Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Finest Dishes During Your Newquay Holidays

If you are planning to spend your holiday vacation, then it would be wise to reserve one of the Cornwall holiday cottages. This is to ensure that you will have a place to stay during your Newquay holidays. You can rest assured that you will not run out of activities and places to visit. You can bring your family to explore the coastal areas, watch live animals, and learn from historical places and museums. You should not forget to have a gourmet journey during your Newquay holidays. Here are some recommended restaurants.

Manning Bar and Restaurant

During your Newquay holidays, you can stay at the Cornwall holiday cottages. The Manning Bar and Restaurant is one of the most liked restaurants by tourists because it has superb ambiance, friendly staff members, delicious sizzling dishes and great beverages. You, your family and your friends can enjoy three square meals a day at this popular restaurant. You can reserve it for birthdays, anniversaries, meetings and similar activities.

Fifteen Cornwall

This Italian restaurant is great for breakfast, lunch and dinner. People find its mouth-watering dishes, extraordinary. It is most famous for its vegetarian dishes. You should not miss visiting Fifteen Cornwall. This would be a fantastic food journey during your Newquay holidays. The food is also affordable that you would not ask for more. With its varieties of dishes, you can be sure that what you are eating is fresh and healthy. You can rest for the night at the Cornwall holiday cottages.

Vines Bar and Restaurant

This restaurant is a striking distance from your Cornwall holiday cottages so it would be convenient to stay in these comfortable and secure places. These cottages offer one of the most comfortable lodging places. One specialty is the charred grilled beef fillet. There are also several succulent fish dishes that you can taste. They come from the freshest, finest products that you can come across. If you are also after the finest drinks, then you should not miss Vines Bar and Restaurant. It is one of the popular restaurants that cook only the best meat, fish and tasty vegetable dishes. The restaurant is also great because of great ambiance, dish and staff service.

These are restaurants from which you can follow. They offer drinks and sparkling beverages that would make your food gourmet one of the best in the region. From your Cornwall holiday cottages, you can choose which restaurant to indulge in. Your Newquay holidays will be the most memorable because of the food that you eat and the bonding time of family members including yourself. The aforementioned will provide you with the basic information that you can use when selecting a good dining place during your Newquay holidays.




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Spicy Indian Food

Spices and more spices and a fragrance that will lift your spirit up: this is the essence of Indian food. The diversity of Indian culture shows in the cuisine and every Indian state has its own top dishes. Indian recipes comprise of delectable vegetarian dishes as well as traditional non vegetarian dishes with accompaniments like pickles, pappads, chutneys and dessert.

Indian food has a strong influence from different cultural groups and even conquerors from far off kingdoms and over the years different cuisines have come together to represent the Indian traditional cuisine. Mughal emperors brought with them the magical preparation of Biryani while Afghans, Persians and Arabs introduced non-vegetarian fare dipped in rich aromatic gravy and laced with almonds and cashew nuts. That's some calories but the taste is out of the world!

Vegetarian Dishes

The biryani has become a popular Indian food over the years and this purely non-vegetarian recipe was mastered by the Nizams of Hyderabad and has been passed down to the next generations. Finger-licious is an understatement for the hot and spicy biryani, which can be had with chicken, mutton (goat), lamb and beef.

Although Indian food can be segregated according to regions like North, South, East, West but the vastness of Indian recipes will still be overwhelming. From Idli, sambar and dosa in the south to Makki ki Roti and Sarso ka Saag in the North and from shorshe illish (mustard-hilsa illisha) in the east to the sweet kadhi of the West, Indian food is a food connoisseurs dream come true!

Spicy Indian Food

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Vegetarian Starter Recipes For Dinner Parties

Cooking for vegetarians can be a bit of a challenge if you are used to cooking meat, poultry and fish but it is possible to make delicious vegetarian starter recipes. You might like to make a vegetarian pate, using mushrooms, cheese or other ingredients instead of meat. Another option is to make baked eggs or mini quiches.

If you want to serve something cold, you can make a fruit and vegetable salad with a homemade dressing or what about a vegetarian soup? Chilled soups are really popular at the moment and you can make a fruit soup if you like. Here are some more ideas to tantalise your taste buds:

Cheesy Vegetarian Pate

To make an easy pear and stilton pate, beat 225g cream cheese and 170g grated stilton cheese with a tablespoon of dry white wine and some salt and black pepper.

Shape this mixture into a roll and wrap it in plastic wrap. Chill it in the fridge for a couple of hours. Slice three ripe pears and dip them in the juice of one lemon to stop them turning brown.

Arrange the pear slices and pate on a platter and garnish with walnut halves and watercress. You can serve any kind of crackers you like with this.

Baked Eggs with Tarragon

What about making tarragon baked eggs? Tarragon is often used in chicken recipes but its aniseed-like flavour is also good with egg dishes. You can serve this with crusty bread or garlic bread.

Grease four ramekins with melted butter and stir together a tablespoon of finely chopped tarragon, four tablespoons of cream and a little salt and black pepper. Break an egg into each ramekin and spoon the tarragon mixture over the top. Bake for seven minutes (or until the eggs are set) at 180 degrees C.

Quick Leek Nicoise

This is a great starter recipe idea for a dinner party. Cut eight leeks into five centimetre lengths and put them in a pan. Add 120ml olive oil, 300ml water, a teaspoon of white sugar and a tablespoon of tomato puree.

Season with salt and black pepper and cook covered for fifteen minutes or until the leeks are soft. Add some lemon juice and serve the leeks hot with some chopped fresh parsley and a handful of small black olives.

There are plenty more ideas for starter recipes that you can choose from if you really want to impress your guests and leave them talking about your dinner party for all the right reasons.
Now all you will need to do is work out what to serve for the main course!




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Cooking Vegetarian - Simple Ways To Cook Vegetarian Food

In all forms of cooking there are some principles to bear in mind that can make it easier. Vegetarian dishes are no exception. Even the simplest recipe can look really complicated unless we understand the basics.

The simplest of all dishes is a one pot stew or casserole. There are vegetarian versions that taste just as good as meat based ones. If you have the essential ingredients to hand you can make a very simple vegetarian casserole.

Vegetarian Dishes

All you need to do is add a tin of beans such as kidney beans, pinto beans, butter beans of flagellate beans to a root vegetable casserole. You can develop some variations on this theme by adding a topping of breadcrumbs with or without grated cheese and putting it in the oven for a few minutes. You could even add a pastry crust or a cobbler topping and bake it. Dumplings are an excellent addition and make a hearty vegetarian meal.

Vegetarian soups are just as simple. If you cook some lentils, carrots and onions for about 15 minutes you can whizz the whole thing in a food processor to make soup. Season to taste and stir a spoonful of yogurt or creme fraiche into each dish as you serve it. A sprinkling of chopped coriander or parsley adds a special touch.

A pea soup is even easier. Cook some frozen peas in boiling water with a sprig of mint. When they are cooked put them in the food processor. Season to taste and serve. A slice of wholemeal bread makes a satisfying vegetarian lunch.

Another one pot stand by is risotto. A mushroom risotto makes a quick and easy vegetarian supper. Arborio rice cooks in about 10 minutes and it will take about the same to chop up some onions, garlic and mushrooms.

Stir fry is a great vegetarian stand by. The great advantage of this kind of cooking is that you can adapt it to whatever vegetables you have available. If you have some tofu in the store cupboard it is easy to make a vegetarian stir fry. Mushrooms also make a good vegetarian stir fry.

A stir fry is not quite a one pot dish because you will need to cook some rice or noodles to go with it. But noodles are very easy and only take about 10 minutes or less.

Cooking brown rice can be a slow business which puts many people off using it. But the best way to make this essential vegetarian food easy is to invest in an electric rice. cooker. Your rice will be done perfectly every time and become the basis of many easy vegetarian meals.

Cooking Vegetarian - Simple Ways To Cook Vegetarian Food

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Thanksgiving Vegetarian Cooking

Don't panic! There's plenty of time before thanksgiving, seven days to be exact. It's just a dinner for, you know the whole lot: parents, grand parents, in-laws, picky toddlers and the teenagers who live on French-fries and insist that they do eat vegetables. I brought this upon myself.

You know how it is yearly, during the holidays when the table is divided into categories and sub-categories? Oh no. I'm not talking about appetizer, soup and the main course. I'm talking about the likes of: no dairy for such and such, no sugar for the diabetics, no vegetables for the teenage punks, no gluten for the allergic and no meat for us, the vegetarians. You see, throughout the year during family get-togethers we're all sitting on the same table but eating something completely different from each other. So I said, "Okay. I'm hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year and I'm going to make sure we all eat the same thing."

I'm determined to take on this task with an upbeat optimism. Oh Google show me some love!

It really isn't hard to prepare healthy dinners or vegetarian meals. The World Wide Web is full of answers. Thanksgiving vegetarian recipes are available. The beauty of preparing a vegetarian menu is that it caters to the allergic (think wheat allergy), to the diabetic (sugar free sweet potato pie, oh yeah it's possible with coconut sugar!) These healthy recipes will surprise you because they do measure up with standard recipes. They taste as sweet and flavorful and the texture won't give it away that what you're eating is the healthy version.

Pumpkins, potatoes, sweet potatoes abound during this month thus the pilgrims also prepared dishes out of these. Of course, nothing beats a dish that is made from fresh and organic vegetables! Choose recipes with simple steps and easy to follow instructions so that you will not be distracted, going to and fro YouTube and Google as to how exactly it is done (chiffonade anyone?). I am happy to share quick and easy recipes in case you fall out of time with the other dishes, I can whip something up to help fill up the menu. Try to stay away from canned vegetables. After all, Thanksgiving is a celebration of bountiful fresh produce from Mother Earth.

In looking for these thanksgiving vegetarian recipes, I've kept in mind the aging loved ones, low-cholesterol dishes. I've also included a high protein healthy meal for the general crowd, finger foods that can be healthy snacks for kids and vegan pumpkin pies for everyone and no one has to know. Sssshhh!

I'm going to make sure that this healthy dinner will be a memorable family Thanksgiving. Bring the goodness of Mother Earth to your table with your Thanksgiving vegetarian dishes and let this be a beginning of a new tradition. Making tradition out of healthy eating.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! (and to the Turkey that won't be sitting on my table).




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Sitar Indian Cuisine - Traditional Yet Modern

"Traditional Indian cuisine with a modern touch," is an apt motto for Sitar Indian Cuisine on Colorado Boulevard in the Playhouse District.

"It's just simple, natural cooking, with traditional values," says owner/general manager Aman Kamboj. The modern touches come from the zen-like music played throughout the restaurant, the warm decor and their full bar complete with mango martinis, Indian wines and beers.

Vegetarian Dishes

Their menu is derived from Punjab cuisine with influences from Southern India. Tandoori, lamb, chicken and seafood specialties share space on the menu with many vegetarian dishes.

I chose the Sitar Special with samosas, tandoori chicken, lamb boti kabab, chicken korma,vegetable aloo gobhi, basmati rice, garlic naan and rice pudding. My companion indulged in his favorite dish of lamb biryani.

A word about spice. It is a common misconception that all Indian food is hot-spicy. This is not so. The heat comes from a few ingredients that make up the whole and can be controlled in the final cooking of the dish. Since Sitar makes all their food when ordered they can control the amount of spiciness to your taste.

"So our food might take a little longer to come out, but at the end of the day it's fairly gourmet. And so we have the luxury, depending on the guest's palette, to make it mild, medium or spicy," adds Aman.

I opted for medium, my spice-impaired companion had it mild.

The tandoori chicken was tender with the smoky taste of the tandoori oven that mingled with the yogurt-spice marinade. Lamb morsels also cooked in the tandoori oven, were touched by a marinade of herbs and spices.

The chicken korma which is a creamy sauce garnished with almonds and cashews, was light and delicate.

Fresh vegetables studded the aloo gobhi which was sautéed with ginger, tomatoes and spices. I'll eat my vegetables anytime they are cooked like this.

The lamb biryani, which is a Mogul dish, had tender pieces of marinated lamb in bastmati rice that was flavored with saffron and studded with nuts, raisins, onions and bell peppers. A hint of heat added to the appeal of this dish.

Sitar also has banquet facilities for 250 people next door to the restaurant, conference rooms above the restaurant and their very own parking. Currently they provide conference support for many of the larger companies around town. And if it's a celebration you're after, Sitar can provide it at a lower cost than the hotels. That's because they have so many services available to them like the lighting, DJs, live music, and florists. "I want you to come happy and leave happier," says Aman.

Sitar Indian Cuisine is located at 618 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Their hours are Sunday - Thursday, 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Friday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. For more information go to their website at http://www.sitarindiancuisine.com or call (626) 449-5954.

Sitar Indian Cuisine - Traditional Yet Modern

Article by Candice Merrill, restaurant reviewer, events editor, e!Pasadena newsletter editor and photographer for Pasadena Now. Pasadena Now is an online news magazine for the Pasadena, California area. For news, events, art and entertainment, previews, reviews, community news and non-profit information go to http://www.pasadenanow.com

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