Ingredients: 1 small head cauliflower cut into florets 1 cup green beans, stems removed and cut into 2-inch pieces 2 tablespoons Canola oil 1 cup cremeini...
The advantage of living along the Coast is that you get to eat plenty of fish. While many of my friends here in Mumbai wonder how I can eat 'non veg' daily, for us fish eating Mangaloreans, Fish is Fish...c'mon! Non vegetarian is rest of the stuff that ha
On the days we Hindus fast, there is a list of foods that we are ?allowed? to eat. The list - often referred to as farari food - includes all the fruits and nuts, milk and milk products including yogurt. It also includes potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava,
How to make Chicken Masala Powder / Curry Powder Chicken Masala Powder / Curry Powder / Kari Masala Thool, an important ingredient which i never forget to add in any non-veg preparations, let it be curry or fried recipes or even biriyani. Th
As you can probably tell from my blog, I love Indian food. I?ve tried many different kinds and when I saw this curry in William Sonoma?s ?A Taste of the World? cookbook I knew I wanted to try it. In the description it said that this is a mild curry which
Recently some people who don't know me well have asked me, 'Why are you writing a food blog??' with a big question mark on their faces. Only a foodie understands why one writes about food. We all know that famous saying 'Beauty lies in the eyes of a beh
Chembu Colocasia or taro root is one of my favorite vegetables. I love anything made out of it like Chembu Sambar, Chembu Moru Kootan, Chembu roast etc. Chembu Pulivitta curry is a perfect combination with Molagootal, molagutiam or curd rice. This is anot
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
Every time I visit Goa, I get dry fish from the local market. This comes handy when we feel like eating "hooman" i.e. Goan Fish Curry. At least if dry fish is there, this hooman can be cooked easily. In Goa hardly anyone prepares this as they get fresh fi
K erala style fish curry could be made in millions of ways because each household has a recipe of their own! How diverse can we get ? :) This recipe is the way Amma makes Fish Curry at home so it has the Alleppy- Kottayam- Changanaserry style in it and it
Sree loves to have appam with the egg curry. This curry is good with roti and rice. When I'm in doubt about what to cook or if I don't have any choice, egg curry comes to my rescue. It is such a quick recipe. This egg curry is full of flavours and adding
Macher Jhal , a tomato based fish curry which I make mostly with all types of Asian fish like Striped Bass, Mullet, Buffalo Carp and they just taste awesome. My husband introduced this dish to me as he says he remembers his mom preparing this everyday mor
Chemmmeeen... This is my most favorite sea food. I have a craze for medium sized prawns, whether it is fried, curry or any thing. When I make varutharacha chemmeen curry, I always run short of rice that day. :) Ingredients: Chemmeen (Prawns) - 15
Sri Lankan Fried Eggplant curry (Dry Version).A moderate spiced and tangy flavored,caramalised eggplant is one of our favorite dish specially hubby's most favorite.I learned this recipe from my younger SIL.Yes..Obviously,most of the time I cooked ethnic f
This had to be documented as a blog post since so many of you have already liked it on Facebook . There is no childhood memory or a hand-me-down tale to be narrated today. It was the Poila Boishakh lunch pictures from Finely Chopped and my own greed
A brand new year has just begun and I guess I am a little late in wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year 2014! Well, better late than never! As any good occasion needs to be celebrated I decided to post the recipe of Pandi Curry (pronounced as 'Pahn
oftas especially fascinate me as somehow I relate them to exotic curries. Unfortunately though Indian restaurants in the US (atleast the ones I have been to) more often than not fail to do a good job in making kofta dishes (and most others too). They are
Potato is one such vegetable which is loved by every one. For many, cooking doesn?t end without potato. Mashed potato curry also called bangaladumpa mudda kura is purely an Andhra recipe. This is mostly served during marriages. This tangy and spicy recipe
Now that we have settled down in our own home I have started trying out dishes, the recipes of which have been bookmarked ages ago. Last year when I had a temporary help hired during my delivery I had the opportunity to taste some Karnataka style food whi
I have been meaning to cook চিচিঙ্গা ( chichinge or snake gourd ) for a while now. I even bought the darn thing and then it just stayed in the fridge. The external appearance just tells you that this beast is much easier to cook that the other co
Here is a delicious restaurant style egg curry which is the best to go with appams. Appam and mutta curry (Egg curry) is one of Kerala?s signature breakfast combinations. I absolutely loved it, and no other egg curry can beat this one on its taste. This c