Menu du jour festival foods : 45 Recipes


  • Recipe Cheedais and Murukkus for Janmaashtami
    Cheedais and Murukkus for Janmaashtami (1 vote)
    We are done with the Janmaashtami festival weeks ago. Than why am I still savouring the dishes made for Sri Krishna days on end? Purva and Priti are hosting the Festive Food season with dishes for Janmaashtami and Ganesh Chathurthi[...]
  • Recipe Kala channa (black chickpeas) for the 8th day of Navratri
    Kala channa (black chickpeas) for the 8th day of Navratri (2 votes)
    Today being Ashtami the 8th day of Navratri the fast is broken. On this day a special menu is prepared in the morning, consisting of Kala channa (black chickpeas), sooji halwa (semolina pudding), puri and fresh coconut. In my family in India nine[...]
  • Recipe Happy Navratri...!!!
    Happy Navratri...!!! (1 vote)
    I am a bit late but still didn?t want to miss to wish everybody a happy Navratri. It already started on Saturday and for all who don?t know, Navratri is a festival celebrated for 9 days in which the female divinity in her different forms is[...]
  • Recipe Sabudana kheer
    Sabudana kheer (2 votes)
    Hi to everybody on this nice and sunny day. Fall already started but it is still very warm over here. Today I am posting one more recipe which is common with my family in India for Navratri. Sabudana kheer or tapioca pudding is made from tapioca[...]
  • Recipe Sukhiyan
    Sukhiyan
    Two months ago, I guess it is only that long ago, and hope not longer, a lady mailed and asked me to post the recipe for sukhiyan...I hope today I will type and post too. I am sorry Akhila for the delayed post. At home this is made invariably[...]
  • Recipe Paal Poli
    Paal Poli
    You may all have been indulged in festive feast created by fellow bloggers yesterday which marked the Aavani avittam and the Raksha Bandhan. I feasted my eyes on Jayashree's and Shoba's aavani avittam spread. It will be impertinent if I[...]
  • Recipe Kaju Burfi
    Kaju Burfi
    This recipe was given to me by Kanthi maami, my cousin's mother-in-law. I have written down the recipe just as she had given us that makes twenty thin burfis. I had made with five times the given recipe this deepavali. I had made them slightly[...]
  • Recipe Choco-dates
    Choco-dates
    We lived in a gated-guarded compound in Bahrain. Since the property belonged to someone from the royal family and The King's secretary resided in the compound we had police security by night. Two policemen took turns to guard at night. One of[...]
  • Recipe Nylon Ribbon
    Nylon Ribbon
    Soon after I posted the ribbon pakodas, my sister, my good buddy and worst critic pointed out that they were extremely brown, not golden. i explained to her that I used the rice flour amma had brought from India and she had complained about[...]