Yea, I know!! I am flooding this blog with a whole lot of savories! Yes, It’s all for diwali and the ‘flooding’ is to make up for the lack of diwali snacks in this little space of mine. Last weekend when I went home,I took out mom’s hand written recipe book in which she has…
Last weekend, we decided to clean our over grown garden. It was literally over flowing with herbs and weeds and it looked like a total mess. So before the herb patch got cleaned up,I collected a huge batch and kept it aside. One of the creepers – Pirandai a.k.a adamant creeper is something that I…
I have this crazy fascination of having jars of different spice mixes in my kitchen. I love to make them from the scratch and sometimes mom too makes a batch of some spice mix or the other for me. Though I have a couple of Idli podi recipes, I made this one as it is…
This is one of the best dipping sauces to go with Chinese steamed buns . Hua juan etc. There is no specific recipe as there are so many variations. This is the one that I made at home and I was really pleased with the flavors. What surprised me even more was how much Lil…
This vadai makes an excellent addition to the breakfast platter and also serves as a tasty tea time snack. I have just added a few finely chopped veggies to the regular vadai batter.The kids never knew what went into the vadai and happily munched them away…. I used: Urad dal – 1 cup Rice flour-…
