Chocolates! Chocolates! Chocolates! Its holiday time year here and most of the shops are loaded with lots of yummy chocolate treats! With full mood of Holiday swing, I decided to bake some chocolate treats for my family and friends! When it is chocolate, first choice comes with my kids is brownies and choco chip cookies! They love to have hot brownies! And most of the time they choose the topping for it. This time they like to avoid nuts and love add to choco chips to make it more chocolaty!                &nbs ..read more

              Inji Thogayal is a comforting dish, one can prepare in no matter of time.  When ever I feel lazy to cook, my choice always end up with thogayal and rasam. Both rasam and thogayal pair up very well and make a delicious meal. Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Serves: 4 ~ 5 Sources: www.sarasyummybites.com Ingredients: 1/2 cup / 50 grams ginger, Washed, deskin and chopped 1 tbsp urad dhal 1 green chili 3 red chilli 1/4 tsp asafoetida/ hing/perungaayam Gooseberry size tamarind 1/4 cup ..read more

   Paal pongal is a traditional pongal prepared during Pongal festival using newly harvested rice in South India. Paal Pongal is prepared only with salt and offered to God.  But different family follow different version of this Pal pongal. Some offer sweet pongal and some offer salt pongal in spite of sakara pongal. I have shared both of the recipe here. Try and leave your comments here.   I am posting this recipe for Blogging marathon under Pongal special " theme for this week. Please do check  what other Blogging Marathon friends doin ..read more

Ellu Bella is a Karnataka special recipe made for Makar Sankranti festival to share between friends and family. Usually they start preparing this dishes 2 to 3 weeks before the festival.  Traditionally jaggery was cut into small pieces using nut cracker to match the size of dry coconut. I prepared very small quantity, so I added jaggery powder for quicker version and used dry coconut as it is, without scraping the black skin of the coconut.  But it tasted delicious! I am posting this recipe for Blogging marathon under Pongal special " theme for this week. Please do ..read more

Pongal is also referred as Thai Pongal, is a multi-day Hindu harvest festival of South India, particularly in the Tamil community. It is observed at the start of the month Tai according to Tamil solar calendar and this is typically about January 14. It is dedicated to the Hindu sun god, the Surya, and corresponds to Makar Sankranti, the harvest festival under many regional names celebrated throughout India. The Four days of the Pongal festival are called Bhogi Pongal, Surya Pongal and Maattu Pongal, Kaanum Pongal. ( Source wikipedia) According to the tradition, the festival marks the end o ..read more

     Idli podi is my kids favorite and they can eat anytime of the day with idli or dosai. We used to prepare different podis like nalla karam podi, kandi podi at our house. But My kids always settle with this one. You can adjust spicy level to your need.Serving with sesame oil makes it more aromatic and tasty!. As you guys know,  I choose Andhra Pradesh state as my theme for this week. Please do check  what other Blogging Marathon friends doing this week.  Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 15 ~ 20 minutes Grinding time: Less than 5 minu ..read more

      Pappu or paruppu dont want any brief introduction,  most of Indian cuisine have this comforting recipe! Every household in India prepare this dish differently to their family taste. The recipe which I shared is from inlaws family prepared traditionally in Andhra Style! You can also use dosa kai and other vegetables except okra to prepare this dish. This is my day 1 post for BM#108, week 2 under Pick one state theme.  I choose Andhra Pradesh state as my theme for this week. Please do check  what other Blogging Marathon friends doing this week.  Prepa ..read more

An oatmeal raisin cookie is a type of drop cookie distinguished by an oatmeal-based dough with raisins mixed throughout. Its ingredients also typically include flour, sugar, eggs, salt, and various spices. A descendant of the Scottish oatcake, the oatmeal raisin cookie has become one of the most popular cookies in the United States. (Wiki) The trick to get fluffy cookies is based on mixing the wet and dry ingredients. Follow the recipe and incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet in three stages. Do not use a mixer a ..read more

Foochow / Kompia comes under bagel variety and famous street food in SIBU - Malaysia.  This different buns are very crusty outer and not much chewy inside as begal.  Most of  Foochow buns are made plain or topped with sesame seeds. Now a days Sibu people loves to have it has pork sandwich or any other meat filling. History of Foochow      Legend has it that a Chinese general named JiGuang, looking to feed his soldiers in Fujian province with something quick to make and easy to carry into battle, commissioned these buns to be mad ..read more

Cookies are always makes a perfect holidays gift to everyone. This white chocolate chip cookies are chewy and fudgy, delicious to eat anytime of the day.  Sharing this cookies to bake athon event. Preparation time 10 minutes Refrigerating time 30 to 60 minutes Baking time: 10 to 12 minutes Total time: 50 to 82 minutes Yield: 24 cookies Wet Ingredients: 1/2 cups packed brown sugar 1/4 Cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 Egg 1 Tsp vanilla extract Dry Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp baking powder 1 tsp ..read more