Almonds is an important part of vegetarian paleo diet. So how come high fat almonds are considered diet food? In paleo we try to reduce carb intake and increase fat intake. The energy needed are got from the fat consumed and do not worry, it will not increase your weight.…
Wishing You All A Very Happy Pongal Harvest Festival is celebrated in different parts of India with different names but it is such a great part of our people. Fresh produce is used to make festive dishes and people take part in various games, they visit temples, visit relatives and…
I have made nearly 80+ cookies from around the world, but have never attempted our Indian cookie Nankhatai. Nankhatai is made with a mix of besan, semolina and maida which gives a nice flavour and crunch to the cookies. These are shortbread biscuits famous in India and Pakistan. The name…
For the second day of the flat breads, I made a paratha, which resembles our parotta so much but is made entirely of whole wheat flour. If you are new here, I am doing a month long marathon in which I will be doing posts on five categories, a category…
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…
I am doing an A-Z Tamil cuisine recipe marathon this month. We are half way through and have arrived at the alphabet N. For this I didn’t have to think a lot. I decided upon this ghee flavoured simple rice that is served with spicy kurma. Nei is ghee in…
I am doing a month long A-Z Tamil recipes marathon and today is the day of the alphabet J. The only ingredient that came to my mind for J was Javvarisi which is nothing but sago or sabudana. No one at home is fond of javvarisi and so I don’t…
For the alphabet G, I found this recipe in one recipe supplement book. The photo was awesome, I liked it immediately. This was the very first recipe I tried for this BM and should say I was so disappointed with the recipe. There is one popular Tamil magazine called Aval…
After stopping regular baking of cakes, I am always in search of some snack for my daughter. She is so used to eating cakes, that nowadays, she misses them a lot. Even though I prepare cakes atleast once a month, she is still pestering me for cakes. That too, this…
When I posted the puttu maavu made with cholam/ jowar, I also made puttu out of it. As I told you before, I am trying to incorporate millets in my day to day cooking and this recipe is one in which I substituted rice flour with jowar flour. Usually I…