Life lately has been hectic. Time is flying, I’m getting bigger every day (and so is baby!) and I can’t believe we have less than two months to go. Zach and I found out the baby’s gender right after the ultrasound technician did. We were both dying to know and couldn’t even imagine waiting until the baby was born (those of you who have that kind of self-control and patience… I don’t know how you do it)....
I’ve been wanting to post this recipe for the longest time and it kept pushing back because of something or the other but that’s it – I HAD to share it TODAY. It especially comes in handy, when you have coughed so much that even a thought of coughing again gives you chills as every bone and your throat hurts. I remember my Mom, making this Turmeric Cashew Milk for all of us especially during winter as a preventive drink (from cold)....
How long it takes: 20 minutes prep, 1 hour to bake Equipment you’ll need: saucepan, 2 large rimmed baking sheets (sheet pans) Servings: Makes 16 (1 cup) servings This caramel corn recipe is the best you’ll ever eat. What makes it so good? It’s homemade! That means it’s never stale, never cloying, and you never open up the bag and realize that it’s all crushed to bits. (That’s the worst, right?...
Adorable Hot Cocoa Cookies Today’s hot chocolate inspired recipe starts with a dense, fudgy, melt-in-your mouth chocolate cookie borrowed from my wintery chocolate crinkle cookies. It’s the perfect fudgy base our hot chocolate toppings. 4 things to love about these cookies: No hot cocoa mix or artificial flavors: just real cocoa, real sugar, and real vanilla–the way hot chocolate should be made! Sparkly sugar coating gives a wintery look and keeps the chocolate from being too dark....
How To Be Ready For A Fun Picnic in 10 mins: Quick and delicious ideas for a picnic with friends and family. Ready Steady Enjoy !!! Who doesn’t love an impromptu picnic and with my ‘How To Be Ready For A Fun Picnic in 10 mins‘ idea, they are even easier and quick to get started. My Favorite part of any season is a family picnic with lots of food, laughter, and tons of sunshine – Total Bliss!...
A Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating No new recipe today! Instead, I’m sharing a detailed guide on how to decorate a cake from start to finish. This is something I really wish I had as a beginner baker who seriously struggled with cake decorating! If you’ve ever been tasked with making a layer cake, whether it be for a wedding cake, birthday cake, or just a casual get-together, then you already know the stress that comes with decorating....
Instantly (And Easily!) Elevate Your Cake Have you ever admired the silky, tidy chocolate drip on a professional cake, but felt too intimidated to try it yourself? I’ll let you in on a little secret…it’s actually easy to do! Adding a ganache drip is an easy way to transform a simple cake into something special. It elevates the look of a cake and gives it a professional feel. I’ve added a chocolate drip to my peanut butter chocolate cake and my cheesecake stuffed chocolate cake, and I love how it makes the cakes look as decadent as they taste (to really take things to the next level, pipe thick swirls of frosting over the top after the ganache firms up!...
The usal forms the base for misal, which I posted last year. We prepare this usal and add some boiled potatoes and farsan mix to make it misal, and it is usually served with pav buns. For my misal pav, I used a combination of moth beans and white peas, but today for this usal, I am going to use only moth beans. I would like to thank my friend P’s mom for sharing the recipe with me....
Aruna’s Aaharam is one among the first few blogs that I followed right after moving WordPress. I admire and love the way she brings out the authenticity of the recipes. Along with the recipes I look forward to her write-ups to. Me being a history fanatic love her write-ups especially the Indian travel tales. After reading this post, I wanted to travel to Himachal right away. Another post that took me back to history was this....
When Life Gives You Lemons… Make lemon curd! Have you ever made your own before? If so, then you already know that it’s so much tastier than the store-bought kind. My homemade recipe is bright and sunny, creamy and tart, and completely refreshing. Plus, it’s surprisingly simple to make. So simple, in fact, that you need only five ingredients! If you’re a lemon lover, chances are you may have already made this recipe....
Lemon Pie: The Perfect Slice Of Summer My lemon pie recipe is a subtle riff off of my classic key lime pie, but the nuances are enough that I felt it was worth sharing on its own, anyway. We eat it on its own often enough here that it warranted its own blog post, and I didn’t feel right withholding this recipe from you any longer. The crust is a traditional graham cracker crust, which provides a firm shell for the filling and gives way to a buttery crunch between your teeth....
What do you know about lentils? Did you know that lentils are highly nutritious and rich in minerals, protein, and fiber? Lentils are a type of legume, or pulse, that have been feeding mankind for thousands of years. In the Bible, we’re told that Esau, hungry and tired, traded his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew. Perhaps it was similar to this one pot green lentil stew with sweet potatoes and kale!...
Theme: Biryani of different Styles Dish: Makhani Paneer Biryani Here’s a delicious biryani made with paneer for all paneer and biryani fans. Paneer is cooked with tomatoes, spices and some cream to make a lip smacking curry that is layered with basmati rice and then baked off (or cooked on dum) for an awesome tasting biryani that is sure to wow anyone. I had more than a gallon of 1% milk that needed to be used up real fast, so I made paneer flavored with cumin seeds, ground coriander, chili flakes and kasuri methi....
We are at the half way point of this mega marathon and I have sweet treat to celebrate successfully getting to this point. Malva Pudding is a dessert from South Africa. It contains apricot jam and has a spongy caramelized texture. A sweet cream sauce is poured over the cake as soon as the cake comes out of the oven. When I read the recipe I thought it resembled tres leche cake – where a sponge cake is baked and then soaked with sweet milk mixture....
Milkshakes and lassi during summer are very common in our household. Off late, paneer soda joined the bandwagon as well. I love to combine fresh seasonal fruits in our lassi and milkshakes. You can call my lassi as yogurt and fruit smoothies and my milkshakes as ice cream and fruit smoothies. :-) That’s how I make them. What’s mango mastani? This mango mastani is a popular drink in Pune, Maharashtra....
This is a favorite cold-weather cookie of mine that I posted last year, and the photos have been updated & recipe has been updated to include metric measurements. 2016 has been a hectic, stressful, exhausting, but mostly, joyful, blur. I’ve baked more (maple brown sugar) cookies than any other year of my life, learned more about Pinterest than anyone should ever need to know, slept less (mostly because of all the time spent on Pinterest — not even kidding), decoded my Rubik’s cube of a camera just a little bit more, and improved my photography as a result (see today’s pictures and the original pictures at the bottom of the post for comparison)....
Serve this easy pepper rasam with rice, dal and a vegetable curry for a weeknight meal. This is a perfect home remedy for cold and cough. A must make during the chilly winter seasons. About the Recipe Winter is that time of the year with sniffles, cough and flu season. Rasam is the best home remedy for colds and coughs. Call it miriyala charu or milagu rasam, this South Indian pepper soup is on constant rotation....
This Mixed Dal Sambar recipe is from a recent Telugu cooking show that I watched and liked the use of more than one dal to make sambar. I jotted it down and made it today for lunch. I’ve blogged masoor dal sambar & regular sambar already. Taste wise I don’t think there’s any difference between this and the regular sambars, but I think texture wise adding moong dal makes this a little more creamy than the other versions....
The best part of this recipe is that the dough is great to make pizza too. Do try this amazing recipe and I am sure you will love it as much as we do. About the Recipe Baking bread especially yeast breads is fun and therapeutic. The science in kneading the dough and seeing it transform into a bread is quite fascinating. I love trying bread recipes from around the world, like this Iyengar bakery khara bread or this Arabic za’atar spice khobez....
There is nothing more than comforting than a bowl of lentils aka dal with rice. That is my go-to meal when I am running low in time or under the weather. It is a quick and easy meal that is filling and hearty. Nepali National Dish: Dal bhat is the national dish of Nepal. It literally means ’lentils with rice’ in Hindi. It is a traditional Nepali dish that is made by frequently made by the locals....
