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Egg Chutney Kebab

Ramadan Kareem! The holy month of Ramadan started last week. Some of you sent me email asking for  special Ramadan recipes. That’s when I was reminded about the Malabar Cuisine cookery book I bought from Kerala last year. Though I had bookmarked many recipes in that book, didn’t get a chance to try any. So [...]

Tomato Chutney

I like homemade idli & restaurant dosas :). What about you? I’m not sure why… but my dosas never become crispy like the restaurant ones. May be because I just cant bring myself to drench dosa with oil or ghee and I feel less guilty when somebody else does it for me ;) Both of [...]

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 [...]

Kovakka (Ivy Gourd) Peera Pattichathu

Choru (rice), a thoran (veggie with coconut), a mezhukkuperatti (stir fried veggie without coconut), a non veg dish and a chaaru (gravy) curry. This is the standard lunch menu back home. Even when I started cooking I also used to have the same menu. As the years passed on, there was a slight change. If [...]

Egg & Peas Kurma

Sometime back, one of Jose’s colleague told him, “hey, I heard your wife has a food website, so she is a great “cooker” eh?” Jose was like…”cooker”? He replied ” Yeah, she cooks well” to which that person replied “You are lucky to have a good cooker as your wife” ;) So now I’ve been [...]

Happy Vishu

Its been sometime right? Well.. I was a bit busy for the past 2 weeks or so. Btw, thanks a lot for your encouraging response for the Sweet Punch initiative. We will be updating you wit more details shortly. So, how’s your Vishu preparations going on? Planning to make sadya? Back home, we don’t celebrate [...]

Aviyal

I was quite happy after making this dish. It’s not everyday that I make an aviyal and it turns out great. I should say that I’m more comfortable cooking Kerala style non veg dishes than the veg ones. I do make the normal stuff like thorans and mezhukkuperatty. Elaborate ones like aviyal and sambar is [...]