Year: 2009

Beetroot Rasam Rice

Beetroot Rasam Rice

Growing up I don’t remember being fond of Rasam. In fact, nobody in my family had inclination towards it and so my mother hardly prepared it. The only ones we had were at restaurants or at some functions.   But then after marriage things changed 

Nutritious Eggplant, Spinach Daal

Nutritious Eggplant, Spinach Daal

  Yet another crazy week for me at work and cannot wait for the weekend to come by.  For dinner I made this easy and nutritious daal yesterday inspired by this previously posted recipe here. It has a combination of lentils, greens, vegetables along with 

Orange Pekoe Ice Tea

Orange Pekoe Ice Tea

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Summer is here and it just showsJ. The temperature here has climbed to the upper 90’s (F) and it is hot and sultry both inside and outside. We were blessed with unexpected rains during the middle of the week, which provided some relief, but this weekend it is going to be just HOT. What better way to quench thirst than with some cool and refreshing ice tea? Much better than the sodas or the sugary fruit juices.

 

Now Dear Husband (DH) is a huge fan of ice tea and has a wide range of tea collection. One of his weekend activities during summer is to pull out one tea variety and brew a big pot of it. He then tops it off with ice, fruit juices, lime, mint etc.  This is a cool and refreshing way to beat the summer heat.

 

This Orange Pekoe has a mild black tea taste with hint of orange flavor to it. I liked it more when honey and hint of orange juice was added to this tea. There is no recipe as such for this, just a guideline.

 

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Instant Dosa

Instant Dosa

  In our family we are totally biased towards the regular Urad Dosa. Hands down, we would prefer it any day, any time over the Instant Dosas, Rava Dosas etc. Even though making the urad dosa is not hard, preparing the batter is time consuming 

Aloo Gobi Ki Sabji (Potato, Cauliflower dry Curry)

Aloo Gobi Ki Sabji (Potato, Cauliflower dry Curry)

    Hope you all had a great weekend. We had a quite and subdued one, took care of cleaning, laundry, grocery and the regular house hold chores. The weather here has changed and when outside or for that matter inside gives every indication of 

Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies…for CLICK and help choose

Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies…for CLICK and help choose

Update: Thank you all very much for the valuable and constructive feedback, I really appreciate it. It is interesting to hear other people’s opinion, their perspective and their view point. It lets you see things in new light, new angle which points to things that you never thought of before. It is in fact a great learning opportunity.  

 

I have now submitted picture 3 now. Thanks for taking the time y’all.

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Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake

Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake

For all those in the US, hope you all had a great Memorial Day Weekend. It was after a long time that we had a 3 day weekend. It is the un-official start of summer and we are already experiencing hot, sultry dayshere in our