Madhu of Ruchii had sent me Arusuvai gifts about a month and half ago. I received the package at work and I excitedly opened it, my heart filled with warmth and anticipation. The package consisted of Rasam powder, Amchur powder, Raspberry tea, coasters and a thoughtfully written greeting card. The aroma of the Rasam powder [...]

One of our favorite family pastimes most Friday evenings is to hang out at Barnes and Noble. We finish our dinner early and head out to B&N which is about a mile or so from our house. Our little one Sidarth usually plays with the toy trains in the kids section and we browse through [...]

While Pani Puri and low-fat might seem like an oxymoron, there are ways to achieve the trick.Check this out to see the traditional way of making these.  In this recipe I have substituted the regular puri(deep fried)  with this store brought ready made baked phyllo shells. I had been eyeing these low-fat mini-fillo shells for [...]

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I am happy to share with you all FoodWorld a new Blog Aggregator. Aggregator is one stop place for checking the latest updates from favorite blogers and this greatly reduces the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for newer updates.
Quite frankly the idea of creating an aggregator came to me after FDB ( [...]

Deep frying is becoming a rarity at our house now. Gone are those days when we would have deep fried stuff every week or so and yet managed to keep a tab on weight. OK, OK …..we were young then and we had our fair share of running and playing around and that helped to [...]