BM # 52 Week 2 Day 1 I love kheers, but when it comes to Rabdi, I avoid, in fact everyone in the family avoids. It is delicious and I cheat the family by freezing the Rabdi and converting it into a Kulfi. I made this for a dinner and my guests were so happy…
Oats and Poha Ladoos
Vacations are a nice break from everyday routine . Everyone has a different perspective where these vacations are concerned. With this jet age everyone wants to save travel time and choose flights as their travel mode, but some how road trips are lot of fun. One can stop anywhere on the way to enjoy the…
Sooji Ka Halwa – The Pakistani Style
Sooji or semolina halwa is a Indian sweet which is very popular in Indian homes. The semolina is roasted in clarified butter or ghee and then cooked with water and ghee. Some people add milk instead of water to make it rich, some use a mix of water and milk. Every Indian state has its…
Omani Halwa
BM # 44International ABC CookingCooking with Alphabets : Category : Sweet / Dessert Oman Country Oman, officially called the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. With the alphabet O we have only one country Oman. with rest of the alphabets there has been…
Balushahi – North India Special for ICC
Balushahi is a traditional North Indian sweet. It has similar ingredients as a doughnut but Balushahi is very flaky sweet. I spent a good 18 years of my life in the walled city of Delhi. While living in old Delhi, I used to pass at least three sweet shops everyday while going to the school…
Rajasthani Laapsi
BM # 41 Week 1 Day 1 BM # 41 and I was waiting for the announcement, this time I wanted to pick all four weeks. I had missed BM’ s at the beginning of the year and with the mega BM ahead, I was initially not sure , but decided to go…
Pukhlein a Rice and Jaggery Sweet – Meghalaya Special
BM # 39 Day : 18 State : Meghalaya Megh is rain in Hindi and Meghalaya has been rightly named after this word, as it means abode of clouds.This is the wettest place on earth and a perfect holiday destination.So on the 18th day we shall cook from Meghalaya. Meghalaya is one of the of…
Orange Sandesh
BM # 32 Week 3 Theme:Regional Cuisine: Bengali Cooking with alphabets ” O” Sandesh is a classic sweet from Bengal .It is made from cottage cheese and sugar.I love the way Bengali’s pronounce it Sondesh, it sounds so sweet.The first time I made sandesh was for holi and made my favorite flavor , yes it…
Halwa Paratha
BM # 32 Week 2Theme : Street Food Cooking with alphabets :”H” I had read about Halwa Paratha being sold near Jama Masjid during Ramzaan and was very keen to see this as I had heard that this paratha is about 3 foot diameter. Now that sure is a massive size. Fortunately I was…
Meethay Ghoday ….Hyderabad Specialty for Indian Cooking Challenge
The last few days have been terribly hectic, I normally have my posts ready much before the scheduled date, my cooking and clicking both were done,for the ICC but I did not manage to draft the recipe.I guess from the plus 400 posts that I have done, perhaps this must be one of those rare…