Weekend afternoons is usually the time, when I find some time to do experimenting both with food as well as taking pictures. The little one is asleep and so gives me the “me-time” to do things without interruption. Of course, I take a short nap too, my small luxury and that helps me re-charge and try out things at a leisurely pace. Late afternoon and early evening is also a time, when I start craving for something sweet along with a warm cup of tea. I enjoy having muffins, cookies, tea cakes rather than salty stuff along with tea.…
Spicy Low Fat Puffed Rice/ Khara Kadle Poori
The weather here in our neck of the woods has taken a total U-turn. It is raining here everyday for the past 20 days or so. With over cast skies and gloomy weather the surrounding makes it so “un-spring” like. During the week days when I am out at work, it hardly makes a difference as I am stuck in the cube with bright lighting, controlled temperatures and no glimpse of the outside world. Rain or shine with in the office hours, I pretty much look at the same ‘landscape’. It is however different if it rains during…
Savory Onion Crackers(Baked Nippattu)
Baked Nippattu, as they are referred to, are common in Bangalore bakeries. They are basically savory cookies, flat and circular in shape with dominant flavoring of baked onion and green chillies. They are salty as well as spicy at the same time and the taste is just divine. Not all the bakeries make the best, but some bakeries specialize in them and worth every bit of it. My father brings it from Srinivasa Bakery in Gandhi Baazar and we love their taste. Now I am not sure why they are referred to as Baked Nippattu. For all those unfamiliar with…