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Peach Jam

Jams & Preseves

I love if my breakfast is bread butter and jam, but at home not all are great fans of any jam. Vibha does not like anything sweet except of course chocolates, So when I prepare these jams , my son always relishes this , and particularly if it is accompanied...

Veena

September 1, 2016

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Java Plum Lemonade

Beverages and Drinks

Today marks the beginning of another mega marathon. We were given an option to choose either 4 categories or themes or just 1 category and cook and blog 26 recipes under that theme. I know it sounds crazy but we are always up to new challenges and this time is...

Veena

August 31, 2016

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Mini Vegatable Uthappam

Idli is one dish which my daughter refuses to eat. A south Indian, particular a madrasi and does not eat idli is highly unacceptable…well, that is what my family thinks. I have tried to give her idli with different chutney’s and sambhar and all my attempts failed. Finally I decided...

Veena

August 18, 2016

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Instant Rava Appe

Breakfast Recipes

There are many varieties of appam that we prepare for breakfast with the fermented appam batter , idli batter, millets batter. But when you do not have the batter stock and you want to make the appam or kuzhi paniyaaram for the breakfast then this instant rava appe is the...

Veena

August 17, 2016

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Kurkuri Bhendi In Philips Air fryer

Vegetable side dishes

The next in the series of air frying is making this crisp Lady finger crispies. They are so crisp and tasty with such a negligible quantity of oil. Without guilt you can have these kurkure bhendi regularly. Ingredients Lady finger/Bhendi 20 gms Gram flour/Besan 2 tbsp Chilli powder 1tsp Amchur...

Veena

August 11, 2016

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Chaas Ka Masala

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Most of the days , the weather in Chennai is hot. Since we have a very humid climate , generally we like to drink lot of buttermilk. It does help during the very hot seson to keep the body temperature down. We like to have as plain curds, Sweet lassi,...

Veena

August 9, 2016

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Corn methi malai

Vegetable side dishes

Another easy pressure cooker recipe is this corn methi malai.We just need to blanch the onion cashew and get the paste ready and then the whole subzi is ready in minutes INGREDIENTS Corn 1 cup Methi leaves 1 cup Onion 1 (sliced) Milk 1 cup Fresh cream 3 tbsp Salt...

Veena

August 7, 2016

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Parangikai Paal Kuzhambu

I saw this paal kuzhambu done by Manjula On UBF and was surprised to see that milk was used in kuzhambu.She has cooked this with the easy pressure cooking technique and has taken the recipe from Kanamma cooks INGREDIENTS Ridge gourd(cubed) 2 cups Shallots 1 cup Sambhar powder 2 tsp...

Veena

August 6, 2016

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Bombay Vegetable Grilled Sandwich

We liked all kind of sandwiched like open sandwich, stuffed with aloo curry and with fresh vegetables too. This particular sandwich is ultimate in terms of taste and flavour. If you have the masala powder ready getting the chutney ready and making the sandwich is breeze INGREDIENTS Recipe source:Show me...

Veena

August 5, 2016

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Layered salad

Salads

Salads need not be always boring. Sometimes to tempt your family to taste it, you can present it in layers with a dressing of your choice and with so many colourful vegetables available , they will love this salad. So here is one cataching salad. INGREDIENTS Lettuce(shredded) 1 cup Peas(Boiled)...