Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
‘Get the rainbow on your plate’ – This is something I frequently tell my clients. Eating a variety of vegetables is one of the ways to ensure nutrient density in your diet. In addition to having various minerals and vitamins, colored vegetables also have phytonutrients in them and these phytonutrients function as antioxidants slowing the […]
Chicken Tikka Masala and Butter Chicken are two quintessential Indian ‘curry’ dishes that you will always find in all Indian restaurants. Are these authentic Indian dishes? Not necessarily so. Are they really popular? Like heck they are! Among the non-Indian populace that is! I personally would never order either of these dishes even in […]
Holiday season means you are entitled to some treats! However you can make ‘healthier’ versions of traditional treats with just a little bit of imagination. It will be worth all your efforts since you can indulge in these guilt free! During the Diwali holidays , I had made ‘coconut ladoos (balls)‘ which were absolutely a […]
There is something incredibly delicious about this combination of bananas and coconut! If you have not tried them together, then you need to rectify that! Of course both of these are tropical fruits and banana plants and coconut palms are found together in most homes in Kerala, which is in southern India. And therefore not […]
When I sent the above pic to my husband, his first reaction was ‘ What? Where did the worms come from?’ He He, I felt good – my worms looked real! Thanks to these gummy worm molds that I ordered from amazon. Making these was a breeze! Getting that dirty brownish green color for the worms […]
Yes it is that time of the year again! The festival season! Being a transplant from India settled in the US, the holiday season for us starts from September itself! Our celebrations first begin with Onam which is a harvest festival celebrated by southern Indians (yes that would be us 🙂 ) followed by Diwali […]
Fall is so beautiful…the colors, the weather and all the autumn vegetables! Yes I get equally excited about pumpkins and acorn squash as I get excited about blueberries in summer! I get too carried away sometimes! Like two weeks ago …when I hauled two large grocery bags from our local farmer’s market! Fresh beets and […]
I so love the color orange! And that is my favorite color when admiring fall foliage too! It represents vibrancy and a deep passion… like fire! So fall is here and along with the beautiful foliage we also get all the fall seasonal fruits like apples, pumpkins and squashes! And you can guess which is […]
Three years ago, when my RA was at its worst, I never would have thought that I could write a post like this one. My flares were so frequent that they didn’t feel like a ‘flare’! I would have a flare up of a knee one week and then next week it would be my […]
Festival season is the most challenging when you are on a restrictive diet! The Indian Festival season just started with ‘Ganesh Chathurthi’ which celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha. The next couple months will bring more festivals including Onam (Kerala’s harvest festival) and Diwali, the Hindu New Year. What all of these festivals have in […]
Ada is a traditional keralan food where different kinds of stuffings are stuffed inside a rice flour dough and then steamed by wrapping them in banana leaves! As a kid, I loved the ‘Adas’ with the sweet coconut fillings. Yum! I have made a sweet potato version of these sweet coconut filling dumplings which you […]
How is your summer coming along guys? Mine seems to be rolling by in fast forward motion and I am having trouble keeping up! I just returned from spending time with family in India and although we had an awesome time, it was quite hectic since we traveled quite a bit trying to meet up […]