I used to take part in Daring Baker’s challenges regularly but for some time, I have been away from it. And after a long time, I am here again with another Daring Baker’s Challenge. This month host Tandy Sinclair of Lavender and Lime suggested Twist bread. She gave the recipe…
For the alphabet Y, I had to do some word play as I couldn’t get any recipe in Tamil cuisine starting with Y. Yennai Kathrikkai kulambu is a very famous Tamil style gravy in which a spice powder is stuffed in brinjals and then a gravy is made. When I…
I hope I am not boring you with all my millet recipes. This month has been so much fun featuring my day to day food, especially millet snacks and breakfast recipes for the A-Z Tamil cuisine recipe marathon. I regularly use Cholam/ Jowar, Saamai/ Little Millet and Kudiravaali/ Barnyard millet.…
For the letter H, I had a really tough time selecting a Tamil recipe. There is no alphabet for ha, so there are no dishes starting with H. So I ended up using an English word. But still we use the word hotel in our speaking ad so this would…
For this month’s final week, I chose to do three dishes with coconut. I use coconut a lot and I had a really tough time selecting recipes for this week. Coconut has to be the star ingredient in the dish we choose. As my daughter’s academic year came to an…
Today I will share with you one more lunch menu I made last week. To go along with rice, I made thakkali kulambu, pudalangai poriyal, vellarikkai thayir pachadi curd and gooseberry pickle. I thought I had both the gravy and poriyal in my blog, but to my surprise, I haven’t…
When I posted the puttu maavu made with cholam/ jowar, I also made puttu out of it. As I told you before, I am trying to incorporate millets in my day to day cooking and this recipe is one in which I substituted rice flour with jowar flour. Usually I…
By now, if you are my regular reader, aquafaba must be a familiar name. For those who are new to my blog, Aquafaba is nothing but chickpea brine which comes in canned chickpeas. You can also easily make it at home by cooking chickpeas. Here is a post on how…
If you are reading my blog regularly, you might know that I am doing a month long blogging marathon along with my friends with one theme a week. For this week, the theme is Indian states and I am doing savoury snacks for six states this week. After doing pakoras…
While I was on a recipe hunt for the festivals across the globe theme, I wanted to include Ramadaan as now it is the month of Ramadaan and my neighbours fast for the whole month. I love Arabian sweets. With cheese and flaky pastries they are so delicious and whenever…