Category Archives: QUICK MEALS

Baked Salmon With A Mango and Avocado Salsa

My experimentation with a gluten-free diet continues.  I suppose it is the beginning of this whole life-style and so it may take me a while to get used to it.  In any case the rest of the family doesn’t need to go gluten-free just because I am experimenting with this new idea. But, I don’t think it is fair...
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Creamy Leeks Peas Wasabi Soup

Some years ago I discovered Wasabi Peas at our local Asian foods market. It was love at first taste and so since then I have been addicted to this spicy crunchy snack.  I love the bite of the Wasabi exterior and the crunch of the dried peas inside. Trader Joe’s sells their store version of this snack as well...
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Goat Cheese and Arugula Salad on Parmesan Crackers

This is an elegant looking versatile dish that can be used as an appetizer or as salad course for a formal dinner party or just a healthy hearty lunch by itself. It is also very easy to make. The only thing one has to be careful with is the time the Parmesan cheese crackers need in the oven. The...
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Chickpea and Desiccated Coconut Salad

This salad is my take on a standard Indian recipe for a warm chickpea salad. For some odd reason my husband loves chickpeas – in every shape of form! He loves hummus, he loves Chana Masal and he loves this couscous chickpea dish that I make and he loves this chickpeas salad. He loves them so much that if...
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Feta and Veggie Pasta

Now that the holidays are behind us, most of us are trying to shed the weight we gained during the crazy party season.  For me, even though I didn’t go to too many parties, I gained the weight because both my kids were home from college and being a typical Indian mother I thought the best way of making...
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