Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
I don’t know how many of you do this – but I love to look at recipe books, love to collect them (my small shelf in our dining room is already overflowing with cookbooks!) and love to borrow books from the local library …and most of all love to glance through the pictures! I don’t […]
Spring weather is finally here (yes it’s almost the end of May!) and as my kids like to say …’The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and dad is sneezing! 🙂 Yes the weather has been unusually cold here and so I am finally relieved to get some warm weather. And this year spring is extra […]
I bet this has also happened to you many a times where you just realize that tomorrow is the day when you need to be baking something or bringing a dessert for a school function. Why do all these events need to be on weeknights btw? That remains a mystery to me. This time it happened […]
A Happy Vishu to all Malayalees who celebrate this festival.! This auspicious day is considered as a symbol of hope, luck and prosperity. Vishu is celebrated in Kerala as the New Year. People celebrate the occasion by makinga ‘Vishu kani’, which is a special colorful setting made for Lord Krishna using vegetables,rice and jewelry. Special dishes like payasam (lentil […]
The festival of colors is separated all over India but the sweet treats vary from region to region. In Maharashtra, the ‘Holi special’ food is ‘Puran poli’ which means flatbread or parantha stuffed with a sweet lentil mixture. Yum! Holi celebrations start the night before with a bonfire lit to signify the victory of good […]
I am not sure which one I like more – making desserts or eating them! No, I am really serious …it gives me such pleasure and joy to make desserts!. It is like the perfect stress reliever! I watch FOOD Network incessantly and pin down dessert recipes from my blogger friends and from the internet […]
Small bites of sweetness is how I will describe these! Since I began watching calories(about 6 months ago ), I am always looking to make small size desserts – you know, just a little something to satisfy the sweet cravings (which I invariably get after dinner 🙂 ). OK so ever since I saw the […]
Fruit salad Yummy Yummy! … Angie from The Novice Gardener is hosting Fiesta Friday 2 this week again and I decided to bring this custardy fruit salad to the party. This is a dessert that I make often and is fabulous for parties! The fruits make it a ‘healthy’ dessert and the creamy texture of it makes it always […]
UPDATE: This recipe was originally posted in 2015 when our family was still eating gluten. I have in the past two years modified the crust recipe and now make it using dates and shredded coconut crust as in this recipe. Mango Pie was one of the first desserts I learnt to make after moving to […]
Coconut Cake (Basbousa) I always wanted to bake a coconut cake. Now that is one thing that our Kerala ancestors never thought of I guess although coconut halwa is a popular sweet in Northern India. While growing up in Mumbai, I had once tasted a delicious coconut cake at a Goan friend’s house. The cake […]
Re-posting this from before since I just updated with video too. Also since my blog had been private for a long time and I just recently made it public, i will be re-posting some of my old recipes. Bread Pudding was a very common dessert while we were growing up. My mom had learnt how […]
Kerala is quite a tiny state in southern India yet it is amazing that there is so much diversity in foods even within this minuscule state. I got to know this when I got married. Even though my husband’s family also hails from Kerala, some of the dishes that I grew up with were things he […]