for an amazing meal. Whenever I go to a steakhouse, I order the garlic butter mushrooms, they’re one of my favorite side dishes. I make my own steakhouse style mushrooms at home with this super easy roasted mushrooms recipe. The recipe takes just 5 minutes to put together which is always a plus!...

There’s nothing more satisfying than a home cooked chicken dinner. Some of my favorites include braised chicken with carrots and potatoes, slow cooker whole chicken, and this tender and juicy rotisserie style chicken. It’s so easy and convenient to pick up a rotisserie chicken at the grocery store, but I often find that the flavor is lacking and there are a lot of chemicals on the ingredients list. This homemade version is simple to make and one of the best chickens you’ll ever eat!...

Well my Sundays surely do. I feel like these pancakes are so fitting with the holidays that are quickly approaching and all. I mean, Thanksgiving breakfast (and Christmas too, hello, those cranberries are so dang festive!)? Heck yes. Plus, you totally need a little booze first thing on Thanksgiving (or maybe even the day after Thanksgiving too). It will help to put some of those slightly bizarre relatives in a little better light....

I love a good shrimp dish, I often whip up some shrimp salad or garlic butter shrimp for a quick and easy meal. This marinated shrimp is so full of flavor; my family requests it every week, it’s just that delicious! There’s nothing like a bold and zesty marinade to infuse your food with plenty of flavor. This shrimp marinade contains a variety of savory ingredients that blend together to make the perfect seasoning for fresh shrimp....

The tinga enchilada skillet…with lots of cheese…and a fried egg, because that’s how I do it over here. A little over the top, but I mean, not really, considering this meal is relatively healthy and on the table in under an hour. Yes, in under one hour and you can be eating this for dinner. cool. cool. So can I tell you a little back story here for a second?...

And I did it all in one pan… without even heating up the kitchen. SCORE!! Although, now that I say that out loud I am silently thinking to myself that at least for me, up here in the mountains, it’s really not that hot out, like at all. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind heating up my kitchen right about now. I mean, I am highly embarrassed to admit this, but I totally have my heater blowing on my legs right now....

Like at all. I mean, I’d even go as far as saying it’s semi-healthy…in moderation. Unfortunately, moderation – when it comes to cheese, is obviously a rather hard thing for me. I mean, there is twenty-four ounces of cheese alone in this recipe. Yeah, twenty-four. And umm, that’s nothing for me. Have you ever had one of my Friday night pizzas? Just ask anyone who has stayed at our house (which is way too many), it’s a lot of cheese and a little crust....

A delightful tropical drink that will make you feel like you’re on vacation! Add a splash of rum to turn it into a cocktail. This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #WaterMadeExciting #CollectiveBias As a busy mom it’s important for me to stay hydrated. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in daily life and caring for the kids that all of a sudden I stop and realize that it’s been hours since I had a drink of water, or did I forget to eat lunch?...

Happy almost 2023! I actually had another post planned for today, but at the last minute, I decided we should end the year with just one last holiday cocktail. I made this exact drink for my brother Red the other night, he loved it so much. So of course, I kind of wanted to share the recipe with you all for New Year. Here are the easy details Use a cocktail shaker or even just a glass jar with a lid (use what you have)....

We’ve made it to Thursday, and this week, that means creamy spicy pesto pasta alla vodka for dinner. Like clockwork every December I begin thinking about my family’s favorite vodka pasta. I have made so many versions over the years, but this recipe is my favorite. It’s more classic, but with the small twist of basil pesto, which of course only makes this vodka pasta that much more delicious. I don’t know what it is about December days, but they always leave me craving some form of pasta in red sauce....

Roasted in a skillet, with tons of strawberries, some vanilla and topped with maybe the bestest honey butter biscuits ever. All served with whipped cream (or ice cream) and more warm honey butter for drizzling. I mean, YESSSS. Nothing super fancy, but does it really need to be? NOPE. So let me tell you guys something. Finding rhubarb where I live is the not the easiest of tasks. I’ve basically been calling Whole Foods every day for the last month and half looking for rhubarb....

One of my favorite autumn squashes to roast is spaghetti squash. It always makes me think of the year my family first moved to Colorado when I was an early teen. So think Tieghan in eighth grade… I went through a major spaghetti squash phase that year. It was so frigid cold and snowy during the months of November and December. All I wanted was something roasted and warm. This was way back, before I really began experimenting in the kitchen....

No matter where I am going, whether it’s going to be a long travel day at the airport, or a thirty minute car ride, I almost always come prepared with snacks. I developed this little habit a couple of years ago when my littler sister Asher was just in preschool. I used to spend a lot of time helping out with Asher and would often bring her along to the grocery store or wherever the heck I was going....

Sunday kicked things off with a KILLER Maple Apple Tarte Tatin. Tuesday was all about the ultimate fall comfort food, Apple Fritters. Wednesday was a delicious cozy Cider Roasted Chicken. And today, today’s post is all about Swedish Cheesecake with…wait for it…caramel apples – cider caramel apples. Ahhh! And all is complete with the world. YESS. Also, it’s FRIDAY!! It was kind of a looongggg week….some fun..some stressfull (hello Pinterest spam flag…UGH)....