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I have always been a fan of all the dried snacks which can be made and stored for several weeks. I like them for the fact that I feel less guilty munching on them than the store bought. They are most handy on festivals, when you have guests coming on and off. One of such thing I made for the guests visiting at my place was Besan ki Mungfali. Besan ki Mungfali.Ingredients:200 gm Mungfali /

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Rain Gods have smiled over Chennai and its raining, raining hard. A li'l rain itself can flood many parts of Chennai, and this is heavy rains I am speaking of. The main road in front of my office was below knee length water and getting out of the place seemed like a herculean task. The Times of India symbolized this beautifully in their next day’s edition:One thing Chennai's rain always does,

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One thing always concerns me after relishing dahi idli ...what to do of all the edges that are cut off from the bread while making it?Most often than not I roast the bread with tomato gravy which we at home call 'Bhuni Bread'. Occasionally I grind it after drying it in Sun to use as bread crumbs or bake it to use in Tomato Soup.How do you use up your leftover bread?Bhuni BreadIngredients:5 Bread

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In my last post I had asked you'll to play a guessing game with me. A few of you did come close. I will come to that a li'l later.Serving your guest with something they, in most probability, must have not had before, are going to love it and is still so simple to make...clicks with me. Works well even as an evening snack or when served in breakfast.It is one snack whenever made for any of the

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GOSH! Don’t remember when was the last time I logged into my blog! Last 10 days have been so hectic. What when you have every possible thing turning up, keeping you extremely busy, except the maid. With the visiting guests...extra work load in office and in the middle of all this the Maid doesn’t turn up for one entire week, without any notice :(Not as if I kept busy 24 hours a day...In whatever

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Last afternoon I was going through my bookmarked recipes, a bread recipe caught my fancy. Did I say Bread...naah, I meant the simplest bread recipe. There couldn’t be anything simpler than this. Very low chance of anybody going wrong on this one (I got it perfectly after all!). Oh BTW I was suppose to be trying pizza recipes, wasn’t I? Hmmm...that post is coming real soon too, since I have got a

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I made Til Ki Chikki for everyone back home before leaving for Goa. This was my first attempt at making chikki...It was the simple recipe on Kailas Kitchen which got me into making it.I followed her recipe word to word, hence am not posting the recipe. Just the final pic...Vedict: Chikkis came out very crisp. Everybody at home loved the chikki, execpt that my MIL's tooth cap broke eating them ;)

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Weekend Breakfast Blogging, WBB started by Nandita is one of my fav food blog event, as it emphasises on the importance of Breakfast. It is a known fact that Breakfast is the most important meal of the day...I really don't need to make a point about this. However even though we all know this...at times we land up skipping our breakfast. Sometimes it seems difficult to cook up an elaborate

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Janmashtami is celebrated as the day when Lord Vishnu took his eight avatar as Krishna. Born to Devki and Vasudev in Mathura on the eight day of the dark half (Krishna Paksha) of the month of Shravana of the Hindu calendar in a Prison cell at midnight. After the forecast that it would be Devki’s son who would kill Kans; he had them imprisoned on their wedding day. One after the other he killed

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Raksha Bandhan...bond between a brother and a sister. On this day, sister ties a Rakhi on the wrist of the brother, praying for his long life while the Brother promises to protect the sister. This festival is celebrated across India irrespective of the religion. The belief in this festival can be estimated from the fact that the guys try not to venture outside on this day for the fear of being

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We need to eat our own words at times. Just in my last post I had mentioned the difficulty I faced because I had never baked in my life. The very next day I found myself making the best use of the Oven till date. How? I found a non stick iron pan that had come along with the microwave lying in the carton (huh...a free gift and I didn't even notice it, now I am really angry with myself). It was

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When MBP for Aug: Fruit Fare, was announced little did I know it was going to be one difficult job; the idea of searching other blogs for a fruit recipe after all did not seem anything like that. I say this for several reasons. Firstly most of the fruit recipes I came across were baked; and I m yet to bake my first bread… I was still not yet prepared to take the plunge. Not as if I am not getting

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Soya sauce was the only Soya product I had tried till date. For no particular reason, I always ignored other Soya products. On my weekly grocery shopping passing by the super market’s refrigerator, to pick some cheese, I found myself staring at the tofu in there. All I remembered was the JFI-Soya event being hosted by Sia of Monsoon Spice. After standing there for some time I took my plunge; I

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Bhindi is one vegetable I have come to believe most people like, only behind the mighty POTATO . Potato is a different story altogether, it has acquired a palce which any vegetable would be envy of. It is the Sachin Tendulkar or the Brian Lara of the vegetables. I dont see it giving away its crown any soon...The best part about the Bhindi is it can be cooked in so many different ways to suit more

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Sripriya of srikar's kitchen has passed me the Booky Meme. The rules are as under:-> Pick up the nearest book-> Open to page 123-> Find the 5th sentence-> Post the next three sentences-> Tag 5 people and acknowledge the person who tagged you.Here I go:1. But I continued thinking about it while I swept the stepping-stones in the courtyard that morning, until I began to feel the sort of buzzing in

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I love the cooking part...However deciding what to cook is the part I dread. My Mom would tell us that we didn't help her decide what to cook and always left it to her. I didn't see a big deal in it until I took my plunge. I find myself always asking my husband to help me decide what to cook. On Friday night however I gave him a warning, he had to come up with what the breakfast was going to be

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The moment it starts raining, two things hit my mind the fastest; the sweet aromatic smell of the parched earth after the first few drops, and the urge to eat something spicy and, still better off, fried.Weather has been quite pleasant in Chennai for the last 4 days. It was raining on the weekend and so I started evaluating my options to munch on, as I should get it ready before it stops raining,

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How much time does one take to be successful at a dish?A week's try, or may be a month or few. I have gone way beyond this benchmark and took almost 2 1/2 years to get one of my favorite breakfast right. Mix Veggie Oothapams that my Mom made always topped my list. I was never into cooking until 3 years back, and cooking was the activity I did only when my Mom was out of station.It was when I

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Veg American Chopsuey has always been one of my favorite dishes since my college days in Goa. I suddenly started missing it a lot, may be bcoz I have not had it after I moved to Chennai, as far as 3 years back :( For some reasons I have not found this dish in Chennai’s Menu card.Anyways, I decided to give American Chopsuey a try. I tried to Google for the recipe but they seemed very different

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I am kick starting my blog with a food blog event, Monthly Blog Patrol (MBP). This event was started by Coffee , and involves browsing through the food blogs and picking recipes to cook.This month's MBP is being hosted by Nupur of One Hot Stove and the theme is Less is More . Bloggers have to choose recipes, calling for 5 or less ingredients only, from other food blogs. To make things simple salt

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