For the second week of Blogging Marathon #25, I selected North East Indian Cuisine. There are 7 states which come under North East India. They are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. I recently came across a face book page on Assamese cuisine. When going through the…
This is the month of Dutch specialties. After the Gevulde Speculaas I made for Daring Baker’s challenge, I had to make another wonderful cake for the baking eggless challenge also. Meena of Chettinad Fiesta suggested this Dutch dessert. The cake is from the Brovst region of Denmark and so the name. I…
When I resided in Mysore, I used to eagerly wait for Sankranti so that I can get ellu bella from my friends and neighbours. Each and every house has their own version of this snack and we used to get so many packs of ellu bella from friends during the…
For Thiruvaadhirai I prepared this adai along with Thiruvaadhira Kali and Elu Kari Kulambu. All the three are traditional dishes prepared specially on the Thiruvaadhirai day. I saw about this recipe at Rak’s Kitchen. I followed her recipe and ended up with delicious soft adais. The cooking part was bit…
This is a flavourful thuvaiyal/ chutney using coconut and white sesame seeds. I haven’t tempered the thuvaiyal. But if serving it as chutney for dosas, it can be thinned down by adding water and tempered with mustard, urad dhal and curry leaves. I served it as a side dish for…
This month’s Magic Mingle is hosted at Vaishali’s Ribbon’s to Pasta’s and the magic ingredients for this month are methi seeds and coconut. This is an unusual combination but this is where the challenge becomes interesting. Methi is very bitter in taste and I usually use it in tempering sambar…
Today is the third week of Blogging Marathon#20 and I am posting under Vinayagar Chaturti Specials. When you think of Lord Ganesha, the first offering that comes to mind is kozhukkattai. So I decided to prepare three types of kozhukkattai for this BM. The first kozhukkattai I decided to do…
The other cookie I tried for the Baking Partners challenge is the corn flakes cookies selected by Priya of Priya’s Versatile Recipes from the book Baking- A Common Sense Guide. Again I tried the eggless version. The cookies were so nice, I couldn’t stop munching them. Even hubby liked it…
This is the gravy which helps you when you don’t have any vegetables in your pantry. As Sruti is ill, it has been long since I visited the market. So I was out of vegetables except for some onions and two small coconuts given by a friend during one of…
For this month’s Baking Eggless group challenge, I selected a simple but delicious quick bread from Orange Blossom Water blog by Dimah. Lemon in baking gives a great flavour to the dish. If coconut is added the bread must be super delicious. I tried it with milk and apple cider…