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Don’t know if Quinoa is superfood or not but I can definitely say from my personal experience that I eat less & portion control was much easier when replacing Rice with…

In the past few months I have made the pakoda so many times and have tried different variations of this Broccoli Pakoda recipe.Finally the one I made yesterday was just…

This is my Amma’s recipe and our favorite during train journeys..The first time I visited Shirdi was in 2010 with my mom, her cousin’s family and some of their friends. We decided to cover Mantralayam on…

If there is one goal that I setup for myself after moving to Limerick was to bake more, to learn more about the techniques involved in baking. It intimidates me…

Our weekday dinners are mostly Chapati with a gravy or sometimes plain rice/couscous/quinoa with some salad & gravy..I absolutely love Tofu and have made burji, palak tofu, even kofta with Tofu and…

I have tried Dum Biryani a couple of times before but have never achieved that perfect Restaurant Style Biryani. I usually do a quick version of Vegetable Rice/Veg Biryani since the elaborate steps overwhelm me. Also the fear of mushy, soggy biryani is not worth after you have spent an hour to prepare it. This time for my husband’a…

Its Day-30 of my blogging challenge and truly unbelievable that I did this continuously without giving up half way. Also so happy to end this challenge with an all time…

Eggplant is my favorite vegetable. From Kathrikkai Enakari to Pitlai to this Bharta I absolutely love cooking with Eggplant & Brinjal. My husband is not a big fan of Eggplants..Many…

Baking is not my forte. I will happily cook a decent vegetarian meal even for 25 people but to bake a simple cake/cookie/biscuit I hesitate a lot. The electric oven…

Sweet Pachadi & Sour Pachadi are part of a traditional Banana Leaf SouthIndian lunch. While veggies like yellow pumpkin, mango are used to make sweet pachadi, Veggies like Cucumber, Carrot,…