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…
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 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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Sindhi Murg Biriyani | Sindh Style Chicken Biriyani
It’s been ages since I have done a book review. I haven’t been really in a mood for cooking for a long while now and I am constantly fighting my moods. I am actually trying to protect my drafts by doing more themes and trying new recipes, though to complete those have also been a struggle. As has been the practise for the past two years, I have been slowing down and not posting when I am really not in a mood, because then it seems to reflect on the blog as well. 🙂 This book review has been moved at least four times this year. I started off by scheduling it in January and finally, Alhamdulillah, this month it appears! I am just hoping that this start will put in forth a little push to dig in through my cookbooks and start trying something from them. I am…
Simple Chicken Broast | Fried Chicken
Some recipes take a lot of time to try, and one of them is definitely the Broast Chicken. This is going to be the third recipe in the three back-to-back comfort junk food, after the Mashed Potatoes and Mushroom Sauce. A broast chicken is nothing but a fried chicken which has an additional layer of coating on it, with the skin or without. Living in the UAE makes you spoiled for so much choices that is not limited to the KFC. If you ask me my favorite broast chicken here, I would say it is the Texas fried chicken. But frankly speaking, I am not a big fan of broast chicken, because it makes me feel very drowsy after the meal. So if given a chance, I would eat something else, hehe… I have been wanting to make broast chicken at home since a long time. But it…
Sumac Labneh Chicken
It feels like ages since I have been on this little space of mine. It wasn’t intentional. I had placed a few posts on certain dates wanting to do the posts as and when I would be able to. I had even signed up for two weeks of the Blogging Marathon. But somehow nothing went as per my plans. I ended up getting a nasty flu that toook two weeks to totally get off me. Somehow it left me totally drained physically and mentally. I have never felt this tired in a long time in my life. The irony was that I still had to work from home, since two weeks was too long a time to take a break from work in the current situation. All I can say, is that I am feeling so much better now Alhamdulillah. Sometimes, I feel that a fever or a…
Easy Haleem | Spicy Wheat Lentil Mash
I am just feeling really blank as I open this post and sit to type something. This Ramadan has been so different, that it had been initially difficult to digest but we took it in and accepted the change. Earlier this week, Lubna had bumped up her guest post on the blog, and as I read through it, I had gone back to some of the earlier posts like this Masala Aleesa I had done for her blog during one of the Ramadans. How much is Ramadan a celebration here, but had gone really sobre this time, thanks to one virus. There are a lot of matters to ponder on this. It just took a miniscule matter, that is not visible to the eye, to topple everything that we had called “normal”. We are slowly but surely adjusting to the new normal. Having said that, there are still…
Kheema Bread Pizza | Easy Bread Pizza
If there is something that my girls love, then it is pizza. I have mentioned it several times before. Of late, HD’s staff’s relative has been getting them a couple of pizza boxes for the past couple of days and we have been eating pizza for suhoor. 😀 My girls, who would otherwise not budge from their milk and cornflakes routine, were all excited to be eating pizza on empty stomach at 4 am in the morning. So I guess I don’t need to tell too much about how much they love pizza, even though their mother’s thoughts are otherwise. Hehe… So after the Kadala Pola and the spring rolls, I wanted to post my simple bread pizza which is something we make every Ramadan at least a couple of times. I like to make the topping with mince, for the main reason that it defrosts and cooks…
Easy Chicken Spring Rolls
I sincerely feel that I shouldn’t have come to this blog with such a crappy looking picture of spring rolls. Now, spring rolls is something that we all make at least once during our Iftar snacks, and many even freeze them and keep for use. I am not somebody who does that, so won’t comment on this. 🙂 This time, when B went to get grocery, I asked him to get spring roll sheets and he got such huge ones, that could be converted into tortillas. He said that he didn’t find stock of the small ones, and yes, I do empathise with him. Some goods, that we had taken for granted, have gone out in the market due to so many reasons, thanks to the Covid 19 effect. That includes food items that you would have never thought would have gone to so much demand. OK, so coming…
Dry Chicken Curry
Is there a dearth of chicken curry recipes? Surely not! I already have so many on the blog, and there are many many more that I have tried and are waiting to come up. Hehe… Why I decide to post them, is mainly because they taste different from each recipe I have tried despite having similar ingredients with just a small change in the cooking technique. That is surely an amazing characteristic when it comes to cooking. So after the Borani Banjan, here is a chicken curry that has a thick sauce and goes absolutely well with simple bread, chapathis or paratha, or a side to any dry flavorful rice like this coconut milk rice or masala choru. I have adapted this recipe from a cut-out I had pasted into my scrap book. I better not dwell around my cut-outs! There are so many of them that I…
Chicken Lollipop
At this moment, I am trying to fight my lagging spirit and keep up with everything that I would normally do. True, the future looks bleak and worrying, but at the moment, there is nothing I can do. All I can do is to tie the camel and place my trust in Allah. He is our Sustainer, He is our Provider. If He forfeits, He gives us more than He takes away from us. With the way my life has gone, I have seen it and even though a part of mine acts human by feeling low, the other side reminds me that He has always taken care of us and He will, irrespective. All I need to do is to do what I am supposed to do, and be grateful for each and everything that He is giving us… Gratefulness is the key now. When everything exposes and…
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