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Oatmeal raisin cookies are some of my favorite cookies out there. I love how chewy oatmeal raisin cookies stay and the flavor combination of the oats, raisins, nuts and the hint of cinnamon. Whenever I’m in the mood to bake I simply go for this oatmeal cookie, everyone at home are addicted to it! This oatmeal cookie recipe from Smittenkitchen is…
Coconut rice/ Thangai sadam/ Kobbari annam is a common staple food in South India especially in Tamil Nadu. This is an authentic rice dish prepared with freshly grated coconut seasoned with mustard, cumin, dry red chilies, fresh curry leaves and combination of dals for a nutty taste and texture. This is one of simplest rich dish which you can put…
Description: I love shortbread cookies! Period! no more need to be said, despite the fact I can go with million thoughts. Any form or shape of shortbread cookie is a treat and quickly disappears the moment it shows in the cookie jar. A few months back Madhavi’s cyber kitchen shared this awesome cute Owl Shortbread cookies and I immediately book-marked…
Traditional South Indian fritters made with urad dal (Black lentils) served for breakfast!
Kids School Lunch box 8– Cheesy Vegetable Quesadillas are an easy, satisfying vegetarian option for school lunches. Its a great disguise for anything else that I want to sneak in, especially veggies. Sid loves Mexican food and lunch box comes out clean when I pack these chessy quesadillas. I’ve added some hummus spread instead of beans as I didn’t have…
It been a while since I posted under lunch menu series and here is a vegetarian style menu which I typical pick for a saturday’s lunch. Today’s menu is very simple – some kara kuzhambu using drumsticks which I to prepare like a poricha kuzhambu and to go with it I made keerai poriayal and carrot urundai along with regular…
Description: Kesari is a delicious Indian dessert made with semolina. Semiya kesari is just a variation where they use Vermicelli instead of semolina. Amma makes the typical orange color rava kesari for most of the pooja days and special occasions. Poor vermicelli usually goes into payasams! Though not that popular its still an easy dessert to make and taste as…
Description: Today’s lunch box theme is a little fancy. Sid enjoys deep fried foods as much as I do, Who doesn’t? Cutlets, vadais, urundais, pakodas… he just gobbles in no time. He was giving me suggestions nowadays as to what to pack for his school lunches. The other day I made some vegetable cutlets to enjoy with our evening tea…
Description: Simple stir fried Okra/ Lady’s finger/ Vendakkai in spice powder with roasted peanuts. Okra stir fry is a very popular side dish that is served or eaten with rice/chapati. It makes a nice combo for everyday sambar, rasam or curd rice varieties. I found this interesting combination of adding peanuts to regular okra fry at Kamalascorner and book marked it…
Description: Sweet somas is a light crescent shaped traditional sweet that is prepared during Diwali festival. One major advantage of this sweet is it has good shelf life and can be stored for weeks. At home Amma and MIL will usually start a week before deepavali and make these in batches along with other sweet and savories. Its not only…
