Home Bakers Challenge, started by Priya is a monthly challenge in which a group of bloggers try our hand at various types of baked goodies. Every month a member of the team chooses four or five dishes and the other members choose a recipe of their choice to try.…
Today is the day I love the most. Everyone is busy celebrating Varalakshmi Pooja. But unfortunately, I couldn’t do it as it has not been a year since my mom expired. But I couldn’t miss narrating the pooja to you. Every year I will be very busy for the three…
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Today is the 18th day of Tamil month Aadi and it is celebrated as aadi perukku. This day is celebraated to welcome the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. Usually rice varieties such as lemon rice, puliodharai, coconut rice, pongal and thayir saadam are made with vadai and payasam. Rituals are performed…
My mom used to make the world’s best pickles. She had so many fans in the family. Every year she made jars and jars of avakkai, vadumangai, nellikaai and maangai oorugai / pickles and gave them to relatives and friends. When she became sick, she tried to make it atleast…
After I migrated to my domain, I wanted to interact with readers more. And for that I have added a new feature in my blog. Recipe Request is part of my primary menu which is above the header. If any of you are searching for a recipe or want an eggless…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, I wanted to select an easy yet so good looking bread. When I came across the Swedish Tea Ring aka Vetekrans, I know this would be it. The recipe is so much like the cinnamon rolls but it looks different. There are so…
For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge, Ruth of The Crafts of Mommyhood challenged the members with Surprise! cakes. Just look at the cake below. It looks like an ordinary loaf cake with glazing. And where is the surprise element? That is the surprise. You need to read this with patience to…
For this week’s Fondbites Bake Along, Subhashini’s choice was these easy to make orange cookies with orange butter cream filling. The original recipe had egg in it and I tried to make an eggless version. Cream cookies are usually a kid’s favourite. When Shubhashini explained her childhood memories associated with…
Ever since I made Kavuni Arisi / Black Sticky Rice Pudding, making this white sticky rice pudding has been in my list of to do dishes. Pavithra in her comment has mentioned about this dish and only then I knew that there was white sticky rice available in Madurai. Every…