One of the revelations of the quarantine time cooking, apart from the Dalgona coffee – is it any different from our Indian style cappucino, except in its presentation? – was this Brazilian Lemonade. Please don’t ask me why it is called lemonade when it uses limes. Actually let me tell you a secret – I thought every drink that had the citrus cousins was a lemonade. It was only very recently I realized that what uses a lemon is a lemonade and the drink that uses the lime (something more readily available here) is the limeade. OK, so if you are knowing that for the first time, I have taught you something new… 😉 Another interesting fact is that this drink is also called “Swiss Lemonade”, despite having its origins from Brazil. How cool is that! 😀 This lemonade is different from all the recipes you have seen…
Watermelon Rose Limeade
Watermelon is one of my favorite fruits, maybe immediately after bananas. Hehe… I love them simply chopped up, mashed up this way or as a form of milkshake. Another way I have discovered that I love having it is in the form of a lemonade, but in a little “hatke” manner. Today’s is the second recipe in the second three-back-to-back lemonade/limeade recipes just apt for the heat. Just like the Peanut Butter Cake recipe, this is a combination I have been making since long but never had a chance to get it to the blog. The click I had taken just once was so crappy that I didn’t want it on the blog. Ramadan is usually a time we stock up of rose syrup, since rose milk is in a lot of demand during Iftar, and there will always be some leftover falling into after the month. The…
Flavored Lemonade | Orange Blossom and Rose Water Lemonade
Alhamdulillah, the climate is getting slightly better. After three really hot months, September is like a whiff of fresh air. It is not that it isn’t hot, but the temperatures do drop down to a maximum of late 30s and apart from the afternoons, rest of the time is quite comfortable. I am only worried about the bout of flu and likewise it is going to come with, especially with schools slowly opening and Covid still playing hide-n-seek within us. With cases fluctuating on a daily basis whether it is here or back home, it is really worrying at times, but I guess with time, we are taught to take it into our stride and live with it with all required precautions. I think I should just keep that topic aside and move onto the intended post of the day… This week, I am doing three back-to-back posts…
Easy Fried Rice
One thing about the month of September is the whiff of change it brings along. From really hot days, it slowly starts taking a downward trend and giving cooler mornings and nights. As much as I am no fan of the summers, I get too moody during winters too, so this is the time that I love to enjoy. Somehow, the weather gives a feel-good vibe, even in between the spurts of heat that may pass in. As days pass by, I sincerely hope we get more better news and the negativity in the air goes down. Hope is all we need to live on with life, isn’t it? 🙂 One of the most requested recipe that I have been asked, apart from the Kunafa – which I am yet to make, even though I have a Bread Kunafa recipe on the blog -, is the Fried Rice….
Peanut Butter Cake
Just like Nutella and Biscoff, I have a jar of peanut butter in my pantry at any given point of time. Azza isn’t a fan of it, but Rasha loves peanut butter on her toast and sometimes by the spoonful. Therefore it features in the school lunch box once in a week, though Azza gets Nutella on her toast, so that I can avoid the frown face. Hehe… I am usually not a very accommodating ummi, but sometimes you are forced to put aside your rigidness just for some peace of mind… 😉 I totally love them in this breakfast smoothie, which is an amazing on-the-go breakfast, and these sandwiches as well. If you are wondering why I am starting off with a peanut butter lecture, then that’s because today’s post is for the AtoZ Challenge, hosted by Vidya and Jolly, and the letter of the month is…
Mango Popsicles
So just like that we are past eight months of this year. 2020 has literally been a roller coaster ride for many of us. I just happened to read while scrolling through my IG feed – “We have spent enough of 2020 waiting for the storm to pass. It is time to start learning dancing in the rain.” How true can that be! Here, even though the cases are not really high, we are constantly reminded to go on with our life, by taking into account all the precautionary measures required. The world has literally been toppled by the Covid pandemic, so have many lives that changed with a span of days into something they wouldn’t have imagined. Just tells me that our plans are never meant to be hundred percent in place. Since the year may go on with this virus by ourside, at the moment, it feels…
Magic Cookie Bars
How does it feel when your teeth digs into something that has several layers of goodness and deliciousness in it? That is exactly what I felt when I bit into one slice of these heavenly Magic Cookie Bars. When you bite in, you won’t believe how simple this dessert was. A lot of crushing and chopping, sprinkling and then baking gets you something that is totally irresistible. I don’t know how else to describe these squares of yumminess… For this month’s Shh Cooking Secretly Challenge, the theme is “Chocolate” and it was suggested by none other than our hostess, Mayuriji. If it is something that is very close to my heart, I don’t think twice before jumping in. 😉 I was paired with Archanaji, with whom I am coordinating for this challenge for the first time. We are already connected through the Blogging Marathon posts, however our interactions…
Ada Pradhaman
Onam may be a religious festival for the Hindus of Kerala, however for the rest of us, it is all about viewing the beautiful pookalams in front of our Hindu friends’ houses, beautifully clad girls and ladies and then the highlight – the meal on the banana leaf, called the Onasadya (ഓണസദ്യ). My memories about these sadyas during childhood is what we used to have from my uncle who was the member of the Indian Association during those times and he would get passes for all of us for the Onam celebrations. We would so excitedly wait for that day. It isn’t easy cooking up the whole meal at home, so we would wait for the day. Once the day is over, all we would want is to have a good nap, after eating all the food and drinking as much as payasam we can afford to drink….
Be My Guest – Strawberry Lemon Cake
I am wondering how to start this post. Rajani, who blogs at “My Kitchen Trials“, has been someone that I have been following ever since I started following blogs to push my cooking game, that is more than 8 years ago. Hers was a blog that I would read, bookmark recipes and ogle at the pictures. I am not kidding… As I go to blogging, I would still read her blog but it was only after I started doing Valli’s Blogging Marathon that I started commenting on her blog posts whichever were during my theme weeks. I have always loved her blog – I mean I would invite you to simply run through it, and decide for yourself. Her blog has a whole bunch of lovely vegetarian recipes that you could go back to from time to time. She has a whole bunch of thalis on her blog that…
Palak Murg | Chicken in Spinach Sauce
We are in the blessed month of Muharram. We had a public holiday over here on Sunday and it was quite relaxed. The summers are slowly taming down – I mentioned “slowly”, because sometimes they do act funny! – and it is indeed a relief. Moreover, schools are expected to open next week, starting with online classes. I simply can’t believe that two months of summer vacation got over just like that! At the beginning of last month, I was wondering how the girls are going to spend their time inside, with not much activity. Thankfully, they had madrassa classes and art classes online, which kept them busy. I am just thankful that it wasn’t as bad as expected. Just goes to tell, how much we think too much and spoil everything. Hehe… Over the weekend, the fasts of Muharram will be on. We can either fast 9 and…
Palak Paneer | Cottage Cheese with Spinach {No Cream!}
For the Blogging Marathon #115 for theme “One Vegetable, Three Ways”, I have chosen spinach and after these chapathis, here is the second recipe. I already have a palak paneer recipe on the blog – which was coincidentally shared during a previous BM theme! – but that is a super easy truncated version to say the least. Usually dishes like these are treated like “treats”, something you make when you have guests coming or that you order when you go into a nice vegetarian restaurant. This happens even though the ingredients used are very regular. Haven’t you felt that? 😉 Anyway, coming back to this delicious dish from the vegetarian repertoire of a beautiful state called Punjab, the regular Palak Paneer is indeed a treat. Time is taken to blanch the spinach so that it doesn’t loose its green color. Usually it is cooked in ghee or butter…
Palak Chapathi | Spinach Flatbread
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #115 theme “Three ways with one vegetable”, I chose “palak” or spinach as my vegetable. So you will find three ways to use it up. 🙂 Spinach is always associated with Popeye The Sailor Man, isn’t it? 😀 The way he presses the can, plops in the spinach and then immediately those muscles pop us is always fascinating to watch. But then I never loved eating spinach all this while, thanks to its muddy taste. It is only when I started my quantified diet and had to include more vegetables into my eating, that it became something I love to have. My favorite way of having it is in this easy peasy palak paneer, but yes, there are so many ways to surely include it into your diet! During the quarantine shopping, I had picked up a couple of packs of frozen spinach….
Iced Americano
I can’t express how uncomfortably hot it gets at times. It has been a few years since we have been escaping the heat during the month of August, but this time, we are noticing the wrath. The temperatures do not look that bad as it would usually be during this time, but the way the feel would be – to say the least, suffocating. Some nights have been very humid, that driving becomes extremely tricky. I have finally completed two weeks of my leave, and I do feel relaxed, despite the heat. I would have loved going home and enjoying the weather, but somehow I feel I was spared from that lousy feeling that accompanies you for days once back. At least, it wasn’t difficult getting back to work. Somehow I ticked off a lot of things off my list during the past two weeks. I slept long…
Vanilla Caramel Chocolate Cake | Three Layered Cake
I have been off from work since Eid and I don’t know whether I am relaxed. I have been facing this dilemma for quite a long time now. This leave wasn’t very much away from work, since some days I have had to settle up a few things but over the last week, I made it a point not to entertain anything from work, so that I would feel like I am having a break. This time, since we haven’t gone home, we have been trying to go around over here and visit places, like Hatta. It has been mighty hot and extremely humid, but we have been loving the long drives. HD hasn’t been very much a part of it as usual, but sometimes I wonder how much can I drag him in. He is not keen on long drives and I am trying to not get him…
Cheese Samosas
For the final recipe for the Blogging Marathon #115 under the theme “Monsoon Delights”, after the Urulakizhangu Bonda and Brinjal Fritters, here is a samosa that is perfect for lazy heads like me. 😉 As much as I love making samosas, preparing the filling is one that makes me feel really lazy to make them, the other being shaping them. *Please don’t judge me – ahem!* I already have a recipe for make-from-scratch samosas as well as a lazy muffin cup style baked samosas on the blog. If you hate the shaping part, then these chicken cheese pockets are perfect, as they are easy to shape and good looking too. 😉 This recipe uses a filling that only needs a bowl and fork along with the ingredients and your regular samosa wraps to get it done. How easy can that be! Cheese samosas are something that the Arab…
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