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Pizza mac and cheese
Pepperoni pizza meets macaroni and cheese in this super easy dish the whole family will love. Two awesome comfort foods in one! Last week, I asked some friends on Facebook “What ingredients do you love so much, that if you see it used in a recipe, you’ll want to make it?” It was a really funny thread. Not surprising, so many of my friends said chocolate or caramel. A close second was cheese. Nothing specific, just cheese, in general. Many others including myself said pasta. So I’d say this recipe for pepperoni pizza macaroni and cheese is perfect. It’s two classic comfort foods in one. Bonus that it’s super easy, quick, and only requires one pan. I was surprised that my kids loved this dish. I have a two year old daughter that’s very picky about her food. My son is 7 and he loved it that he wanted thirds and fourths. So it wasn’t a bad idea to try.
By Lexus baskin6 years ago in Feast
Layered Carrot and Almond Barfi
The crisp chill of autumn makes me nostalgic; it takes me back to Dussehra and Diwali season when the sound of devotional music, chaos of giddily merry shoppers and aroma of deliciously aromatic street treats fill the autumn air. Gifts abundant and studying rare, it is the time of the year eagerly awaited by kids and grownups alike. And, unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of delicious food, some home-cooked, some procured from the many food-stalls that dot the streets with their best fares. With a variety of sweet and savoury treats on offer, one is truly spoilt for choice and among all things eaten with gusto, would be a big thali of assorted sweets that are beautifully perfumed with heady spices and ghee and enjoyed enthusiastically with milky masala chai and as dessert to mark the end of every meal that is complete with curries, biryanis, parathas, kebabs and many such divine delights. It’s truly the most festive and happy time of the year; much like Christmas for us Indians. Among all the lovely things that my mom would make to mark this festive and auspicious time of the year, Badam (Almond) barfi and Gaajar (carrot) Halwa hold a special place in my heart. Subtly sweet and wonderfully aromatic, I would eat loads of them and often quite messily. I would crumble a barfi into a bowl of halwa and tuck in gleefully as my mom would half-heartedly reprimand me for being such a messy little kid while smiling kindly. Strange and messy as it was, the combination, in my opinion, is divine. And, now, as I live oceans away from India and my mom, I have made a ritual of making my layered Badam (Almond) and Gaajar (carrot) Barfi during Dussehra and Diwali to celebrate beautiful memories of my childhood. Here, in London, there is no sound of devotional music, no chaos of giddily merry shoppers and no aroma of deliciously aromatic street treats emanating from food-stalls but there is joy in my heart as my home fills with the familiarly festive aroma of saffron and cardamom as they perfume these barfi that brings two of my favourite autumn treats into a neat little bite.
By Rima Pathak Rosa6 years ago in Feast
The Warmth and Joy of a Simple Hot-Chocolate
I have been soaking in these true fall days - where the day is crisp, golden and bright. Oh the delights! Jack Frost has trailed his Intricate designs, and autumn has danced behind, her laughter the sweetest sound of the wind catching gold, ruby and butter yellow leaves.
By Faye Wilde6 years ago in Feast
5 Delicious Bread Recipes to Prevent Food Waste
If you have a penchant for bread products, but often find your bread looking a little worse for wear before you manage to get through it all, this is for you! These recipes also invite the opportunity to incorporate any leftovers you may have in your fridge, whether it's bacon that needs using now or some berries that aren't looking too great.
By Victoria (@fodmapfeasts)6 years ago in Feast
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving will be different this year especially since the pandemic. My thanksgiving will still be celebrated even though we are quarantined. It’s still a lot to be thankful for and I have a lot to be thankful for. To the food talk I know everybody is probably ready to smash some good ole home cooking. I have my menu planned out and this year I will be celebrating my first thanksgiving as an engaged woman. My fiance and I are very excited and ready. My menu will be Honey baked ham, green beans, corn, 6 cheese baked macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, my famous baked beans, and rolls. I am still debating on doing Cornish hen or chicken wings as my other meat choice. My family and I don’t really eat turkey so our thanksgivings are different. For dessert there will be different flavors of pies, strawberry blueberry and New York style cheesecake, and of course my all time favorite banana pudding. No holiday that we celebrate doesn’t go without making banana pudding. My aunt always made the cheesecakes and banana puddings and now since I have got the recipes down pack now I have been trusted with making them this year. I’m 26 years old and I have three children and my kids are ready for mom’s cooking. My grandmother used to cook every year for thanksgiving except the years we went to Disney world. We lost my great aunt Barbara not too long ago and she was the one who planned the trips. So now we won’t be going on our Disney world trips unless we plan them ourselves. But this year I told my family that I’m cooking this year and now everybody is coming to my house for thanksgiving. I hope my brother and his family are able to attend. I miss my brother and my nieces. I can say that I’m thankful for my family. My children, my fiance, and my mom. Without her being my backbone this year I don’t think I would make it. My fiance has been here with me since day one and has never left my side especially since this pandemic. My children are the reason I live and keep going. They look up to me and I cherish every moment I have with them. I’m going to start a tradition where we say what we are thankful for. Yes I know most families do it already. But in my family we have never done that so now we will start as of this year. Everybody celebrates this holiday differently. Do you guys cook together or do you cook alone? I usually cook dinner by myself. I was raised to stay out of the kitchen when somebody was cooking. Now my fiance and I will be preparing this thanksgiving dinner together. My advice for thanksgiving this year since the corona virus is still follow guidelines if you are having family over like I am disinfect and have lots of sanitizer. Make sure everyone wash their hands because we all have some people in the family who don’t like to wash their hands. When everybody leaves of course clean up like you usually do. But clean it extra good, disinfect everything that anybody has touched. Yes their family but you’re not around them 24/7 and don’t know who they've been around. Not being negative at all just following safety guidelines. They say that you should limit how many people you should have in your house if you are having a get together. Please be safe everyone. I hope everyone has a very fun, safe, and blessed thanksgiving. Like my story feel free to leave a tip.
By Lexus baskin6 years ago in Feast
Fall Without Fire
My favorite thing about fall turning into winter is being able to cozy up by a fire... There is no feeling quite like crisp autumn air against your skin while smelling cedar burning in the fireplace- hearing the embers crackle. And nothing goes better with gathering around the fireside like s’mores. Who doesn’t love them? Marshmallow, chocolate, and graham crackers... YUM.
By Taylor Horton6 years ago in Feast
Better Things to Come
Fall has always been the season that I love most. Day after summer-day I endure the oppressive heat and suffocating humidity, until finally it comes in early October: I wake up and realize that there’s a lightness to the air, and an inexplicable ease of breath. As the day goes on I notice that the pregnant, mountainous clouds that normally usher in the afternoon’s storms have evanesced, and the sky rests - an undisturbed lagoon of cerulean.
By Stephanie Nielsen6 years ago in Feast
Pretzel Hugs
There’s something about the little things that make you appreciate life more than you normally would. When it comes to food, I know what I like and I know what I don’t like even if I haven’t tried something because it includes an ingredient that I’m not fond of.
By Ashley Goetz6 years ago in Feast
The right way to eat a jackfruit
Yesterday, I went out for dinner with my friend Nana. The noodle restaurant was bustling. We were No. 8 on the waiting list. So we walked around and a small fruit shop next door attracted us. We went in and looked around, saw two boxes of processed fresh jackfruit conspicuously placing near the door. Nana had never tried it. I just tried once; it was with M. But we didn’t know the skill of eating it at that time. What I could remember was the procedure of how we fight with it, while the taste of it was vague.
By Golden Maple6 years ago in Feast
A Promise of the Sweetest Tomorrow
I remember reading a passage in a book titled In Search of Lost Times where the author, Marcel Proust, describes a scene where he eats a little madeleine cake and is immediately thrown into an involuntary memory. In his memory, he is eating madeleines with his aunt on a Sunday as a young boy. He argues that taste and smell are heavily connected to memory and from my own lovely experiences, I can agree. For me, a simple blueberry pastry is tied to a crowd of my own complex emotions and beautiful memories. That pastry is my petite madeleine. There are three memories that I'm abruptly thrown into now whenever I take a bite of a warm blueberry pastry on a cold day.
By Dream Silas6 years ago in Feast
The Flavor of Courage
There once was a little, pink ghost named Fantasma. Now as a ghost, you'd think little Fantasma would be void to fear and out playing ghoulish tricks on unsuspecting victims...But if given the opportunity to wisp around a haunted mansion, Fantasma would be the first to screech outside the door! Little Fantasma was a scaredy cat (well, ghost) through and through...but he was also the sweetest little ghoul you'd ever want to meet. Sweeter than chocolate in fact.
By Diamond Kelley 6 years ago in Feast
