This recipe has got me all excited and happy! Another one of my experiments that turned out well. I have been wanting to post the recipe for pani puri (Indian chat) for quite some time now. So today, I got some ready made puris from my local Indian grocery store. As me and RB were…
Apple and peach milkshake
I am not a huge fan of apples but we always seem to have them around at home. RB needs his apples all the time and I have no idea when he eats them, but they keep disappearing pretty fast! Growing up my dad would have to peel the skin and literally shove them in…
Rotini with Sun-dried tomatoes and Bell peppers
My kind of cooking on a weekday night would be to throw some in ingredients together and finish cooking in 30 minutes or less. Having a box of pasta around can be a life saver in such situations! This is one of those recipes. Nothing complicated or time consuming about this. When you pair ingredients…
Kovakkai & Peerkangai chutney (Ivy gourd & Ridge gourd chutney)
This is one of those simple recipes, that can be made in advance and stored for a week in the refrigerator. It goes very well with rice and ghee or as a side dish for idli/dosas. I had tasted this chutney in a friend’s house couple of years back. When I first tasted it I…
Chayote and lentils / Chow chow kootu
Back when I was engaged and had those rare weekends at home, my mom would go on and on about how I never seemed to help her with any household work. She would wonder how I would be able to manage running a house all alone once I was married! I have no idea how…
Karamani kuzhambu (black eyed peas kuzhambu)
I don’t use black eyes peas a lot in my cooking probably because my mother did not use it often at home. I had to buy them for the karadaiyan nombu adai and we ended up with a big packet of these lentils. My memories of eating karamani is mostly from the hostels I stayed…
Karadaiyan nombu adai recipe
Karadaiyan nombu is a Tamil festival in remembrance of the Satyavan-Savitri legend. It is celebrated when the tamil month Masi ends and Panguni begins. Uppu adai and vella adai (uppu meaning salt and vella meaning sweet) are made and offered as neivedhyam/prasad to god along with butter. It is believed that Savitri made these adais…
Pineapple and vegetables curry
I guess thinking of weird and different combinations of ingredients to go in a recipe is one of the side effects of being a food blogger 🙂 This weekend as I set out to make my usual vegetable and paneer curry for lunch, a can of juicy pineapple caught my eye! And weirdly I couldn’t…
