Oatmeal Walnut Shortcake with Nutmeg (Eggless)

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 the books of our interest. No surprises here when I say that my favorite section is the cookbook section. It is easy to get lost in the wide array of books what with beautiful pictures, great cooking ideas, tips and knowledge of cuisines from all…

Low fat Pani Puri / Golgappa

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 a long time now, but then got this idea of using this as puri for “pani puri/golgappa” only a few days ago. They are available in the regular super market in the frozen section. This is more of a procedure than a recipe. You are…

FoodWorld @ RedChillies: A Blog Aggregator

FOODWORLD 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 ( another Blog Aggregator) closed down. The creators of FDB (Mathy Kandasamy of Virundhu & Indira of Mahanandi) had done yoeman service to fellow bloggers by creating a platform so that the bloggers could show case their work not only to like minded bloggers…