Today I have another quick recipe for Magic Mingle with Potato and cumin combo.Kalyani’s monthly event is being hosted by Pradnya.This is a very cooling raita, which is little spicy and at the same time crunchy and sweet due to the pomegranate pearls.A delicious raita which surely attracts your guests or family at the table.I served this…
Blueberry Chocolate Cake with Cherry Sauce
BM # 21 Day 3 Forever we feel we are busy, running short of time , trying to find short cuts .Well for the third day of Kid’s Party I made a blue berry chocolate cake.The cake turned out delicious and I served it with vanilla ice cream and Cherry Sauce. Now to reveal the…
Spicy Pumpkin Hummus
I have never cooked with Pumpkin, what does one do to those mental blocks, I always thought pumpkin to be a sweet veggie and that is one thing I don’t like. As a result, never cooked anything. With Kalyani announcing Magic Mingle ingredients.I was kind of lost did not know what to do.No choice left…
Pickled Baby Onions
BM # 20 Day 3 For the third day of this marathon I wanted to cook something with a different variety of onions, but somehow my love for baby onions and this particular pickle, made me post this. A meal without onions is kind of incomplete, specially a north Indian meal.This is a pickle which…
Methi Mattar wara Chawaran / Fenugreek, Peas Pulao
BM # 19 Day 1 For the last week of this BM , I shall make meals which shall be cooked in almost 30 minutes, may be less!! Cooking requires a little bit of planning and it is done in a jiffy.I normally work with 3 burners at one go.The microwave and the kettle…
Zero Oil Dahi Wada
When one says zero oil dahi wada somehow it’s hard for people to believe this.Yes, this was my first reaction too. About 10 years back I was looking for some fat free recipes and that’s when a friend suggested to make dahi wada’s in a sandwich maker.I remember smiling to myself thinking my friend had…
Pav Bhaji Flavored Rice with Corn Raita
BM # 18 Day 3 Rice forms an integral part of the life of all Indians. While going through the varieties of rice, I was amazed.There are more than 40,000 varieties.I had heard of only a few, I stock only basmati rice as this is the rice that I have eaten since childhood so basmati…
Gulkand / Rose Petal Preserve
BM # 17 Day 3 I love roses specially the Indian variety.They lend a heavenly aroma.Love to use them in my dishes. Recently when our friend’s son got married we were left with a big basket of these.Normally I dry them , but since I had a good stock of the dried ones ,…
Sun Dried Chillies
BM # 17 Day 2 My Granny used to make these chillies..and I loved them even as a little girl. She bacame old and…mom never made such things. I started getting these from Mumbai from a South Indian store. The filling in those chillies had super duper salt!..you could say atleat triple of what…
Sun Dried Tomatoes
BM # 17 Day 1 I had heard of sun dried tomatoes from my m.i.l and actually found it strange.She used to dry tomatoes and powder them up and use when fresh tomatoes would get expensive or for making a quick meal.After I got married she gave up kitchen….and so I never thought of…