A while ago, I got a couple of packs of instant soup mixes. Though I am not a fan of store bought pre-mixes, I got these for convenience sake.They came in handy when there was just a little bit of left over rice , very little appetite and the need for meal for one! And…
Rice Pakoda | Recipes with Leftover Rice
Quite some time back, when the kids returned from school, they wanted some crisp munchies and that too as fast as I could make them!! Usually, they either have rice with some accompaniment or tiffin like dosa / chapathi depending on what I packed for lunch. If it was rice for lunch, then it will…
Spiced Quinoa Chickpea Pilaf
Since Quinoa is relatively a new ingredient in our household, some of the dishes made with it were accepted without any complaint. Sometimes, they didn’t even know what went into a dish! At times, when the main ingredient – Quinoa was present in its fullest glory, the acceptance level came down a bit.This happened in…
Vegan Quinoa Chocolate Pudding
The next dish that I made with Quinoa is this delicious pudding. We are in the middle of Week 4 in the Mega Blogging Marathon #68 themed Cooking Carnival., and this week I am experimenting with Quinoa as I have chosen to feature this ingredient for the entire week. The dessert is so easy to…
Vegetable Sevai |South Indian Style Rice Noodles with Vegetables
When I started this blog, I wanted to write down the recipes that triggered a lot of childhood memories. I love to walk through the memory lane and that’s exactly the theme that was chosen for Recipe Redux this month! First Cooking Recollections Stir up some of your earliest culinary recollections. Did you stand at…