I think when the head feels empty, the best thing to do is to write about the weather. 😉 I love the month of October for that change in the feel that comes with the month. The transition from the harsh summers to the cold winters is always the best time – for long rides, for outdoor dining or chai sessions, for beach time, or for simply feeling lazy! The only thing I can’t stand is the longer nights. Somehow, light makes me feel active. I feel like I can accomplish and complete more tasks during the morning hours. But as soon as the sun sets and darkness hits in, I go on switch-off mode. During winters, that mode is longer and quite tough to manage as well. I hope I can be a little more steady this year, even though I am not very positive about it… Hehe……
Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream
I think when we say “no cook”, then ice cream is something that comes into our head immediately. With the advent of the whipping cream – condensed milk formulation, making ice cream at home in various variants have becomes such a breeze. However, it has been really long since I have made some at home. It is mainly because I fear I would sit and eat through the whole batch myself – please do not judge! 😉 I had no second doubts about including this double delicious Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream while planning my posts for this week’s Blogging Marathon #117 theme “No-cook Recipes” – the other two being Gazpacho and Mortadella Sandwich. Just like the name suggests, this ice cream is totally dominated by the flavor of Nutella, intermittently cut in by the crunchy peanut butter. In fact, I actually made this ice cream to finish…
Butter Souffle
We are in the last quarter of 2020. I am just wondering, how we all were so looking forward to this year to make things better, and then it entangles all of our lives in some way or the other, thanks for something that is not even visible to the bare eye. When we are told to recite the Ayatul Kursi at major junctions of our day, whether it is early morning, after prayers, when dusk strikes or while we retire for the day, we are reminding ourselves how powerful Allah is. Maybe just pondering over it than reciting through it can really help us focus on one day at a time, and not stress ourselves about tomorrow… This is more of a lesson for me, then all of you… 🙂 “Allah, there is no god but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or…
Peanut Butter Cake
Just like Nutella and Biscoff, I have a jar of peanut butter in my pantry at any given point of time. Azza isn’t a fan of it, but Rasha loves peanut butter on her toast and sometimes by the spoonful. Therefore it features in the school lunch box once in a week, though Azza gets Nutella on her toast, so that I can avoid the frown face. Hehe… I am usually not a very accommodating ummi, but sometimes you are forced to put aside your rigidness just for some peace of mind… 😉 I totally love them in this breakfast smoothie, which is an amazing on-the-go breakfast, and these sandwiches as well. If you are wondering why I am starting off with a peanut butter lecture, then that’s because today’s post is for the AtoZ Challenge, hosted by Vidya and Jolly, and the letter of the month is…
Magic Cookie Bars
How does it feel when your teeth digs into something that has several layers of goodness and deliciousness in it? That is exactly what I felt when I bit into one slice of these heavenly Magic Cookie Bars. When you bite in, you won’t believe how simple this dessert was. A lot of crushing and chopping, sprinkling and then baking gets you something that is totally irresistible. I don’t know how else to describe these squares of yumminess… For this month’s Shh Cooking Secretly Challenge, the theme is “Chocolate” and it was suggested by none other than our hostess, Mayuriji. If it is something that is very close to my heart, I don’t think twice before jumping in. 😉 I was paired with Archanaji, with whom I am coordinating for this challenge for the first time. We are already connected through the Blogging Marathon posts, however our interactions…
Ada Pradhaman
Onam may be a religious festival for the Hindus of Kerala, however for the rest of us, it is all about viewing the beautiful pookalams in front of our Hindu friends’ houses, beautifully clad girls and ladies and then the highlight – the meal on the banana leaf, called the Onasadya (ഓണസദ്യ). My memories about these sadyas during childhood is what we used to have from my uncle who was the member of the Indian Association during those times and he would get passes for all of us for the Onam celebrations. We would so excitedly wait for that day. It isn’t easy cooking up the whole meal at home, so we would wait for the day. Once the day is over, all we would want is to have a good nap, after eating all the food and drinking as much as payasam we can afford to drink….
Mixed Vegetable Sagu | Karnataka Style Vegetable Stew
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #114, when Valli published the themes and I saw “Bring on The Curry!”, I picked it up right away. I struggle with making curries especially for dinner. For lunch, we have a standard rice-curry-fish-stir fry combo, that is still manageable, but for dinner, to keep the folk’s interest, it is a tough task. Anything non-veg gets accepted with gusto but when it comes to vegetarian fare, I have a roller coaster ride. I guess anybody with a carnivorous family would agree to this. So you can imagine my excitement, when I made this sagu and it got wiped up from the plate. Such a joyous moment! A sagu is a rich gravy that is very specially made in Karnataka, usually eaten with set dosa or pooris. When you go through the list of ingredients, you may figure out the richness. The coconut and…
Madhura Chatti Pathiri | Sweet Chatti Pathal {The Cheat Version}
During the poll on my Instagram profile, after the Bread Kunafa, this recipe garnered the second highest number of votes. A “chatti pathiri” is Malabar’s answer to the Italian lasagna. I already have the savory version on the blog, which is made of crepes, layered with delicious chicken filling, and cooked on stove top till it looks like a beautiful layered cake. Since we don’t have the chatti pathiri in the area I belong to, it came into our family when umma learned it from one of her Kannur friends. She loves making it so much that it repeats on our tea time menus when she runs out of ideas. Hehe… However, the first time I had the sweet version was after I got married. More than the savory version, I would be served the sweet version when I had visited his relatives places as a “puthupenn”. I…
Kadala Parippu Pola | Kadalakka Pola ~ Malabar Chickpea Lentil Egg Cake
Everyone has this habit of making some sort of snacks during Iftar time. In our home, we try not to do it frequently. This year, since my brother’s family is with us, both of us try to experiment something or the other, but in limited quantities, so that there is something to eat for chai time, but not too much to be really heavy. Hehe… But we are always looking to make dishes that are not very time consuming and can be made in no time. So from today, I am scheduling three back-to-back easy snacks that you can make for your family for Iftar time, without spending too much time in the kitchen. I guess that does sound appealing… 🙂 Malabar has its own big share of interesting snacks. Even though I am not aware of majority of it, I have tried to cover all that I…
Easy Jackfruit Cake
Jackfruit is not a fruit that is my favorite. I somehow don’t seem to like it. It wasn’t like that all the time. There was a time I used to hog on jackfruit. My mattamma – umma’s mom – has a few huge jackfruit trees in her yard that yeilds so many fruits every year, MaShaAllah. However, off late, it hasn’t been able to, maybe due to its old age or likely even bad eye. Hehe… When we were in school, our home visits were limited to once in two years. I always wonder what it felt like being home without doing much, and I can hardly remember anything. Nowadays, kids are actually pampered with visits every now and then. I have been trying to see if we can defer plans every year, but there would be something or the other, and we would have to go. This year…
Zucchini Dates Muffins
Sometimes I feel like thanking the Westerners for classifying muffins and cakes as breakfast. It makes our life so much easier. 😀 I mean, would our mothers ever agree to eating cake as breakfast? No way! But then with ways of incorporating all kind of “healthy” ingredients into your cakes, you can very well have a delicious baked breakfast. I have a few lovely bakes that I had made specifically for breakfast, like these Apple Flax Muffins and the Blueberry French Toast, among what I can remember. So when I was considering making something with egg as my breakfast – because eggs are default breakfast material for me since very long – I remembered these muffins I baked recently, which can easily be eaten for breakfast since it has a lot of goodness in it. So after the simple Jam and Cheese Sandwich and the Upma, here is a…
Gajar Halwa Trifle | Fusion Trifle
It is the season of carrots now. When it gets cold, the market gets flooded with the orange Australian carrots and the red Pakistani carrots. There is nothing like eating a warm plate of gajar ka halwa when the weather is at its chilled best, isn’t it? Everybody I am seeing around are making heaps and storing in their fridge, to take out little, heat it and enjoy it in this weather. However, knowing me, I am refraining from doing that, since I can end up eating a big batch in one sitting and then regret doing it. This phenomenon is called “binge eating” and I suffer from it. 😀 As I have been a bit more active on my Instagram handle, I have decided to participate in story hops or challenges that may come up while collaborating with other fellow bloggers. Yesterday, I participated in an interesting…
Honey Kiwi Walnut Salad
I literally feel like I finished an assignment right before the deadline. Hehe… Before that, a quick look into the scenes out here. We have had an awesomely wet weekend, with heavy rains, that caused total water clogging in most of the parts of the city. On Friday, we took a drive towards the outskirts and seriously enjoyed the rains. However, on Saturday, it caused a lot of trouble, but that comes with the enjoyment, isn’t it? The girls had their madrassa closed yesterday, and have their schools off today, so they are pretty excited about what the rains have offered them. 🙂 The rains are expected to be on and off for this whole week. Thankfully, slowly it is feeling like winter, and I hope this chill stays well till March or April. It’s been long since I have participated in the AtoZ Recipe Challenge hosted by…
“Mouthful” Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
I had scheduled the last two posts before I left. I went for four days home for my TMJ appointment and then a little wedding in the family. I am usually not someone who attends weddings. Our family is huge and there are wedding happening every now and then. It definitely isn’t pocket friendly to be attending all of them, so I always attend those that come within my usual annual holiday scope. But this one was such that I had to attend. When D informed us about elappa’s daughter’s marriage, I checked my dates and realized that my appointment would come around that time. I clubbed both and took leave. Everything went well, Alhamdulillah. The atmosphere was bitter sweet, thick with grief yet a general relief that she got an alliance that her father had wished for her. I have to say those days were emotionally draining but…
Goji Berry Breakfast Cookies
If anybody enters my kitchen, they will think they have entered an office. I have a white board on the side of my fridge with full of scribbling, a cork board on one of my cupboard doors with lots of cut outs pinned to it and a sticker hanger with even more papers clipped onto it. Anyone new who comes gives a very curious look at them to see what I have spread on them. Obviously, they are recipe printouts and cut outs that I pin up so that I try immediately. That “immediately” has no specific time frame – it can be a week, a month or even years. But I must say that this recipe I am posting today didn’t have to wait indefinitely to be tried, thanks to the Bake-a-thon. 😀 I mentioned about receiving a small pack of goji berries from Zerin, while I…
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