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 love Middle Eastern food and think their kabobs are the best! When I was pregnant with my son, I had developed an aversion to chicken and even the smell of it made me want to throw up. Hence cooking chicken at home was a definite No No. Then one day we came across this […]
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 […]
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, […]
When you have young children at home, you have no choice but to be innovative and come up with interesting twists to existing dishes just to entice them and basically make them feel as if you are creating this ‘restaurant style’ dish just for them! This weekend we decided to finally start our ‘spring cleaning’ […]
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 […]
Actually I thought about the title for a full 10 minutes.! Since this soup also has greens – in fact three different kinds of greens – beet greens, kale and spinach, I wanted to put that in too but hey it was turning out ridiculously long! I didn’t want people to be deterred by the […]
So pleased to share that Jess from Therapy Breads has nominated me for the ‘Dragon’s Loyalty Award’ and also wanted to share that I received more Sunshine awards from these kind bloggers : Chef Julianna from Foodie on Board, Kloe from Kloe’s Kitchen, Nancy from Feasting with Friends and Lauzan from The veggie side of me. I truly appreciate it. thanks so much all of you. […]
‘Everything goes as long as it has chocolate in it’ ! And that’s very true about any thing (baked or otherwise) that comes out of my kitchen. Hardly surprising is it? I think I won’t be terribly way off if I stated that ‘Chocolate makes the world go around’ 🙂 While we are on this topic – […]
Vegetable Pulao/biryani is a very common rice dish in India and this is something that you are sure to find on the menu of any self-respecting Indian restaurant 🙂 Over the years I have tried and made different versions of it and one of the reasons I like to change it up a little bit every […]
Many folks whom I know will tell me “Oh I just love Indian food but it is so complicated to cook it! “. My answer of course has always been – ‘that’s not true at all. Once you know the basic spices that make a curry, you can then really try and make it your […]
