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  • Recipe Sweet Tooth
    Sweet Tooth
    Did you know I have a bit of a sweet tooth? No. That's a huge understatement. I am a giant sweet tooth. If somebody drew my caricature, I would be a tooth with a sign labeled "sweet." In my heaven, I would be surrounded by sweets[...]
  • Recipe Sweet Tooth.
    Sweet Tooth.
    Not a lot of exciting cooking has been going on around here. A wonderful cold decided to circulate among the family, rendering my sense of smell and taste absolutely useless for about a week and a half. But I am mostly mended now so hopefully I'll[...]
  • Recipe A Cure For an Overstimulated Sweet Tooth: Savory Peach Chicken
    A Cure For an Overstimulated Sweet Tooth: Savory Peach Chicken
    So I've baking A LOT lately which equals me eating a lot of sugar. Sometimes, after so many sweets I just NEED something savory and delicous. I know this is really a baking blog but my passion lies in the kitchen in general. I LOVE to[...]
  • Recipe Sweet Tidings (Gulab Jamun recipe)
    Sweet Tidings (Gulab Jamun recipe)
    In India, it is traditional to break all happy news along with sweets. I understand that in North India the type of sweets distributed changes with the gender of the new born baby. Thus people will easily know it is a boy if laddus are[...]
  • Recipe Vella Payar (Sweet Cowpeas)
    Vella Payar (Sweet Cowpeas)
    No Navarathri is complete for Puthucodians without this sweetened cowpeas neivedyam. Most of the houses will have this offering on the first day itself as a sweet beginning.This is also distributed as Prasadam in the temple[...]
  • Recipe Recipe: Pori
    Recipe: Pori (1 vote)
    As I have mentioned , the neyvedyam for Karthikai are Pori, Neyyappam and Adai. Pori is puffed rice and there are 2 kinds of pori: nelpori (made by frying paddy seeds) and avil pori (made by frying flattened rice or avil). The preparation[...]
  • Recipe Recipe: Neyappam
    Recipe: Neyappam (1 vote)
    Neyyappam literally means "ghee cake." Neyyappam is a unique sweet of Kerala and is made in a special utensil known as Appakaral which is a pan with bowl-shaped depressions carved in to it. In the olden days appakarals were made of bronze. Now[...]
  • Recipe Recipe: Sugiyan
    Recipe: Sugiyan (1 vote)
    As I was preparing lunch on Kanu day, my brother came visiting and asked me as usual, "so what is for lunch?" I just pointed to the dishes I had already prepared. I was then frying sugiyans . He asked me, "What is this, bonda ?" I said, "no,"[...]
  • Recipe Recipe: Chakka Pradhaman
    Recipe: Chakka Pradhaman
    Pradhamans are unique sweet dishes of Kerala. Pradhaman means numero uno . Pradhaman basically is payasam prepared with coconut milk, excepting pradhamans like Palada Pradhaman which is made with dairy milk. Varieties of pradhamans are[...]
  • Recipe Recipe: Coffee Mocha Cake
    Recipe: Coffee Mocha Cake
    Ugadi day also happened to be very important for us this year, as our handsome and charming son's birthday fell on the same day. As I have already said, we celebrate our children's birthdays twice every year, one by the Indian calendar (the[...]