Sides

Curried Yellow Beets and Peanut Hash

What are your favorite holiday dinner sides? Curried Yellow beets hash always make its place on my thanksgiving dinner table. Among all beets variety, yellow and dark red beets are my favorite. We often...

Cardamom Infused Chunky Cranberry Sauce

There are hundreds of cranberry sauce recipes online and I added my cranberry orange butter to that list last year. Cranberries guys, we can’t get enough of these bright and beautiful little berries dur...

Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Apple

Sweet and tender roasted sweet potatoes with lemony, sweet and tart pan roasted apples were like many holiday flavors singing on my palate. This delicious sweet side dish is as simple as it looks and as...

Zucchini and Peppers Grilled In a Foil

Its fun and very entertaining to cook everything on the grill for a grilling party. From everything I literally mean everything from appetizers to dessert. Everyone adored the Salmon grilled in foil rec...

Thyme Dusted Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Since we tasted sweet and salty sweet potato fries, we stopped ordering regular potato fries with burgers. Everyone in my family loves sweet potato fries but I often prefer to bake them instead of deep frying to cut on our oil consumption. I call them my no-guilt fries (far less oily than deep fried v...

Roasted Sunchokes with Lemon Sage Dressing

Few years back, in fall-winter season, I saw these fresh gingers like roots in farmer market called Jerusalem artichokes (also known as sunchokes). This time of year many hard-to-identify root vegetable...

Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

Baking Season marks the beginning of Holiday Season and some days my oven works extra hours for me. To pay back to electricity Gods, I utilize my running (heating) oven to its fullest. Mostly, when you...

Curried Sauteed Mix Vegetables

Curried Sauteed Mix Vegetables is staple dish in my home towards the end of week when we are due to shop for fresh veggies and there are one or two pieces of every veggies lying in our refrigerator. You...

Sofritas Style Spicy Shredded Tofu

Shredded Spicy Tofu is inspired from Chipotle Mexican Grill new vegan offering - Sofritas. I am a big tofu fan and I often try lot of different flavors and cooking methods while cooking tofu. Chipotle M...

Spicy Grilled Tofu with Grilled Vegetables

Spicy Grilled Tofu is perfect meal for everyone who would like to eat healthy for dinner today. Yes, my Spicy Grilled Tofu recipe comes with a health promise. Tofu is marinated in a flavorful, spicy yet very simple marinade, then grilled. And served with side of fresh grilled vegetables that are so cr...