Ginger has a lot of medicinal properties. I usually prepare this chaaru when suffering from severe cold. The addition of honey compensates the hot taste of ginger. While drinking this, you will get pricking sensations in your mouth. It is very fierce. But after a while you will feel very…
Wishing all my readers a very Happy Pongal This is the pongal pot cake I prepared yesterday for a competition. Every part of the cake is edible. The cake is a layered cake with eggless vanilla and chocolate cakes. I also used a muffin pan for the smaller vanilla cakes.…
I usually prepare gravy using bottle gourd. But hubby started to dislike it . So nowadays I don’t buy bottle gourd. The chef in me wanted to disguise it in a dish and wanted to make my hubby relish it. Yesterday I bought a bottle gourd without hubby’s knowledge and…
I saw this method of preparing spinach/ palak in a old Woman’s Era. The idea of frying spinach was quite interesting and I tried it yesterday. The swirls of spinach looked beautiful and I used some for garnish. The crumbs had a lot of oil but when used in the…
I have heard about this but never tried it until today. I saw the recipe at Kaveri’s Palakkad Chamayal when I was browsing through her blog for the Blog Hop Wednesday. I was paired with Kaveri for the event and I chose this recipe to try out. Pitlai is a…
I saw this preparation in many blogs around the blogosphere. Having peas at home is very handy. It is also economical when you prepare it at home. I usually prepare this when the cost of peas is low and it helps when the cost rockets up. It is a very…
This burfi is a result of an experiment. I saw a recipe for home made chocolates in a magazine recently. But when I was preparing, there was something wrong with the recipe. I have gone through the recipe many times before attempting. But there was a shortage of liquid in…
Coconut milk is used in many recipes and is even delicious with a tsp of sugar. This gies richness to the dish when added. We usually add it in gravies, paayasam and pulao. It is also used as an accompaniment for idiyappam, paniyaram and aappam. It is also used as…
This is another Bihari recipe using Sattu. After preparing sattu filling for the kachori, I had a cup full of sattu left. When I browsed through the net for other recipes using sattu, I saw many recipes for the sattu paratha. So I prepared the dough for the usual paratha…
Last week, Sruti wanted cupcakes for her school’s sharing activity. The students are divided into 4 groups and each group is asked to bring a snack. Sruti’s group got cupcakes. I searched for an easy recipe in my recipe collection and came across this muffins recipe. I converted the recipe…