gujarati sweet sukhadi /Gud(gur)papdi This gujarati sweet sukhadi is an honest straight forward dish with no complicated procedures and proves to be a best authentic sweet with no compromise.As in most of the gujarati sweets jaggery is given more importance because jaggery has a special character to balance the heat of the body keeping it warm.The...
recipe for black rice /kavuni arisi payasam Ever since I have tasted that chettinad special sweet with black rice(kavuni arisi) that my friend kavitha had brought it for a get together party!the taste really obsessed my mind.It was totally a healthy filling dessert I have ever had and made me feel how we are missing such...
kai kuthal arisi pongal /hand pound rice pongal Already done with usual sakkarai pongal for thai pongal at my space and nowadays am trying some ways to have hand pound rice/kaikuthal rice regularly!atleast weekly once but not as such as boiled rice but as snacks and even as desserts.The soaking time and cooking time is little...
mangalore sweet bun recipe /Konkani buns/banana puri My whole one life would not be enough to learn about countless number of cuisines around the world in detail!this sense of longing is same for all the foodies like me.Mangalore is one part of South-canara or Dakshin Kannada and this time when exploring South-Canara I fixed to try...
ghee appam /nei appam recipe for karthigai deepam "Lighting Deepams" are the soul of this Karthigai deepam festival where the whole house brightens up with agal vizhakku (lamps made with mud)but recently when I read about the pot making business is dying year after year I was little worried about how will potters survive?It seems the...
sweet boondi ladoo recipe /boondi laddu Full worth of Diwali is recognized only with the presence of sweets and without relishing a mouth full of sweets diwali would become incomplete!sharing gifts and sweets brings prosperity and happiness and all through these festive days we are excited and over enthusiastic.Many forms of sweet gifts are in trend...
indian diwali recipes /sweets and savouries In India I should say Diwali celebrations is the king of all festivals because it has gone already viral into people minds through ages and huge expectations keeps us busy and active that we come to the festive mood even before a month in advance! I mean to say that...
indian sweet kaju katli /cashewnut katli Most admired sweet I should say and we Indians can't even think a festivity without this stupendous sweet "Kaju katli". Its birth place is from North-India virulently spread in all directions and of-course no-body will have any chance to say that they are totally ignorant about it. There is something...
jam filled shortbread cookies /biscuits Home baking is always a pleasure!a kind of satisfaction that we get from this is beyond comparison and after you savour the home-baked food you will always want to bake more and more in your own kitchen than snap up from a bakery shop.Baking in an oven is a special art...
rawa laddu recipe /rava ladoo "Sweets are the real ones sent by god with his direct blessings(boon)"!it may be simple or a tricky one to make. For me as you may all know right from my childhood days till now I can say for sure that I can't live without sweets!and definitely feeling amazed when I...