Soft and fluffy Spanish style omelette, with beautifully fried potatoes and seasoned perfectly… Last week, I was just looking myself in the mirror. I started this year positively, looking forward to it and in a decent shape that I was really happy about. Slowly as the year passed by and things got wrecked up, I allowed myself to get entangled in the mess. I can conveniently say that the mess got onto me, but no, I would like to take responsibility for it. The lockdown, the work stress, and then Covid, the hot summers, the lonely times and then I don’t know where I let the rope that I was so tightly holding onto slip off my hands. I have conveniently put on a lot of weight, and I have to entirely blame it on myself for leaning onto food when I needed solace. There is one problem…
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…
Orange Cranberry Scones
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…
Mangalore Buns ~ Mangalore Banana Deep Fried Bread
If there is anything positive that I would like to look into the current situation, then it would be how well the blog is doing, Alhamdulillah. Post the mid of February, mine was a sleepy place with hardly 500-600 hits but post that time, the blog has been so much well, much to my surprise. I do get one thing – all of us are now cooking at home. All of us are trying to cook meals that are simple, that use up ingredients that are in our pantry and that don’t blow our pocket. Alhamdulillah, I am glad that majority of the recipes on the blog are simple and easy to make. It basically shows what a lazy being I am, but also makes me realize that we all want quick fixes that our family will like and eat. All your hits and views mean a lot to…
Turkish Eggs | Cilbir
This week, the posts are all very recent. Just like the Jackfruit Cake, this recipe has also jumped and come ahead fast. There is a reason for it. Off late, I have been seeing some bloggers make their versions of the Turkish eggs. OK, so you must be wondering what are they? The Turks have a deliciously out-of-the-box way of serving eggs for breakfast or brunch. The dish is called as “Cilbir”. It is basically poached eggs, served on top of flavored thick yogurt and drizzled with spiced oil. If you are wondering in your mind “What a combination is that!”, then I was on your same boat till I personally made it and got hooked onto it forever! The recipe is very straightforward. The yogurt that will form the base, is mixed with some minced garlic and herbs of your choice. It can be the more Turkish…
Oats Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
March has been so hectic and overwhelming, to say the least. The Covid 19 pandemic has spread such havoc that it has disturbed all lives from the rich to the poor, turning everything upside down. I don’t think I need to mention how the overall mood is at the moment. As much as our normal daily schedules have been hit, things aren’t looking good anyway. The overall economy movements are going to affect everybody’s personal finances and that doesn’t spare us either. But we are just trying to keep calm and hope that everything will pass, just like all our previous tests from the Almighty has gone off. Maybe, it is a reminder from the above that there is some force that is beyond our imagination, and all of a sudden, human beings are feeling helpless. I only pray that this test passes away as soon as possible, and…
Zucchini Dates Muffins
Sometimes I feel like thanking the Westerners for classifying muffins and cakes as breakfast. It makes our life so much easier. 😀 I mean, would our mothers ever agree to eating cake as breakfast? No way! But then with ways of incorporating all kind of “healthy” ingredients into your cakes, you can very well have a delicious baked breakfast. I have a few lovely bakes that I had made specifically for breakfast, like these Apple Flax Muffins and the Blueberry French Toast, among what I can remember. So when I was considering making something with egg as my breakfast – because eggs are default breakfast material for me since very long – I remembered these muffins I baked recently, which can easily be eaten for breakfast since it has a lot of goodness in it. So after the simple Jam and Cheese Sandwich and the Upma, here is a…
Upma | Easy Rava Upma
As the second recipe for this week’s theme of “Breakfast” in the Blogging Marathon #110, I have chosen to make a recipe, that is considered to be very simple but can drive you up the wall! Please let me know if you agree or disagree. 😀 Upma is considered to be one of the easiest breakfast dish that can be prepared in no time. Being a basic recipe, I have always struggled to make it the way I like it. In fact, I have a “love-hate” relationship with this dish. I never liked upma when umma would make it for breakfast. Hers is usually a little dry and used to get stuck in the throat. Each time I would see her large kadai with a lid on the stove top when I would walk the kitchen, the frown would start from the heart to the face. Hehe… It…
Jam and Cheese Sandwich
For the second week of the Blogging Marathon #110, I have chosen the theme of “Breakfasts”. Even though everybody would say that breakfast is the most required meal for the day, I am really not a breakfast person. I can’t eat really early in to the morning, neither can I have a heavy meal. Hehe… You can find some easy breakfast recipes already on the blog over here. Adding three more to it… Bread sandwiches are a repeat for my kids’ lunch boxes. They love bread, and they love it with any spread. Nutella and Biscoff is always welcome, and Rasha prefers peanut butter over jam and Azza is viceversa. I am someone who doesn’t like to have jam on its own. Either it needs to have thin slice of cold butter in it (are you salivating? I am!) or a nice slather of cheese. The saltiness of…
Mutta Omelet ~ Malabar Spicy Egg Omelette | Kerala Masala Omelette
It feels like it has been ages since I participated in the Fantastical Food Fight which is hosted by Sarah. When this month’s theme was declared, I had to be a part of it. It seems the month of January is “National Omelet Month” in the USA and therefore the theme has to be related to it – omelettes! Now, how easy can that be! When eggs are a staple of your breakfast day in and day out, thanks for it being a powerhouse of good protein and fat, then making something for this theme is a very easy task, isn’t it? 🙂 If there is one food that makes HD happy at any time, then it is a sunny side up or an omelette. He would really love our style of omelette with onion, tomatoes and loads of bite, however I, being a lazy-head, always resort to…
“Mouthful” Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
I had scheduled the last two posts before I left. I went for four days home for my TMJ appointment and then a little wedding in the family. I am usually not someone who attends weddings. Our family is huge and there are wedding happening every now and then. It definitely isn’t pocket friendly to be attending all of them, so I always attend those that come within my usual annual holiday scope. But this one was such that I had to attend. When D informed us about elappa’s daughter’s marriage, I checked my dates and realized that my appointment would come around that time. I clubbed both and took leave. Everything went well, Alhamdulillah. The atmosphere was bitter sweet, thick with grief yet a general relief that she got an alliance that her father had wished for her. I have to say those days were emotionally draining but…
Gluten Free Banana Muffins | Using Chickpea Flour
One of the ideas I had for this year’s Bake-a-thon was to bake with a gluten-free flour. When you aren’t known for any food allergies, then the ingredients usually associated with allergens will be a regular part of our cooking and hence the other adjustments are rarely tested. There are very few gluten free recipes on the blog, and I would like to experiment more on them. However, with the way taste-buds are varying within my folks, I prefer not to experiment too much these days. Most of the time, even with little portions I struggle to finish them. 🙁 I had mentioned in the vanilla muffins post that those muffins were baked to compensate for the adult flavor muffins I had baked earlier. These were the muffins in question. I have always been intrigued by how chickpea flour or besan would taste in a sweet bake. After…
Eggless Apple Walnut Scones
Bake-a-thon is a yearly baking series headed by Valli during December and I have been a part of it for the past two years. There will be a total of 13 baking recipes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday till the month ends. Since the last post was more related to the UAE National Day, I thought I would rather move the details of the series in this post. 😀 You can find all the posts related to the previous years here. While the first year, I did random posts out of the burgeoning drafts, I focused on chocolate bakes last year, and this year, I am doing based on the theme of individual servings. Just like the Khameer I posted as the first one… As soon as I had started jotting out my posts for this series, I wanted to bake a scone, and somehow it had to…
Khameer | Emirati Yeasted Flatbread
This month, three days of the week, you will see posts related to the Bake-a-thon. This is a baking event that is conducted by Valli every year. I think I will leave more details in the next post, while today, I will celebrate the birthday of the country that gives our bread and butter… Every year, I have made it a point that I do a post for this day. December 2 was the day when this country was declared in its current known state. The country today completes 48 years of existence. We all know how much the young country called UAE, despite its diminutive area, has managed to come to the top of the world, due to its exemplary leadership, swift development and enthusiasm to soak in new technologies and innovation. 2019 was celebrated as the Year of Tolerance and through out the year, there were…
Parantha | Lachha Paratha ~ Indian Leavened Flatbread
I start this post with a heavy heart. I initiated the Muslim Food Blogger Challenge three years ago with this post. The declaration of the challenge was met with a lot of enthusiasm. With some mini breaks in between, we managed to keep up the challenge going. However, with priorities changing and dwindling participation, I had to take a call to end this series. Of course, it may revive back in case anybody is ready to take it up in the group, but knowing that times are tough and blogging is always the last priority, I felt it was a better time to give this challenge a halt, rather than waiting for it to demise on its own. 🙂 Just like all our previous anniversary challenges, we would be repeating all the themes done for the past one year. Below were the themes and the posts I had…
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