How To Preserve Homemade Tomato Onion Paste In our hectic life style,we often need to look out for ways to make life simpler. One place that we need shortcuts is in the kitchen.Today’s tip is very helpful to make gravy/ curry or dal at the drop of a hat, well almost. Most of out gravies/dals and curries…
Homemade Curd / Yogurt
I can never imagine a meal without curd.Sometimes I can even use it as a side dish for breakfast/ dinner dishes if there is nothing else available.And as for the cooling raitas prepared with the curds, I can eat it as a meal. My love for curd is so much that I have a separate…
How To Brew / Prepare South Indian Filter Coffee
For most of us South Indians, the day does not begin until we have our morning cup of coffee. Not just any coffee,it must be a ‘filter coffee’ Frothy and piping hot, this coffee rejuvenates us and makes it easier to start the day on an energetic dose. Popularly known as Filter Kaapi,it is really an art…
How To Freeze Coconut
Living in the orient had lead me to adopt some methods that I would normally never use if I was in India. One such method is freezing coconut. Having lived in a land where fresh coconut is abundant and almost each and every household has at least a couple of coconut trees, it was a…
How To Blanch Almonds In The Microwave
Today we start the second group of the 10th edition of Blogging Marathon, initiated by Srivalli of Cooking for all Seasons and Spicing your Life fame…For this edition I have chosen the theme – Preps and Preserves where I will be sharing recipes / notes on dishes/ preparations that can be made ahead of the…