Tidali Dal

Dal Chawal back home was everyday food – for dinner. My mom makes different type of dal – for every weeknight and then a side of some vegetables along with rice. There are so many… Read More

Pasta – Desi style

This dish is one of Mom’s weekend dinner special. She knows we love this dish and prepares it at least 2 hours ahead of our dinner time – so that we could snack on it before sitting… Read More

Chicken Curry

Sometimes I feel like experimenting with my basic recipes – to see if changing an ingredient brings in a difference in taste? texture??. And then during the process of working with changing ingredients… Read More

Egg Dosa

Cooking with raw ingredients is fun – but cooking using “left overs” is an art . I love using left overs and get creative with them… don’t like to eat the same meal twice in less… Read More

Doodh Peda – Milk Fudge

This “Sweet” is all good milk – made with real milk, milk powder and milk solids (homemade cottage cheese/chenna). I have created it many times – for dessert, gifting or just snacking (sometimes… Read More

Egg Curry

The ‘Incredible’ egg is used by many of us in many many different ways – omelette, scrambled, boiled etc etc. For breakfast, baking, lunch, dinner and it really in true sense of the word… Read More

Thumbprint Cookies – with Chocolate Ganache

Let the holiday baking begin!!! I love baking from the scratch and it really is very satisfying to see mixing ingredients coming together in the oven to form a tasty bite :). What I like… Read More

Butter Paneer Masala

As long as or as far as my memory goes – this has been my forever favorite restaurant dish. My visits to Indian restaurants were well spent on ordering and eating this dish. A super creamy tomato based… Read More

Almond and cream cheese pound cake…

Cream cheese in pound cake? yeah.. very very healthy (maybe not) – and very tasty. This september and October, we made a few trips to Wisconsin to meet our friends. It’s during one of these trips… Read More

Lassi with Fresh Herbs – Spiced Yoghurt Drink

This drink is easy to make, refreshing to drink and has a lot of health benefits coming from it. It helps digestion, stabilizes the immune system and is a very good cooling agent. My… Read More

Coconut Berfee

This is one of my absolute favorite Indian sweets. Its coconut fudge called berfee (pronounced as Ber (as in Berlin) and fee = BerFee) in India. My Aunt has been making this at home since ages for… Read More

Stretch Bread with GMC filling

 baking bread at home is such an awesome feeling…the dough reacting with yeast and doubling itself and so soft to touch – the dough was behaving just as the recipe was asking it… Read More

Paneer Tikka

Chop – check Marinate – check Grill – check Eat – check Eat more??? check That is how easy this appetizer is. It is not heavy…lightly flavored yoghurt based marination and mildly spicy with a touch… Read More

Sour Cream Pound Cake

 I love pound cakes and brownies to an extent that it is always a battle for me to choose between the TWO! I love them — really really love brownies and pound cakes or pound cakes… Read More

Chocolate Souffle Torte

Chocolate recipe exchange – all the motivation I needed . As this is a very FIRST participation from my blog I was very excited to try out something new from the so many books on… Read More

Murgh Malai –

is chicken marinated in cheese and whip cream and served on a bed of white rice. My husband had been requesting this dish for quite some time and giving me vague specs on… Read More

Kori Ghassi…

is a (popular) Mangalorian chicken curry. what made me try this dish was its key ingredient – COCONUT. It is made in coconut oil, has coconut paste in it and in the end you stir… Read More

CFC Brownies with a hint of coffee

A BROWNIE addict, enthusiast and/or a freak is left with only one choice when they come across a recipe that is promising in more than one ways -  to be cakey, fudgy and chewy (CFC… Read More

Cave Point is a BEAUTY – you gotta see it to believe it.

This place is so so scenic and natural, untouched with any iota of artificiality. You want to take some timeout from all that’s happening around – Go there!!! You wont regret it a… Read More

A day by the water falls

This was one of those perfect days which was unplanned and unpredictable. A lazy sunday afternoon where you want to be out of the house – but dont know where to go. So we hop into… Read More