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More Awards and a note of thanks to all!

I have to say I am really enjoying the blogging world…the WordPress community is indeed so encouraging and supportive!. I feel like I have acquired so many new friends in the last 6 months ever since I started blogging publicly.  I continue to feel inspired by all the lovely recipe posts of my various blogger friends and […]

Desserts, Indian, North Indian cuisine

Jalebis

Jalebis! When I think of Jalebis, I instantly think of this nostalgic ad from Doordarshan days (note I did not state ‘good old doordarshan days’ LOL for good reasons! ) where a little boy who wants to run away from home due to a tiff is easily lured back home with the promise of ‘home-made’ hot […]

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Writing Process blog tour

“The Pen is mightier than the sword!” …and iin this modern day and age,  ‘The internet is mightier than the pen!’.  It’s been only 5 months since I started blogging publicly but I feel like I have been doing this for ever! The culinary exchanges and the interactions with fellow food bloggers has been the best part […]

American, Desserts

Blueberry Cream Cheese Ice Cream

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 […]

Indian, Kerala, Paleo, Seafood dishes

Shrimp in toasted coconut masala || Chemeen Varutharacha curry || Shrimp and green papaya curry

  Just like the eskimos supposedly have more than 100 names for ‘snow’, I am pretty sure that the ‘Kochi-ites'(Kochi is a coastal town in Kerala) have about the same number of names for shrimp! 🙂  And then they also know how to cook it in 100 different ways!  Shrimp Curries, shrimp sautés , shrimp pickles, […]