Recently I have been experimenting a lot with eggs in my baking. Though I don’t eat eggs, I have started using eggs in baking since I started Sai Bakes – My baking venture in Madurai. It is quite interesting and customers are loving the bakes a lot. And I have been…
SOUTH INDIAN DELICACIES
Maa Vatral Kulambu – Announcing March WTML and February Winner
For this month’s Walk Through Memory Lane, the host, due to some unexpected reasons couldn’t guest host it. So I had to jump in. And so this month, WTML will be hosted here at Gayathri’s Cook Spot and I request all my friends and readers to support the event by…
Baked Medhu Vada – Guilt Free Version of Medhu Vada and Thayir Vada
I love medhu vadas aka ulundha vadai, but I make it only twice or thrice a year fearing the oil in the vadas. Even hubby dear loves them so much and never forgets to eat one while visiting a tea stall. But even it is so tempting, I stay away…
Celebrating New Year With Nei Puttu
Wish You All A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year This is the start of the year 2014 and I hope this year brings joy and success to all my readers. Hope you like the new look of my blog. Last month I have been baking like crazy and from…
Jigarthanda/ Jil Jil Jigarthanda – Madurai Famous Cool Drink
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…
Beetroot Pachadi
I love beetroot and I can have it raw as salad or as a delicious poriyal. My daughter likes poriyal and the pink poori I make with beet juice. But hubby dear hates beetroot and whenever I prepare a dish with it, he never touches it. Sometimes, I have to…
Puttu Cups
This is one of mom’s speciality. Nobody else makes puttu in the form of cups in our home except mom. Usually we steam cook the flour and then add all the other ingredients to get fluffy puttu but this is bit different. Mom adds all the ingredients before steam cooking…
Green Gram/ Paasipayaru Sundal
For the second day of Blogging Marathon #34, it is a simple yet delicious sundal under evening snacks. My mom used to make sundal often for evening snacks. And I used to love this sundal. It is quite easy to make and I don’t add onions in sundal. But if…
Capsicum Dhal
As I have said earlier, I like adding capsicum in many recipes. One such recipe is dhal/ paruppu. While sauteing onions I add the capsicum along with it to give dhal the capsicum flavour. It is quite easy to make and I have been keeping from posting this recipe as…
Capsicum Rava Upma
If you are a capsicum lover cum upma lover like me, then this recipe is just for you. I have already narrated how much hubby dear hated upma but now the scene is changing. He has accepted the fact that his wife loves upma and is trying to enjoy it…