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8 Easy Weeknight Dinner Ideas!
Hi Folks I wrote a guest post for ‘Bindiandjeans’, which is a cool blog that covers a lot of things – fun, fashion, travel, entertainment and pretty much anything that is interesting! Please click here to read my post which is a compilation of my own recipes that I have previously posted on my blog. Let me know your […]
I have RA
Hi Folks Sharing this post that I wrote on a new blog I have started. As you will gather from this post, I have not been well for the last few weeks and have been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I thought sharing my experiences with treatment and in general about dealing with different aspects of […]
Chili Peanut Chicken Curry (Chicken in a red chilli peanut sauce)
If you like Chicken and if you eat Chinese take out, you would have certainly tried ‘Kung pao’ chicken. Kung Pao chicken is a fiery chicken stir fry dish with peanuts which has red chillies for the heat. Just like any other chinese take-out it tastes great while piping hot and when you are really […]
A tribute to a special lady: Selma from Selma’s Table
‘Life is too short’ … ‘live your life to the fullest and have no regrets’. All these words we have heard many times before but when you hear of an unexpected demise, these same words suddenly mean so much more real and make you realize the undeniable and harsh truth of life – that it is indeed too […]
Shrimp and Vegetable Linguine with sun-dried tomatoes
Oh boy, its summer vacation! Can’t believe how an entire school year is gone. Whoosh. Just like that. Unbelievable. And with the relief also comes a slight panic attack. How am I going to keep them entertained and busy for the next two months? I guess we will figure something out. Maybe I can get […]
Mixed Vegetable Pickle with Lime and Mango
A bottle of homemade pickle will be found in any self-respecting Indian household. And If you happen to be an Indian living away from India then you must be smuggling homemade pickle jars every time you pay a visit to your homeland. As for me, I get jars of home made pickles made lovingly by my MIL […]
Low fat or Full fat? Do you want the ‘whole’ truth?
Over the last two decades the media has been pushing it down our brains (and consequently down our throats!) – Whole milk is full fat and that it is bad for you. “To stay healthy and slim, go SKIM” seemed to be the golden mantra. Well, don’t be so sure! Like all myths (yes this […]
Introducing ‘Around the World’ series
When I started my blogging journey a year ago I wasn’t exactly sure about many things. Wasn’t sure whether I should do a separate blog for Kerala recipes, whether I should blog about the different Indian cuisines too since I cooked that also on a regular basis. And then there was my other motivation of exploring […]
ChocoRaisin Ladoos (Chocolate balls with raisins, coconut and nuts)
Recently I received a gift of deep dark raisins from my sister. I should say – ‘huge gift’ since there was about 6 pounds of it! These were fresh (or freshly dried or picked fresh and then dried or whatever process is employed for making raisins!). My BIL has a client who apparently hails from Nashik […]
Spicy Egg Roast (Kerala Mutta Roast)
You may wonder ‘Egg roast’? …now, what in the world is that? Well if you like your eggs spicy, you will just love this! This recipe is indigenous to Kerala where it is called ‘Mutta(egg) roast’. This is a dish often paired with Vella appams (rice hoppers or pancakes) or with Idiyappam (which are steamed […]
To be ‘gluten-free’ or not? : Gluten Unraveled
These days you see ‘gluten-free’ everywhere – in the print media ,on TV and of course all over the social networks. There has been a deluge of ‘gluten free’ labeled foods in the supermarket. There are also restaurants that are ‘gluten-free’ friendly with menus offering ‘gluten-free items’. The last time I had read about ‘gluten’ and its effect on health, which […]