There are time when challenges are due and I get excited about it coming up, just like how I felt for the current month for the AtoZ Challenge, hosted by Vidya and Jolly. Even though I haven’t done all alphabets due to many reasons, I love participating in this challenge a lot. You can find all posts related to this challenge in this tag. This month, the alphabet in question is O and the ingredient I have chosen for this challenge is “Orange”. Now, thanks to Covid and all the talks about how good Vit C can be for the virus, oranges and Vit C effervescents have suddenly become in so much demand, and expensive as well. Hehe… I have always loved oranges, just to eat it like that or in desserts, most of the time. Be it this self-saucing pudding, these yogurt popsicles, these yummy biscottis or…
Eggless Lotus Biscoff Brownies | Cookie Butter Brownies
So just like that the Eid holidays are over. This year’s Hajj was very special. Unlike having millions every year, thanks to the Covid, there were only blessed selected 1000 pilgrims from various nationalities residing in KSA were selected this year. Unprecedented, in all terms… When Hajj was supposed to be cancelled, it still went ahead with all the rituals. I can’t imagine how the selected ones must have felt to be selected during this time. It has been more than six years since we had gone for Umrah and everything is very fresh in our mind despite not having any pictures with me regarding those 10 days that we spent in the journey and going towards Madinah first and then to Makkah. Umrah is nowhere near the rituals of Hajj but the whole experience of seeing the Kaabah and the Masjid Nabawi with one’s own eyes is overwhelming,…
Kayikkante Biriyani | Kayees Style Biriyani
For the last three years, we have been celebrating Eid-ul-Adha back home. “We” means the kids and me. HD would still be here. I was never keen on Eid celebrations back home because the only one that I could remember when I was a kid was extremely boring. As children, we had some of the most amazing memories about Eid over here. The Eidgahs, the stay over at ammayi’s house, all the eating, talking and giggling, etc. made up our Eid celebrations. As we grew up and moved into adulting, it has changed, but Eid is still Eid and we try to see what best we can do. But the last three Eids back home have been really interesting. With going to the Eidgahs in the school grounds, to walking home the long way with all the aunts in slow motion, chatting and enjoying the green views while walking…
Sarlas / Challas ~ Kerala Pickled Onions
When you have a biriyani recipe coming up and an accompaniment is one of the best part of it, then it has to mandatory come before it on the blog. 😉 I was contemplating whether this needs to be on the blog, since it is hardly a recipe. But the whole point is, this very simple dish with a funny name is something that I adore when I am being served biriyani at a wedding or at a hotel back home. I am not a person who like to eat raw onions, for the obvious reason of bad breath that it gifts you after, that doesn’t even go with chewing gum or brushing your teeth with the strongest toothpaste at home! But somehow, this humble onion salad can be had in a little bowl as the biriyani gets wiped up. In fact, I love this sallas and the chammanthi…
Be My Guest – No-Bake Mango Cheesecake
I just realized that it has been a little over a year since I had the last guest over on the blog. I was wondering where did the one year go. In between this one year, a lot of things changed in the food blogging world too. Many “food bloggers” have come up on the macro blogging platform of Instagram, especially during the lock-down periods. I have to admit that some of them are amazingly good photographers. Even the most simple dishes are clicked superbly. With techniques floating all over of how to create dazzling food photography, sometimes I feel drowned in between with my not-so-special clicks. 🙂 Moreover, many seem to have moved from reading blogs to watching YouTube videos, or even better short videos on TikTok or on IGTV. Anyway, coming back to where I started, after a little hiatus, I am back with a guest today…
Sugiyan / Sukhiyan | Green Gram Jaggery Dumplings
HD is a huge fan of Tik Tok. He can continuously keep watching videos on it at any time. I do not seem to enjoy it much and I get irritated when I see him wasting his time on it. At times, he shares videos to my Whassap. There was this video which had two dogs. One was constantly barking on the other, the barking dog was referred to as ” the wife” and the silent dog “the husband”. :/ Then, one comment below it from the Mr., “Don’t they remind us of ourselves?” Yeah, right… At times, he would send me some interesting cooking videos he would see, and among one of them was the Sughiyan. I was in the kitchen, when he screamed out, “I have shared a video, watch it!”. I usually don’t watch all that he shares. I am not an avid video watcher…
Easy Chicken Curry {Using Curry Powder}
I am not a fan of spice blends picked up from the supermarket shelves. I would rather have individual spices in my pantry. Each brand has its own distinctive taste, actually making it difficult to like one. The only masala powder I pick up is the chaat masala and then on and off, a pack of Madras curry powder. I am not sure why I pick it up, but I love that smoky smell the spice mix gives when you open the dabba. Unlike most of the curry powders which are in a plastic pack sealed inside a box pack. the Madras curry powder always comes in a tin. I have read somewhere that they use this curry powder a lot in Emirati cooking, likely due to the influence of South Indian cooking on the local cuisine here. With the current batch I have, I used them in the…
Bull’s Eye Egg Curry | Potticha Mutta Curry
There is a reason why I specifically chose “Bring on the Curry” as the theme for this week’s Blogging Marathon #114. During the lock down period, my SIL and I would break our head thinking what to try for dinner. It is a multi-million dollar question all the time, isn’t it? Like many, a lot of my time goes trying to decide what to cook instead of the actual cooking. It was then I discovered umma’s notebook while rearranging my kitchen shelves. She had noted down some recipes that she had seen on TV and actually had cooked them a couple of times. I have already tried a few recipes from the book, and this is one of them. Many more will come in due course, InShaAllah… I always wish I am a bit more organized with food plans. Umma used to be like that. She had a…
Mixed Vegetable Sagu | Karnataka Style Vegetable Stew
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #114, when Valli published the themes and I saw “Bring on The Curry!”, I picked it up right away. I struggle with making curries especially for dinner. For lunch, we have a standard rice-curry-fish-stir fry combo, that is still manageable, but for dinner, to keep the folk’s interest, it is a tough task. Anything non-veg gets accepted with gusto but when it comes to vegetarian fare, I have a roller coaster ride. I guess anybody with a carnivorous family would agree to this. So you can imagine my excitement, when I made this sagu and it got wiped up from the plate. Such a joyous moment! A sagu is a rich gravy that is very specially made in Karnataka, usually eaten with set dosa or pooris. When you go through the list of ingredients, you may figure out the richness. The coconut and…
Paneer Zucchini Halwa
I must say that I am quite happy to get back to regular blogging. In fact, this whole month was already scheduled and I have been very religiously sticking to the dates without making too much adjustments. This was something that had been lacking since the past few months now. It is not that I am in a good mood to be spending time on the blog, but somehow typing on the blog has been serving as a good “stress-buster”, instead of being a “stress-booster” like it was becoming sometime back! 😀 I hope I can keep up this pace, without necessarily burning myself out – that is the most important thing to do these days… 🙂 This paneer zucchini halwa is something that I have been making ever since I have started being on a macro diet. When you count your calories and eat, it becomes difficult…
Banana Drop Cookies
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #114 theme of “Cookies”, here is the third one after the Nankhatais and the Cocoa Cookies. I had plans to make another type of cookie for this post, however the two dying bananas in my pantry prompted me to try these cookies that I had chanced upon Dhanya’s blog. Have you ever heard about drop cookies? They are basically cookies that are scooped by a tablespoon, plopped onto a mat or tray and then baked. Now the tablespoon has been replaced by an ice-cream scoop. Hehe… However, there are many drop cookies that wouldn’t feel like one despite its appearance. They taste like cakes that have taken a cookie avatar… hehe… And these banana drop cookies come into that category… Before I go to these cookies, tell me one thing – how has this period affected you? Have you felt overwhelmed and anxious?…
Simple Cocoa Cookies
When the Blogging Marathon #114 was declared with the theme of “Cookies”, I had to include this one into the list. Those who read my blog regularly will understand how much I love food with memories. And there aren’t much of food with memories for me, since umma’s cooking repertoire was limited, but I guess that is what makes memories… Limited yet plenty… 🙂 Umma used to have a small OTG. She had got it at a very low price – I am sure you all agree how our parents were when it came to putting in their money on anything. They realized the value of money so much because it came hard for them. Sometimes, I do feel that we don’t appreciate it as much as they did. OK, that is a different discussion all together. Hehe… My sister and I would bake something or the other…
Nankhatai | Indian Ghee Cookies
It just feels good to be back to doing the two weeks of the Blogging Marathon, which is hosted by Valli and is going strong, with version 114 playing out in the current month. I was supposed to be doing two weeks last month, but then life had other plans and I had to back out at the last minute. So for this month, here are the first three posts. The theme chosen is “Kid’s Delights – Cookies”, which by the way is an event that I am hosting till mid of this month, so if you have posted any cookie recipe on your blog after June 15, please do not forget to link your post. 😉 The first one I am posting today are our very own shortbread called Nankhatais. The derivation of this name for the cookie is quite interesting. The name has its roots in…
Mango Tart
Mango season is slowly fading. At the moment, we aren’t getting any good Indian mangoes but the market is getting in some really nice Pakistani mangoes, especially the Sindhri variety. These mangoes are extremely sweet, that we ended up just eating whatever we bought. There was no time to juice them or nothing much remaining to think of making something with them. Hehe… B loves mango desserts and he asked me, “Why can’t you make something with the mangoes?” The idea of a tart had been playing in my head since a long time. Since I had almost all ingredients in my pantry, I asked my SIL to hide a couple of large mangoes, so that I could make this and tick them out of my list. 😉 With the weather getting a little uncomfortable these days, the mood to move out is clearly missing. All I did…
Kalonji Aloo | Potatoes with Nigella Seeds
The current pandemic had put a temporary stop to a few challenges and that included the AtoZ Challenge, that is hosted by Vidya and Jolly. After posting this recipe for the letter “M”, the tough times came through and taking into account the lock-down back home and non-availability of ingredients, the post for the letter “N” was moved. Finally, we had a declaration from Vidya that we could do our posts this month. During this pandemic, I decided I would cook up with what I had in my pantry – “Nigella Seeds” aka kalonji. This ingredient is actually something I rarely use in my cooking. I keep a little stock in my pantry so that I can sprinkle it into my pazhampori. I totally love the little bitterness it gives when you bite through it along with the sweet plantains. My impulse was to try Fami’s banana bread, but…
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