For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli on Priya’s suggestion selected this crispy Kerala specialty from Julie’s blog. As this is a savoury and crispy snack, I had no doubt that both hubby and Sruti would like it. Yesterday I made this for Sruti’s evening snack. For the past month…
For the last two days I have been posting dumplings and today is the third one under Dallying with Dumplings for the Blogging Marathon #30 Week 2. As per instructions given by Srivalli, we need to use three different types of cooking for the three days. So for the first…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #30 Week 2. I have selected dallying with dumplings as the theme. As per Wiki, dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes and bread. They may be either boiled, steamed, fried or baked. They may be stuffed…
After a very long time, I am taking part in Blogging Marathon this month. For the first week, I have chosen dishes with curd. Srivalli asked us not to go with raithas as they are very simple. On seeing the theme cooking with curd, the recipe which came to my…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge Swathi has given two recipes using choux pastry- one is the chocolate eclairs and the other is French Laundry’s Gourgeres. Chocolate eclairs is the sweet version whereas the gourgeres are the savory version. You can see a lot of recipes converted into eggless ones…
Mom used to make mixture during Deepavali. It is a combination of 4-5 individual snacks merged into one. The ingredients of mixture is as per our choice. The most commonly used are kaara boondhi, aval/ poha/ flattened rice, murukku, diamond biscuits, chevu, oma podi, cheeval (click on the names for the…
For the fourth day of party specials I decided to prepare Gujrathi Khandvi. I have already made it once and I made it again for the South Vs North Challenge, brain child of Divya Pramil of You Too Can Cook. There are two groups- The Southern and the Northern. Every…
As I mentioned yesterday, I made these tiny pakoras with paneer and potatoes to go along with the mullingatawny soup. This could be a nice appetizer to serve in small parties. Hubby liked it very much and told that it tasted like kola urundai. I had a cup of paneer…
For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge Sarah of All Our Fingers In The Pie challenged the Daring Bakers to make Crisps. She provided some recipes for us to try and I chose these crackers with onions and poppy seeds. I also made the eggless version of the recipe. The crackers were…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon Week 3, I prepared a recipe from Hudson Canola’s Good Mood Food. When I received a pack of Hudson Canola Oil, there was a recipe book in the pack. There were so many lovely recipes but as usual I never tried them. So…