Category Archives: RECIPES

Easy Butter-Chicken

Both my children are in their teens and for the past 5-6 years our house has been party-central!  One of those times when I had a house full of kids demanding Indian food, I made butter chicken for a group of 10-12 kids.  Fortunately I had enough frozen naans to feed this little army and all I needed to...
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Spicy Corn Bread Cheese Toast

Believe me, I tried to think of a more original name for this invention of mine but somehow every catchy name that I could think of didn’t reflect the explosion of taste and texture in this simple combination of flavors.  So I had to resort to a simple name that simply stated all the components in it.  Yes, it...
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Lettuce Chicken Wraps

I am not a big fan of chain restaurants but every now and then I used to indulge myself in the vice of visiting Cheesecake Factory – I loved their Lettuce Wraps and their Pineapple Upside-down cheesecake!  The wraps “looked” light and tasted great, so I used them to justify eating the cheesecake.   But then I realized that I...
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Spicy, Creamy and Minty Mashed Peas

I have a daughter who attends college 650 miles away from home.  She loves her school and it is the perfect place for her. The only drawback is that the school is in a small college town in the Midwest and the food choices there are quite limited. Since she is so far away from home, she misses home...
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