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Hot and Sticky Honey Sriracha Chicken Wings

Crispy baked chicken wings tossed in a hot and sweet honey, sriracha sauce with ginger, garlic and cumin. I have taken another long break from blogging. But for once, it was not because I was lazy, but because I was super busy, with work…and baking as well. Crl’s son’s school was hosting a Diwali

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Hyderabadi Chicken Curry

This Hyderabadi Chicken curry is a hot and spicy chicken curry that lives upto the promise of everything that Hyderabadi cuisine offers. Haven’t I told you earlier that my mom and I have very different food habits? My mom likes non messy, dry curries like this chili chicken. I obviously like chicken

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Paneer Pancake

Recipe for soft, melt in the mouth pancakes with creamy paneer or cottage cheese. Tring tring. The shrill sound of the cell phone startled me and everyone around. My mother peered at the bright blue screen to find my cousin’s name blinking across it. “It’s them.” I giggled. I knew my cousin was call

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Chicken Samosa

Samosas have a habit of running out just before I get hold of one. I went to this samosa stall near a mosque recently, hoping to lay my hands on the famed chicken samosas. But I was late by a few minutes and they had run out. As if to add insult to injury, the young stall keeper offered me vegetaria

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Home Made Pizza Rolls

We are a pizza loving family, and when I gave the pizza a literal twist to make a pizza roll, qya was over the moon. I have tried different versions of this pizza roll recipe over time. While each attempt was good and we quickly devoured the rolls (my bulging waist bears witness), I wasn’t completel

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Plantain Cutlets

Mummies, these plantain cutlets are the perfect after school snack for your ravenous little tykes. I only wish my mom had discovered the recipe a couple of decades earlier! To make these cutlets, you need to mix some chopped plantain with sugar, coconut, ghee and cardamom powder. Shape them into sm

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Red Velvet Cake

The colour of blood is Red. Red also indicates grave danger. Love is often expressed artistically by an arrow piercing a Red heart. Blood = Red Danger = Red Love = Red By the transitive property, Danger = Love = Blood (shed). Didn’t you always wonder if the mathematical properties you learnt at scho

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Chocolate Cherry Cake

I was updating my resume recently and after a bit of counting on my fingers, I noted down a total experience of 8.3 years. I felt kind of low the rest of the day, for apparently no reason and then it hit me. My college years were far, far behind me; I was not quite young anymore; I was, gulp, middle

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Chocolate Mousse Layer Cake

My friend Crl told me recently that November was upon us and it was almost time to soak raisins in rum (for Christmas cake). And that statement plus all the wonderful baking happening on Rachel Allen’s Cake Diaries made me want to bake a cake more than anything else ever did! Determined to make som

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Palada Pradaman

Is the onakodi for your family ready? Have you finalized your Onasadhya menu yet? Have you finished buying your vegetables, marked out the banana leaves that are going to be your organic plates for tomorrow or found out which shops sell banana leaves in case you are a pravasi malayali? Need I remind you that a sadhya is a sadhya only if you are able to produce atleast 20 vibhavangal to crowd those banana leaves? Needless to say, I am all excited that it is Onam tomorrow. For me, apart from draping my kasavu sari and decorating my hair with jasmine flowers, Onam is that one day of the year when vegetarian food shines in all its glory, each urulla of rice resulting in an explosion of flavours that are sweet, sour, spicy and tangy. My favourite part of the meal remains the payasam or sweet pudding. Kerala boasts of a wide variety of payasams such as adapradhaman, chakkapradhaman, paal payasam, ari payasam, semiya pasayam, payar payasam etc. Some are sweetened with jaggery and are dark in