Dahi Vada Cake to celebrate our Anniversary – 2015. It has been 11 years since I became Mrs PPK. And this has been a fun filled journey with lots of laughter and tears. When I look back, I see how much my life has changed in all these years. One…
SOUTH INDIAN DELICACIES
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Jigarthanda Popsicle
When I posted rose milk popsicle recipe, one of my friends asked me to try out jigarthanda popsicle. If you are new to this word, then you need to take a look at my Jigarthanda post. Jigarthanda is a famous drink in Madurai, my home town. For the scorching heat…
Patnam Pakodi/ Patnam Pakoda Recipe
Weather is so gloomy for the past two weeks and it is really tiring even thinking about cooking. Still I do regular cooking which is very simple and mostly oil free. I have been told by my doctor to stay away from oil, sugar, tomatoes, tamarind and salt. So mostly…
Eggless Jigarthanda Cake Recipe
Lately I sent two of my entries to a baking competition conducted online on FB. One was my guilt free vegan flax seed muffins which went for the low calorie baking category. The other one was exotic cake. For that I didn’t think long. I have seen so many cakes…
Paal Ice / Milk Popsicle
How many of you have tasted paal ice? For those who doesn’t know what is paal ice, it is like kulfi and during summer, there are so many street vendors selling paal ice in small carts. They come to every street and stop at every house. All the kids would…
Mangalore Bun / Banana Puri Recipe
I am taking part in the Indian Cooking Challenge after a long time. Nowadays I spend more time on baking related posts that I have completely forgot about other posts. I really need to do some variety for hubby and child. When Valli announced the recipe for the month, I…
Sugar Cane Juice Pongal
Here is the next recipe in the sugar cane juice series.When I was doing the article for Pongal edition, I couldn’t skip making pongal. I just substituted the jaggery syrup we use in pongal with a thick sugar cane concentrate. As usual the pongal turned out so tasty. When using…
Sugarcane Rava Kesari
Here is the next dish in the sugar cane juice series. Kesari is part of Tamil cuisine and any celebration in Tamil Nadu will have a type of kesari in its menu. Some hotels provide it for free with breakfast. If we want to have a sweet then the first…
Pongal Special Dishes with Sugar Cane Juice
For this year’s Pongal, four of my dishes were published in Dinalmalar’s Pongal malar. As I was going through so many hurdles in life, I didn’t even think of writing about it in my blog until today. It has been nearly a week since it got published and I need…
Broken Maize / Corn Meal Upma
It has bee a long time since I posted something other than baking. Usual cooking has been going on in my house but I am some what distracted and so haven’t clicked any dish. This upma has been lying in my folder for a very long time and today, it…