Murg Keema Pulao / Ground Chicken Pulao

10 more days to go for the event to end on my blog....so please send in your entries....I haven't got many as yet and I am eagerly looking forward to seeing your entries and who will win the awesome book by Raghavan Iyer. So pleasee  send in your entries...time is running out fast..... For details check out the side bar 'ON GOING EVENT' So atlast my light box has been made. Thanks to my hubby in helping me. I am very happy how the pics...

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Quinoa Katte Pongali / Quinoa Pongal

I have started experimenting with 'quinoa' only very recently. I tried it at a friend's place and I found very interesting, versatile, not to forget healthy and  simply cute. Cute?? ya the grains are so tiny and so cute...:)) It is so versatile because it can take on any added flavors just like rice. Its full of protein and a good substitute for non-meat eaters, to get their daily protein. I have been seeing so many quinoa related recipes...

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Atukula cutlet / vada , Poha vada / tikki, Beaten Flat rice cutlet / tikki

As I was thinking of how to incorporate atukulu into an easy dish, I thought about Poha vada. I just wanted to make it as simple as possible but it has to taste great too... Usually in making poha upma, people add peanut powder right? and I think Poha and peanuts go very well together. All I have to say about this tikki is  'YUM'. Tho I have eaten variations of this type of cutlets before, the addition of peanut powder is key. If...

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'Spicy' Egg Dosa

In our house, dosa is a favorite breakfast, be it any kind of Dosa. Plain and 'baby' dosa as my baby son calls it are his favorite!... He can eat those anytime. Tho I make idlis also very frequently, we like crispy dosas...:)) For this reason, I keep trying to make different types of dosa and am trying to make them healthier. I am trying out oats dosas and also brown rice instead of white rice. I know it doesn't make it totally healthy but surely...

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Celebrating 1st Blog Anniversary with 201st post ~ Custard Fruit Parfait, an Event with Giveaway

It's been a year already!!! Never thought I would make it so long, didn't think I would have so many recipes to post or blog about and so many other things to do around here. Never knew that I would make so many friends who had the same interests as me, and would learn many new things!!! Well the realization has set...it's been one year of wonderful food blogging, taking part in events...having an event here at my blog and again...making new friends! I...

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Yard long Beans stir fry with coconut / Barbati kobari koora

If you live in New England, you know what kind of veggies we get here during the winter or for that matter all year round! Same old veggies and nothing new :) Yard long beans are one which we can see almost all the time in the Indian grocery store. I am not complaining cos I happen to like this vegetable or this type of beans better than the other beans...but I think I like 'Goruchikkudu' more and my hubby like Broad beans more... Yard long beans...

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Quick and Instant Dosa with different flours

If your kids are like my kids and prefer dosa to idlis...and will eat any type of dosa you make, then here is one quick and easy Dosa to make, with ingredients from your pantry. There are few different ways you can make this dosa...one by using leftover batter of idli or dosa, if you know what I mean. Sometimes only so much batter is left that its now enough of anybody, use it up in making this dosa...or just mix up some ravva, besan, maida, rice...

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Cabbage Pesar Pappu koora / Cabbage Moong Daal curry

When you are tired of regular daal, sambars or pulusu...here is a variation you can try. I would put this curry somewhere between the daals and sambars. Its more like a curry with whole daal in it!...you can enjoy it as a daal or as a curry. The other good thing about this is that you can add vegetable in it and you get your vegetable serving. This curry also tastes good with rotis as well as rice. My kids enjoy this because of the whole daal in...

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Simple Vegetable Rice cooker Pulao

For all those who use a electric rice cooker, don't you think its a neat gadget to have in your kitchen?...Put the rice in there are leave it to do its thing...no worries and you have perfectly cooked rice ready in time you finish your rest of the cooking! I do appreciate my rice cooker and I have gone through quite a few of them to really appreciate them. The rice cooker I have now, even has a delay timer on it and it vows to cook perfect rice...

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Cabbage Carrot paratha

I saw Cabbage and Carrot Paratha on Jagruti's blog recently and I knew I will be making it soon! Only thing was when I was ready to make it, I didn't have my computer handy to see how to make, so I went ahead in my own way... Sorry Jagruti, next time I will try to keep my computer handy! I am a very big fan to stuffed or regular parathas, the reason being my kids will eat up their veggies without being fussy! yayyyy!!...isn't this what every Mom...

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Another TAG and an award

I was tagged by Nivedita of Nivedita's Kitchen way back in December while I was away from home and away from my computer for a little while. Please visit her site for some lovely and yummy recipes which are fun and easy to make. Thanks Nivedita!! It took me this long to actually put my answers in order and answering them really means to sit and think for a while about each question. These are question which we just skip in our day to day life and...

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Khandvi ~ for ICC

I am so glad to be doing ICC for December....which is hosted by Srivalli. I missing doing it last month, as I was travelling and was kind of bz....but after seeing the challenge for December, I was very much interested in doing, but as always didn't find the right time to do it. Last wednesday, when it was snowing heavily, everyone were at home and I was in the moos to eat something spicy, I made Khandvi and enjoyed it totally.....it came out yummy...

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Happy Pongal and Kite Flying with some old festival recipes posts

I hope everyone is having fun Kite flying. I do miss it a  lot from my childhood days... We, friends from our apartments used to get on the terrace tops of our building and fly kites way into the night...flying even light kites...It used to be fun!! Its so sad that my kids don't know much about kites, let alone how to fly kites...I will also have to explain to them if I start talking about light kites or night kites....I am sure you know what...

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