Category: Recipes

Ragada Patties

‘Ragada Patties’ is one of my favorite fast food. We used to go to this road side vendor near Mahalaxmi Temple (precisely near Vidyapeeth Highschool) when I was studying in Kolhapur . Ragada Pattice, Aloo tikki, Samosa Chat were few items that I remember eating there. He had a very small cart with a big aluminum plate filled with ragada constantly boiling over small kerosene stove, warm samosas and kachories in separate plates, sweet tamarind chutney, green mint chutney and yogurt stainless ste Read more →

Ragada Patties

‘Ragada Patties’ is one of my favorite fast food. We used to go to this road side vendor near Mahalaxmi Temple (precisely near Vidyapeeth Highschool) when I was studying in Kolhapur . Ragada Pattice, Aloo tikki, Samosa Chat were few items that I remember eating there. He had a very small cart with a big aluminum plate filled with ragada constantly boiling over small kerosene stove, warm samosas and kachories in separate plates, sweet tamarind chutney, green mint chutney and yogurt stainless ste Read more →

Clean Equals Tasty

Football is back!  Tomorrow is opening-day for most football fans.  Time to put those summer, baseball tailgates to shame.  But before you break out the grills for another NFL tailgate season here’s a tip for you…season your grill.  And do it today, not on game day ( it’s what I am doing today )! Below is how our group goes about prepping the grill for the upcoming NFL season.  Our grill is a gas grill, but the below should also work for a charcoal grill. 1 – This part sucks but it’s a mus Read more →

Don’t Forget About Flank Steak

So I’m back, I am alive, and I still eat a steak every night after I cook about 50 to 100 for my steakhouse customers…and guess what I wanna talk about, steak…OMG! In particular I want to address flank steak , which although quite similar, should never be confused with skirt steak .  Flank is a relatively inexpensive, thin, trapezoidal shaped, lean, very specifically grained steak. Flank does not cut into typical American portions very well due to its shape, and for this reason flank is Read more →

Free Coffee Cups

Everyone loves complimentary giveaways, and everyone is always excited once they see that someone is giving away something as valuable as free coffee cups? Your company’s display will be packed with clients as they tell other clients where they obtained the coffee cups that are holding all the useless plastic stuff they got from the displays of your competition. No one will even notice the same old key rings and pens that show up at every event. Read more →

Check out Atkins’ new food line and enter their recipe contest

Since school started (I teach), and my edits were due on my book (I write), my meals have been: popcorn, fudge bar, cereal, popcorn, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. . .Healthy? Not so much. And my children are all out of the house, so I’m not chasing kids around and pacing the soccer sidelines.  And if dozing off during the evening news counts toward my beauty sleep, I should be eye-shattering stunning by now. So, what’s a mom to do? Atkins has come to our rescue with their Cuisin Read more →