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Vegetable Kofta
These days whenever I pick up a magazine or newspaper, I notice that they reserve a sizable amount of pages/space for healthy eating. Wherever you look, you see articles about healthy eating, ads marketing healthy food stuff, people advocating healthy life style. Me being an extremist tends to take one of the following courses as [...]
Sambar
I’ve got requests from some of you for a sambar recipe. All that time, I never thought I would be able to post its recipe here. During my initial days of cooking whenever I made sambar, it was close to disaster. Finally, I resorted to some ready made mix of sambar for sometime and then [...]
Dal Makhani
Eid Mubarak!! Hope you had a great time with your family and friends. Its been sometime right? I was a bit busy with some stuff and now am off to India for a month’s holiday. Thought I will keep you posted about it. I am very happy to share with you that Nivedita of Nivedita’s [...]
Vanpayar Olathiyathu
Kanji & payar is a welcome change from our usual chappathi for dinner. Hot kanji sprinkled with salt & grated coconut, along with a little bit overcooked payar ( I like my payar to be a bit pasty with kanji) is a taste that I find hard to trade for any fancy dish. Kanji & [...]
Parippu Chaaru (Curry)
I should stick to my new year resolution at least for a week right ;) ? This parippu (dal) curry is a typical Kerala dish. It’s one of the main dishes of Onasadhya as well. We call it “parippu chaaru” at home. If there is parippu chaaru, ghee and pappad, it’s almost like a mini [...]
Dal Palak
A veg post after a long time. Its a very basic recipe with no frills. I should say dal (lentils) is kind of new on our menu. Both of us didn’t prefer dal, may be because we had too much of it during our hostel days. It all changed because of my dear friend Preeta, [...]
