Milagu thakkali/ Manathakkali as we call in Tamil is a green we use extensively in cooking. And the berries from the plant make a wonderful tangy gravy which goes very well with rice and appalam. When I was a kid, we used to live in Pondicherry. In the house we…
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…
As I mentioned yesterday, I would love to make snacks with bread and so for today’s post I made an open sandwich with paneer again. But this time I slightly changed the filling recipe so that no one gets bored. This can be either made in oven or made on…
After a long gap, I am back in the group Bread Bakers.This month’s challenge was quite interesting. Have you heard of ancient grains. The challenge is to make a bread with ancient grains. When I checked for ancient grains, I understood that it was all gluten free grains like Quinoa,…
For the second day of Party Pleaser, I selected one of my favourite snack from my childhood. When I hear the word party, my brain starts thinking about bread based recipes. I don’t know why, but bread dominates all the other recipes. When I was in high school, my brother…
For this second week of Blogging Marathon, I chose to make party pleasers for kids. So you will be seeing kid friendly recipes for the three days. Priya Srinivasan is hosting Srivalli’s Kid’s Delight this month and all my entries are going to that event. Until yesterday morning, I didn’t…
Are you ready for an easy breezy recipe which can make you feel like a child? When I made these popsicles, both me and my daughter were equally excited. And now I am waiting for watermelons to hit the stores to make it again. This recipe is pure watermelon with…
Coming to the third day of healthy/ diet recipes, I made ammini kozhukattai with jowar/ cholam. As I mentioned yesterday, we get jowar rice, which makes it very easy to incorporate in recipes. You can easily substitute rice with this jowar rice and no one would be able to tell…
After a long gap, I am here with another Cooking Basics post. I love to make variety of puttu and instead of buying puttu flour, I make it at home. It is the only way you can get perfectly delicious puttu. My mum used to make all types of flour…
For the second day of healthy diet recipes, I am here with one more millet dish. The batter I am going to post is what I make always and it is always available in my fridge. I don’t prepare the normal dosa batter with rice. Millets have become part of…