This week, happens to be just like that week in July, where I had two back to back guest posts!!! 🙂 At the beginning of the week, it was for Avika and again now I have another blogger whose name starts with A – Ambreen!!! Is it some kind of a coincidence? I really don’t know! 🙂 When Ambreen emailed me with a request for a meat related delicacy served during Eid, I just couldn’t resist her offer. Who would be able to say “no” to the simply sweet Ambreen? Amid short notice, though I rummaged through my drafts, I was not able to find much of recipes related to mutton or beef, mainly because it is something cooked when I am really in a mood to or there is an occasion, and yes, occasions like Eid which call for some grand food! So a couple of weekends back, I made it a point to…
Pressure Cooker Chicken Biriyani – Chettinad Style
My head is literally drained these days. Must be because of the way my days are moving. Everything is moving at such a fast pace that I am not able to comprehend things properly. However, Alhamdulillah, things are good. I guess without straining myself too much for today, I will leave you all with this lovely set of rules, for you to read and ponder: All of you who frequently read this blog of mine do know how biriyani mad our family is. Fridays are not complete without a meal of biriyani. If it is not biriyani, then it has to be Neychoru with some non-vegetarian fare. A normal rice and curry meal is strictly forbidden on a Friday! Somehow, I seem to like that schedule too. Having normal food throughout the week does entail for some celebration over the weekend, right? I am always on the…
Bhatkal Biriyani
Hmmm…. again a day when I am suffering from a mental block!!! I thought I could sleep right through the day, but then I ended up waking up quite early (by my standards, that is!!!) and staring at the sleeping kids. Parents will definitely agree that there is something lovely in watching sleeping children. They look so angelish then… they must have gone off to sleep after all their mischief, but when they sleep, there is nobody in the world as cute as they are!!! 🙂 Since my head is blank with nothing much to blabber about, let me go straight to today’s recipe. Oneconfession I have to make – this is the first picture on this blog for which I am doing a touch up by myself. I do understand that my pictures are sometimes really substandard, thanks to a lot of restrictions I have. I don’t…
Kannur Chicken Biriyani
I have been featuring in a lot of guests on my blog and that is evident from the number of bloggers that have participated in my “Be My Guest” series. Through a lot of interaction, I have found some good blogger friends, one of which was Aara Sheikh, who blogs at Sweets n Spices. What attracts me to her page is her simplicity, in terms of both content and recipes. As to many other bloggers out there, one thing that really attracted me to her was her honesty to admit her mistake and withdraw from her page a picture that was not hers. Many people would just withdraw and fail to admit that they have done a mistake or they had done it unintentionally. But she had the courage to clear her name and air on a public forum, which takes a lot of courage. I salute you for that,…
Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani | Thalassery Kozhi Biriyani
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…