Kids Birthday Party

BM # 27   Day 8  Occasion: Kid’s Birthday Party When we talk of a Birthday Party, somehow I always associate it with Kids. I feel it’s all about Kids affair. I mean obviously we grown ups also have parties, specially to celebrate land mark birthdays. Cooking for a kids party is fun and one…

Holi re Holi !!

BM # 27   Day 5 Occasion : Holi Festival Holi, the festival of colors is one of the major festivals of India. It is celebrated with lot of zest and different states follow different traditions. Every state has something special to be served on this unique festival. On the Holi day ,normally friends and…

Undhiyu Poori on Uttarayan

BM # 27   Day 4 Occasion : Uttarayan Festival in Gujarat Uttarayan , also known as Makar Sankranti is a famous festival of Gujarat. It falls on 14th January .This is a festival where the skies are full of kites .Preparations are made weeks before the festival. One finds seasonal shops full of these…

Rice Crepes with Watermelon Sauce

This month’s Magic Mingle combo gave me a jitters .Rice and Watermelon!..well rather tough combo, but I was flooded with ideas very soon…but implementing them and then liking the taste was another issue.Anyway I finally decided on making rice crepes..these would pass for sure..and if the sauce did not pass…I would serve with chocolate sauce!So I moved…

Almond Chocolate Larabars

This is the first post of Groovy Gourmets.I was so apprehensive about joining this group, but both Radhika and Anusha have been ever so sweet and assured me that I could work on the recipes.With very tight schedules  posting a gourmet dish seemed difficult, but after this first attempt. May be it’s not as tough as…