Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
These days anywhere and everywhere you look you only come across articles that talk about ‘super foods’, ‘power foods’, ‘foods to help lose weight’, ’10 best foods’ ..so on and so forth. If you haven’t noticed it, then my friend you have not been looking! 🙂 I think all this is really positive…people are certainly […]
Valentine’s day is just around the corner (just 1 day away actually!)but in fact in my house the celebrations start a week in advance since our wedding anniversary comes a week before Valentine’s Day. So for the past one week I have been busy doing one of three things in the kitchen: Baking sweet goodies, […]
Fruit salad Yummy Yummy! … Angie from The Novice Gardener is hosting Fiesta Friday 2 this week again and I decided to bring this custardy fruit salad to the party. This is a dessert that I make often and is fabulous for parties! The fruits make it a ‘healthy’ dessert and the creamy texture of it makes it always […]
I recently learned how to make ‘Harissa’ paste and I am in love with it! Harissa is a spicy and flavorful paste made out of red chillies,garlic,cumin,mint and other ingredients that is commonly used in North African cooking, mainly Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian cuisine. I made this paste using a recipe I found in the book, […]
UPDATE: This recipe was originally posted in 2015 when our family was still eating gluten. I have in the past two years modified the crust recipe and now make it using dates and shredded coconut crust as in this recipe. Mango Pie was one of the first desserts I learnt to make after moving to […]
Gourmet style Pizzas at home from scratch and that too on a weeknight? Yes, it is possible and I don’t even have a stand-mixer!!! Once in a month we have home-made pizza nights. I used to until very recently get fresh pizza dough from the local bakery and then bake the pizza with different toppings […]
Coconut Cake (Basbousa) I always wanted to bake a coconut cake. Now that is one thing that our Kerala ancestors never thought of I guess although coconut halwa is a popular sweet in Northern India. While growing up in Mumbai, I had once tasted a delicious coconut cake at a Goan friend’s house. The cake […]
Coconuts grow in abundance in Kerala and hence coconut milk , grated coconut and coconut oil are widely used in Kerala cuisine. One vegetable dish that uses coconut milk and no red chilli powder and is therefore white in color is ‘vegetable stew’. The stew usually is made out of vegetables like potatoes , carrots and […]
Hot and Spicy Chicken noodle soup Not many people I am sure associate ‘hot and spicy’ with chicken noodle soup. Chicken noodle soup is really one comfort food that is perfect on a cold, frigid night. Last week when I decided to make this for dinner, I thought ‘Why not kick this up a notch’? […]
Today, January 14th is Sankrant or Makara Sankranti , which is one of the most auspicious festivals for Hindus, and is celebrated in almost all parts of India and also in Nepal and SriLanka with great fervour and festivities. Sankrant is a harvest festival and it also is regarded as the beginning of an auspicious phase. In Maharashtra, which is a state in […]
Re-posting this from before since I just updated with video too. Also since my blog had been private for a long time and I just recently made it public, i will be re-posting some of my old recipes. Bread Pudding was a very common dessert while we were growing up. My mom had learnt how […]
Pumpkin Chutney is something that I recently learned to make as I was looking for ways to use my left over pumpkin puree! ( yes I still had some more of pumpkin puree left over from my 2 large Halloween pumpkins. I had roasted them and frozen the puree.) This chutney is very common in […]
