Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
When you are kids, you live in a blissful state…you take everything for granted. Mom slogs in the kitchen and presents tasty dishes to you which you devour without even pausing to thank her for her hard work and talent. It’s not that you are a spoilt brat or anything …it just never occurs to […]
Did I read ‘A healthy recipe challenge’? Wow, now that’s the kind of thing that gets my attention! And a challenge hosted by dear Angie of Fiesta Friday? Now that is one that I cannot ignore, can I? Especially considering the fact that for the last 18 months I have been scouring for knowledge combing through […]
These 3 ingredient easy rolls are so yummy! A few weeks ago while shopping at our local supermarket, I noticed these date nut rolls displayed in cute little packages in the middle of the produce aisle. ‘Neat’ I said to myself and also made a mental note that I had to try making them. Of […]
One snack my mom made often when we were kids was this one made of flattened rice with coconut. It is so easy to put together especially now that we have frozen grated coconut available easily. Amma had to grate fresh coconut using her coconut scraper which was a laborious task. And one that she used […]
Valentine’s day is long gone… however, that doesn’t mean that your chocolate cravings are gone too right? Chocolate can be truly your best friend – you rely on it when you are blue…. you like to indulge in it when you are happy ….and when you are bored, chocolate always comes to your rescue! In recent months I […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am sure you all have heard it over and over, again and again – about how breakfast is the most important meal of your day.! So I am not going to belabor over that. You can read webMD if you really want to know why it’s important. 🙂 Do you really however make sure that you and your […]
Show me the evidence! If you asked me the question ‘Is coconut good or bad for you’ about 5 years ago, I would not have had an answer simply because I had not done enough research at that time to prove it one way or the other. However, as I embarked on this journey to […]
Do you ever crave for something sweet and ‘chocolatey’ in the middle of the day? Well I certainly do …and sometimes also after a meal. So this is one bar that will satisfy your craving for chocolate and at the same time also deliver some healthful stuff since it has coconut as well as walnuts […]
Moru kootan is a very typical Kerala dish which is a yoghurt coconut curry where usually a vegetable like green(raw) plantain or chembu (taro root) is cooked in a yoghurt /buttermilk (moru in malayalam) and coconut sauce. ‘Kootan’ means any ‘curry’ that can be had with rice. When I first started cooking kerala dishes in […]
There are several varieties of seafood preparations in Kerala cuisine. The three types of fish / shrimp curries that my amma would make were brown curry, red curry and yellow curry — the brown being the most hot and spicy. She had labeled them as such for us kids since the actual traditional names are ‘a […]