Cinnamon glazed Apple Bread is a quick and easy bread for tea time or breakfast . Chunks of apples in the bread taste delicious, and the cinnamon glaze on the bread makes it even better. Apple is one of my favorite fruits and something we always have in our fruit baskets. We use apples in many different ways other than just eating them. I have made several recipes with apples, Indian, and other cuisines....
Flaounes is a savory pie baked for Greek Orthodox Easter. These savory Easter pies are made in large quantities during Easter and all the family get-togethers. This was one of the bakes from bookmarks that I was looking forward to making for a long time. This pie was so interesting when Aparna chose it for one of our group bakes last year. I was unable to do this then and had bookmarked it to try....
This Jalapeno Cheese bread is the bread for you if you like Savory bakes. This bread is flavorful at every bite and makes for the perfect soup and bread dinner. Savory bakes are welcome any day in my house. This month for the baking BM, I have chosen as much as savory bakes as I could and this one was my absolute favorite. We had lots of jalapenos from our garden back in NY that were frozen....
Delicious fried (or air-fried) kofte balls made with Potato and Cheese, simmered in creamy gravy, make this kofta noor jahani the absolute favorite Kofta recipe ever. This week, we are beginning our usual three-day marathon with a specific theme each week. My theme for the week is cooking recipes of my Favorite Celebrity chef . For all three days, it has to be a different chef. It is going to be so hard for me to choose the three I really like because I have quite a few favorites....
A weekend meal cannot get better than this family favorite traditional Milagu Kuzhambu / Black Pepper stew along with some steaming rice. 2015 was a perfectly normal year with things going as smoothly as they could until I received a dreaded phone call one afternoon in early December. This phone call completely shattered my life and it is never going to be the same. I have lost my best friend, my guide, my mentor, my sister - My Mother....
This mutter tomato gravy is a modified version from the regular one, but is an excellent side dish for roti, paratha or nan. I make this peas and tomato gravy if I want to have some change from the usual flavors that I normally cook. It takes only 30 minutes to make this dish and so very convenient for busy days. After my son’s Birthday Party, I was pretty exhausted and also had left over’s....
Pattinam Pakoda is a famous street food from Chennai, which was also lovingly called the ‘Pattinam’ in olden days. These flavorful deep-fried fritters would be a great evening snack with a cup of hot coffee! Choosing pattinam pakoda for the alphabet ‘P’ was not hard at all. In the olden days, the major cities were called ‘pattinam’ by the town people and I have heard this word many times growing up....
Roomali Roti, also called Rumali Roti, is a popular flatbread from the regions of India and Pakistan, which is very soft and thin. The texture and the fold of the roti resemble the Handkerchief and hence are called the Handkerchief roti. Roomali Roti, the soft and thin Handkerchief flatbread, was on my to-do list for a very long time. Growing up, any time we ate out, I was fascinated by the name of the roti and how thin it was, and I ordered it quite often....
This Sekerpare was more of a very sophisticated and elegant dessert than just a cookie. The cookies once baked, soaks up all the sugar and take over a soft and melt-in-the-mouth texture. When planning to make a Turkish recipe for the theme, I was very specific that I would only be making savory dishes. I had a lovely dinner recipe planned out, but things did not work out quite as well at home and I had to skip making it....
Semiya Payasam or Vermicelli kheer is a popular and very easy dessert made for special occasions and celebrations. This Semiya Kheer takes only about 30 minutes to make and is one of the easiest desserts to make in a jiffy when you are expecting company. I am a sweet loving person and so is my whole family. Indian cuisine is an ocean for desserts and there are plenty of options to choose from....
Beans Curry is one of the very common sides you will find in a South Indian Lunch Menu. Beans poriyal with coconut is one version of making the beans curry. It is very simple to make and can be made in less than 30 minutes. We wait all year long to this time of the year when we get to start picking our favorite vegetables from the backyard. We put a lot of effort in spring to get the backyard ready....
The sight of baby potatoes immediately means making this delicious Bengali Dum Aloo also called the Niramish Aloor Dum recipe. This is a classic ‘No Onion and No Garlic’ recipe and the best accompaniment to the Green Peas Kachori. Having just blogged about the delicious Matar Kachori / Green Peas Kachori , how can I not talk about the spicy Dum Aloo recipe that I made along with it? When I first made/learned this recipe, I had made the exact combination and fell in love with it ever since....
Godhumai Rava Payasam is made with broken wheat, jaggery, and coconut milk and it tastes so yummy. This godhuma rava payasam or cracked wheat kheer is so delicious and also a healthy one. After the month-long Mega Marathon - ‘Cooking Carnival’, I am back to the regular routine. When Srivalli comes up with interesting themes, it allows us to think out of the box. These are the other few recipes that I have made for 3 ingredients series -...
Crostini are small, bite-sized toasted pieces of bread that are crusty and can be topped with several different toppings. This Crostini with cherry tomatoes and mozzarella is our summertime favorite to make with fresh homegrown tomatoes. I also love to top my crostini with dollops of homemade basil pesto . Overall, this crostini is something I love to make with my abundance of summer produce. I first made this recipe when I was exploring the Campania region in Italy....
The end of Summer / Early fall is when we are looking to use up all the excess tomatoes from the backyard garden. Freezing tomatoes has been my preferred method to store them for a prolonged period. Late summer is a time when we, backyard gardeners, are bombarded with an overload of vegetables. Tomato is one vegetable that I always have an abundance of. I use tomatoes a lot, and hence when planting in spring, I plant many varieties of them....
Make ordinary bread into an extraordinary one by serving it with this delicious and fragrant Garlic and Herb Bread Dipping Oil. It is such a simple and easy recipe that it can be made in about 5 minutes Bread, something that my whole family is crazy about. Any bread I bake disappears within a few hours. Warm, just out of the oven bread with some salted butter used to be my boys’ favorite until one day this happened!...
Janta Roti is an Odisha Style Flatbread. It is one of the softest roti I have made on a stovetop. This soft roti is made with precooked dough hence the soft texture and also makes it an easy bread to digest. We are on to the Alphabet ‘J’ in my A to Z International Flatbread series and I can’t wait to talk all about this Janta Roti. Janta Roti is by far the softest roti I have eaten and it is so simple to make....
Manapparai Murukku has its origins in the town of Manapparai in Tamil Nadu, India. This Murukku is very crunchy and stays that way for a long time. Manapparai is a small town in Tamil Nadu near Tiruchirapalli. This town is very famous for this murukku and dairy. This Manapparai Murukku business was started by Mani Iyer, who sold this Manapparai Murukku in the railway canteen. It became so famous that it started spreading out....
This Oats and Chocolate Biscotti is an eggless recipe that can be made in under an hour. But it is a great snack for kids and has a long shelf life. My husband is a big fan of biscotti and he also loves chocolate. I on the other hand see the biscotti as just another cookie and chocolate - not a big fan of it. When Priya Suresh came up with this month’s Home Baker’s Challenge with Biscotti recipes for the month, I wanted to make a couple of them for the sake of my husband....
Oven-roasted tomato pasta sauce is one of the best pasta sauces to make when tomatoes are abundant. This roasted tomato pasta sauce is the easiest sauce recipe with no stove-top cooking involved. The flavors that come from roasting tomatoes are amazing, and there is no need to simmer the sauce for hours to get that flavor. Our backyard garden was very generous this year, and we have an abundance of tomatoes....
