How to make Karnataka Style Rice Bath | Easy Capsicum Rice Bath Recipe 'Rice Bath' is a common term used in Karnataka for dishes made with cooked leftover rice. It's a spiced rice where vegetables are added to make a nutritious and wholesome meal. The recipes differ from one family to another with many swearing by vaangi bath powder, and others using the readily available stash of sambhar ...
How to make Mushroom Makhani | Easy Mushroom Makhani Recipe It was in brief period of time, sometime in June last year when spring was fading out unhurriedly, giving itself into the summer warmth, and the temperatures were just about steadily poised in their pleasant 60s, that I felt a sudden urge, an unfounded obsession over mushrooms. I had no idea what triggered it. I must have been ...
How to make Easy Carrot Saaru, Easy Carrot Soup All through the fall, I stocked pumpkins at home in sheer keenness to make a good pumpkin soup that I could share with you all. I was amused, delighted beyond words to watch pumpkins everywhere, on market stands and home fronts, in malls and on window sills, on blog feeds and in ad mailers. Our favorite grocery stores smelled warm from pumpkin ...
How to make Paneer Makhani| Easy Restaurant Style Paneer Makhani Back in the 80’s and 90’s, the only kind of restaurants we went out to as kids were the ones that served good North Indian cuisine. A good ambiance and décor was just one factor. A commendable restaurant however, was measured by the North Indian fare it served on its menu. A simple, hot Dal Tadka that had a great smoky flavor; ...
How to make Tawa Pulao | Easy Vegetable Tawa Pulao Recipe Last month, when everyone was busy counting down days for Christmas and gearing up for year end celebrations, I was out in Pune, spending a fair share of December in a city familiarly unfamiliar to me. Familiar, because any Bangalorean can best draw similarities to this city. Its traffic, roads, breadth of the city, the weather, ...
How to make Besan wali Simla Mirch | Simla Mirch ki Subzi | Capsicum Recipe When the weather plunged low, it brought along bouts of cold, incessant sneezing and coughs that plagued our home. We fell sick in a row, taking turns to seize the bed and blanket. The bedside table saw our favorite magazines being replaced with a spread of ayurvedic tonics, amrutanjan and all kinds of inhalers ...
How to make Methi Mutter Malai Restaurant Style | Methi Mutter Malai Recipe Around the weekend, my mind scouts with ideas as I leisurely spend the day in the kitchen. The weekdays often go by unnoticed, dissolved in the hectic day at work followed by the madness of traffic and noise of city life. The usual mundanes of flurry and rush that I needn't talk about. As the weekend transpires, ...
I had a craving last noon. It was a serious one to say. A craving that cracked me crazy. In a long time I reminded myself and yearned for a morsel of it. Just a morsel that would satisfy me and feel at peace. May be it was the dreary weather or miss of my daily dose of conversation over phone with amma-appa, ever since they whisked far away to explore the greener pastures of Europe for ...
Easy Moth Dal Recipe | How to make Moth ki Dal | Matki Dal Two weeks ago there were signs of winter slowly slipping away giving their way to spring time. The snow shrank and shriveled away long ago, but the temperatures are still pitching low and below to call it the ideal spring time. Each time I look out of my window for that ray of warmth and sunshine playing its peek-a-boo, the sky ...
Uddina ambade, Medu wade or uddina wade are all practically the same. Its all about the shapes. Uddina wade / medu wade are round, donut like with a hole in the center to ensure even cooking of these fried fritters and are often served with idlis or enjoyed as is for breakfast. Uddina ambade are smaller, round shaped fried fritters made with the same ingredients, often served as a tea ...
How to make BasaLe Soppu HuLi| BasaLe Soppu Kodhel | BasaLe Soppu Sambhar Homely, rustic and vastly organic. This is the kind of comfort food we grew up eating, often made from easily available farm grown wilds and greens fetched from aunt's estate, grandma's gardens and at times home-grown. I made this dish to bring back fond memories of a part of my childhood spent in the serene small ...
It's frustrating when I have the urge to blog to keep my space brimming with recipes, yet I can't seem to make time to load my webpage even occasionally. That's how hectic the past couple of weeks have been. Crazy and way too swift to fuel this space aptly. I hope I'll be back to blogging routine soon, but till then I leave you with a nice Chilli herb bread for a lovely Sunday morning. ...
