Appetizers

Serving tasty appetizers is the best way to start a night of entertaining in your home. Perfect crowd-pleasing party appetizers done the easy way. See lots of tasty appetizers recipes with photos, and tips.

Zesty Avocado and Chickpea Hummus - Garbanzo-mole

Avocado is one of my favorite vegetable, its creamy texture always entices me and you already know my love for chickpea dips. I love experimenting various flavor combinations with chickpeas to make heal...

Cherry Tomato, Goat Cheese and Spinach Puff Pastry Tarts

Ready to use Puff Pastry Sheets with three easy to find refrigerated ingredients in your home can make these 15 minutes quick appetizer tarts. I love these tarts because of two reasons. First, I just to...

Indian Paneer Pindi Chana (Chole) Masala

Pindi Chana(or chole) is a famous masala chickpea recipe, named after town where it originated i.e. Rawalpindi. Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, used to be part of India before India-Pakistan partition. In...

Crispy Tofu Snack Pockets with Crunchy Vegetables Filling

I love tofu and I am always trying new and healthy ways to use Tofu in our diet. Specially Tofu snacks and sides are my favorites. These crispy tofu pockets are famous among my book club friends because...

Spicy Cilantro Chickpea Hummus

Chickpea is clean base ingredient which you can blend to make gluten-free, delicious and healthy sides. Hummus, a delicious Mediterranean chickpea based dip, is my favorite way to enjoy and serve chickpeas to my guests. But I always flavor my hummus dip to make even more delicious and spicy. Last year...

Baked Oysters with Garlicky, Sweet and Sour Scallion Sauce

Oysters can taste delightful if you know how to cook them well. If you are new to making oysters at home, I recommend to buy cleaned and opened oysters and consume them the very same day. Today, I am sh...

Stuffed Baby Eggplant Bites

I love baby eggplant available once-in-a-while in farmers market. I often try various different combinations to stuff and bake these cute little eggplants (also known as brinjal or aubergines). Few of m...

Onion and Cilantro Steamed Semolina Cakes

Steamed Semolina Cake is a famous finger-food snack from South Region of India. Loved and enjoyed various ways in every home in India, these extremely fluffy steamed cakes are lite on stomach, easy to d...

Fresh Carrot and Basil Rolls

For large get-together or kids parties, I always love having several small platters of finger food appetizers. These are life savers when people make small groups and are busy chit-chatting. Instead of...

Spiced Lamb Pies

Homemade Spiced Lamb Pies have special space in my home. Growing up, we had lots of vegetarian and ground spiced lamb stuffed samosas (deep fried hand pies) and this pie always reminds my of those. However, other than spicy lamb stuffing, these pies are totally different from Samosa in ingredients as...