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...
poha healthy pidi kozhukattai with red/brown aval Without modaks the whole grand ganesh chathurthi celebration becomes meaningless and moreover real satisfaction comes when we pray and do pooja pure-heartedly.I love BalaGanesha/vinayagar(baby)for his ever charming innocence and mischievous calm look(beauty)and in general there are various forms of ganesha/vinayagar that attracts countless devotees towards him around the world. Unlike...
roasted sesame seeds laddu(til/ellu ladoo) My mind was thoroughly scrutinizing for some easy sweet to make for guests who were about to visit my home at a short notice to invite our family for a function and they informed me that they will be coming in the evening . As I was running out of time...
sweet cheedai recipe (vella seedai) Making my little one to dress up like Krishna and dipping those cute little legs into rice flour water mixture,making printable paadams (footprints are put from the entrance till the pooja room) on the floor are the most valuable memories of my life and I will have an evergreen call in...
how to make biscuit recipe /kalakala/Bombay lakdi My time and life becomes more interesting and joyous when Iam all involved in discovering various cultural cuisines and what I mean is that if it is all related to food I become more inclined to it!all because of severe passion I have for food.In most of my post...