You would remember I had done the first week of the Blogging Marathon #81 in the theme of “Lentils and Sides”. For the second week, the theme I chose was “Apple Desserts”. It is the season of apples. As of now, you can see wide variety of apples on the shelves with competitive prices. Being in the UAE, the only way to know that it is season is by watching the prices. 😀 All fruits when it is during its season time will be available at really throw-away price, while at the other times, may pinch your pocket despite the availability. I like apples as a fruit and I have one every alternate day. Even during school times, I would be the only one among siblings who would eat apples. I love the red gala ones, which are crunchy and mildly sweet. D likes the round yellow Iranian…
YumCarrot Raita ~ Carrot Yogurt Dip
Of late, weekends have been stuck at home, intentionally or unintentionally. The climate is getting better though it is still hot in the afternoons. Weekdays are so packed with activity that I only crave for some me-time during the weekends. Even though I wanted to move out this weekend, a guest visit cancelled our plans. But I have no complains as such. I baked a couple of times, all which turned amazing and added to my swelling list of drafts! My hands were feeling really off while holding the camera, so if I give it too much of a break, I guess I will lose whatever little touch I have as of now! This time, the bakes were thoroughly enjoyed by the folks at home. This tells me, that I should space out my baking. No more doing it at my whim… 🙂 Carrots are always welcome at…
YumEasy Mushroom Biriyani
I sometimes do feel that it is not necessary a good biriyani needs to be non-veg. The Malabar style vegetable biriyani proved it to me as well as a bunch of guests I made it for! A very close competitor is this biriyani, which is made with mushrooms. Mushroom tastes so much like meat. I personally like it a lot, though I don’t have folks in the family who enjoy it. I had to make biriyani when I landed up with two boxes of it picked up at a very good deal at the hypermarket closeby. Now does that happen to you? When I see fruits and vegetables at good deals, I tend to go overboard and pick them up and unfortunately they end up hastily used up or spoiled. 🙁 I used to always keep mushrooms at normal temperature – my kitchen is pretty warm! – and…
YumBaid Tamat/ Baith Thamath ~ Emirati Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes
Egg is a universal breakfast item, eaten up in various forms all across the world, isn’t it? Eggs during breakfast for me always meant a bull’s eye or umma’s style scrambled eggs. Sometimes, when I need a change, it would take the shape of a simple saffron flavored omelette decked up on the Balaleet. I really don’t know how I landed up on finding out this simple Emirati scrambled eggs, but I faintly remember, that a Google search for Emirati breakfast dishes landed me up on a site which had the menu of the restaurant, but not it’s recipes! Why on earth did I think it would have it? 😀 But thankfully, the site had a description of the dish. Later, I got a chance to taste the Baid Tamat on the Logma breakfast platter and it made me realize how straightforward this dish is! “Baid” means eggs…
YumRestaurant Style Tea ~ Tea using Evaporated Milk
As the climate gets better here, the sales of tea in cafeterias surges. If you thought that Arabs love their black tea or coffee, then you will change your opinion once you see the queue of the Land Cruisers and Patrols in front of all the dainty cafeteria for that foam cup of “karak chai”. 🙂 Even though I love my own “haath ka chai”, at times, when stuck in traffic, I do opt for a tall cup that will give me company till I reach home and keep me cozy. Very rare restaurants here use fresh or even UHT milk to make their tea, and most of them who do so specify it at the entrance, in the form of a little notice stuck on the glass door. Majority of them use evaporated milk and you find them in bulk in all supermarkets. For one, I am…
YumJeeraka Kozhi/ Jeera Kozhi ~ Malabar Cumin Chicken
The tenth of the month, so no prizes for guessing – time for the Muslim Food Bloggers Challenge post! This month, the theme was pretty interesting – to pick up a recipe bookmarked or pinned from a Muslimah blogger and recreate it in our own kitchen! It was a tough call for me. I have bookmarks all over the place, and ever since the challenge has started, it has been only increasing. However, a little bit of deep thought and all of a sudden I knew what I should be posting! This Jeeraka Chicken caught my attention as soon as I saw it here. Fathima’s was one blog I followed initially when the cooking bug hit me. I loved her blog for the simple recipes especially the Malabar ones, and the warm clicks. She even did a guest post for me during that time. Unfortunately, the doctor seems…
YumEasy Banana Bread
I normally don’t need a reason to bake a banana bread. I don’t even wait for the bananas to ripe! 😀 Since our house is quite warm most of the time, I buy bananas in small quantities so that we finish consuming it, but sometimes doing it doesn’t help and the bananas get riper quicker than we like it. Just like me, the kids also like the bananas in the just-ripe stage, where the sweetness is mild. Once it gets a little softer, none of us would touch it. Earlier I used to bake quite often, but now I have got myself a bit tight on my baking due to my weight goals. My family has this tendency of eating anything baked only for one day and if there are any leftovers, they wouldn’t touch it in the coming days. I would have to either distribute it or eat…
YumBiscoff Chia Pudding
I always thought that life would get easier as kids grow up. But no, I am wrong. As they grow up, they get complicated. We then tend to compare how we were at their age and wonder what is happening to today’s generation. I was shocked when soon-to-turn seven Azza told me that she and her friend were discussing how many business their fathers have. “Ummi, she told me her abba has ** shops, so I told her that my abba has ** shops.” Discussion of wealth… really? At times, Rasha speaks in a tone to imply that whatever we have is theirs. I always wonder whether we even thought this way when we were their age. We weren’t bothered about how much our parents had, but we opened our eyes and saw them more without being implicit, that even asking a penny mattered to us, it made us…
YumParippu Thalichathu ~ Malabar Lentil Curry
I was wondering it would not be proper for me if I don’t feature a Malabar recipe in the theme “Lentils and Sides” for the Blogging Marathon #81. Let me make it clear that we don’t make lentil very often. At least not in my house… 🙂 The only way I know of umma making lentils is in this brinjal curry and mostly as side for ghee rice. So you can understand my excitement when I saw this recipe in the book “Malabar Cuisine” (you can read the review here). This lentil curry is so easy to make plus we have not given up on the coconut here as well. 😉 Somehow, most of our gravies have to have coconut used up in some form or the other. I was really not sure how the curry would turn out but we all loved it with our rice. The…
YumKollu Rasam ~ Horsegram Soup
I love horse-gram or “muthira” as we call it and I have already shared how umma has taught me to make it. It was by chance I discovered that this super lentil can be made into rasam as well! So, for the theme of “Lentil Sides” of this week’s Blogging Marathon #81, I decided to share this delicious soup that I adapted from here. My favorite rasam is how umma makes it, and this one comes a close second. Somehow, I always tell that blogging has helped me widen my horizon to try new foods and get more creative, as well as experimental. Since we always have horse-gram in our pantry, I thought why not make this rasam and I am glad I did! This is a little bit of work, but so flavorful that I finished the remaining just as is! Rasam usually acts as a…
YumDal Tadka ~ Tempered Lentil Stew
After a little break, it is good to come to the participating in the Blogging Marathon, in its edition #81. Last month, the group had done a mega marathon over the theme “Protein Based Dishes” and there were some amazing recipes that came up in the process. I am still happy to keep going with doing two BM themes per month, since I find it much easier to manage and keep blogging at peace. 🙂 For this week, the theme I have chosen is “Lentil Sides”. Lentils are a major source of proteins as far as vegetarians are concerned, and otherwise a source of some comfort food for many! A simple meal of lentils and rice can give you a feeling that no lavish meal can provide! I am sure many will agree to this. 🙂 One of the most prepared lentil curries in India is called “Dal…
YumFrench Toast
Sometimes I wonder whether I need to post such simple recipes on the blog. But then, at times, I do realize that there are people who don’t know about it or they have simply forgotten about such simple things in life. If you see, today’s food is really complicated. With heavy jargon like “molecular gastronomy” and so on, food is being converted into something more than what is required to fill our stomach. The whole idea is to feed the eyes before the food can actually be eaten. I don’t know if any of you realize that when you see the food, your stomach feels half full that when you try to eat it, you are unable to finish it. When I go to restaurants, I tend to order food which I can eat, or if we are a group, then we order limited. At times, we think we…
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