Simple Microwave Pineapple-Kaju Burfi

Here is another microwave dish. This time its a sweet. Very simple, few ingredients makes this dish very simple to make. Overall it probably takes about 1/2 hour to get this dish ready! And I am sure everyone will like it and enjoy it. I used ricotta cheese and evaporated milk with pineapple and cashew nut powder to make this simple fruity sweet. I used very approximate quantities, adjust it, increase or decrease to your liking. Ingredients: Ricotta...

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Help me name it!! - Mexican party scoops?! - Appetizer

I am not very big microwave user, tho I do use on a daily basis to reheat dishes, but not for preparing a whole dish in it. On top of that, that here we can use it only use it only as a microwave and not as a oven too. In that way I like the Indian 2 in 1 microwaves, use it even for baking. Isn't that great, conserving space too. As I was thinking what to make using a microwave, I came up with 2 dishes which are both going to Srivalli's Microwave...

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Semiya payasam / Vermicelli Kheer

Semiya Payasam is one of the easiest sweet dish made during any festival, the other one being 'Ravva kesari'. There are many different ways this is made along with different ingredients like kovva, mavva, condensed milk, evaporated milk are involved in making this dish taste as yummy as possible. Here I made it in the simplest way possible with very few ingredients too. I used pre-roasted vermicelli, but if you dont't find that in your grocery...

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Poornam Boorelu / Sweet coconut stuffed lentil dumplings - Festival Dish

One of my favorite festival dish! I like the sweet inner filling paired with coconut and lentils with the soft crunchy outer layer. This year I didn't make many dishes as I would make every year, just made a few and I didn't want to miss out on 'Poornam Boorelu'. There are a few modifications made by my Mom, which I follow. Usually, the outer layer is made of urad daal and rice soaked together and ground, but for a crunchy outer layer instead of...

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Spicy Spring Dosa

Here is a twist on the regular masala dosa you find in restuarants. I am not sure if this is a listed item on every Udipi restuarants in USA, but it is surely listed here in our restuarant. It called Sping Dosa.  With the regular masala dosa you get just plain potato curry. The twist with the spring dosa is that, its a crispy dosa with potato curry which has fresh tomatoes, peas, crunchy onions and crispy carrots. Its folded like shown in the...

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Simple Mini Uttapams

My husband starts asking for these if its been a while that he ate them. I even pack these for his lunch, as packing a dosa would not be possible, it would just become hard or soggy!. But uttapams will hold their shape better and stay like uttapams till lunch time. I don't make them too big, thats the reason I called them MINI. I used a small omlete pan with a cover. I used the dosa batter itself, but dosa batter when made into...

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More pics of my garden in full bloom!!...

Here are some more pics of my garden....I took them today!! My Gongura, Kanakambaram, Malli are in full bloom now...And more pics of new flowers, roses and dahlias.... Enjoy!!! ...

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Instant Peas fried rice - for kids!!!

If your kids like peas as much as my kids do, then this is the way to go!! I feel like I am making this dish almost every other day and actually feeling good about it since my kids are eating it up!!... Well I know why they are eating it up..its because there is nothing in it except some flavoring, peas and rice.....nothing for them to pull out and say ' I dont like this clove or cinamon!!' The key is flavoring in powdered form. I have added...

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Pav buns or soft dinner rolls....completely Vegetarian

I made these last week, but didn't find any time to post it. So today I am making sure I find some time to post it. :) When ever I make bread to try to make, I want to make just enough that it would be finished that same day. And how much I love eating fresh bread!!! I kept looking for recipes which would yield a smaller quantity and total vegetarian recipe that too. I followed the recipe comepletely from here, but made changes to it but made...

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