Vegetarian Recipe Blog
Thin buns, sandwich thins, slim sandwich bread, sandwich flats—whatever you call them, they’re essentially the same. Companies just use different names to market their brands. If you’re unfamiliar with them, picture regular old chubby buns minus the extra trimmings, and you’ve got a thin sandwich …
I am thrilled to kick start the Light Lunches event here with one of our favorite rice salads; South west inspired corn, black bean rice salad. We eat this regularly at Chipotle (chain of fast casual restaurant) and its enticing taste has prompted me to …
Remember the Dosa Month event I had a while ago? Well, I plan to do another event on similar lines for the month of June and the theme that I have chosen Light Lunches.
I have had several friends ask me what I do for lunch at work like if I eat out, pack lunch etc. Well, I pack my own lunch and take it to work 95% of the time. I do not have anything against eating out, but being a vegetarian I think the choices are limited when eating out. We do have a small, decent cafeteria in our office building. But the problem is that they have at most 2-3 options for the vegetarians. After eating there for few days it starts getting monotonous and I feel like shouting over the roof tops for some change. (OK, that was a bit of exaggeration).
Plus I am way too lazy to go out and grab some lunch. I cannot imagine myself walking out to the parking lot, taking my car, driving all the way to get lunch, drive back and then eat lunch; that is just not me. I would rather spend that ‘precious’ time with my colleagues or sit at my desk browse for some recipes or catch up a thing or two about my blog. “wink wink”.
Long story short I take my lunch to work. As a result I have control over the ingredients, calories but important of all the portion size. Portion control is very important as it is easy to over indulge especially while eating outside.
I usually take rotis/sabji, or rice-sabji that is left over from the previous night’s dinner. But now I am feeling a bit stuck with the same old stuff and ready for a change. So with this theme, I plan to diversify and try out and learn some new ideas in the process. Lunch ideas that will hopefully brighten the afternoons, boost health and shrink the expanding waistline (I will not go too much in detail about the last part as some things are better left unsaid). So the key to this theme would be to come up with
Now for another interesting part, which is the “Taste of Home” Cook Book Giveaway. There are about 370 recipe ideas which include pizza, salads, main course and desserts in both vegetarians and non-vegetarian category.
You do not need to have a blog to participate in this giveaway. But please make sure that you have put in a valid email address, so that I can contact you when you win.
The last date for this giveaway is June 20th, 2011. Winner will be announced soon after.
Giveaway is open to individuals with shipping addresses within United States and Canada. For people outside of these two countries, you may still enter and have it shipped to a person of your choice with U.S. or Canada.
Good luck!
Inspiration as they say comes from unexpected places and this recipe is a testimonial to that. Few weeks ago, I was looking for some North Indian styled recipe using spinach on Sanjeev Kapoor’s website, hoping to find some inspiration and ideas, but few searches and …
I am not much of a baker and I don’t bake often. But this blog and the kiddo have driven me in that direction and I am learning and enjoying as I go along. It has been a roller coaster ride, but with success like …
Errr…..people, people before you jump to any conclusion, it is just the shutter bug that I am referring to, not any other type of bug! You know, that interest and enthusiasm for amateur photography, right? That is the bug I am referring to 🙂
Well this ‘bug’ bite is not something new as we (DH and I) have been taking pictures for a long time now. When we are not cooking, cleaning, arguing, or driving each other nuts (ahem), then you can find us taking pictures. We take pictures of anything that catches our fancy; food, nature, people, architecture but mainly food as taking pictures on this blog drove us to explore and experiment and catch the ‘bug’.
Of course, we are still amateurs, learning and we have a long long long way to go. The camera has now become our good friend and we don’t go out anywhere without it.
Did I mention that you can find us on flickr? So pour some tea/coffee/mango juice, make yourself comfortable and join us won’t you? We would appreciate if you can leave us some feedback; suggestions, comments, how to improve etc and promise no ‘bugs’ will bite you there 🙂
Hope you all had a good weekend. We had a wonderful yet busy weekend. We had a line of chores, but did not complete most of it. The usual complaint about the weekend is that it gets over very fast. During the week I enthusiastically …