When doing salad theme, I wanted to include a fruit salad. Today is the third day of Blogging Marathon-third week. This fruit salad tastes great when chilled. I added some corn flakes on top for a nice crunch. You can also serve it with a scoop of mango ice cream.…
Today is the second day of week three in Blogging Marathon and I prepared this delicious carrot salad for my evening tea. I wanted to munch on something nutty with my evening coffee today. I remembered a recipe I saw on Junior Master Chef Australia recently. Chef taught the kids…
Today the next week of Blogging Marathon is commencing. I am posting under the theme Summer Salads. When you think of summer you can always think about mangoes. So when I thought about salad, I wanted to use mangoes in it. I combined raw mango with chickpeas and cucumber to…
Idlis are very famous breakfast dish from South India. Every state has a different set of ingredients to get fluffy idlis. This is the way we get idlis in Tamil Nadu. Nowadays idli batter is readily available in the market. So it has become very rare to prepare batter at…
Before I go to the event announcement, I need to share with you some of my experiences for the past 10days. Any regular reader of my blog would have noticed that my blog is missing updates for the past 2 weeks. The reason behind this absence is, I was on…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, I selected Banana muffins from Allrecipes. This is a very easy recipe and the substitution is also very easy. As this is vacation time, I didn’t want to burden us with a very challenging recipe. Usually banana muffins I prepare puff up nicely during baking…
I once posted about Black Night Shade Berries/ Manathakkali (click to view post). When I saw it in the nearby shop, I bought 200gm of those to prepare the dry version. Vatral is usually prepared during summers while the sun is very hot. When summer commences, mom starts preparing vadagam and…
Elephant foot yam also known as senai kilangu in Tamil is a root vegetable. It has a hard skin and a harder inner flesh. I usually buy old yam, because the fresher ones will start an itch. So be very careful while choosing. If the skin is darker it is…
Cheppankilangu or Arbi is one of my favourite root vegetables. I usually prepare roast with this and it is very tasty. It goes very well with rasm rice or curd rice. I also used some sesame seeds to sprinkle on the roast which gave a nice crunch and aroma. Cleaning…
Pavakkai or Bitter Gourd is a great vegetable but often hated by many because of the bitter taste it gives. But as it is good for health, you need to include it once a week in your diet. I love bitter gourd in any form. This roast when relished hot…