Happy Vinayaka Chavithi

HAPPY VINAYAKA CHAVITHI TO EVERYONE!!...

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Simple Quinoa side dish with red peppers and onion

I am writing this post, eating this very dish!! I knew I wanted to do something with quinoa and not in the regular way I make. I saw something like this in one of the cookbooks I keep bringing from the library, but I didn't note it down anywhere, so tried making it out of my memory.Its a very simple dish and tastes great too. Its a good choice of a healthy side dish or as a warm salad. Here I just added red onion and red bell pepper, but you surely...

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Vankaya Endu royalu Koora / Eggplant with dried shrimp

People think making non-veg dishes is a big deal and require lots of effort and not to mention lots of ingredients too. Well I agree, at times I do become one of them, when I don't feel like cooking...:)But seriously if we want to make any non-veg dishes our way, I mean Indian way, then we do require lots of ingredients, which in turn becomes our masala and so on... Well I assure that, tho there are dishes which require lots of ingredients, there...

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Crispy Chicken drumettes

I always wanted to fry chicken at home....by fry I mean deep fry. I don't do it much and so it always tempting when I see recipes for fried chicken. And yes, my kids love it, so I had to make it some time right! I have made oven baked tenders before, the more healthier way you would say but surely frying chicken has a unique taste and surely is much yummier than oven baked chicken. I decided to try it and tried to keep it below 5 ingredients for...

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Super Easy Corn flakes Chivda

 Having chivda or mixture for tea time is always customary in Indian evening. Something to munch on...sweet stuff are OK but if its spicy, it much more enjoyable to me! Like pakoras, bajjis, murukkus or even something as simple as mixture. Whenever I make mixture at home,, it disappears...my kids love spicy and they will just finish it...including my husband, who will keep on munching until dinner time.So I try to keep something crunchy...

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Lemon Tomato Rasam or Soup

Everyone talks about soups and how they warm you up when you are cold or make you feel better when you are sick. But have you ever thought about our Indian soups, mainly about the yummy rasams we make? They have a even greater effect on how they makeus feel..... The warmth, the spiciness, the slightly mild tangy flavor....has all the good stuff to really make you feel good! Whenever we make rasam at home, I usually have a drink of it, just plainly,...

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Reposting Rice sweets in time for Ganesh Chathurthi for SHF

Well next week Thursday is Vinayaka Chavithi or Ganesh Chathurthi. There are a few sweets on my blog, but today I am posting few rice sweets in which rice plays a major part which also can be made for the upcoming festival. This post is linked to Magpie's Recipes blog for Sugar High Fridays and to Susan's SHF blog. 1. Belam Taalikalu / Rice Noodles in jaggery 2. Modakamlu / Modak / Steamed Coconut jaggery Rice dumplings 3. Kesari...

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Jeera Gobi / Cauliflower with cumin

There is always jeera aloo to fall back to whenever you need a curry in hurry right?!Well here I just substituted the aloo or potato with cauliflower and made it in my style of jeera aloo! :) I love cauliflower and its when I make dishes like these, I cannot stop munching continuously! Tho its a curry and I love eating it with rice, I can just wipe out a whole bowl of it in few minutes and if no one is watching maybe the whole curry! :) Its...

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Easy Cheesy Parmesan Sticks - Blogging Marathon # 8

A new morning, a new day and a new marathon.....ya you heard me right...I am back doing the blogging marathon which I seriously missed doing in the past few months. I am glad I am able to join in this time around with all the wonderful bloggers and their wonderful posts. Guys please bear with me as I am still not fully prepared to do the marathon and I am still taking my own sweet time....but maybe I will be able to get thru this easily and mainly...

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Simple Cluster Beans/ Guvar/ GoruChikudu fry with podi

So as days fly by and me doing nothing but reading and more reading....ya I got back into my mode of reading and when I get into that mode, I don't do anything much!....just the day to day stuff and nothing else...I don't even find time to come online or even FB!!......And then I fall sick! A bad attack of summer cold..sniff sniff....and achchooo! looks like everyone in the house is sick with a mild form of it.....and what better time to lie...

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Simple, Easy and Fun to make Churros......... and me back!!!

Hi Everyone! and yes I am back after a very long period of gap.....moving from east coast to the west coast is a very big job and takes a long time. But it did happen and has happened smoothly, Thanks to every one's well wishes, we are here still settling in the Bay area, getting used to the weather, which actually needs very less getting used to since its beautiful weather down here which doesn't go up more than 70-80 degrees even in...

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