These amazing Indian snacks are legit enough that your kitchen will still smell like Indian food when you come home from work the next day. One of my favorite foods – soon hopefully one of yours too!

A few weeks ago I was trying to come up with a low carb alternative to my favorite sides (e.g. mashed potatoes, pasta, etc.) and I opened the fridge and stared into it for a few minutes. I grabbed a few things and tossed them together and Creamy Broccoli Salad was born. I made it again this week and even though it’s nothing fancy whatsoever, I decided to put it up here because not only is it a fantastic and beyond simple salad, it’s also a non-meat option …

These fusion wontons are great for cocktail parties, etc. Just arrange them all on a pretty Asian inspired dish, create some unique sauce options and sit back as your your guests rave about them!

This week I’ve teamed up with my friends Max and Eli Sussman at Freshman in the Kitchen to try one of the recipes from their new book, “Freshman In the Kitchen: From Clueless Cook to Creative Chef.” (Click the picture to order your own copy!) The three of us are all passionate about getting the Millennial Generation to delete Pizza Hut from speed dial and get into the kitchen!
They recently sent me their recipe for Salmon and Goat Cheese Napoleon – a dish that they actually prepared on The Today show earlier …

Everything tastes better when it’s breaded… and the only way to make breaded food taste even better – is to fry it! When I’m home – my mom always makes these cutlets with pork or chicken for her special Katsu-don dish. (She brought that recipe home with us when we left Tokyo!) They are ridiculously tasty. As for the tarragon sauce – I wanted to experiment with the spice, but was also craving a white wine inspired cheese sauce… so this is what I came up …