Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
Packing school lunches for my 7 year old daughter is one of my most challenging tasks for the day. Not only does she take too long to eat (mommy, there was no time to finish it!) or invariably things fall off from her lunch box on to the floor(mommy, I don’t know how but the […]
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 […]
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’? […]
Vella appams (which means White bread in malayalam) are a very typical Kerala bread that is eaten in breakfast with any of the following four curries – Egg Curry, Chicken curry, vegetable/potato stew or Kadala curry (black chick peas curry). These appams are round, white, fluffy and soft in the middle with thin and […]
A traditional breakfast in Kerala is usually a very heavy meal (and now the health experts do recommend the same – eating a full breakfast loaded with carbs and proteins is the right way to start your day). I have to admit though that I have never been able to eat a very heavy meal […]
Some days we crave for something very simple yet something that is very comforting – I am sure you will agree! For me one of those comfort foods is this curry – something that transports me back in time where I am just enjoying a simple afternoon lunch with plain rice, kumbalanga curry, some plain […]
Incredibly ‘yummilicious’ and ridiculously easy to make ! Can you beat that? You can call them whatever name you want – ‘munchkins’ or ‘donut holes’ or ‘cake pops’! But these tiny bits of sweetness and goodness are perfect to satisfy your mid-afternoon sweet cravings (or midnight ones!) and because they are little, you don’t have to […]
Thanksgiving leftovers are always a challenge. Left over Turkey is the easiest to deal with. So many options abound – soups, wraps and of course, enchiladas! This time I decided to do a spicy enchilada using chipotle chillies and fire roasted tomatoes. The sauce was spicy, had a great smoky flavor and overall delicious. One […]
I first tried Japanese cuisine about 10 years ago (with my husband really encouraging me to give it a try as he was already a huge fan by then!) and I liked the teriyaki chicken and salmon and all but when it came to sushi, I had a mental block. However my husband convinced me […]
Sambhaar is a spicy and tangy curry (soup) made of lentils and vegetables. This is a curry that is typical ‘South Indian’ cuisine and each of the four southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala have their slightly different versions of sambhaar. Sambhaar is eaten with rice but most commonly […]