For the second day of beverages, I made a recipe suggested by my daughter. I won’t say that it is great recipe but her idea was good and as I had the ingredient at hand, I obliged. When my daughter celebrated her birthday last week, I made a huge batch…
My daughter loved iced coffee. I make a simple version of the iced coffee by combining milk, sugar, coffee decoction and shaking it in a jar until frothy. She always pester me to make it for her, but I don’t know why but I hate making it. So she gets…
After my dark chocolate ganache recipe, it is now time for white chocolate ganache. These two ganache recipes are quite different and you cannot just swipe dark chocolate with white chocolate. Dark chocolate is so easy to work with and is so forgiving. You can always easily melt it in…
I love poli/ boli as we call it in our area. The polis we get here are thick and has so much outer dough and is very chewy. If it gets to room temperature, then there will be no softness left in them. So after marriage, I have stopped eating…
Today I will share with you one more lunch menu I made last week. To go along with rice, I made thakkali kulambu, pudalangai poriyal, vellarikkai thayir pachadi curd and gooseberry pickle. I thought I had both the gravy and poriyal in my blog, but to my surprise, I haven’t…
For the second day, here is another simple meal plan. Spinach and peas pulao served with aloo methi roast, onion raitha and some cucumber slices. This is a really tasty and filling meal and you need to pat your back for adding greens in your kid’s diet with out any…
Today we are starting yet another season of Blogging Marathon. By now you must be used to my BM posts. For this month, I will be posting under four different interesting themes. For the first week, the theme I have chosen is Meal Ideas. So for the three consecutive days,…
As part of substituting rice in recipes with millets, this is one of my experiments which was a huge success. I used saamai / little millet instead of rice in this savoury pongal/ ven pongal as we call it in Tamil. Ven pongal is usually made with rice and moong…
Today I will be sharing a very easy recipe which is yet tasty. When I was a kid, my mum used to steam cook sweet potatoes and serve as it is and they were so sweet. But nowadays, they are not that sweet and are kind of bland to taste.…
I have made Khaliat Al Nahal ( click on link for recipe) earlier. These are Arabic Pull Apart Rolls made to resemble the honey comb. Finally sugar syrup is poured on the rolls and it looks like the bee hive filled with honey. Usually these rolls are stuffed with…