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…
When Swathi announced the challenge for this month’s Baking Partners, I was thinking of skipping it. The two cakes she gave are based completely on eggs. The chiffon cake and The Russian Honey Cake are the cakes suggested by members. Saraswathi of Sara’s Kitchen has suggested this chiffon cake which…
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…
Gnocchi pronounced as nyoh-kee are Italian dumplings made of potatoes, flour, bread or cheese. For the second week of Blogging Marathon #30 Week 2, I am posting under Dallying With Dumplings. Yesterday I prepared Turkish fried dumplings and today Italian boiled potato dumplings. Usually gnocchi is made with flour, eggs…
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…
For the third month in Home Baker’s challenge, Viji of Virunthu Unna Vaanga set the challenge for cookies. She provided us with 4 recipes and we are free to choose any recipe we want. I selected the peanut butter cookies as I have never tried it before. The original recipe asked…
Sai Cakes n Bakes I am happy to announce you the start of my baking venture in Madurai. I will be taking orders for cakes, cookies, pies, tarts and cake pops. Party orders are accepted too. If you live in Madurai and want to order for cakes and pastries you…
My daughter has been pestering me to make ice cream at home. I used to avoid making ice cream because of the unscheduled power shut downs. But now as we don’t have it, she reminded me to make ice cream. And fortunately I had all the necessary ingredients to make…
For the third day of Blogging Marathon#30 Week 1, here I come with another curd based dish. I got this recipe from my aunt and changed it according to my preferences. I also make this with banana stem. This pachadi goes very well with curd rice. You can prepare…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #30 and I am cooking under curds theme. I love any kind of kadhi and I have posted two types of kadhis so far. When I was searching the web for a different type of kadhi, I saw this recipe at Aroma…