For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli selected a nice crunchy savoury snack from Karnataka. Kodbale is a very famous snack in Karnataka and I have enjoyed it during my stay in Mysore. When I was in college, I once attempted to make Kodbale myself with out mom’s help at…
Last time when I posted about adhalaikkai, I promised to give a recipe for preparation. This is same as the bitter gourd stir fry. The recipe is very simple and mom used to prepare this on Kaarthigai. The crunch from the seeds gives it a nice taste. Prepare it the…
If you watched Master Chef Australia 2012, you might be knowing Julie’s famous melting moments. The judges were are praising that particular cookie so much that I searched for the recipe at the master chef web site. And I got it finally. And I adapted that recipe according to my…
Last month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge was hosted by Peta of Peta Eats. The challenge was all about celebration cookies. She gave us 12 different types of cookies to make and we were free to choose any cookie we wanted. I selected three recipes from the 12 but ended up doing…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, Sowmya of Nivedhanam chose the recipe for us to try and it was molten lava cake. I selected the recipe from Noobcook and we tried converting it into an egg free recipe. I thought of making this 20 days back but I was…
Today is the final day of Blogging Marathon#22. I couldn’t stay away from sweets because for me Bengali cuisine is all about milk sweets. Today I made Chum Chum. This is a sweet very much similar to Rasgolla. The difference is that it is cooked in a slightly thicker syrup…
How many of you have heard about adhalaikkai. I am searching for the English name but couldn’t find it. This is bitter in taste and can be prepared just like bitter gourd. We usually make a stir fry with lots of onions. The seeds of this vegetable is so crunchy and when…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon#22, final week I decided to prepare a savoury Bengal dish. This recipe is also from Indian Food Forever website. During the early days of starting my blog, I prepared a tawa cooked version of this poori. But I think the deep fried ones…
Today is the first day of the final week of Blogging Marathon #22 and I am posting under the theme Dishes From Bengal. When I think of Bengali dishes, the first thought is all about milk sweets. Bengal is very famous for its paneer based sweets and I am a…
The bathura I usually prepare is just like poori dough but kneaded with curd instead of water. The softness comes from the curd used. When I saw this recipe it was different. It used yeast along with curd. The bathuras were flaky, crisp on the outside and very soft inside.…