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20 Minute Tomato Garlic Peppery Shrimp with Lemon Pilaf

May 27, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This juicy, tangy, spicy, and sweet 20 minute tomato garlic peppery shrimp is so easy and delicious.  It’s perfect for entertaining, or for a weeknight meal.

20 minute Tomato Garlic Peppery Shrimp with Lemon Pilaf |foodfashionparty| #shrimpHere’s how parties I threw looked like years ago.  Plan.  Plan for it for weeks.  Write a list down, and shop.  Make two to three desserts a day ahead, and have an array of dishes.  Then came dressing up the room, flowers, and making sure everything is flawless.  The morning of: you see your husband put his feet up on the coffee table to relax.  You look at him, like “really, please can you help around..?”  I turn on the music and start cooking, and start getting excited for the evening.  I was on constant edge if I saw the kids mess the countertop, or left their shoes on my polished floors.  Two hours before everyone arrives, the home looks like a model home, no smell of cooked meals, everything is neatly stored, flowers are smiling brightly.  I light up my candles, put in some drops of orange essential oil in my aromatherapy diffuser, and sit down with a glass of wine, happily….

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Filed Under: 15 Minute Recipes, CURRY, Dinner, Entertaining, Entree, Garlic, healthy, Quick Meals, Rice, Seafood, Spicy Tagged With: 30 minute meal, easy shrimp, grilled shrimp, lemon pilaf, lemon pulao, pilaf, quick shrimp, rice, shrimp, spicy shrimp

Cabbage Puttu/Stirfry – Vegetable Dry Sabzi South Indian style

May 20, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This easy weeknight South Indian style cabbage puttu-stirfry is spicy and gingery, and it’s perfect with some roti or chapathi.

Cabbage Puttu-Stirfry - Vegetable Dry Sabzi South Indian style |foodfashionparty| #cabbagestirfry #southindianfood

There are people who like to say how exactly they feel about certain foods.  They don’t like the taste, it’s too sour or too sweet, or “Why would I ever eat that? It seems too healthy.”

I live with these types of people..  I was one, oh well, I’m still one.

They are firm non-believers of the cabbage family….

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Filed Under: 15 Minute Recipes, Dinner, Entree, Gluten Free, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, Lunch, Quick Meals, South Indian, Uncategorized, VEGETARIAN, Weeknight Meal Tagged With: cabbage poriyal, cabbage puttu, cabbage sabzi, cabbage stirfy, southindian curry, southindian poriyal

Easy and Quick Chicken Lo Mein – 15 Min. Dish

April 19, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This simple, easy and quick chicken lo mein requires only a few ingredients and just fifteen minutes.  You’ll have a good, nutritious meal in no time.

Easy and Quick Chicken Lo Mein - 15 min dish #lomein

Hello there!!

And today, I guess a fifteen-minute chicken lo mein it is!

I’ve had a huge list of dishes I wanted to cook, shoot, and share.  The fancy ones that don’t take time, but great for parties and to entertain, also amazing for family.

My teen loves to cook and eat, and while I was gone for a few weeks to India, he cooked quite a few dishes from the blog.  He cooked the quick EGG CURRY, there was a huge pot of ZESTY AUTUMN SOUP, and there was this easy FISH CURRY. What is common with all of these dishes are: they’re easy, filled with flavor, and packed with nutrition.  And the teen will be going off to college soon.  He’ll fly to the other end of America, NY.  Knowing him, he’ll need homemade Indian few times a week, and that’ll only be possible if he cooks it….

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Filed Under: 15 Minute Recipes, Chicken, Chinese, Dinner, Entree, Sriracha, Weeknight Meal Tagged With: 15 minute dish, chicken and noodles, easy chicken lo mein, easy noodles, lo mein, noodles, quick lo mein, vegetarian noodles

Shrimp Scampi in Coconut Rum Sauce with Linguine

April 1, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This shrimp scampi in coconut rum sauce with linguine is perfect for a thirty-minute meal. A restaurant quality meal, right at home!

Shrimp Scampi in coconut rum sauce with Linguine |foodfashionparty| #shrimpscampi

HAPPY APRIL!!!  Happy Easter!!

My last few months were all in fast forward motion, with one deadline after another, and one project after another…  The book release was a huge relief. A sense of a huge responsibility went off my shoulder, replaced by a sense of happiness, contentment, and accomplishment.  Masala and Meatballs is doing well, thanks to all of you. Very little things happen overnight, but what’s the fun in that anyway? The excitement is in the anticipation, the work and that time which brings pleasure in ticking off all the boxes. It is the journey that matters, not the destination.

After a beautiful launch party, book signings, and a few other events later, I felt the need to take a breather….

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Filed Under: 15 Minute Recipes, Dinner, Entree, Pasta, Quick Meals, Seafood Tagged With: pasta, seafood pasta, shrimp pasta, shrimp scampi, shrimp scampi linguine, shrimp scampi pasta

Kovakkai/Tindora/Ivy Gourd Curry Easy Curry with Chickpea Flour and Peanuts

February 22, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This is a simple delicious curry for vegetarian and meat lovers. This kovakkai/tindora Ivy gourd curry with chickpea flour and peanuts is absolutely a treat for the vegetarian lovers.  Have it with rotis, and it’s perfect.

Kovakkai/Tindora Ivy Gourd Curry Easy Curry with Chickpea flour and Peanuts |foodfashionparty| #tindoracurry

We all hail from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures, and have limitations on what we do eat and not.

There are many myths in different cultures, and we Indians are quite famous for it.  When you grow up in a distinctive culture, it’s bound to influence your lifestyle, your belief system — and perhaps most enjoyably, your diet.  Eat okra, you’ll do well in math.  Eat too much ivy gourd, your brain will not be as smart (no joke, I’ve seen people say this), don’t have banana after 6 p.m, or my favorite one, don’t have yogurt rice after you eat meat.  I’ve heard it all….

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Filed Under: CURRY, Dinner, Entree, Indian, Side, Uncategorized, Vegan, VEGETARIAN, Weeknight Meal Tagged With: ivy gourd curry, Ivy gourd masala, kovakkai curry, kovakkai masala, tindora curry, tindora gravy, tindora masala, tindora northindian curry, tindora northindian style, tindora sabzi

Quick Yellow Thai Curry – 20 Min.

January 24, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This quick yellow Thai curry will both impress you and leave you craving for more.  It’s so easy, and you don’t even need any paste. It’s a weekly staple in our home.

Vegetarian Quick Yellow Thai Curry - 20 min |foodfashionparty| #yellowthaicurry #thaicurry

If there’s one thing we would take out quite often, but I was still overwhelmed by, it was Thai food.  For some reason, for years I thought making Thai curry with Thai paste was laborious.  Well, making a Thai curry paste does require a few ingredients, but it’s actually quite simple as I later learned.  However, on the days I run out of my curry paste and have a hankering for Thai Curry, this is my go to….

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Filed Under: Coconut, CURRY, Dinner, Entertaining, Entree, Gluten Free, Lunch, Quick Meals, Uncategorized, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: 20 minute curry, quick yellow thai curry, Thai curry, thai food, Thai food curry, yellow curry, yellow thai curry

Curry Chicken Salad Avocado Boats with Cilantro cream

January 22, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This madras curry chicken salad avocado boats are so healthy and equally delicious, perfect with the cilantro cream.  Just the right balance for the non-carb days or any day.

Curry Chicken Salad Avocado Boats with Cilantro cream - Carb free and Healthy |foodfashionparty| #avocadoboats

Curry is not a thing in Indian cuisine.  Every recipe calls for a mix of spices, each family has their blend.  So there’s nothing like curry, every recipe has it’s own name.  There are many reasons for the word curry, you can read it HERE. Now, just for the convenience, we call it chicken curry or Andhra curry or Egg curry.…

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Filed Under: Appetizer, Chicken, CURRY, Dinner, Entertaining, Fusion, Gluten Free, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, Lunch, Quick Meals, Salad Tagged With: avocado boats, Avocado chicken boats, avocado chicken salad, cilantro cream, curried chicken chicken chicken boats, curry chicken, curry chicken salad

Vegan Healthy Vegetable Dal with Kale and Yam

January 15, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This vegan healthy vegetable dal is filled with ton of good veggies, kale and yam and carrots.  Perfect hearty meal.

Vegan Healthy Vegetable Dal with Kale and Yam |foodfashionparty| #vegetabledal #vegandalWe are mid Jan and I have been on a vegetable high this month on the blog and otherwise.  We make many different types of dal and I’ve been fond of mixing a few different legumes for a hearty and delicious meal.  Dal seems to be one of the biggest source of protein for vegetarian eaters.  South Indians love their dal and this has become one is become by absolute favorite, healthy vegetable dal….

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Filed Under: CURRY, Dinner, Entree, Gluten Free, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Non Vegetarian, Rice, South Indian, Uncategorized, Vegan, VEGETARIAN, Weeknight Meal Tagged With: daal dal, easy dal, Healthy food, healthy meals, healthy vegetable dal, mixed daal, mixed vegetable dal, vegan dal, vegetable daal, vegetarian daal, vegetarian dal, weeknight dal

black eyed peas and eggplant curry

January 1, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

Black eyed peas curry with eggplant and spinach rotis, a healthy and tasty way to begin the New Year.  Healthy, nutritious and extremely tasty.  Happy 2018!!!

Black eyed Peas and Eggplant Curry with Spinach Roti |foodfashionparty| #blackeyedpeas #indianfoodphotography

Happy New Year!  Wishing you a Very Happy 2018!  Hope you all have an enriched and fulfilling year ahead.

Black eyed peas is supposed to be a lucky dish to have on New Year’s.  It’s a Southern tradition, and you can read the reasons behind it HERE.  For us, we just love black eyed peas, and that’s reason enough to share and enjoy this dish.

And here we are, in 2018.  A new year. Beginning of a New chapter.

Whatever it maybe,

Find What ignites worlds within you

Let your work, everything you create,

Be a direct extention of your heart space,

Now, more than ever,

The world needs more of our light

Go find what sparks it

And people that wholeheartedly believe in it,

And use to go out + change something.

Danielle Doby…

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Filed Under: CURRY, Dinner, Entertaining, Entree, Gluten Free, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, South Indian, Vegan, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: black eyed pea and eggplant curry, black eyed peas, black eyed peas curry, eggplant and blackeyed pea curry, Eggplant Curry, eggplant fry, healthy vegetable curry, South Indian Black eyed pea curry

Spicy Chicken Fry – Andhra style

December 7, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

I’ve always found this Andhra style hot & spicy chicken fry to be very flavorful, and a cozy dish for winters.  Known for its sizzling items, full of flavor, Andhra cuisine is like none other.  It’s so good.

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Spicy Chicken Fry - Andhra style |foodfashionparty| #chickenfry #indianfoodSome of the hottest and spiciest food from South India, they say, is from Andhra Pradesh.  I personally haven’t had any spicy food that I can’t handle, but for most, this would be pretty spicy, but not quite unbearable. Chicken Fry is a staple in many homes, and everyone has their favorites.  Mine has to be my mom’s style pepper chicken, which is my little one’s favorite too.  This Spicy Chicken fry is inspired by the cuisine of Andhra, and quickly, our pepper chicken had some competition.

HOW TO GET YOUR KID TO ENJOY FOOD

Eating food has to be a lovely enjoyable experience, not a dreaded one….

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Filed Under: Chicken, CURRY, Dinner, Indian, Lunch, Non Vegetarian, South Indian Tagged With: andhra chicken curry, andhra style chicken, chicken, Chicken curry, chicken dishes, easy chicken curry, South Indian chicken curry

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