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Happy New Year 2015. Wishing you all a great year ahead. Eat well and stay healthy, happy in this new year.

This thick, tangy and spicy curry is best with steaming hot rice.During my school days at Tirunelveli our monthly routine was to watch a morning show in either of these theatres PVT,Ram/Muthuram,Poornakala and then to have full meals at Hotel Bharani or Vasantham. They served the best karakuzh

Winter is almost here. Evening coffee is replaced by hot healthy soups now a days. This sweet corn soup is our fav next to mushroom soup.. I used frozen sweet corn kernels and they it took around 4-5 minutes for them to become tender. If you are using regular sweetcorns it might take a bit more ti

When we came to know about moving to London, the first thing I asked my mom to do is to prepare good molagapodi and sambhar podi. She is an expert in preparing these essential dry powders and even after marriage she gives me the podis regularly. Kindly check the recipe for authentic tambrahm idli po

Very easy to prepare crunchy snack. I have used capsicum, some fresh herbs and cheddar cheese. You can substitute with other cheese. If you don’t like capsicum then replace it with some red onions.

I tried a smiliar ‘upma’ type preparation with my leftover cooked pasta and it worked great. Didn’t prepare any sauces, just tossed pasta in veggies and chilli powder. It tasted great. It took less than 15 minutes to prepare this easy, simple upma. I have used Penne however you can try this recipe w

Pizza Hut Pizza_** is our favorite in Chennai. All you need to make is a phone call and dinner will be at your doorstep 😉 Its been nearly two months that we tried pizza,here in London (_i know it is strange) _So to put an end to the craving and to make use of my Gas Oven , thought of making pizza

I prepared a separate dry masala and added to this sundal. Incase if you don’t have to prepare the dry powder you can substitute it with chilli powder & coriander powder.

I prepared this as Nevedhyam yesterday. I have used green chilly to spice the sundal. If you would like to use chilli powder instead, you might do that as well.

Navarathri starts tomorrow. It is always good to give different prasadhams/nevedhyams rather than the usual Sundal (ofcourse sundal is the best. But for a change). I have used around 250 gms of semolina. In case if you wish to serve more people adjust measurements accordingly.