Tag Archives: vegetarian

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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Curried Black-Eyed Peas and Vegetable Soup

In several traditions Black-Eyed Peas are supposed to bring luck. In Southern cooking, it is customary to cook black-eyed peas for New Year’s as a good omen. Also according to Jewish tradition cooking black-eyed peas during Rosh Hashanah brings good luck. I am Indian and even though I have never heard of any such tradition in India, I just...
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Chana Masala/Indian Chickpeas Curry

This blog of mine went live ten months ago.  Initially my idea was to just post recipes of dishes I have made for years and those that are established favorites with my family but as months went by I started to make up recipes and experiment. I assumed that there are already so many other food blogs that post...
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