Why You’ll Love This Reason To Celebrate Low Carb. Keeping it keto-friendly, this birthday cake is a guilt-free indulgence.Easy. Simple steps ensure a stress-free baking experience.Delicious. Packed with flavors that will make every birthday celebration memorable. With the convenience of this keto recipe, you can have your cake and eat it too, all while staying true to your dietary goals. Whether it’s your birthday or you’re surprising a loved one, this cake is a delightful addition to any celebration....

Why You’re Going To Want To Put This Keto Cream Cheese Frosting On Nearly Everything Low Carb. Only 5 carbs per serving.Vegetarian. Who needs meat when you can have frosting?Fast. Ready to eat in 10 minutes. Easy. Just pour all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix.Delicious. Just like your favorite sugary frosting, but without all of the guilt. If you live a keto or low carb lifestyle, quite possibly the hardest thing to give up is sugary sweets....

Pretzels are my favorite snack food, how about you? Pretzel rods, honey wheat pretzels, pretzel sticks, and so on. I have oodles of half eaten bags of pretzels in my pantry. Hence my bite-size peanut butter pretzel M&M cookies. And these tasty cookie dough pretzel bites! Another way to use up a bag of pretzels is to throw them on top of chocolate pretzel peanut butter brownies along with peanut butter frosting....

I made these loaded sweet potato skins for the Eagles game last weekend. I wasn’t planning to share the recipe because let’s face it… they’re just potato skins. But that’s exactly why I should share this recipe: cheesy, bacon-topped potato skin goodness. The plate disappeared before 1st quarter had ended. But seriously. A great potato skin is really everything you want out of comfort food/game food grub. Salty and crispy, with enough starchy weight to satisfy your hunger....

Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Jack Bishop in person when he visited San Francisco. Jack is the cohost of my one of my all time favorite TV shows, the Cook’s Illustrated America’s Test Kitchen . It’s one of the few shows that successfully brings food and science together and for a geek like me, that is simply amazing! How long to cook, how to brine, how sugar affects texture and flavor, etc....

Soak 1 cup urad dal(black gram lentil), 2 cups rice and 1 tsp methi seeds(fenugreek) for 5-6 hours. Grind to a fine paste adding water. Let it sit overnight with lid for fermentation. Next day mix the batter well adding salt. The batter(which is similar to pancake batter consistency) is ready for making dosas. 1 Mash potatoes roughly into lumps with hand. 2 Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a cooking vessel....

I would hope there is some Usal left (which most of times would be) so that we (mostly it would be dad and me who loved doing this) can make a quick snack out of it for us. Its like Misal made by layering Matki Usal, some yogurt, Chivda (bhel mix) and some finely chopped onions and coriander. Yummmmm. Inorder to make this dish, you need to plan ahead as it requires sprouting the Matki (Moth) first which usually takes around 2-3 days....

We’re not on a diet today. This is the real deal. The obnoxiously fudgy dense brownies completely overloaded with chocolate and swirled with an awesomely rich peanut butter filling and—wait for it—filled with chopped peanut butter cups. If you listen closely, you can hear your bikini running away in fright. I label them “mega” because they’re one of the richest desserts to come out of my oven. The base of the brownies is this homemade brownies recipe, though I add a little more chocolate....

For Holi, I had prepared few Indian snacks like Methi Mathri and Namakpare. Mathris are savory flaky deep fried crackers made with flour, ghee, water and ajwain. The classic Indian snack is very popular namkeen in North Indian states especially Rajasthan and Punjab and is served with achaar (pickle) as a tea time snack. It is prepared for festivals like Diwali, Holi and Karwa Chauth. The mathri dough is flavored with an assortment of spices like anardana (dried pomegranate seeds), tymol seeds (ajwain), cumin (jeera), black pepper (kala mirch) and dried fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi)....

When Satish and I visited a dear friend’s home a few years ago, one of the breakfast treats we indulged in was Adai, a protein rich crepe aka dosa that is a staple of the Tamilian vegetarian diet. Its a slightly thicker version of the famous Andhra Pesarattu which is prepared with green moong dal, ginger and green chilies. But the traditional Adai recipe calls for 3-4 varieties of lentils besides raw rice, red and green chilies and ginger....

1 Chop the blanched spinach and keep aside. 2 Heat olive oil, add the cumin seeds and once they splutter, add the garlic flakes and curry leaves and saute for few secs. 3 Add the onions and saute till transparent, approx 4-5 mts. Add the ginger garlic paste and saute for 4 mts. Add salt, turmeric pwd, roasted methi pwd, coriander pwd, cumin pwd and red chilli pwd and combine well....

You can never predict whether it will be warm, hot or chilly. Windy days aren’t too bad but they happen often. When it comes to food options, it’s rare that you can go wrong. The city has so many tasty options for different price points and for different diets. It’s a dog-friendly city. My life involves food, a lot of it. But I find it interesting that this city and the people here, are hugely, food centric....

Welcome to my annual Sally’s Cookie Palooza! It’s time to tuck away the pie crust and Thanksgiving pie recipes and turn to all things cookies. What is Sally’s Cookie Palooza? A tradition since 2013, every December we countdown to Christmas with 10 new cookie recipes in a row. This is the biggest, most delicious event of the year! Sign up for instant updates and you’ll receive a free email alert whenever I publish a new recipe....

During these long bus trips, I’ve been hankering a craving for Persian food. It is a nice change from all the Holiday themed meals around me. Part of my craving, lies in a new cookbook that I am reading while killing time on the bus and the other half of it lies in the basmati rice dishes that are served at the Persian restaurants I’ve eaten at. Basmati rice is one of the most fragrant and long-grained rice of the rice family....

Key Ingredients for Pesto Bruschetta The main players for the Pesto Brushchetta recipe are bread, cream cheese, pesto and fresh ripe tomatoes. Use the best quality ingredients available to you to get the most out of this recipe!! Bread: You can use bread of choice like baguette or french or Italian bread. I sometimes use regular bread slices too and just cut them in 4 squares or triangles. Use a grill pan to give a fancy look to the bread....

[feast_advanced_jump_to] If I didn’t make at least 8 of these little bacon-wrapped sausages PER PERSON on Christmas day, I’m pretty sure there’d be a riot in the Kitchen Sanctuary household.I usually arrange a few around the turkey – which are gone in 10 seconds. The person who finds a stray one hiding underneath the turkey has to fight off everyone else for it. Then halfway through dinner (when the sprouts and other veggies are finally being consumed) I quietly ask if ‘anyone wants any more pigs-in-blankets?...

Hope you enjoy this Plum Chutney Recipe!! If you give this recipe a try, please rate by clicking stars ⭐️ in the recipe card. Thank you ❤️ ! You can also follow me on Facebook | Instagram to see what’s cooking in my kitchen!! I was looking for something savory and not sweet (like a jam or dessert) that’s when I thought why not make a chutney since my Green Chutney stock was anyways over....

In this post, sharing three stepwise methods to make Poha chivda using either deep frying, baking in oven or air-fryer method. Diwali without Faral is as incomplete as Diwali without lights. I always try to make something sweet and savory each Diwali. Although I make both sweet and savory Diwali faral recipes, I prefer the savory ones. Among savory, my Mom’s Poha Chivda recipe is my absolute favorite. It’s a keeper and super easy one so had to share it with you all....

This pumpkin cheesecake pie is for all of us who love pumpkin pie and cheesecake, but don’t have the time and energy for either. I feel like I’m talking to a lot of people with this one! 😉 What’s Different From Regular Pumpkin Cheesecake? Have you tried my cheesecake pie before? It’s like regular cheesecake, only a little smaller. We’re making the same thing here today, but adding some seasonal flavors and spices....

On days when you crave a warm bowl of comfort, this creamy Punjabi Khichdi is just the right fit to satisfy that craving!! What is Khichdi Khichdi is a one-pot, savory Indian dish made with lentils and rice and has a porridge like consistency. It’s very popular as First food for babies when they start solids. A go to comfort food for many due to ease of cooking and its nutritional value....