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Toasty Roasted Chickpeas, Cajun Style Recipe on Food52. Cooking is more fun with friends.

Toasty Roasted Chickpeas, Cajun Style Recipe on Food52

Find your friends who are already on Food52, and invite others who aren't to join. Let's GoLearn more Join Our Community Follow amazing home cooks. Collect recipes and articles. Sign Up ♦ 274  Save ▴ If you like it, save it! Save and organize all of the stuff you love in one place. Got it! If you like something… Click the heart, it's called favoriting. Crispy Baked Onion Rings. - Sallys Baking Addiction.

This is how I make onion rings in the oven, not the frier.

Crispy Baked Onion Rings. - Sallys Baking Addiction

They are crispy on the outside, tender on the inside without getting soggy. Like most of us, I made a resolution to keep January on the healthy side. To me that means not saying “no” to any food, but rather watching my portions. Except when it comes to this. I want to eat the whole batch. Other resolutions? How to Make Cheese Straws Without a Recipe. Here at Food52, we love recipes—but do we always use them?

How to Make Cheese Straws Without a Recipe

Of course not. Because once you realize you don't always need a recipe, you'll make your favorite dishes a lot more often. Caramelized Kohlrabi Chips : eat in my kitchen. After I stared at this stunning vegetable, a glowing purple kohlrabi, for about five minutes, I could see them right in front of my eyes: sweet, caramelized kohlrabi chips!

Caramelized Kohlrabi Chips : eat in my kitchen

Thin and sticky with crispy edges! Normally I buy green kohlrabi as that’s what I find at the market most of the time and to be honest, there isn’t really a difference in taste, but the deep colour, somewhere between red, blue and the faded green of the leaves makes me grab this one whenever I see it. As soon as it’s cut and sliced there isn’t much left of its outstanding beauty but that doesn’t matter, the taste makes up for it.

Especially when the paper thin slices turn into chips which combine the hearty taste of cabbage with the bitter sweetness of caramel. Sweet Potato Banana Bites Recipe. Oven-Fried Onion Rings. Onion rings, anyone?

Oven-Fried Onion Rings

And what about some oven-fried ones? Oh, you need to know some more about them to be able to decide. Chickpea Fries with Yogurt Dipping Sauce Recipe on Food52. Kaffekokarkokboken - Chilirostade pekannötter. Chilirostade pekannötter Söndagen och måndagen spenderades på Radisson Blu här i Göteborg. Za'atar-Spiced Chickpea Crackers with Maldon Sea Salt recipe on Food52.com. Healthy Crunchy: Three Guilt-Free Snacks You Can Make at Home. When I snack, I try to stick to fresh fruits and vegetables, but sometimes I want something with crunch, not the moist crunch of a carrot but the carb-filled crunch of a potato chip.

Healthy Crunchy: Three Guilt-Free Snacks You Can Make at Home

When I get really desperate for a treat, I leave the pre-packaged snacks–with their fat, chemicals, and processed ingredients–on the grocery store shelves and make my own healthy snacks using natural ingredients that I usually have in my pantry. My taste in snacks runs from the very simple (baked tortilla chips) to the unusual (roasted okra).

But my very favorite, the one crunchy snack that almost everyone loves, is also the easiest to make: microwave potato chips. Frittelle Di Semolino Dolce - Sweet Fried Semolina Snack - Home - Sweetbites Blog. Today, I started to clean my home office and came across a box and inside I stumbled unto my old recipe notebook that I started when I was twelve years old during one of my visits to my paternal grandparent’s home.

Frittelle Di Semolino Dolce - Sweet Fried Semolina Snack - Home - Sweetbites Blog

When we moved to the states, my sister and I would travel during the summer months to visit them in Venezuela. And during one of those visits, I decided that I would start writing my Nonna’s recipes, so I could bring them back and make them. As I opened the old falling apart yellow notebook, memories rushed back at me of the numerous times that I would sit by her red kitchen table, and she will be at the stove, calling out the ingredients as I would write them down, making sure I was keeping meticulous notes (and apparently doodles of flowers and boxes on the margins) about the tips and tricks that she would remark as she would cook along. Tostones (Fried Plantains) This is a quick and easy post of one of my favorite side items.

Tostones (Fried Plantains)

Plantains are an awesome vegetable because there are countless different ways to prepare a plantain, fried, boiled or mashed they are always delicious. One of the most common ways of preparing a green plantain is to make Tostones. As a kid I loved these things. I would probably eat more of them then I would my actual meal. The name for Tostones comes from the word “tostado” which means to toasted. Lets make tostones shall we? First peel your plantain. Cut your plantain diagonally into 1 inch slices.

Fry the plantain slices over medium heat, until golden in color and soften. They should look a little something like this. If you don’t have a tostonera which is a press for making tostones, take a paper bag and place a plantain slice on it. Fold the bag over on the plantain slice and using a can, saucer or what ever you have on hand, press down on the plantain slice. TA-DA! I like mine with a bit of ketchup on the side. Crispy Mushroom Chip {Paleo, Grain-Free, Addictive}