Kavuni Arisi Adai | Black Rice-Lentil Crepes recipe with Step by step pictures. The Indian diet by itself is very nutritious. It has the right amount of nutrients in a meal and is well balanced. It is amazing to note that all this was formulated / done thousands of years ago! Now with the changing…
Xi Fan | Chinese Porridge / Conjee
After yesterday’s Wonton Noodle Soup , I am here today with yet another dish from the Chinese Cuisine! Almost all the dishes in this blog have some story in the background and so does this one. If you love to hear it read on, else simple scroll down to the recipe 🙂 Xi Fan is what we…
Recipes with Forbidden rice – Chinese Ingredient # 1
The first ingredient to be unraveled is the Famous and mysterious Forbidden Rice. A mysterious name for an exotic rice to be precise..This black colored rice is of Chinese origin and comes from heirloom plants.The reason for it being termed ‘forbidden’ is that it was once consumed by the emperors as it was believed to…
Forbidden rice noodles Soup
One of the advantages of living in a country where everything is new and different is that you can get to cook and taste some foodstuffs that you have never seen before.A trip to the mall is the most interesting pass time for me.Each time I visit the grocery section I am in for a…
Weekend breakfast-Poor man’s food!
Porridge maybe referred to as ‘Poor man’s food’ but in our home,we call it ‘Week end breakfast’!There is story behind this – as usual!!One day when I was sick[yea with that terrible thing called ‘cold and cough’],I wasn’t hungry at all yet I needed some nourishment. My dear friend Ju had got a pack of…