Red kidney bean salad with sun dried tomatoes and mini peppers

If there is a dish that has innumerable ways of making it, or no real set way of making it, its a salad. You can throw just about anything edible together and call it a ‘salad’. Thats the beauty of the thing. Also, the notion of anything that is called a salad is ‘healthy’ is … [Read more…]

Crock pot/Slow cooker Dal Makhani | Slow cooker Indian Recipes

If you are trying to put your crock pot to use…like I am, dals should be your best bet. I recieved the crock pot as a gift from my dear friends Srini and Vinitha one Christmas. I must confess that I have’nt put it to a lot of use, except for making soups and dals. … [Read more…]

Rajma biryani/Rajma chawal/Kidney bean pulav

I got so happy about participating in my first food blog event, that I got all excited about more entries to other events. I even picked out my first Mark Bittman recipe to try for IHCC – Its time for Breakfast in Bed event. My recipe was going to be Potato Asparagus frittata, I picked it … [Read more…]