For the second day of beverages, I made a recipe suggested by my daughter. I won’t say that it is great recipe but her idea was good and as I had the ingredient at hand, I obliged. When my daughter celebrated her birthday last week, I made a huge batch…
My daughter loved iced coffee. I make a simple version of the iced coffee by combining milk, sugar, coffee decoction and shaking it in a jar until frothy. She always pester me to make it for her, but I don’t know why but I hate making it. So she gets…
For the third week of BM, I am doing family recipes. Most of the recipes from the earlier stage of my blog are family recipes. I asked mum and put together as many recipes as I can and after selecting family recipes as the theme, I was totally confused. What…
When summer started, I planned on making many types of fruit squashes but I made only this. Orange squash has been in my to do list for long. My mom gave me a book which has hundreds of recipes. It has a section for juices and squashes. They have listed…
Gooseberry known as Nellikkkai in Tamil is very good for health and is rich in iron. Mom used to tell me that one gooseberry is equal to one drop of blood. But I used to hate to eat gooseberries in its raw form. It is sour and tart but when…
I am living in Madurai and even after 3 years of blogging, I haven’t blogged about the famous Madurai drink Jigarthanda. You can see a Jigarthanda stall at every nook and corner of Madurai. They also sell it in push carts. Though I have been in Madurai for nearly 7…
Lassi is a drink made with yogurt and is a famous street food. When we resided in Pondicherry, we used to go to beach and on the way dad would buy us some delicious Bengali sweets or paani puri from the chaatwaala or Lassi. It would taste so delicious and…
Chaas is made with buttermilk and is a traditional drink of Rajasthani cuisine. Boondhi is added 1 hour befroe serving and the chaas is refrigerated. During meals this cool chaas is served. The boondhis will become soft because of the soaking and it will be delicious. Though I refrigerated this…
Lassi is a perfect cool beverage served during meals. This lassi is rich because of the cream and saffron. It is very easy to make and is perfect for this scorching heat. Though saffron essence is used, I used saffron strands instead. It made the lassi flavourful and colourful. I…
Preparing a milk shake is the easiest way to serve any unexpected guests. The fruits which have lots of flesh are all perfect for milk shakes. You can use banana, apple, mango, strawberry, jack fruit and so on. When I visited the super market I saw a box of cute…