Category: Salads & Soups

BM#4 Day 6: Turkey Dumpling Soup

turkey dumpling soup

I made some turkey kofta curry Thursday night and kept aside some turkey meat to make this soup yesterday. I was in no mood to make the dumpling soup yesterday and this was our lunch this afternoon. This recipe is adapted from Rachael Rays Hungarian Dumpling soup. I made this soup couple of times in… more

BM#4 Day 5: Bok Choy & Mushroom Soup

Bok Choy and mushroom soup

It feels like fall/winter today. The temperature is in 40’s, which is not bad at all but the cloudy sky is making it feel a lot colder. On this gloomy day, I felt like having a light, hot soup and some homemade pizza, for lunch. I had actually planned on making dumpling soup today but… more

BM#4 Day 4: Tomato Soup

Tomato Soup

Tomato soup is one of the easiest soups to prepare and it is a real comfort food! I am lazy to prepare it from scratch used to buy Lipton tomato soup mix. My father-in-law likes this soup a lot and use to get it whenever he visited us and I slowly got hooked on to… more

BM#4 Day 3: Hot & Sour Soup

hot and sour soup

While I was going through my recipe book for soup recipes, I found this hot & sour soup. I don’t know where I got this recipe and I wrote it down a long time ago, before coming to the US. I started collecting and writing down recipes soon after my marriage and can not recall… more

BM#4 Day 2: Sausage White Beans & Kale Soup

turkey kielbasa white beans kale soup, sausage white beans kale soup

Couple of weeks ago, I came across this soup recipe and the pictures were very tempting. It had lot of kale in it.  Kale is one of the healthiest green leafy vegetables and since I tasted it just a few days ago, I made it right away and it came out very good! I did… more

BM#4 Day 1: Vegetable Sweet Corn Soup

Vegetable sweet corn soup

Today is the first day of blogging marathon # 4. This time Valli divided the marathon into three groups. The first group does the marathon form today the 4th to 10th, second group from next Monday, the 11th to 17th and the last group from 18th to 24th. Just like last two marathons, we have… more

Beetroot Radish Salad

bettroot radish salad

This is a quick, easy and super healthy salad that can be fixed in matter of minutes. I used beetroot, radish, carrots and legumes to prepare this salad. Beetroot being a natural dye, gave its color to rest of the ingredients in the salad, making it a pink salad. This salad can be served as… more

BM#3 Day 5: Beetroot Raita

Beetroot raita

For the 5th day of the marathon, I am here to share a raita recipe I tried from US Masala. I love raitas and try to make it variety of vegetables.  I have already shared tomato raita, brinjal raita, spinach raita, cabbage raita and onion raita.  As I was going through US Masala blog, I… more

BM#3 Day 3: Ham Salad

Ham salad

One of the most difficult part of cooking is deciding the menu. Every day, the big question is what do I cook? Like most of the days, yesterday I was asking myself the same question over and over again, and could not decide on anything. I did not want to cook chicken or fish, as… more

Day 7 – Bone Soup ~ Bone Chaaru

Bone soup

Today is the last day of this marathon and I am probably the last one to post my recipe   It was fun doing this 7 day marathon and looking forward to doing it more often.  Thanks Srivalli for coordinating this marathon!  The seventh  starter for this virtual party is bokka (bone) chaaru or bone… more