The two months of my daughter’s summer vacation was spent mostly in our house and I had the tough task of finding her the snacks daily. I didn’t buy anything outside and tried to make all her snacks at home. As mango season was at its peak during holidays, I…
For the second day of holiday recipes, here is a savoury snack made with bread. I had a few slices of a bread loaf I made recently and was breaking my head for a recipe. That is when I remembered my honey sesame chilly potatoes I made earlier this month.…
Time flies so fast and we are in the third week of Blogging Marathon this month. For the third day, I have chosen the theme Holiday Dishes. My kiddo enjoyed nearly one and a half months of summer holidays and went to school only today. Keeping kids occupied during holidays…
From the day I posted the Eggless Black Forest Cake Recipe, I have been getting numerous queries on White Forest Cake. So what is white forest cake? It is the opposite of Black Forest Cake. With white chocolate cake, the layers are filled and frosted with whipped cream and decorated with…
This month’s Bread Baker’s challenge host Mireille, who blogs at The Schizo Chef, chose the theme stone fruits. Any stone fruit like mangoes, plums, peaches, apricots or nectarines can be used to make bread. In Madurai, as we get only mangoes during this season, I opted to use mangoes in…
For the final day of rice dishes, I needed to make a layered rice dish. There are so many ways of making a layered rice. You can either bake it in oven or cook it over stove top and you can either cover the lid with a cloth or foil…
For the second day, under mixed rice, I wanted to make fried rice. Whenever mixed rice is mentioned, my mind goes to our south Indian rice varieties. As I have blogged about most of the varieties I know, I thought of making fried rice as this also falls under the…
Today we start another week of Blogging Marathon. For this week, I have chosen to do three rice dishes. I have tried so many rice dishes, some one pot meals, some mixed rice and one or two layered rice. This week I need to make three dishes using all the…
Mousse cake has been in my to do list for long, but I kept postponing as I was so much afraid of failure. I have done a lots of experiments in these five and a half years of blogging, but now, I am little hesitant. But still I wanted to…
For the third day of potato recipes, I tried an artistic recipe which is so simple but looks beautiful. I saw this idea while searching for new potato recipes. The original one was baked in small bowls. I wanted to bake these in ramekins but as I used my peeler…