I was first introduced to French Toast when in school. I visited my aunt on a vacation and she made that eggy bread slice which was sweet and soft and I just loved it. But mom never made it for me. After I became a vegetarian, I stayed away from…
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Vegan Coconut Jelly / Burmese Kyauk Kyaw
Pronounced as Chow Chaw, this is a Burmese dessert with agar agar/ china grass and coconut milk. I know Chumkie from the Quilters group- Desi Quilters. She is a wonderful quilter and when browsing through her collection of quilts, I was awestruck. And last week I came across her kitchen blog…
Eggless Chinese Almond Cookies
For the Baking Partners Group Challenge, Swathi shared with us four cookies recipes from around the world. The Chinese Almond Cookies were suggested by Suja of Kitchen Corner Try It. As usual I made it into an eggless recipe and it turned out wonderful. Though it didn’t seem like the…
Meethay Ghoday
Happy Independence Day To All My Readers Let us celebrate this Independence Day with a delicious Hyderabadi Sweet Meethe Ghoday. For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge Srivalli as per Mirelle’s suggestion announced this sweet from Monas’s blog. After the Hyderabadi biryani yesterday, it would be so nice to…
Hyderabadi Biryani Masala Powder
Hyderabadi Biryani is a delicious layered biryani with lots of nuts and raisins as garnish. The actual taste of biryani is got with the spice powder we add in the vegetables. The preparation of this powder is quite easy and it is very very flavourful. I saw the recipe at…
Hyderabadi Vegetable Dum Biryani
For this month’s Daring Cook’s Challenge, a non blogging member of the daring cooks – Grace, challenged us with a delicious dish from India- Biryani. She had given us 5 variations of biryani among which one was vegetable and all the others with chiciken, lamb and fish. I opted the…
Solam/ Jowar Dosai
As I mentioned earlier, I have been experimenting with different types of dosas with flours to avoid rice. This is one of the dosa which my family likes very much. Using jowar instead of rice increases the nutrition in dosas. To know more about the nutritional facts of jowar read…
Mexican Chihuahua Rice
For the final post in Mexican cuisine I selected this simple rice and served it along with salsa fresco. The combination was a great hit. Sruti had it as it is while we paired it up with a rajma gravy I made. It was fabulous. The addition of vegetables and…
Salsa Fresca / Pico de Gallo/ Fresh Tomato Salsa
Salsa is meant as sauce in Spanish and it is also an important dish in Mexican cuisine. Salsa fresca/ Pico de Gallo is the salsa made with fresh tomatoes, onions and chillies. I made this yesterday along with Mexican Chihuahua rice for accompaniment and they tasted wonderful. You can eat…
Anadama Bread
For this month’s Home Baker’s Challenge, host Manjula of Desi Fiesta gave the members 4 recipes to try out. Among the recipes the Anadama bread was the one which was in my to do list. So I picked it up. Anandama bread is a traditional yeast bread of New England…