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    Recipes from Cooking From Cookbooks and Food Books

    Cooking from books. Recipes that I have made from cookbooks and books on food. Some book reviews.

    • A glass bowl with a greenish Purple Basil Pesto with some Purple basil leaves alongside
      Easy Purple Basil Pesto with Pine nuts and Parmesan
    • Brown black coloured cooked vegetable dish with berries, long strips and round slices, on a white oval plate. Yellow round pappad in the background and a silver box on the left
      Ker Sangri / Traditional Rajasthani Sabzi
    • White bowl edged with pale green, filled with heirloom tomato basil salad of sliced colourful cherry tomatoes, red, orange, green, black garnished with edible flowers and basil leaves. On a pale pink surface with a pink napkin to the left. Glass bowl with green basil dressing to the right
      Heirloom Tomato Basil Salad in 10 Minutes
    • Green chunks of mixed vegetable curry in mustard paste and coconut, on a green piece of banana leaf resting on a clay plate. A clay tumbler in the bakcground with yellow mango lassi, white cooked rice on a banana leaf and a white hibiscus flower complete the presentation
      Traditional Odia Vegetable Besara in Mustard Paste
    • Pale yellow creamy raw mango curry with okra, shallots, mango and curry leaves floating on top, in a white bowl edged with beige. On a dark brown background with a white napkin with green stripe behind
      Raw Mango Curry with Bhindi - Kerala Style
    • Brass bowl with reddish brown liquid rasam with tomatoes and fried neem flowers seen on the surface. Fresh neem leaves in the background and a brass cup on the side with fried neem flowers. All on a yellow background
      Neem Flower Mango Rasam/ Vepampoo Mangai Rasam
    • A bowl of fettucine pasta slathered with green pesto and red and yellowburst cherry tomatoes heaped on top with grated parmesan cheese. Bowls of pistachio and argula pesto on the side, with a bottle of olive oil and slices of bread
      Arugula Pesto Pasta in Cherry Tomato Sauce
    • A pan of Green Shakshuka with Kale and Pesto with two open faced eggs, all on a red striped napkin on a white background
      Green Shakshuka with Kale and Pesto
    • Thiruvathirai Kali, a brown coloured sweet dish, in a brass bowl and some spread on a green banana leaf. Vegetable stew in another bowl and on the leaft, with a pat of white butter by the side
      Thiruvathirai Kali with Rice Flour and Jaggery
    • Roasted Tomato Couscous Salad with tomatoes of many colours and sizes, fresh basil, oregano, balsamic vinegar and lemon juice for a healthy refreshing salad
      Roasted Tomato Couscous Salad With Herbs
    • A blue bowl with boiled cauliflower florets, leaves and stalks, Potato and beans for Mizo Bai a vegetable stew from India's NE Mizoram. A pale brown checked napkin to the left
      Mizo Bai / Mizoram Rice Vegetable Stew
    • Assamese Aloo Pitika - a brass bowl with mashed potatoes, cilantro, mustard oil, green chillies and onion on a mat, with green chillies and cilantro alongside
      Assamese Aloo Pitika - Mashed Potato in Mustard Oil
    • A bowl of Raw Banana Varutha Erissery, a curry of green plantain cooked in turmeric and roasted coconut paste, resting on a green and gray book and a white and green checked napkin on the right
      Raw Banana Varutha Erissery with Roasted Coconut
    • Comfort food Maharashtrian Amti Dal with Goda Masala in a large bowl with coriander leaves garnish and a book on Mumbai alongside
      Maharashtrian Amti Dal with Goda Masala and Kokum
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    • Cucumber Spinach Walnut Chilled Green Gazpacho
      No Cook Cucumber Spinach Walnut Chilled Green Gazpacho
    • Kashmiri Green Apple Brinjal Curry or Bom Chount Wangan Sabzi of fried eggplant and green apple cooked in spices, in a white bowl with a silk stole and book on the Himalayas alongside
      Kashmiri Green Apple Brinjal Curry/ Bom Chount Wangan
    • Oying Vegetable Stew from Arunachal Pradesh in NE India. Brass bowl with stew of cabbage, potato and beans with Cookbook and a green chilli by the side
      Oying Vegetable Stew From Arunachal Pradesh
    • Baingan Badi Sabzi - curried slices of aubergine with black gram lentil fritters, turmeric, spinach, dill and Indian spices, in a brass bowl with dill leaves alongside and resting near a pink embroidered cloth
      Bhojpuri Baingan Badi Sabzi: Brinjal Spinach Curry
    • Authentic easy recipe for a delicious Goan Bitter Gourd Kokum Dal, an Indian curry of red lentils, bitter gourd, jaggery and ingredients from India's Konkan Coast, kokum and terphal (Sichuan Pepper)
      Goan Bitter Gourd Kokum Dal - Lentil and Gourd curry
    • Kachumber Salad A colourful salad of chopped tomatoes, onion, carrot, cucumber and raw mango in a grey bowl garnished with pomegranates and green chilli
      Gujarati Kachumber Salad -10 minute Summer Cooler
    • A fat round glass jar half filled with a pale creamy tahini citrus salad dressing, with flecks of black pepper, on a grey beige self checked napkin on a yellow wooden background
      Tahini Citrus Salad Dressing With Honey
    • A brass bowl with aloo badi, a Manipuri dish of potatoes and little sundried nuggets of black gram lentil paste, on a purple background and book on the North East Indian cuisine alongside
      Aloo Badi Manipuri/ Bori Thongba/ Potato Lentil Nuggets
    • White plates with little brown aloo tikkis or potato patties, with a little cup of red tamarind chutney and mint leaves
      Aloo Tikki - Indian Crispy Potato Patties
    • A bowl of Arhar ki Khatti Dhal on a yellow background, a mauve Lucknowi chikan saree and a novel based in Lucknow
      Arhar Ki Khatti Dal Lucknowi - Lentil Stew
    • Baked squash liberally crusted with parmesan and herbs.
      Baked Squash with Parmesan, Herbs
    • Dark Brown coloured Eggless Christmas Cake with icing sugar strewn on top. A slice of cake lying on a wooden board, to the right and a red white and green book on Christmas cookies in the background
      Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake - no sugar added
    • Large white bowl of grated white radish mixed with a brown paste, on dark blue black background. Black Sesame Radish salad from India's N E Meghalaya
      Khasi Black Sesame Radish Salad: Meghalaya Salad
    • A green bowl with white slices of cooked colocasia, green bits of cabbage and mustard greens in a cloudy liquid. A green and white stirped napkin below and the whloe on a green background
      Naga Hinkejvu Colocasia Curry/ Arbi Beans Subzi
    • Slices of pale golden orange honey pistachio cake, on a striped board, with 2 bright oranges in the background, all on a pale yellow backdrop
      Orange Honey Pistachio Cake/ Fresh Orange Tea Cake
    • Shakshuka for a chill evening_PepperonPizza.com
      Shakshuka -  Poached Eggs in Peppers & Tomatoes
    • Zafrani Saffron Linguine in Moroccan butter_PepperOnPizza.com
      Zafrani Saffron Linguine in herbed spiced Moroccan style Butter

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      Easy Purple Basil Pesto with Pine nuts and Parmesan
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