• DIWALI SNACKS - SAVORY - SNACKS

    Kordois- Savoury Version

    Here is the other version of Kordois I posted yesterday. I made these for ICC this month. Srivalli chose the recipes for two versions of kordois from Sunita’s blog. Yesterday I posted the sweet version and today here I am with the savoury version. When I posted the sweet version…

  • DIWALI SWEETS - SWEETS

    Kordois -Sweet Version

    For this month’s ICC, Srivalli selected an Assamese recipe – Kordois. These are prepared for Magh Bihu festival. Even before knowing the name, I have prepared this several times before marriage, after watching a TV show. We used to make both sweet and savoury versions at home. And we used…

  • COOKING BASICS

    Fresh Figs

    I saw fresh figs two years back. OK don’t laugh at me. We don’t get fresh figs here at Madurai. So if you are like me, then this is the post for you. Just know how fresh figs look like. When on a road trip to Shirdi, we went to…

  • DIWALI SWEETS - SWEETS

    Pista Pedas

    This post was supposed to be for Rakshabandhan. I almost sat before my PC when I got the phone that mom was hospitalized. So I shut down my PC and started to my mom’s place. I even forgot to take the rakhi for my brother. And the following days were…

  • SAVORY - SNACKS

    Onion Rings

    I love to watch Eat Street which is aired on Fox Traveller. They show many street foods from America and Onion Rings are made in majority of the shows. When speaking of onion rings, I also remember a cookery show where the onions are double coated with bread crumbs to…

  • COOKING BASICS - RECIPES

    Herbed Bread Crumbs

    We use bread crumbs for all types of cutlets and tikkis. It add a nice crispy crust to the cutlets. Though bread crumbs are available at stores it is very easy to make them at home. Here I have prepared spicy bread crumbs with herbs and garlic powder. I made…

  • GRAVY

    Maathanga and Van Payar Erissery

    Happy Onam Wishes To All My Readers   When searching for a regional recipe for the alphabet M as part of the Blogging Marathon #32, I saw this recipe at Kothiyavunu. Mathanga means yellow pumpkin and van payar is the cow peas also known as karamani in Tamil. Erissery is…

  • EGGLESS

    Eggless Crouu-Donuts/ Kronuts

    Have you heard about Cronuts/ Kronuts??? OK, I am hearing it for the first time and all my American friends out there will surely be knowing about this. This is both Croissants and Donuts combined together. Croissants + Donuts = Cronuts. How is this??? When Swati announced this for the Baking…