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Nothing too exotic, nothing very strange (although I often seek out just those qualities). This is my sort of comfort food. After all, there's nothing comforting about being weighed down by your food. Nothing comforting about feeling your stomach fill

Today I am sharing the recipe of Kerala style Kallummekkaya fry / Mussel Fry. Its very easy to prepare but if you are buying fresh kallummekkaya / mussels then you have to clean it properly. Ingredients Mussels ~ 1 lb / 500 gram ( Aroun

These turned out perfectly. As in, I had not a single issue. Being that these are macarons we are talking about, I say this with much pleasure and pride. The first time I made macarons was about year ago and I tried David Lebovitz's safe, trusted and t

Here's an impressive meal to serve the next time you have dinner guests - assuming Chilean Sea Bass is south of $40 a pound! Really any seafood would do...I imagine it would be equally delicious with the likes of halibut, salmon or shrimp.

I love lighting lamps ,karthikai deepam is my most favorite festival.During my childhood i have lighted nearly hundreds of lamps in my mom's house..I would be the first one collecting lamps and the preparations of karthikai deepam is always my pleasure to

Gnocchi with spinach and Feta cheese I love eating Gnocchi and one of my falourite veggies is fresh spinache . Combining the two results in one of my favourite Gnocchi dishes . Freshly made Gnocchi with juicy spinache and melted Feta cheese

black grapes juice - a juice that can be made in a jiffy and without an electric juicer. i do have an electric juicer, but i find it too much to clean the different parts of the juicer. so i prefer to make the grapes juice in a blender and then strain

In Plato?s (c. 400 B.C.) ideal state men would lived on a healthy diet eating wholemeal barley or wheat bread and galettes. Socrates, however, suggested that this meant the whole population would be living on pig-food. The truth is that in those days, At

Black eyed peas or Lobia are a good source of protein and there are many recipes that can be made using lobia.The cutlet recipe that I'm going to share today is very healthy and nutritious and if your child is a fussy eater,you can make this for him. I ha

I lied to you. I am not making anything Eastern European this time. I have an excuse: to make something Eastern European, we always join with my Mom. She s been planning to come over today, but it s -18C/-0.4F outside and we had to cancel our cooking se

I made these 'Tau Sar Paeng' based on the recipe of my Salted Egg Pastry , but used red bean paste as filling as the name suggests. Can pass off as kaya puff, but when you bite into it, then you'll see!

Imagine if all plants were edible; maybe then no one would go hungry. I was recently introduced to a plant that grows freely around the area where I live and whose leaves are edible. The plant is called Talinum which is a genus of herbaceous succulen

Tender or Raw Jack fruit curries are a delicacy. Popular Chettinad recipes with this vegetable are - Masala, Kootu, Poriyal, Milagu Podi Poriyal, Kuruma and Sodhi. If we manage to lay hands on one, we would share it with our close relatives, and definitel

Reel versus Real We all are familiar with the famous Hide and seek advertisement where Hrithik endorses the product. But unfortunately the quality of the product has not been so stabl

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

Gooseberry rice is a new type of mixed rice which you dont do often. The taste of this would be similar to lemon rice..But has a lovely taste of the gooseberry. I love variety rices, you can check out my rice recipes right here , i have quite a few of th

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ . It was during my initial days in Australia..once, hubby had brought a vegetable called 'Turnip' to home. I thought its a new variety of vegetable which I never used earlier. Its outer skin was purple m

As I'm typing this blog right now, it's raining cats and dogs plus it's rather chilly outside. I had a sudden craving for a dessert. Maybe a cup of hot cocoa will do, but I feel that I have been chocolate overload for the past few weeks. So, this time

Very much nadan Kerala Beef Roast. Best combination with kappa(tapioca), chapathis as well as rice. Ingredients: Beef- 1/4 kg,cut into small pieces Onion- 1 1/2large,thinly sliced Green chillies- 3 slit Garlic- 4 pods, sliced Ginger- 1 in

Dairy lover. Butter fiend. Milk addict. Friend of cheese. Yogurt connoisseur. Go ahead. Call me names. They're all true. I am a dairy lover, deeply committed to my glass of chilled milk at bedtime and my 5 o'clock plate of cheese bites. And don't ge

Cream cheese was my most used ingredient between Feb 27 and March 7. I used it to make Strawberry Napoleones (February 27th) and Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Coffee Cake (March 6th). Hubby and I also snacked on crackers and cream cheese while watchin

This week's SMS was chosen by Ellen of Blue Tree Green Heart : chocolate orange macaroons. After having spent two glorious weeks house sitting for my in-laws, I returned home on Friday and these macaroons had the honor of being the first thing I baked

Banana Nut Muffin Donuts Although these donut shaped banana muffins are quite tasty, they aren t what I set out to make. These are a failed attempt to bake banana nut bagels. The finished product was sweet and has a muffin type consistency, very simil

Why am I just now discovering how much I love cauliflower? I mean, seriously - the wait was too long! This recipe is so good and I could oh so easily eat the whole pan by myself. Ingredients 1 head cauliflower, rinsed and broken into florets 1