Vegetable Quiche Recipe with Home-Baked Pie Crust

Whenever you plan to make quiche for dinner or lunch, what’s important is to have at home is pie crust. Generally we bought pie crust from the bakery but what if you don’t have pie crust handy, either you will go to market and buy some or if you are lazy like me then you would go for the options like crust-less quiche recipe. 

But why don’t we try to make crust at home itself. Lately, I was looking for these recipes to try and there I found this easy recipe to make pie crust at home. Unlike pie crust for pie, quiche’s pie are easy to make and you can cheat here.

Today I am making an easy vegetable quiche with the home baked pie crust. Making this pie crust is no rocket science, just blend butter with dry ingredients in such a way that it evenly binds together and make a dough. Nevertheless, let’s jot down the ingredients and method of making the pie crust and later we will make this easy vegetable quiche by putting all the filling inside.

Pesto Sauce: An Italian Origin Sauce

Pesto is actually called an Italian sauce. Its origin is from Italy, however it was later believed to have been imported from African region. Its basic constituents are basil, salt, garlic, nuts, olive oil, cheese etc. The pesto’s which are used for commercial purpose do contain walnuts or cashews as they are a bit cheaper. This sauce can be used for meat or pasta, or over toasted bread.

It can be easily made at home that too from scratch and then can be stored in a covered container in the fridge for almost a month. In order to prevent pesto sauce from discoloration a thin layer of olive oil can be poured over its top. 

The pesto sauce has always been among my family’s favorites from quite some years now. The various dishes which can be made with it are pasta with pesto, pesto on pizza and many more.

Lets Cook Pesto sauce.

Baked Chicken Recipe Stuffed with Mushrooms and Spinach

A simple baked chicken recipe is always a rescuer when we are confused about what to cook for dinner. It’s been advisable that a protein rich diet is always beneficial and we all know that chicken breasts is one of the healthiest source of protein which is fat-free. 

In today’s post I am sharing a simple baked chicken stuffed with cheese, mushrooms and spinach. I looked into my refrigerator and found this amazing smoked ricotta cheese and was wondering what all I can cook with this. So I thought, let’s make a nice chicken recipe with it. This is a simple recipe that you can try at any weekend if you want. Or if you are confused for a dinner recipe; this is probably one the best idea to go for. Serve it with steamed vegetables and savory mashed potatoes to complete the meal. 

Do you know, mushrooms are the only fruit or vegetable which are rich in Vitamin D, which is essential for absorption of calcium in our body, and the other source is sunlight? It’s good for your immune system and kick your metabolism, it have anti-oxidants properties and good for your bladder and many more. WOW! One little thing packed with so much of goodness. Similarly I really don’t need to blabber about spinach we all know how good it is for body, rich in vitamin A. this recipe is again one of the best way to make your kids eat spinach without creating any nuisance at the dinner table. Kids love this recipe. Tip – you can use frozen spinach or even kale for this recipe, but I recommend you to use fresh veggies for this recipe. 

Anyways let’s not just waste any more time and jot down this simple chicken recipe for dinner –

5 Different and Amazing Meatloaf Recipes that One should Try!

Meatloaf recipes; who don’t like it? Its flavorsome, spicy and absolute divine when it comes to taste and flavor. Meatloaf is my personal favorite recipe, it’s juicy and made from ground meat. Meatloaf is again a versatile recipe as you can cut them or bake them in a form of patty put it inside a burger bun and your easy meal is ready to take away. Otherwise have it in a classic way with mashed potato and gravy. 

In today’s post, I will be sharing 5 types of meatloaf recipes i.e. meatloaf made from 5 different types of meat like chicken, turkey, bacon, lamb and classic beef meatloaf. I have collected these recipes from different good sources. I hope you will enjoy these recipes as much I did. Let’s not waste any more time and start jotting down these recipes. 

Amazing Slow Cooker Recipes for the Coming Year

Slow cooker is an amazing appliance which makes cooking easier and hassle free. With a slow cooker you can imagine a scene, where you are coming back from long tiring day from work and while entering the door your house welcome you with an enticing aroma and slow cooked dinner. Sounds astonishing isn’t it!

In slow cooker, meat and chicken recipes are cooked in the most tender and moist way. It got all the juices and since the meat has been cooked by the slow cooking method it’s the most aromatic and tasty dish you can have. Other than this slow cooker is amazing for beef recipes too. It cook beef amazingly moist and tender. 

Slow cooker also makes amazing soups and stews. There are plenty of recipes that you can try all around the year with a slow cooker and all you have to do is put the precise ingredients, set the temperature settings and then just leave to cook by itself. I believe slow cooker is a boon for many people. People like students, singletons, people those who works in shifts and have bare minimum time to spend in kitchen and also busy moms who are busy nursing their kids and toddlers. If you will check online, you will find plenty of cookbooks offering recipes for slow cooker and few of them are pretty amazing too. 

Today, I am sharing few amazing recipes that I have tried all around the year. These recipes are easy and simple to make. I hope you will like these recipe list of slow cooker –

My Christmas Meal Ideas for 2013

Christmas is just after few days and it’s time to decide our menu for Christmas lunch and dinner. In today’s post I am sharing meal ideas that you can try on Christmas. I am jotting down the list of recipes that will make your guest go gala over your cooking skills. 

In particular the things we make on Christmas are cakes and puddings, roasted turkey or chicken, any favorite beef recipe that’s been a tradition for years in your family, cookies and ginger man, salads and dressings, dips and finger food etc. If you have a huge family like mine, holidays means lots of work at home and making dinner is a carnival itself. Therefore, I had planned the menu beforehand so that there is no confusion as such. Christmas is just a way of saying that winter won’t lasts for long and when sun will come again a new life, new beginning will start with ray of new hope. 

Nevertheless, let’s discuss what all we can make this Christmas. I will share the name of dishes which you can make in lunch first and then for dinner – 

This Christmas make some Spanish rice for Dinner

When Christmas is around not just gifts and decorations are important but the Christmas recipes that you will make are considered to be important too. As we all know, a meal consists of an appetizer or starter, main course, side dishes, gravies or dip recipes, desserts and drinks. A complete meal is consist of each item but in an order. In this, sides are very important like you have vegetable or chicken side dishes or pasta sides or rice sides or whatever you prefer as side dish along with main dish. In fact, quinoa is also served if you are health conscious people.
 

Anyways today’s bottom line is what you will serve on Christmas Eve. I was planning to serve some Spanish rice sides this festival. There are many recipes for Spanish rice available online and even in our granny’s cookbooks. Spanish rice is also known as Mexican rice as it is available in Northern Mexico. This recipe is mostly famous in Southwestern United States especially, there are many families who make this recipe exclusively for Christmas. This rice sides go perfectly with roasted or baked chicken or turkey. Spanish rice is an appetizing recipe that goes perfectly with seafood, chicken, beef, or just by itself. This recipe is juicy and tangy and completely moist which makes it really flavorsome and delicious. Well I am not sure about the recipe’s name that how they started calling it Spanish rice, because it got nothing with Spain.

Easy meatball Recipe: Cranberry and Cheesy Turkey Meatballs

One of my favorite recipe is meatball recipe. Simple, yum and versatile. Serve them as a gravy main course or just serve them solely as a nice appetizer. Today I am sharing an appetizer version of this recipe, if you feel like you can even put them in a gravy of your choice. I got this recipe from one of my friend on thanksgiving and I just tried to make this recipe in my own style and made few changes to make it more as an appetizer recipe.

You can simply serve this recipe with any dip recipe of your choice and I served them with cold vegetable dip. It tasted just awesome. In this recipe I used minced turkey you can also use chicken if you like. I also added Parmesan cheese in the middle which was a complete delight as it just gets melted in the mouth. You can exclude the cheese if you are a fitness freak but I would suggest to add it a little. Believe me it tastes just awesome.

The cranberry uplifts this recipe and add the perfect zing to this recipe. Anyways let’s jot down this recipe quickly –

Grilled Pork Delight: Coffee and Molasses Pork Chops

I am addicted to coffee so whenever I hear coffee it fascinates me and encourage me to think, what all I can cook with coffee. And one of my friends knows this addiction of mine and sent me this amazing grilled pork chop recipe made from coffee and molasses. When I saw the name, I had started drooling and decided to make this recipe ASAP.

I just made few more changes in this recipe. This recipe is originally cited in Taste of Home’s website. This recipe is indeed super scrumptious and addictive. *Don’t get confused with what I had said about my addiction with coffee and don’t think that I love this recipe because of coffee; but believe me this recipe is really addictive in terms of taste, flavors, richness*

This recipe was such a hit in my family that I have decided to make this easy recipe again and this time for Christmas dinner. It’s juicy, tender and super moist. For glazing, again coffee is used so the flavor of coffee is strong but not over powering. Anyways let’s get into some serious cooking –

Dinner Ideas for your Busy Weeknights

Weeknights means super busy and hectic days. For me Tuesday and Wednesday are the most tiring day in a week. Not just I am busy at work but feels lazy too, to cook on these particular days. God knows why! So, on these particular days I actually look for some easy dinner ideas.

Anyways this weekend I was planning and scheduling my work assignments and I got this wonderful mail from my very old friend, she has sent me some wonderful pictures of her vacation and asked for a favor that write something on weeknight meals and dinner ideas. Well frankly speaking, I thought it is a great idea. Plan your dinner menu beforehand. Why didn’t I get this idea before? :O

There is a famous quote by Calvin Trillin; it says – The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found... hehehe... Quite true! It is okay to use leftovers at times on weeknights but making some healthy recipes is important too. So, today I am sharing 3 easy recipes that you can make on any busy weeknights. This menu is consists of a soup recipe, main dish and lastly an easy dessert.

Today’s Menu is –

• Chicken and Asparagus Stove Top Casserole
•   Steak Tacos- Griddle Style and
• Chocolate and Banana Filled French Toasts