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Pesarattu is a breakfast food of the andhra region . It is mainly preapared using moong dhal and the rice is added to ensure crispiness . Traditionally , it is served with onion topping ( no toppings for me, since VJ has a stable cold..)and ther's this ch

The biggest reason I planted a few zucchini bushes in the garden this year was to have access to zucchini flowers - not that I don't love zucchini, but it's so plentiful and cheap at the farmers' market all summer, so why grow it? The blossoms, on the ot

I have a confession to make. I strive to cook "real food". By that, I mean that I like to cook meals for my family, using fresh ingredients-- organic, as much as possible. There are no processed foods in my kitchen. You will never find a tub of frozen

Coconut Rice is a very famous Indian recipe which is normally made on the festive days after the Puja most of the times. As, we break the Coconut in the end of the Puja, we get a fresh Coconut. So, instead of taking the coconut directly, this a yummy way

AKA, dump cake, which is a rather unattractive moniker for such a delicious, yet easy, cake. Growing up in largely Cajun town of LaPlace, La, I ate this cake often, and I've never tired of it. Nor will you, I dare say. My version is an adaptation

Ingredients Basmati Rice (cooked)-2cups Carrot (finely chopped)-1/4cup Beans (finely chopped)-1/4cup Garlic cloves (chopped)-2 Soy sauce-1/2tsp Maggi seasoning/ Vegetable Bouillon Cube-1( Optional) Pepper and Salt to taste

How do you tuna fish? You say: "Howzit fish?", Such a lame joke, but my children kill themselves laughing everytime they catch some unsuspected victim. We love tuna whether it is fresh or tinned. I think either way, the possibilities are endless. For me,

spinach fritters recipe - crisp golden gram flour batter coated spinach fritters or palak pakoras. here each spinach leaf is dipped in a spiced gram flour batter and then fried. there is another method of preparing making palak pakoras . chopped spina

Hi All!! Sorry for being away from the blog all of a sudden..the intention was definitely not to disappear but somehow life became too busy with traveling, then unpacking and getting back to a regular routine.. I’m posting yet another healthy preparat

Time 20 min Ingredients Gram flour (Besan) 1 cup Eggplant (thin sliced ) 1 medium size (10-12 slices) Red chili powder 1/2 tsp Garam masala 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder 1/4 tsp Carom seeds (Ajwain) 1/4 tsp Water 1/2 cup Pinch of baking

I love guiling gao and find that it is so much cheaper if I were to make them myself with the ready mix which are being sold in the shop. Unfortunately, when I read the ingredients, I always find "tortoise shell" named as one of the ingredients. So one a

My daughter?s school vacations started on Friday. This is the first time in 9 nine years, that I am at my mom?s house for vacation to stay for a month. All these years, mom was in the same town as me close to each other, so I used to visit her often. Neve

A while ago my older son Charlie asked me if I'd bake the big cake for his swim team's end-of-year banquet and I agreed. The banquet's being held early next week, so I need to get cracking. It's been a blast watching that kid swim in high school and, sinc

Blueberries are just coming into season here in the UK so when I spotted a stack of boxes containing the little blue jewels I knew I had to have some. Berries remind me of everything summery and cheesecake is one of my favourite desserts. Eggless baked ch

Ingredients: * 1 cup Split mustard seeds , * 250 gms Green thick chilies ( Jalapeno pepper ), * 1 tbsp Split fenugreek seeds, * 1 tsp Turmeric powder , * 2 tbsp Oil, * 3 tbsp Lemon juice or 2 tbsp Vinegar, * 1 tsp Asafoetida powder,

Ilish, is one of the favorite and a Bengali Delicacy. It is the most wanted fish for the Bengalis. Doi Ilish as I name it, for my husband this is Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa/Shad in Mustard Sauce) ... Well apart from whatever you call the recipe, it is a tr

I was a very thin kid. I have photographic evidence to prove it. Like most mother?s of the previous generation, mine too thought that a chubby kid is a healthy kid. Mine, a first-time mother at 25 took things in her own hands and started with a project

Banana is among the most important fruits of the world. In terms of production tonnage and trade volume, fresh banana remains in the top slot and probably will continue to lead over other fruits in many more years to come. While banana is native to tropic

We had a Halloween Fall festival at our house last night with some youth from our church and I thought it would be fun to do something a little different with the drink. After surfing the web for ideas here is what I came up with: Kids will stare

(photo: the ideal Italian life represented in Pellegrina, Reggio Calabria) Italian Shopping on Steroids You'll have to excuse me if I sound a bit crabby this morning, as I just finished reading a New York Times review of the mega supermarket Eatal

Posted by Lyndi I am in constant search of butter that is unpasteurized. Why the obession? Because somewhere tucked away in the back crevices of my cranium a quiet voice is saying, ?Eat as naturally as possi

image via Show and Tell Forget about ordering one dessert with four forks. What s big in desserts right now is small. We re scooping itty bitty spoons into tiny tureens of tiramisu and downing shot glass shooters of passion fruit soufflé. Alrea

Time for more man friendly food. The Husband is a huge fan of anything in a flaky pie crust so when I offered to make this particular recipe he was rather pleased. This recipe comes from Racheal Ray's magazine , although I made quite a few modifications

Ingredients Boiled eggs( de-shelled)-6 Onion large( minced)-1 Tomato large( finely chopped)-1 Curry leaves-few Coriander leaves-1/4cup Mint leaves-1/4cup Red chilli powder-1 1/2tsp Coriander powder-1tbsp Garam masala-1tsp Sal