The feeling of emptiness is a real tough one. After having a chirping noisy house for the past one month, and a back breaking crazy sessions over the past 12 days, my house is empty. Yesterday afternoon, my kids left for their vacation along with my parents and then at night, my sister and her son bid farewell. It felt all too soon… The house looked so deserted, with everything just left as it is. Today, I have to slowly start putting things in place and make the house look like how it did before. I am looking at the whole thing positively. Last year, my kids and I were apart for more than 5 weeks, but this time, it is shorter. I will be travelling by month end, and it’s not that far away. Moreover, it’s a good time to get back to my routine. The past…
Mutta Urapichathu | Paal Mutta Urapichathu ~ Malabar Egg Pudding
Malabar is the home of so many delicacies, that are slowly moving into oblivion. I am trying my level best to collect, try and post as much as recipes I can, but I believe I am so lazy to work on especially the recipes that need some level of hard work. 🙁 So at the moment I am trying to concentrate and do more of the easy ones, and InShaAllah, as time goes, I will get onto the easier ones. But my task is clear – get in as much as our traditional food on this blog as I can. I got this recipe from a group, and why wouldn’t it attract my attention? I love egg based desserts and this sounded so easy. Most of the desserts in Malabar are steamed or cooked on low flame, like the polas – check out the carrot pola, podi pola…
Kinnathappam ~ Malabar Jaggery Egg Pudding
I was really happy when Remya approached me for a guest post. I must admit that she is one of the simplest characters I have come across in blogging. No frills attached, and I literally mean it. She is a person of few words, though I love that she is very frank with her comments on the blog. She comments on almost all my blog posts and that too very generously. I must admit that because of this character, I have a little soft corner to this beautiful lady! I wanted to make something traditional for Remya and I sincerely appreciate her patience to wait for almost three months to decide what to make for her. In our area, “Kinnathappam” is usually an egg based pudding, though in majority of Kerala, this name is used for a cake like disc made of ground rice and other ingredients, made either sweet or savory. I searched…
Mango Entremet
Food blogging opens up a lot of avenues which I would have otherwise never ever tried… Maybe that is one reason why I love blogging – it helps me get over a lot of my fears and become more confident with my cooking and baking skills…. The idea of entremet would have never come into my head, had it not been this post. I am a member of a wonderful group called Fondbites, which is a bake along every week. The mastermind of the group, Suhasini keeps coming up with wonderful bakes every week and it is amazing how everybody so enthusiastically participates! If you are keen, you could hope into the FB page and join in! There is no compulsion to bake, however seeing the bake alongs she comes up with, you will be automatically tempted to! Hehe… I have been slow in baking since I am trying…
Kaayayum Muttayum ~ Plaintains with Scrambled Eggs
There is something magical in the word “Alhamdulillah”. We, as Muslims, are to remember His name in whatever circumstance and “Alhamdulillah” basically means “By the Grace of Allah“. One of the major tenets of our faith is belief in Qadr (destiny). Whatever happens in our life, good or bad, does not happen without His Knowledge. Whatever happens does happen for our good. If He gives us something or snatches away something, we are not so intelligent to understand the wisdom behind it, but InShaAllah, time will tend to prove and it needs patience. I have always noticed that at times when I feel mentally down and somebody asks me “How are you?”, I say “Alhamdulillah” and a very strange calmness encompasses my mind. Somehow, that mood disappears and I feel that there is someone above who is going to take care of my insecurities. Definitely, it is one of the…
Blini ~ Russian Pancakes
This month, as a part of the International Food Challenge, our host Sara bought us some delicious Russian cuisine along. Russia is a country that we have learned so much about in our history classes, from how once it used to be called USSR, and the split, and so on and so forth… believe me, I would not like to sound like a history teacher now! When I say history, I just remembered my teacher back in school. I used to be the only one wide awake in her class, while everybody used to sleep, since I used to love history and was never able to understand how all others could hate it! Hehe… Due to this reason, I was her favorite till I completed school – obviously! From the list provided, as usual, I went for something that was really easy to make. These Russian pancakes, called…
Kaipola ~ Malabar Plantain Egg Cake
Ramadan 10, it is today in this part of the world! So quick… days seem to be flying and I am feeling really worried if I am able to take full advantage of this month. In whichever way I can, I am trying but there is always a feeling that you could do something better… The climate here is hot, though not at its peak as of yet, which is such a relief! Temperatures in the afternoons show around 44 to 46 degrees, which is like a tad lower than the projected 48 to 50 degrees. My heart goes out to those people who complete their fasts working outside directly in the hot son. May Allah accept their fasts and make their faith strong and steadfast… Aameen…. The second guest post this Ramadan after Lubna’s at the beginning of Ramadan… Lail’s With a Spin is a space that I look up to…