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 […]
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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 […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie (Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie)
Mom, I am hungry what can I have for a snack? “How about some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies?” Yay! Screams followed by some crazy dancing around the house! Sounds familiar? 🙂 Of course, is there anything better than devouring warm chocolate chip cookies which are still soft and gooey on the inside, straight as they come […]
Dark Mocha Cake with cream cheese filling
Chocolate, coffee, cream cheese …mmm… and if you have all 3 of these together in a dessert? Just yum yum yum! I first baked this cake a few years go for my husband’s birthday and we fell in love with it.! Now it’s a keeper and a fool-proof dessert that I make every time we have […]
The Ultimate Chicken Burger (Spicy Chicken Burger)
My husband makes the meanest Chicken burger ever! 🙂 No I really mean it! Men are really great at grilling, aren’t they? Actually my husband happens to think that we (women) like to designate them as such so that we can avoid all the hard work involved there:) And by hard work he means cleaning […]
Fiesta Friday #24: Whole Wheat Banana and Blueberry Pancakes and Whole Wheat Banana Appams
Of late I have been posting many recipes with blueberries! Is it any surprise ? Come on… its blueberry season! This past weekend we went blueberry and raspberry picking. Every year I really look forward to the berry picking season. We don’t need to go too far to pick since our town is a perfect […]
Beets in a yoghurt sauce (Beet root pachadi)
Pachadi is the name (in Kerala) for any side dish curry that is made using yoghurt and a vegetable like green mango, ash gourd, carrots or beet root. It is really an accompaniment to the main course, which is usually rice and some other vegetable curry. Growing up, ‘kumbalanga(ash gourd)’ and green mango pachadi was […]
101 st post , Yay! : Almond Cake and Almond Cake trifle
Last week after I hit the ‘publish’ button, I realized that was my 100 th post! So much for waiting for a long time for my 100th post so I could create a special post! 🙁 Anyways then I thought 101 is a more auspicious number than 100 ..at least in India that is true! Hence you […]
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 […]
Sri Lankan Chicken Curry (Paleo)
Chicken Curry is one dish that I never get tired of trying out new recipes for! Chicken is in fact a very safe thing to experiment on – since you can never go wrong with chicken! Any which way you cook it, it always turns out delicious! And those of you who think that ‘a curry […]
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 […]
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 […]