Recipes

GETTING READY 1. Soak the short grain rice in water, 2. Soak the dried kelp in 5 cups cold water for 30 minutes. 3. Chop the oyster mushrooms; chop the green onions and carrots. 4. Clean and rinse the fresh oyster, set aside. 5. Remove the kelp and reserve the water. 6. Drain the rice, set aside. MAKING 7. In a saucepan toast the rice with sesame oil for few minutes. 8. Pour the kelp...

Brown beef, onion and green pepper in Dutch oven. Add 2 cups water and all remaining ingredients except spaghetti and cheese; simmer for 3 hours, adding water occasionally as needed. Cook down to thick sauce. Mix spaghetti with sauce; let stand for 20 minutes before serving. Top with cheese.

Melt butter in small saucepan. Saute onion lightly in butter. Add all remaining ingredients; mix well. Simmer until heated through.

Care for a Panda Burger? Don’t fret, you don’t have to eat Panda meat. Instead you will be served a burger which bears the stamp of a mother & child panda atop the bun. How is it different you may ask and what is its purpose? Well, no one seems to know right now except the makers Lotteria, a Japanese chain specializing in...

Blend mayonnaise, catsup, chili sauce and olives together; stir in brandy. Add remaining ingredients, blending well. Chill.

Pat sausage into rectangle, 1/2 inch thick, on waxed paper; chill for 1 hour. Mix apples, bread crumbs and onipns together; spread over sausage. Roll, jelly roll fashion; tuck in edges to enclose filling. Place in shallow baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Cut into 1-inch slices to serve.

Including fruits for breakfast, lunch and dinner has become a norm, hence we do not get surprised to find a variety of healthy, natural foods adorning our cereals or dessert plates. However, here is a strange looking fruit that can stop you in your tracks. The odd shape of this fruit may make you go OMG but its virtues and pleasing taste will not fail to impress you....

Melt butter in double boiler over low heat. Saute onion in butter until transparent. Blend in flour; add milk and stock gradually. Place over hot water; add thyme, pepper and nutmeg. Cook for 1 hour, stirring frequently. Strain sauce through fine sieve.

Decorate a cookie with icing is more simple than it seems. Watch the video and if you like you can add color to the royal icing or add some details like lines or dots, etc. I hope you like it.

Green vegetables are good for health- this is a sentence that has been repeated again and again by parents, teachers, nutritionists, doctors, dieticians et al. But why is the humble potato or the whitish looking cauliflower positively ignored by the specialists? These white veggies along with the white colored mushrooms and turnips also happen to be...