Eggless Pineapple Pudding
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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
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
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
Calzone
Soft pizza pockets filled with sausage, mozzarella cheese and chunky tomatoes. My love for bread started when I was a little kid. There was a bakery near my home, and they chose the time we returned home from school to bake a fresh batch of bread. And there is nothing as tempting as the smell of fre
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
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
Shahi Paneer
It’s been a long time since I blogged, and I would like to thank my millions of considerate readers for not bothering me with emails and comments inquiring about my well being, though I am sure you were worried to tiny bits. Inspite of the long break, I have to start my post on a bitter note. All b
Blueberry Cupcake
For someone who has no access to blueberries, I have bookmarked a lot of recipes that feature them as the star ingredient. What I love about these berries is the violent violet colour they give to desserts. Imagine a buttery blueberry muffin that has swirls of beautiful violet. Or an icecream that threatens to color your lips as you taste its intense and creamy flavour. A cool and mellow blueberry lassi that you can share with your girlfriends. Definitely lovely. And a quick search tells me that it is not just a pretty fruit but also has a whole lot of health benefits! They are packed with anti oxidants, fight heart diseases, improve memory and may help fight cancer.
I am not the only one with a blueberry fascination. I have friends who have on several occasions expressed their desire to get hold of some berries so they could try out one recipe or the other. In fact, one of them says she shed tears of joys when she saw fresh blueberries for the first time ever in Lulu Mall, Cochin. An
Pasta and Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Twenty years back, if you asked a kid how a dish tasted, he would have responded with ‘good’, ‘spicy’ or a simple ‘I don’t like it’. The polite ones who have stacked the less appealing food on the side of the plate till some adult took pity and excused them from eating it. The naughty ones would have smuggled it away from the dining table and into the trash, or would have fed it to Charlie or Jimmy waiting patiently underneath the table, tongue hanging out.
The kids today give you a full depth analysis about the chicken being a bit too dry, the cheese cake luscious and ‘beautiful’ and how a bit more of lime would have balanced out those flavors perfectly, plus a tip or two about the perfect sushi if they feel like it. Marriage is no longer something that happens between a man and a woman but also (between man man, woman woman?), between flavors and textures. Kids continue to like their fried chicken and pizza but they also want to try foie gras and caviar.
Food is no longer abou
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