Being a working mother with two school going children is indeed hectic. Alhamdulillah, I am fortunate that I have two of them who love to go to school and who are not very fussy (I am choosing the phrase “very fussy” because at times, they are!) with their lunch boxes. Both of them are happy if I put bread sandwich for them everyday, as if I like to give it to them. A little change from that and I will receive back some leftovers. “Why didn’t you finish your box? Didn’t you like the food?” “Ummi, the food is good, but… bread is better.” Darn! So you see, they make my life easy by only demanding bread with anything in it. By this weekend, their schools will close for their two week winter break and I am waiting for it! A good thing is that they get to spend more…
Kozhi Kurumulak Soup ~ Chicken Black Pepper Soup
Umma and I always have our dinners from outside on Thursdays. We stick to the tried and tested tastes, as umma is more bend towards her Kerala taste buds. Most of the time, we move on to eat some naadan food, like porotta, beef roast, chicken varattiyathu, etc… which normally tastes much better at a restaurant than when we make it at home! Grr… There is this little restaurant in the Nahda side of Dubai where we go at least once in a couple of months, as umma loves the food there. When we run out of ideas where to eat from, we normally jump in there. When my sister had come for a visit and we went for our dinner on a Thursday, I was really not in a mood to hog – read in between the lines as in a mood to have just diet food!!! Hehe……
Curried Carrot Soup
Even though I love soups and salads, there are hardly any recipes featured on this blog of mine. It is mainly because I don’t have a family who are really soup and salad friendly. I guess that’s with many Indian households, where salads and soups are never a part of our eating culture. Whenever we dine out, I make it a point to have soup first along with the salads, but at home, laziness drags me to not make it all for myself. I had quite a bit of carrots in the fridge and I was plain lazy one night – what a combination! I gave a call to HD, “Hmm… I am feeling lazy to cook dinner. Would some carrot soup do?” There was a long silence on the other side of the phone, before I got an affirmative reply. So excitedly, I kept browsing on my phone…
Lebanese Lentil Soup | Shorbat Adas
Some days are never meant to be the way it is to be. I had so much plans for the weekend, unfortunately everything is almost down the drains. There is no point in complaining, it is much better to take things in your way… However, I have planned a couple of things in the kitchen for sure, let me see how it works out… 🙂 Today’s recipe is a very simple soup. Actually, we are not a soup family. We hardly have soup. My umma is not very fond of it, so we hardly make it. Also in case we make it, it’s always the packs of Maggi or Knorr and never from scratch at home. This is the very first soup I have made at home and I really loved the way it tasted. The only problem that it kept getting thick when it gets cold, but that’s the…