Taco bar & Homemade burrito bowl

Quinoa salad with blackbeans

Homemade pizza night

Whole wheat dough with spicy chicken, peppers, onions, basil, jalapenos, tomato sauce and cheese sprinkled on top ready for baking. 

Kale salad at its best

Refreshing kale salad for lunch. After mixing all the ingredients and chilling it, I cannot taste any raw kale. I have used finely chopped kale, EVOO, lemon zest, lemon juice, salt, pepper, toasted pine nuts, sliced almonds, strawberries, dried goji  berries and raisins.

Dinner plate tonight

Chicken+pesto+vegetable pockets, roasted Brussels sprouts & cauliflower, pepper chicken and brown rice

Spaghetti squash pasta

Roast spaghetti squash and scrape it with fork and you get squash noodles. I sauted them with cooked shrimp, olive oil, Italian herbs and salt and they tasted delicious. 

No sugar no flour dessert... Yum Yum

Fruit,pistachio milk, orange juice, orange zest, chia seeds, vanilla, cinnamon, shredded coconut on top.

Click here to get the recipe

http://foodbabe.com/2013/01/21/chia-seed-fruit-salad/

Italian Pasta Salad @Dinner

Salad is ready and chilling in the refrigerator.

Healthy Sugar Cookies

Here are healthy version cookies/balls (thats how they turned out for me, may be incorrect measurement) tried from Foodbabe blog and they are quick, easy and delicious. My daughter actually mixed all the ingredients and took less than 20 mins to get to enjoy.

Breakfast of the day!

Waffles, fresh orange juice and blackberries.

Snacking on baked sweet potato fries

Rugelach

These are the cookies/pastry I baked for a cookie swap today. Not sure what they were till yesterday, I had a vague idea of seeing them somewhere in a magazine. Thanks to internet age, I could find what they are and how to make them. 

Ghee aroma filled the kitchen

Aroma of ghee filled the air. Nothing can beat a blob of ghee in rice with dal or a parata. Making it at home is simple, easy and tastes great. All it needs is to bring butter to boil and little patience to avoid it from burning. You will end up with this goodie to enjoy!

A batch of ghee made from grassfed organic butter

Roasted red pepper hummus

Cilantro and Red Pepper Hummus (I missed Cilantro in my preparation above, its a good twist to your taste :))

Ingredients:

-Soaked (overnight) and pressure cooked Chickpeas - 2 cups  OR 1 Can Chickpeas drained and rinsed

-1/2 Cup Chickpea Water (leftover water from pressure cooker or from can)

-1 to 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

-3 Garlic Cloves

-3 tbsp Tahini (sesame butter)

-Splash of Lemon Juice

-1/2 cup roasted red peppers

-2 tbsp Cilantro leaves (few for garnish)

-Pinch of Cayenne pepper

Puree all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth. Add the Chickpea water slowly and as needed to make the hummus the proper consistency. Add roasted red peppers and blend until desired texture. Garnish with Cilantro and Cayenne pepper.

*Note: If using soaked chickpeas, add salt to taste.

Boondhi Ladoo

There is no special story behind these, these mouth watering ladoos are first my first attempt and half turned round balls and half remained as sweet boondi.

Crunchy kale chips for snack

Before going into oven

Out from oven

Mickey Mouse pancakes make our morning

Breakfast for the day

With a toddler, I need to get creative. My daughter is now bored of round pancakes. So here are the ducks swimming....LOL

This can't go wrong in our household

Pasta with basil pesto and veggies....

Birthday time...

Treats with some cold milk.