Homemade Ingredients

If there is one memory that stays close to my heart when I think of my paati’s home (maternal grandmom’s house) is that the aroma of her kitchen. Freshly prepared Ghee, the different varieties of pickles that she stocks in ceramic jars carefully covered with white dhoti cloth (oorugai jaadi), that smell of tadka from homegrown curry leaves, the filter kaapi she makes from first decotion and the list goes on..She lived in that house for close to 55 years and she fondly refers to her place as MeenakshiAmma Chathiram in Tamizh.(‘Chathiram’ means resting place)Whoever in our family visits Trichy,…

To get rid off midweek blues thought of baking a cake yesterday evening. I wanted to bake something eggless and since we don’t have much of a sweet tooth settled for a simple sponge cake. You won’t believe it exactly took 10 minutes to prep the batter for the cake. 20 minutes for baking and hence I

Home made paneer’s texture is always soft and you don’t have worry about the freshness of the paneer. For 1/2 litre of milk you will get around 100gms of paneer approximately.

Incase if you don’t like to eat chunky tomatoes in a gravy you can always use Puree. You can store in refridgerator and use if for about a week.