This month’s Bread Baker’s challenge host Mireille, who blogs at The Schizo Chef, chose the theme stone fruits. Any stone fruit like mangoes, plums, peaches, apricots or nectarines can be used to make bread. In Madurai, as we get only mangoes during this season, I opted to use mangoes in…
For the final day of rice dishes, I needed to make a layered rice dish. There are so many ways of making a layered rice. You can either bake it in oven or cook it over stove top and you can either cover the lid with a cloth or foil…
For the second day, under mixed rice, I wanted to make fried rice. Whenever mixed rice is mentioned, my mind goes to our south Indian rice varieties. As I have blogged about most of the varieties I know, I thought of making fried rice as this also falls under the…
Today we start another week of Blogging Marathon. For this week, I have chosen to do three rice dishes. I have tried so many rice dishes, some one pot meals, some mixed rice and one or two layered rice. This week I need to make three dishes using all the…
Mousse cake has been in my to do list for long, but I kept postponing as I was so much afraid of failure. I have done a lots of experiments in these five and a half years of blogging, but now, I am little hesitant. But still I wanted to…
For the third day of potato recipes, I tried an artistic recipe which is so simple but looks beautiful. I saw this idea while searching for new potato recipes. The original one was baked in small bowls. I wanted to bake these in ramekins but as I used my peeler…
For the second day, I am here with another dish made with potatoes. I am doing one vegetable three ways this week. After the tater tots, I didn’t want to deep fry one more dish. So baked the potatoes in oven and mixed it with the sauce. This is quite…
When I first heard the name Tater Tots, I had no idea about the dish as we don’t get it in India as far as I know. Then when I searched for the recipe, I found that it is made of potatoes and deep fried. Who would not like it?…
If you like to make home made breads, you might have gone through so many recipes to try. The most common term used in any bread recipe is kneading and window pane test. These are so important as they decide the texture of the final bread. Most bread recipes use…
Mango season is at its peak now and I wanted to make all types of desserts when the mangoes are sweeter. This mango fresh cream cake has been in my mind for long. I wanted to take a video while doing it and so I kept postponing. Finally I made…