If you have a microwave in your home, then there is no excuse of missing breakfast, isn’t it? 🙂 When I selected eggs as my “Protein Rich Ingredient” theme in the Blogging Marathon #88 – the other posts being Double Cheese Omelette and Akuri, I really wanted to try the omelette in mug, which has been doing rounds for quite some time. With the microwave oven becoming a part of almost all households, despite what all negative image it may have, we all still use it for something or the other. It makes a lot of cooking quite easy especially when you have some time constraints. I wouldn’t say that this omelette tastes as good as the one you make slowly on a frying pan, but for breakfast on the go, this is such a good option. My only advice if you are trying this is to…
Akuri ~ Parsi Scrambled Eggs
I love umma’s scrambled eggs so much that I have never tried making any other way or even trying to eat it from out. 😀 So when this month’s theme came in for the Blogging Marathon #88 and I decided on choosing egg as my “Protein Rich Ingredient”, my attention went into trying a creamy scrambled eggs, associated with the Parsi community, called “Akuri”. The name of the dish is itself very cute, isn’t it? The difference between the Egg Burji and Akuri lies in it’s basic preparation method and ingredients. The Akuri is quite spicy, with the green chililes and red chilli powder used, so if you can’t take the spice, disregard the green chilli. I actually regretted adding the only one I used. I kept biting into it, and gulping down water to tame my tongue. 😀 The main thing for your Akuri to be…
Double Cheese Omelette with Sauteed Mushrooms
I seriously needed some push and motivation to continue my blogging. Even though you can see posts appearing on my blog, there is a lot of mental struggle behind it happening. When Valli’s post on the Blogging Marathon #88 was up, I decided to let my lack of motivation get a hit and signed up for two weeks. This week, the theme is “Protein Rich Ingredients” and I chose to focus on something that I am having on a daily basis now – eggs. Eggs is one ingredient that wasn’t without a bad name until some time. Eating eggs on a daily basis was taboo, especially considered to be a source of fat and weight gain. When I had my first attempt at losing weight, which happened when Rasha was 2, I was told to eat maximum three eggs a week. When I am repeating my attempt to…
Wholewheat Buttermilk Waffles
Remember the Secret Recipe Club? I was able to participate only in very limited challenges before the club called it a day. It was a pretty saddening time for almost all participants of this amazing club, since it was a really interesting challenge and everybody who participated in it enjoyed it to the maximum. When Sarah declared on the group FB page that she would be conducting a Reunion Reveal Day for this challenge, I had to jump in, even though I wasn’t sure how I would manage the challenge in between my hectic schedule. However, knowing me, I know I wouldn’t rest till I finish the challenge off. Hehe… So finally the email arrived, I was assigned Amy’s Cooking Adventures. She and I were in different groups during the SRC times so I never got her blog. As soon as the email came, I jumped onto her…
Mango Banana Overnight Smoothie
Tenth of the month and it is time for the Muslim Food Blogger’s Challenge! This month, I decided to keep the theme really simple hoping for more participation. 🙂 The theme was breakfast… Breakfast is definitely one of the most important meal of the day. It is fuel to the body that has released itself of all the previous day food given to it for processing. Living in a country like UAE where life starts really early mainly by getting stuck in traffic for hours, most of us seem to just skip breakfast rather than trying to have it. But now I guess with changing mentalities on general health and fitness, everybody seems to be taking breakfast a little seriously. I am somebody who always carries something or the other in my bag to have it in the office, or if I don’t get the time, I would…
Aloo Poha | Batata Poha ~ Beaten Rice Flakes with Potatoes
I am feeling sad. Winter seems to be going. We had a warm weekend and being in the kitchen wasn’t really comfortable. 🙁 We have had only one big rain this whole season and that is disheartening enough. Let’s hope there will be some rains before the summers officially start. Otherwise, the weekend was good. We dropped in to see HD’s local friend’s new born at the hospital. Their hospitality is amazing – they broke my diet royally by offering me too many sweets and also sending us off with a humongous box of chocolate that I have hidden in the fridge so that the girls don’t binge eat! Yesterday, we did a simple mall trot along with some grocery and then at night, I had to struggle to finish off my tasks for the day – always happens! My idea of eating poha – called aval in…
Kayi Curry ~ Malabar Sweet Plaintain Curry
In Malabar, we cook a lot with plantains, aka kaaya, kaayi, nenthrapazham… it is known by various names. There are so many ways we recycle our ripe plantains – it becomes nirachathu, a part of paal vazhakka, a combination with kooka or semiya, tossed up with eggs or with aval or just with coconut, as a part of puttu or becoming pradhaman, and how can we forget the favorite way of many Keralites – pazhampori and if it’s for the Malabar, then it’s unnakkaaya! I guess I have noted down all the ways that I have tried them into my cooking, even though there are many more ways, which InShaAllah, I will . Every Keralite will stock up their homes with ripe plantains, mainly because they are a very handy breakfast when you don’t want to cook anything and gets transformed into a snack, for unexpected guests! Such a versatile…
Vegan Soda Waffles
Yet another weekend comes to an end. Nothing much interesting happened, except for some new trials that turned out to be good, Alhamdulillah. It is getting colder by the day, which is a good sign that the winters are on, but the only issue is that at times it does get warm all of a sudden, leaving a very uncomfortable vibe in the air. We went visiting my schoolmate who had her second child a couple of weeks ago, so the girls were excited to see the little hands and feet. 🙂 Apart from that, it was a very normal weekend, though I wouldn’t say I was able to relax as much as I would have loved to! 😀 Finally the first waffle recipe is on the blog! Hehe… this isn’t the first waffle I cooked at home. Waffles are nothing but a fancy looking pancake, or at…
Cheesecake Granola Dessert Jar
I was really thinking of posting this on V-Day but I don’t celebrate it, then why should I wait till then! 😉 This was my attempt to salvage a failed attempt at making the wobbly cotton cheesecake. It wasn’t wobbly, nor fluffy, just an awfully sweet mirror of a cheesecake. Thankfully I had made a small portion, but still didn’t want to trash it. It was then this was born. I just had a small quantity of chocolate granola left which wasn’t sufficient to make up for breakfast. That is when I layered them into a glass bottle, stored it in the fridge for it to settle and had it as dessert. It was amazing. The cheesecake and granola paired so well, though I was a bit doubtful initially. Moreover, they looked really pretty as well. I couldn’t stop taking pictures of it… Hehe… If you…
Papaya Chia Overnight Smoothie
After the Chocolate Chia Pudding and the Laban Overnight Oats, here is the third overnight breakfast idea, for the Blogging Marathon #84 under the theme “New Year Challenges”. I have already shared an overnight smoothie recipe before. Like I mentioned in that post, an overnight smoothie is for people who want to eat oats but not in its bite format as is in most of the overnight oats. I had made this smoothie when I landed up with a papaya which was hardly sweet enough to keep in the mouth! I love papayas and each time I get a chance to eat it, I would have one whole without even sharing it! I have now one competition in the form of Rasha – I discovered her love for papaya this time when we were on vacation. She literally snatched the last piece of papaya right out of her…
Overnight Oats with Laban
For the Blogging Marathon #84 under the “New Year Challenge” theme, I had chosen to share three overnight breakfast ideas and after the Chocolate Chia pudding, here is the second one. I have a lot of overnight oats recipes on the blog already on the blog, so it feels like I am adding one more, but of late, this has been my favorite way of having overnight oats. I have no other than Fami to “blame” for bringing in me this love for laban. Laban is thick buttermilk that is available across the shelves here in the Gulf countries. It is used a lot in Arab cooking, and is awesome to have on its own. I won’t say I love laban but I have it on and off. With she sharing her smoothies made in laban on her IG handle, I decided to get a bottle to try…
Chocolate Chia Pudding
This year, I have decided to put less pressure on myself as far as blogging is concerned. Even though I still have loads in my drafts to complete, I am going to take it light. I have been wanting to do so since last year but it hasn’t happened. But this year, I am really going to concentrate on one post at a time and make it easy for me, so that I don’t loose the charm of blogging and can sustain my interest as much as I can. Let’s wait and watch out… 🙂 I am starting off with the Blogging Marathon #84 and the theme I chose was “New Year Challenges”. I am not a person who makes resolutions nor do I lecture anybody to do it too! If you are resolved at doing something, it is not necessary it needs to start with the new…
Coffee Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon rolls took a long time to grow on me. I never liked them, I really have no reason why. Almost all malls have a Cinnabon outlet here and I would walk past them covering my nose. I never liked the smell that came out of the outlet. It smells too artificial – no offense to the Cinnabon lovers out there, it’s just with me! Each time the girls would want to try, but I just would drag them away because I simply didn’t want to buy it for them. The love for cinnamon as a spice and flavor grew on me only very recently and I have to thank blogging for the same! I now love the smell of cinnamon in bakes, and at times in my tea too, but still I couldn’t get off the thought of the smell of the rolls. Hehe… I finally baked…
Brown Butter Granola
I never liked granola till I started baking them myself. What must I say, it is just pure, unadulterated joy to have them just like that, dunk in milk or mixed with yogurt! Delicious… whether it is the plain granola, the chocolate one or laced with cookie batter, it really doesn’t matter! Actually speaking, baking my own granola made me realize how delicious home made stuff can be! I guess I had already mentioned in one of my earlier posts, that my first experience with a pack of granola I picked up from the shelf was not good at all. I don’t know how I managed to finish off that stock without letting it go into the garbage! I guess it’s with everything, whether cakes, cookies or even a simple sandwich, they taste much better when done at home, considering that you know what is going into it to make…
Eggless Banana Coconut Bread
While doing a post for the Bake-a-thon 2017, I shouldn’t be leaving a banana bake! Bananas are my favorite fruit to bake with. There are so many different types of banana breads and cakes already on the blog and I feel it is never enough. I just want to keep exploring more and more. 😀 Nowadays, I tend to buy just enough bananas to eat so that I am not tempted to bake! Hehe… Once I happened to chance upon this recipe and since it had coconut in it, I had to try it. This is not the first time I have baked with the banana coconut combination – this crumb cake with the same combination was a killer that I am considering baking this one really soon, hopefully with wholemeal! So I was sure this one would be an amazing back too… I guess you can see it…