Vegetarian Recipe Blog
When Tried and Tasted event was declared this month with featured blog as Lisa’s Kitchen, I did not want to miss the opportunity of sending my entry. I have been following Lisa’s blog for a long time now and recipes that she features are the …
On our last visit to India more than 2 months ago, my mother had prepared very delicious and fragrant Tomato Rice with mint. That along with a yogurt raita made a quick fix and light tasting dinner. Quite frankly I am not a huge fan …
Eating Oatmeal for breakfast is our everyday ritual including the weekends. On week days it is more of a rush as everybody leaves to go to work and we do not sit and enjoy the taste. On the weekends we have regular cooked oatmeal along with Orange Juice. We add nuts, dry fruits, cinnamon and some brown sugar to our regular oatmeal, and so the combination is good way to kick start the day.
The benefit of eating oatmeal is immense and following are some of its uses:
· Help dieters’ cholesterol.
· Improve LDL cholesterol profile.
· Curb inflammation. Lab tests show that antioxidants in oats have anti-inflammatory properties.
· Reap whole-grain perks against high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and weight gain. (Source)
Dear Husband (DH) is very fond of oatmeal and enjoys it with good amount of dry fruits and nuts. In fact, it was his idea of making this Mango Kheer.
I made this by first cooking the oats, then added milk, cardamom and then finally the store bought ready mango pulp. Mango, cardamom along with milk makes a beautiful combination and oatmeal only adds a good texture. While eating this I realized that we could add Sago to this and make it softer and thicker.
I had this post languishing in my drafts for a long time now and so I thought it was a good idea to post it before I loose track of it. I love all types of vegetables, but there are some that I love …
Many moons ago, Bawarchi (an Indian website) was the go-to hub for all things cooking—offering a treasure trove of recipe ideas and countless user-contributed dishes. The site’s design was simple yet elegant, with no overwhelming images or intrusive advertisements. Its clean categories and intuitive layout …
Last weekend was a glorious one (how many times have I said that in my earlier posts). The weather was perfect; not too hot or cold and all that accompanied with a beautiful sunshine. This natural setting woke up the food blogger in me and transformed me into a food photographer. That prompted me to walk around the house with the camera dangling around the neck trying to capture pictures of this tomato onion salad and other dishes in different angles, varying amount of sunlight, different backgrounds etc. This went on for almost half a day and 45 pictures later I was still not happy with the pictures.
With everybody else’s stomach rumbling I somehow managed to tactfully ignore the snarls from the other people in the house. Thank God I am nowhere allowed near the house weekday mornings or everyone else would have been left starvingJ
This addiction to blogging and picture taking made me think about life before blogging (LBB). Even though not so long ago that seems like a distant memory now and I wonder how I spent my free time. But now, what ever free time I get after managing my work and family I spend in food blogging.
Amidst all these, if you are wondering what I am trying to say and asking where the recipe is, then here it is in just a minute. OK OK I was just trying to take stock of my life. After all this is an easy salad to make and I need something to fill up in the space isn’t it? J This is an easy, healthy recipe to put together and I make it for dinner.
Ingredients
Method:
· Peel the cucumber and chop into fine pieces. Chop the onion and tomatoes also.
· Mix all this together; add salt, green chillies and the lemon juice. Garnish with coriander leaves.
Panaka(Kannada) is usually prepared on Sri Rama Navami a Hindu festival, celebrating of the birth of Lord Rama. Panaka or Panakam (Telugu) is a sweet drink prepared with jaggery, lemon and pepper. This is an Indian version of lemonade and uses jaggery instead of …
