Malaysian Vegetable Pickle
You will need:Cauliflower florets – 750 gmBeans – 375 gmSmall onions – 500 gmGreen chillies – 20Pepper powder – ½ tspMustard powder – 4 tsp (remove the skin)Sugar – 100 gmWater - 4 cupsVinegar – 1...
View ArticlePrawn And Tomato Pickle
You will need:Praws – 500 gmsTomato – 250 gmPepper – ½ tspCumin – ½ tspRed chillies – 12Turmeric – 1 tspOnions – 375 gmsGarlic pods – ¼ cupGinger – ¼ cup choppedGreen chillies – 8Curry leaves – a...
View ArticleGreen Chilly Mushrooms
You will need:Mushrooms – 200 gm (sliced into two)Spring onions – 2 tbsp, chopped fineGinger – ¾ tbsp finely choppedGarlic – ¾ tbsp, finely choppedSoy sauce – 1 ½ tbsp, finely choppedVinegar – 1...
View ArticleStir Fried Vegetables
You will need:Beans – 4-5, cut diagonally and blanchedCarrots – I, cut diagonally and blanchedCauliflower – 5-6 floretsOnion – 1, cubedCapsicum – 1 cubedCashew nuts – 25-50 gmGinger – ½ tbsp, chopped...
View ArticleCheese And Onion Bread
You will need:Onion – 1, finely choppedUnsalted butter – 3 ½ tbspUnbleached white bread flour – 4 cupsDried yeast – ¼ ounceMustard powder – 1 teaspoonGrated aged cheddar cheese – 1 ½ cupsLukewarm milk...
View ArticleTiramisu Cookies
You will need:Unsalted butter – 50g (at room temperature and diced)Caster sugar – 90gEgg – 1, beatenPlain all purpose flour – 50gFor the fillingMascarpone cheese – 150g (check here for substitutes in...
View ArticleQuickie Sambar
My friends and sister have been complaining that A) I don’t post often B) I post crazy time-consuming recipes and C) That I have no common sense(Hmm!!??!! I’m not quite sure that I like complaint...
View ArticleLatha's Rasam
After two disastrous years in a hostel where a breakfast of bread soaked in cold rasam *shudder* was considered avant-garde cuisine, I went COMPLETELY off rasam, concrete (aka Upma) and bread. To this...
View ArticleChunky Butter Cookies
I love cookies! Especially home made ones. Though my weighing machine groans in silent agony each time I gobble a cookie in front of it, I cannot but give in to some devilish inner urging… every...
View ArticleOlan
The most precious memories of my childhood are of the days I spent with my Amamma and Ammacha (Grandma and Grandpa). They never failed to spoil me rotten with goodies and clothes… and a incredible kind...
View ArticleMeen Curry
My idea of comfort food is Potato Chips as appetizer, followed by Meen (fish) Curry and Rice for main course and mangosteen for dessert. Weird, no? But if I have a never-ending supply of these (and...
View ArticlePotato Masala
When we were kids we used to call this the Yellow Kootan (curry). Now we’re older, and yet none the wiser. So I’ll name this Potato Masala, just so that there are no doubts about its (debated) virtue...
View ArticleVendai Mor Kuzhambu
I have a funny way of eating my vegetables. I make the regular sabji/poriyal/upperi first, and then I dump yogurt into it, mix, taste and hog away. It makes me feel oh so sanctimonious, :D like I’m...
View ArticleThe ‘Throw-In Whatever You Can Lay Your Hands On’ Soup
I LOVE soups! Not the kind of stuff you get in the US but the Indo-Chinese version ;)When I make it at home, I just thrown in whatever I can lay my hands on, some sauce and herbs… and bam! Soup ahoy!If...
View ArticleMalai Kabab
S and K were supposed to come over for dinner today. And there I was running around like a headless chicken, because I didn’t know what I could cook that would suit both the desi and videsi palettes....
View ArticleHomemade Chocolate Fudge
My aunt makes these amazingly drool-worthy cakes and chocolates! I remember how, as kids, we used to wait for holidays just so that we could lay our hands on them.Sigh!Then many years later, my cousin...
View ArticleSemiya Uppuma
Ingredients :3 cups of vermicelli (semiya)1 onion, finely chopped1 tomato, cubed4 green chillies, finely chopped3 tsp Ginger paste2 tsp mustard2 tsp cumin seeds3 tsp Chana dalHandful of Coriandersalt...
View ArticleThakkali (Tomato) Chutney
Hostel food used to be unbearable!! Its only saving grace was the “gunpowder” and tomato chutney which we were doled out in less than generous rations. Sigh. But the nuns didn’t know they were dealing...
View ArticleMy Favourite Mallugirl's Microwave Kalakand
I’m a die-hard fan of microwave sweets! :DAnything easy and tasty is welcome. ;)And thanks to Mallugirl, my friends and I pigged out this weekend. Love ya Mallugirl!The only ‘customization’ I did was...
View ArticleChilly Chicken For Fire Eaters
Sometimes I think the only reason people come to visit me when I go home, isn’t to go huggy kissy on me but to eat Latha’s food. Sigh!But hey, who cares as long as I get to do the honors first :DThis...
View ArticleDouble Chocolate Fudge Macadamia Marble Cake
I should really have called this the 'Macadamia's Lost Her Marbles' cake. How else would you describe a cake born out of nervous energy and a craving for chocolates, nuts and everything decadent?...
View ArticleMathew Mishmash-ed!
There’s this little lady I visit online almost every other day, just to torture myself.Not because she’s a great cook (she is!!) but because she goes one notch up above the rest and displays works of...
View ArticleTriple Chocolate Caramel Cookie Bars
Etta and Preethi are coming over tomorrow and I’m SUPER excited!!! Yay! Two days isn’t enough:(But, what the hell! I can’t wait to see them again. Sigh!Preethi is MY kinda person- an unapologetic...
View ArticleCutlets... My Comfort Food ;)
It’s been SO long since I’ve posted on any of my blogs… No particular reason why. Ummmm, maybe there is, but then again… :D I guess I needed some time off.Anyway, no big deal… I guess here’s a good...
View ArticleBlueberry Buckle
Today was supposed to be a “pretend you are a sloth” day. You know… where you sit around doing nothing more strenuous than gaze at your toenails? And then I went to get some berries from the ‘fridge…...
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