Search Results for: chicken

Philips Soupmaker Review, Roasted Tomato Soup & A Giveaway

Review of the Philips Soup Maker, a recipe of Roasted Tomato soup (with vegetables sneaked in secretly!) which is a super hit at home and giveaway. I am slightly crazy about Kitchen equipment and gadgets. They fascinate me and I love playing around with them and today I will introduce you to my latest obsession in the kitchen : Philips Soupmaker. We all love soups at home. Cold soups with crisp salad on a summer afternoon or a steaming cup of hot soup like a roasted tomato soup, with some … [Read more...]

Som Tum Mamuang : Thai Raw Mango Salad

This Raw Mango Salad has a burst of flavours: fruity, hot, sweet, sour and salty. Also, the balance of textures in this one is amazing too, the crunch of peanuts, a bit of palm sugar, the fried onions - you’ll never want to stop eating it! There was a time when raw mangoes were a seasonal affair, one would wait for them to hit the market early April to make chutneys, dals and more. But these days I see them in the market throughout the year. Though it makes me wonder a bit about what … [Read more...]

Weekly Menu : WW0216

Our weekly menu for this week with some healthy choices! And with the second working week of 2016 upon us, the healthy choices and better eating is in all our plans. Here is a weekly menu which will help you achieve the same. Printable copy & recipe links available in the post. Click to read! Printable Copy available for download here Recipe Links: Horse Gram Curry Green Chutney Masala Baath Tomato Saar Masala Cookies Egg Kothu … [Read more...]

Leek Mushroom & Lemon Risotto

Leek Mushroom & Lemon Risotto is an Italian dish which is deceptively simple and tastes so yummy! Risotto is a very popular Italian rice dish made with a short to medium grained and plump rice. This rice is high in starch content. It is one of those dishes where the star of the dish is its simplicity. Risotto draws its brilliance from a good rice cooked in a vegetable/chicken stock along with some vegetables. The most common rice is Arborio, but our idly rice works as well, if you ask me. … [Read more...]

Kaiseki Meal at Edo, ITC Gardenia

My experience of the Kaiseki style meal at Edo, ITC Gardenia. Edo turned 5 in December and as a part of the celebration Chef Nariyoshi Nakamura from Tokyo launched a all new menu with his signature recipes. Something which explored Japanese food beyond the fame Sushi and Sashmi, don't get me wrong I love them, but there is so much more to Japanese food. Like a Kaiseki style meal. I was lucky to be invited for an experience a Kaiseki style meal at … [Read more...]

Top Recipes & Food Memories of 2015

The year 2015 that was in recipes, meals, food books and more. Amazing food memories in the post! It's that time of the year again when the year is changing and we are all taking stock. Thinking about what we did in the year that went by and what we want to do with the coming year. For me it is also about food memories! 2015 was a good year work wise, for the blog and the consulting. It saw me back to blogging in full form with thekitchenDivas kicking off the new year. I was taking a stock … [Read more...]

Garden to Plate : Spinach Pesto

Spinach Pesto made from fresh spinach leaves is so flavorful and can be used as a dip, a spread or just as an accompaniment to any food! Some weeks ago my spinach patch at home was flourishing and yielding about 2-3 kg of spinach a week and that led to the making of this spinach pesto! There was spinach rice, palak chicken, dal palak, palak paranthas, baked spinach balls, palak chutney, palak dhokla, and of course, salads. Essentially, every meal had palak in it. Three … [Read more...]

Menu of the Week 26th October

A simple weekly menu after the Navratri celebrations! We are just about recovering from a happy Dusherra celebrations and a week of indulgence, this week we have decided to take our weekly menu a bit easy. We are totally cutting sugar and going easy on carbs. Most places you see roti and rice and that is mostly for the child and mother in law. N and I plan to have the salad, sabji, dal and protein being served. Here is the menu for this week. Some of the recipes used … [Read more...]

Menu of the Week 21st Sep and a Bloggers Block

Menu of the Week (Weekly Menu) for the 21st September! As it goes, the last post I did was the previous Monday and was a post on the weekly menu. The whole of last week went off with me thinking everyday that today I will get around writing something. A recipe that I have processed pictures of, a small cafe where I had a nice tea and quiche, a lovely Saturday brunch at Taj (isn't Saturday brunch such a good idea) sometime ago. So much to write but somehow the mind seems stuck. I am hoping the … [Read more...]