Yesterday was my elder daughter, Rasha’s sixth birthday. Feels like yesterday that the fragile little one who looked so much like her abba on birth had come into my hands as Allah’s gift. Now whoever sees her says that she is my photocopy. How the transformation, I really don’t know. Last month, at our office staff party, my colleagues were commenting that she looks like me because HD loves me a lot. Hehe… I asked him once I was back from the party, do you really??? and he had a big question mark on his face. 😉 Thanks to my leg, I could not even bake a cake for her day, even though we do not place any importance for birthdays. All I pray to the Almighty is to provide her with His bounties and protection life long….  I had promised this biriyani post when I had done the…
Chicken Pulao Biriyani
Days seem to be flying like mad. The first quarter of the year is finished and the first week of the second quarter is also completed. Isn’t that scary? Sometimes, I go home planning to do a lot of things, but then a meal, a laundry and a couple of blinks later, I realize that it is already time to put the kids off to sleep. So bye bye, goes the plans… Is it just me, or do you guys feel like that now?  Now again for a biriyani recipe today. I just love biriyani, in fact our whole family does. Every Friday, we have to make biriyani or something like pulao and chicken/ beef/ mutton, complete with a pudding or kheer/ payasam. Nothing less will suffice. Sometimes, it feels like a chore. If it does, then I just go ahead and make biriyani the pressure cooker way, which is easy…
Afghani Chicken Pulao
I have just started walking from the beginning of this week. Somehow, found my lost willpower – I guess it was in hiding between my daughters. They have been making fun of me so much that I decided to myself – that’s it!!! I’ve to do something… Coming to the fact of making fun, I was wondering – if ever I would have said something about her weight to my umma, I don’t know what I would have got from her! I wouldn’t have dare spoken to her! But today’s kids are very different. Maybe because we treat them differently. We want them to be our friends, rather than our kids, so they may be getting a feeling that anything they say would go well with us. I guess that’s why my elder one keeps taunting on my weight, even though she’s also not on the right side of the…
Malai Chicken Biriyani
This week has been an absolutely happening week – on my blog front, two back to back guest posts have really boosted my blog as well as my confidence, due the increasing number of positive comments coming by in the form of suggestions and encouragement. It is a very heartwarming thing for me, who was not expecting to be welcomed with such wide arms into this big food blogosphere. On top of that, Sajina of Saju’s Taste has given me the Leibster award!!! What more do I need? 🙂 That will be the feature for my next post… By the way, do hop onto her blog for some lipsmacking yet simple recipe ideas!  Talking otherwise, it has been a normal, or rather a stressed week. However, the excitement on my blog has covered up for everything, so now the feeling is kind of neutral, which is good!!! 🙂 The…
Pressure Cooker Chicken Biriyani
 Who does not love biriyani? I don’t think there are many who do not love to devour biriyani. But I know of many who are still scared to try biriyanis thinking that it is a very complicated dish. Even I was in that same category too. My earlier attempts landed up in “kanji” (the Malayalam word for overcooked and mashed up rice) format and it did not take time for anybody to let it down their system!!! Then I didn’t try to make biriyani at least for three years!!! Yeah, I know, that much dejected I was. I was satisfied eating it from my mom’s kitchen, my aunty’s kitchen or any restaurant but not from my hands.  Once I learned the technique of making rice properly, I slowly got the confidence of making biriyani and now, I can finish cooking biriyani in flat one hour. That easy it…
Koonthal Chorum Parippum – Squid Rice with Dal
 Some days are not meant to be the way it is meant to be. Like, for the past couple of weeks, traffic has been at its worst and reaching office and going back home has been a nightmare. I would sheepishly admit to my colleagues that more than working, it is the driving (or rather sitting in the car idle!) that is making me feel tired. Once you are home and you are late, you are definitely in no mood to do any cooking, but then you have to, so what you try is minimal cooking! :)This is my mom’s signature dish. My mom makes it to perfection and my elder daughter, Rasha loves it so much that this is the only meal that she goes for a second serving!!! I have made it a couple of times and it has turned out great, even though  I will not compare it…