A delicious Kerala style chicken roast, with fiery pepper spiciness… Last weekend, I went ahead and did something I have been planning for a really long time but was always confused if it was the best time to do it. After contemplating all this time and asking Allah to guide me, I realized there is never a best time. We may have a lot of calculations and permutations, but the fact remains that nothing happens the way that you wish things would be. Only a small part can be controlled, the rest we have to leave it to the force that is not in our hand and go with the flow, InShaAllah… Today, again I seem to be sharing a recipe from my umma’s handwritten notes, immediately after sharing the Pachakkari Kurma. Hehe… I tend to make a lot of roasts, because I love to scoop up…
Pachakkari Kurma | Mixed Vegetable Kuruma
I think when the head feels empty, the best thing to do is to write about the weather. 😉 I love the month of October for that change in the feel that comes with the month. The transition from the harsh summers to the cold winters is always the best time – for long rides, for outdoor dining or chai sessions, for beach time, or for simply feeling lazy! The only thing I can’t stand is the longer nights. Somehow, light makes me feel active. I feel like I can accomplish and complete more tasks during the morning hours. But as soon as the sun sets and darkness hits in, I go on switch-off mode. During winters, that mode is longer and quite tough to manage as well. I hope I can be a little more steady this year, even though I am not very positive about it… Hehe……
Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream
I think when we say “no cook”, then ice cream is something that comes into our head immediately. With the advent of the whipping cream – condensed milk formulation, making ice cream at home in various variants have becomes such a breeze. However, it has been really long since I have made some at home. It is mainly because I fear I would sit and eat through the whole batch myself – please do not judge! 😉 I had no second doubts about including this double delicious Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream while planning my posts for this week’s Blogging Marathon #117 theme “No-cook Recipes” – the other two being Gazpacho and Mortadella Sandwich. Just like the name suggests, this ice cream is totally dominated by the flavor of Nutella, intermittently cut in by the crunchy peanut butter. In fact, I actually made this ice cream to finish…
Mortadella Sandwich
While choosing the theme of “No Cook Recipes” for this week’s Blogging Marathon #117, I was sure that I had to make this Mortadella Sandwich, that was a part of my pregnancy food when I was carrying Rasha. If you are my blog’s stable readers, you would all know how much I love food linked with stories. Hehe… This is one thing that HD used to make for me almost on a regular basis then. He hardly cooks or fixes meals these days, and I really miss it. We used to stay quite close to my office when I was carrying Rasha. We had actually shifted to make it easier for me to go for my MBA classes till I completed it, and then discovered that I was pregnant. 😀 I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I say that that year was the best year of my married life….
Easy Gazpacho | Chilled Tomato Soup
Last month, the Blogging Marathon team had their mega marathon of thalis. I wouldn’t want to talk about it, because it gives me goosebumps. I feel ashamed how lazy I am when compared to them, but secretly I envy and admire them for putting up such beautiful plates of food for their family that then ended up on their blog. The BM marathon happens two times every year, but with too much on my plate, I have never been able to participate. I am hoping maybe I can tick that off my bucket list in 2021, who knows? 😉 For the time being, let me be satisfied with two weeks of Blogging Marathon. This month is edition #117 and for this week, the theme I chose was “No Cook Recipes” and the first recipe that popped up in my mind – the Gazpacho! I have been wanting to…
Kalthappam | Cookerappam ~ Malabar Rice Cake
I never knew the dish called Kalthappam or Cookerappam till I got married. I must say that marriage to HD did open up a whole variety in food. For us, food is very limited to maybe a pazhampori, pinjiyappam and/or ullivada for snack time, and neychor and erachi curry for lunch time. We don’t even have biriyani, even though we are a part of Malabar! Our main specialty is the Pathiri and that is something that our side women can churn out whenever given the chance, though I can’t include myself in it. Hehe… Umma herself learned a lot after she came here and was staying with a Kozhikodan family, and then from the very minimal friend circle she had over here. Since we had landed during the evening during our first trip back home, we were treated to a wide range of palahaarams for chai time. Two…
Easy Chicken Biriyani
Sometimes I find it extremely difficult to start my posts. Some days, I love the flow but most of the times, my mind acts stuck and slow. I am feeling exactly that way today. Maybe when I am in a position to write more, I may jot in down. It has been more than 13 years since I have had a part of my family living with me, whether it’s my parents, and after that my brother and his family. Very soon, I am going to be without having any of them around – just the four of us. I am somehow feel odd. You get into a literal comfort zone when you have somebody of your family with you, whether it is leaving the kids at home or making meals. Life takes a little of a lazy approach, and I have been that way for a long time…
Butter Souffle
We are in the last quarter of 2020. I am just wondering, how we all were so looking forward to this year to make things better, and then it entangles all of our lives in some way or the other, thanks for something that is not even visible to the bare eye. When we are told to recite the Ayatul Kursi at major junctions of our day, whether it is early morning, after prayers, when dusk strikes or while we retire for the day, we are reminding ourselves how powerful Allah is. Maybe just pondering over it than reciting through it can really help us focus on one day at a time, and not stress ourselves about tomorrow… This is more of a lesson for me, then all of you… 🙂 “Allah, there is no god but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or…
Mexican Pozole
It is the month end and it is time for the Shh Cooking Secretly Challenge, that is hosted by Mayuriji – did you have the chance to check out her latest guest post yet? If not, then please do. 🙂 We have been doing some pretty interesting themes of late in this challenge, and I have been looking forward to participating in them, provided they were what I could cook for the family than myself. Hehe… This month, the theme is “Mexican cuisine” and it was suggested by Narmadha, who blogs at Nams Corner. She has been doing some amazing thalis this month and this special non-veg thali made me feel like I could get married again and be invited to her home. *No offense, HD* 😀 Coincidentally, she ended up being my partner for this month too. Double whammy! Hehe… We have been chatted over messenger a…
Be My Guest – Ugadela Math/ Sprouted Math Stir Fry
I am going to be a little tardy with my guest posts and book reviews from now on. I am telling myself – no keeping schedules. Hehe… It makes it easier for me to not feel pressure and I find it easier when you give a good gap and timeline for posts. So if I go kaboom with such posts in the near future, this is the reason.. 😉 So this month, we have a guest again on the last Saturday of the month. Can you believe we are in the last quarter of 2020? What a year it has been… Alhamdulillah… Anyway, coming to our guest, she is one of the seniors in blogging, as far as cooking experience is concerned. I don’t know if I have made it evident to her, but I admire her immensely. She has three grown up children who have settled themselves up,…
Soya Kheema | Vegetarian Kheema
Sometimes, while doing grocery shopping, I pick stuff at whim and then regret it later. It is even worse when they are stuff that my family just wouldn’t eat. That is what happens when I pick up soya chunks each time. When I see them on the aisle, I think, “Oh, I haven’t cooked these in a long time.” When I reach home, I will see all sour faces staring at the packet. Hehe… I have now literally stopped picking it up unless I really crave for it or have any specific plans in mind. I have a handful of soya chunks recipes on the blog: Soya Chunks Masala Soya Chunk Cutlets Soya Mince Pies Soya Masala Buns Soya is known to be a good source of protein for vegetarians, even though there are so many remarks otherwise as well. I had this pack and I was wondering…
Menemen | Turkish Scrambled Eggs
I always wonder why time runs so fast. It just doesn’t seem to wait. On a Thursday, I am excited it is weekend and before I even know, we are on a Sunday. I just tell myself that as long as there are no hassles, life is moving on a minimum and we are live and kicking, we just need to be grateful. This year seems to be all about appreciating every little thing we have and just hoping that things move along without going too low. I am just wondering at the coincidence of my tryst with Turkish cuisine being egg based. Hehe… The first one is the Cilbir, which has become my go-to weekend breakfast. I had eyed Menemen sometime back when I saw it on another blogger’s Insta page. Menemen is the Turkish style scrambled eggs, however you can keep the eggs as in Shakshouka…
Brazilian Lemonade | Brazilian Limeade
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…
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