Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! As the bay area summers heat up, a lovely scoop of ice-cream would be just what your
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A lot of readers have given me feedback that they really want to cook Indian food but generally find it too complicated. Too many ingredients or too many pots. It’s true, Indian food can get a little complicated. Especially if you want to cook the dishes you typically find in Indian restaurants. But those dishes
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! As we Americans continue to demand healthier alternatives in packaged foods, the food industry is rapidly changing
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This recipe is presented courtesy of my mom. She made it a couple of times and then I absolutely had to have it. The Urad dal adds a lovely aroma and taste to the dish. I almost want to say that this is a South-Indian recipe, but I don’t want my South-Indian friends whacking me
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Growing up in the US as a child of immigrant parents, I never felt that being Indian was cool. I don’t know if it was because kids were insensitive, inexperienced or just plain mean. Whatever the case was – bringing Indian food to school for lunch was never looked upon as the path to popularity.
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration? You bet! Happy Fathers day to all the fabulous dads out there! I hope you have a lovely day today! We just got back
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So I have a confession to make. In case you hadn’t noticed, asparagus has become my go-to vegetable for the season ! I’ve made a cheese dip with it, a pizza (yet to be perfected ), even given it an Indian treatment and now an Asian take on it to add to the list! As
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I don’t know exactly when the tables got turned but somehow my younger brother has become the chef among us siblings. At first I was in complete denial. I mean seriously. How could my younger brother who I was “cooking” for since our wee after-school-days (yes I did consider peanut butter jelly sandwiches as cooking
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! A good friend recently told me about a very intriguing berry, Synsepalum dulcificum, also known as Miracle
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My first attempt at fish! Wooohooo! and it was successful! I would still call this a work-in-progress so don’t use the recipe right away! I was just so excited that I had cooked fish without having to dump it in the garbage and it looked so beautiful that I had to share it with everyone!
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I’ve noticed that generally people fall into one of two categories when they’re eating something they really enjoy. Either they savor it by eating it a crumb at a time to make the experience last for as long as they can or they gobble it down as quickly as they can because they just can’t
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration? You bet! It is the first week of June and here in the bay area, we have rain. Correction: thunder storms! Joplin has been
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This hardly calls for a post but I’m still going to write one, because I have discovered the joy of eating freshly roasted sunflower seeds. No I am serious.. it is just roasted sunflower seeds! But I’ve been thinking for a while, correction, my mom has been thinking about it for a while , why
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