HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 Wishing all my readers, friends and family and very warm, healthy and prosperous 2011!!! May the new year take away all the bad things and bring good and happy smiley things into everyone's life!!! I know I know...I have been away from the blog for a few days now....have been trying to enjoy my hols to the fullest...now that they have come to a near end and I will be home in few more hours...I shall be back in full swing (hopefully)....devoting...

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Raw Plantain Masala Fry / Aratikai Masala Vepudu

Looking to make a veg dish for your vegetarian friends, when you have already made lot of non-veg dishes? This is one easy and quick dish which you can opt for, if you already have the masala made for your non-veg dishes. I call it the 'vegetarian fish fry' , the substitution being raw plantains or bananas for the fish!....now isn't that easy?... Give it a try And I am sure you will like it and also your friends ;) The plantains cooks quickly like...

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Peanut - Mint Chutney / Palli Pudina Chutney

Hi to everyone from LA.. How is everyone doing? Well being happy that the weather here in West Coast is above 30 degrees from our home in East Coast....looks like the clouds followed us here too...Its been rainy and breezy and is going to be that way thru the weekend...great one!...humph...ya great! Anyways...while I am here and on somewhat cooking break...will try to post from my backlog and drafts whenever I can.... Here is one such post...a wonderful...

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Mixed Vegetable stew with Paneer

Here is a wholesome and easy dish to make for a cold wintery day...I made this dish couple of weeks back for few guests who came home for dinner! The versatility of this dish is that you can add a many veggies of as few as you want. I even added paneer to give it some richness! This dish can be enjoyed with rotis, naans or even fried rice or biryani or just plain white rice. I used fresh veggies but if you want to substitute any of then with...

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Few Awards to share with you guys!! and a few thoughts!

Howz winter treating you all?...howz the shopping going?...howz planning for the upcoming holidays coming along?....howz planning for the NEW YEAR coming along? Anyone travelling for the holidays?....and the big question of all WHATS COOKING??? OKOK done with my questions....on to what I really want to say.... I want to first Thank all of you guys who visit my blog regularly and enjoy my recipes and pictures. Thanx for all your support! And Thanks...

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Indo - Chinese style Fried Rice - version 2

I call this version 2, cos whenever I make some dish...it always has a few changes to the previous recipe and therefore tastes different. But out of all the different rice I make i think this one has come out so very yummy, I can better than the rest, not that all the recipes aren't any good but this was the best...you know what I mean. It was just too good. I would suggest using leftover rice, or even if you are using fresh rice, cool it completely...

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Indo - Chinese ~ Vegetable Manchurian

This is a combination of 2 recipes with my own touch!! :))... I have tried to get perfect manchurian balls, but never have a got perfect ones like this time. The taste and texture also were perfect. This is one recipe which I have worked on for years and now I think I came up with the good combination. I chose the Veggie manchurian balls recipe from Vahchef of VahRehVah.com. I really enjoy his site, cos he has some really good recipes, both...

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Indo - Chinese ~ Chilli Paneer

When I saw chilli paneer on Rak's blog...it was so tempting and I had to make it for our Indo-chinese style dinner...No way I could miss out!! So bookmarked it and made it...it was sooo good I think I ate most of it. I liked the way the Rak's blog recipe was made in a small quantity, more like a trial version and if we like it further we can always it much more quantity later on. I am not going to again post the full recipe as I have not made...

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Indo-Chinese Style Chicken manchurian ~ Semi-Homemade

Indo-Chinese is always my favorite, other than mexican food ofcourse. so its obvious I choose this cuisine when I wanted to make a special dinner for my hubby on his birthday. He also like it too, so it was a good choice. Cooked all the good stuff which I will post one by one all this week. I used the 'Banne Nawab's chicken Manchurian mix'. I came across this about couple years back and its been one of the best mixes for chinese...

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Pineapple Upside down cake ~ Semi-homemade

I started of this week with a Banana bread post for the holidays and now for TGIF, here is a cake - a Pineapple Upside down cake with caramelized sugar topping. This I baked on Wednesday for my Hubby's Birthday which was on Thursday! It looked too good and yummy with all the dripping caramel, it was very hard not to look at it, because I had to wait for the next day for him to cut it!! I decided to go with the store bought powder and not make it...

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Easy, simple, Refreshing Cucumber Sandwich - Indian Movie Theater style

Today its going to be a simple and quick post, as its my hubby's Birthday and I have lot to do. Something which I dearly love, a easy, simple and refreshing Cucumber Sandwich. Mostly truly I love the sandwich which we used to get at the movie theaters in India. I donot know if they sell them at the snack stands, but surely you would get this in any snack stands. Its very simple to put together. Add couple of tomato slices and take it up a notch. Ingredients...

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Eggless Banana Apple - Walnut Raisin bread

Its December 1st and so officially its holiday season. I thought why not start of the holiday season with a sweet bread recipe, afterall its a sweet holiday! A few posts back I blogged or rather just put up pics of a wonderful banana bread I baked. It was so yummy that I had to make it again soon. And I did, only this time made it eggless by adding apple sauce. Its been sitting in my drafts for a long time, so what better time to post it now for...

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Tandoori Whole Chicken Roast / Bake for Thanksgiving - Indian Style!

Hope everyone had a fun and enjoyable Thanksgiving! and even more fun shopping on Black Friday! Didn't do much shopping this year, instead went out to friend's place and then to the children's musuem! The kids had lots of fun for sure!:) Did some cooking on Thanksgiving, but wanted to try out a whole chicken baked in the oven. Been wanting to give this a try for a very long time. I did try this out once and it didn't come out that good, the meat...

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Coriander Onion Chutney for T&T

When I saw this chutney on Priya's blog, I knew I had to have this and lucky me T&T was also announced around the same time. So I went ahead and made this. Its a very easy chutney to make and goes good with all kinds of dosas, idlis and even with hot rice. This chutney doesn't have the raw onion taste since it cooked a little before making the chutney, so people who don't like the taste of raw onions, like me, don't have to worry. :)) This...

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Nune vankai / Stuffed baby eggplants

Nune Vankai / vankaya is a very popular Andhra dish. It also goes by the name 'Bagara Baingan' in gravy style, a nice side dish to accompany pulaos, fried rice or biryanis. This is also one of the recipes which doesn't stick to one particular style all the time. It varies on the different spices used. It also can be made with peanuts and cashew nuts to get the more shahi flavor. I have blogged a stuffed eggplant recipe with peanut stuffing before,...

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