Holi is incomplete without Thandai (Spiced Almond Milk)! Don't you agree with me? As a child I hated Thandai. I thought the spice hit was too much and would get angry with the trickling sensation saying 'my throat is hurting' but then that was when I was a child, as I grew up and discovered the things that could be mixed with Thandai (*wink wink*) my opinion of Thandai changed and I started falling in love with it. Thandai is a milk based drink made with dry fruits … [Read more...]
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Weekly Menu : 10 Tips to Manage Weekly Meals
10 tips to manage weekly meals! What to keep in mind while buying, how to prep and how to plan for those dreaded "I couldn't cook days"! A post which helps you manage weekly meals and makes life easier! So you guys have been following the weekly menus posted here for sometime now and many of you have written to me saying how helpful they have been. At the same time, so many say they are still grappling with streamlining it, with how to plan and what to do when the … [Read more...]
Five Ways to Involve Kids In the Kitchen This Xmas
5 ways to involve kids in the kitchen this Xmas, to have them set the menu, cook with you and more. This Xmas make it all about family activities! I love the idea of kids in kitchen. Besides a fun thing to do. It is a life skill that I strongly believe that should be passed on kids (and I mean boys and girls alike). I have been taking cooking and baking classes for kids for some years now and it's always delightful to work with them and look at the stuff you have been cooking for from an … [Read more...]
Menu of the Week 20th July & Recipe Links
Menu of the Week and some recipe links for your weekly planning! So lots of you wrote in saying they would love to see my menu of the week on the blog with recipe links. So this week on wards, every Sunday evening, I will post the menu of the week here along with as many recipe links as possible. Some from my blog and some from others and hopefully I will get around posting more and more recipes which are missing. So here are the recipe links/notes. Rocket … [Read more...]
White Chocolate & Nutella Truffles and being Featured in Cosmopolitan
White Chocolate & Nutella Truffles with a hint of chilli is a perfect dessert serve! Delicious and yummy! I am usually not a person who makes a lot of chocolates. Cooking with chocolate at home is mostly about baking. I have indeed tried by hands at truffles (this whilte chocolate and nutella truffles as well) before and everyone in the family loved it. Somehow I never went back to baking them. But for the past sometime, O had been asking me "mumma lets make some … [Read more...]
MEC Potato Feast & Event Roundup
A delightful event roundup of the MEC Potato Feast which was held on my blog last month! The humble potato, an ingredient which can be twisted as you wish. Potato was the theme of MEC Potato Feast that I held last month. Here is the lovely roundup with some lip smacking dishes. Sravani of Srav's Culinary Concepts send a yummy Indian Style Potato Corn salad masalas coated in olive oil a perfect fusion dish. Next up we have sweet potato and cheese pie from Richa of … [Read more...]
Bateta nu Shaak – Step by Step Recipe
A step by step recipe to make Bateta nu Shaak (Potato Curry made Gujarati style) in the Microwave! I first heard of this dish in a Tarla Dalal cook book and came across it again in a microwave cook book by her. It is apparently a Gujarati dish, basically potatoes cooked in tomatoes and spices. Sounded interesting enough to try and with MEC - Potato Feast happening, I felt its the right time to make it. So let me take you through the step by step recipe today. Peel and dice around 5 medium … [Read more...]
Baking Basics Part 1 – The Right Oven
Baking Basics - Part 1 of my baking series, which I plan to do on the blog! The first one is on selecting the right type of oven! Baking Basics Part 1 - The Right Oven. Types of oven available in the market and which one could be right for you. Considering lot of my posts and recipe are about baking on this blog and baking is what really my love is, it is not surprising that I get a lot of questions about baking in emails and FB messages these days :) There are a … [Read more...]
Potato Cheese Rolls & BM6.2 Post 2
Potato cheese rolls - The perfect dish which can serve as a starter or evening snack idea! Potato and cheese combination is pretty amazing, isn't it? There are very few ways in which my son eats potato and this potato cheese rolls is one of them. Not that potatoes are something to be missed in life but kids could do with some starch. Also, I think potato is a vegetable which gets more bad press than it deserves. I had seen these potato cheese rolls long ago in a Sanjeev … [Read more...]