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After reading about all the benefits of brown rice lately, I picked a pack of brown rice during one of our weekly grocery shopping. As usual it was ignored in my kitchen. I have hoarded a lots of stuff similar to this - oat bran, wheat bran, steel cut oats, flax seed, flax seed meal, almond butter, chia seeds are some of them. I get all these healthy ingredients when I read all the health

I love making jams at home. You get to control the amount of sugar and also avoid the addition of "hard to pronounce" ingredients in it. I never knew making jams can be so easy! Our jams are always homemade and I make them with various seasonal fruits available. Some of our favorites include the Pomegranate jam, Plum Jam and Orange Marmalade giving a variety to our morning breakfasts!

I had a

Last month, I was contacted by the fine folk at POM wonderful, wondering if I would be interested in sampling POM. I immediately agreed since we are huge fans of POM and it is a must in our shopping list during our trips to Costco. They sent me eight cute little bottles. We drank several of them and I reserved a few of them to try out some recipes. I made this spiced tea cake from the POM website

This is a classic and easy salad with a very simple dressing made at home. Made with simple and delicious ingredients and makes summer/spring scream in your mouth with all fresh ingredients. This can be accompanied with any meal and gives a great start to your meal.

Ingredients
Lettuce/greens - I used an artisan spring mix from Costco
Cherry tomatoes - 10
Cucumber - 1
Black olives -5
Goat cheese

Everyone is pretty excited about Valentine’s Day! Even though we don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day as such, I make it a point to cook something cute and romantic just to make the day memorable. Here are a few such recipes which are easy to make, look pretty and appealing!

Valentine’s Day is all about hearts and these little heart shaped cookies take you back to your childhood where "little heart"

Hello Friends,
Here I am with the roundup of Veggie/Fruit of the Month Potato. Thanks Priya for giving me the opportunity to host this lovely event. Also, I extend my thanks to my fellow bloggers for sending in their delicious entries. I have categorized the entries into sweets, appetizers, side dishes and main dishes. Hope you enjoy them!

Sweets
Neetu Srivastava - Aloo Halwa
Harini-Jaya - Aloo

I stumbled upon this recipe a while ago and had bookmarked it to try. Recently, I have switched to a low-carb diet in order to lose some weight and this looked like a great soup to have for lunch. TH enjoyed it along with rice and a vegetable stir-fry. I adapted the recipe and cooked the dal in an indian way using the pressure cooker. It is a great way to sneak in broccoli and make kids eat their

I still remember amma serving hot, hot dosas along with freshly made coconut chutney and this spicy, tangy tomato curry for breakfast even on busy weekdays, when all three of us were running around getting ready to school. Gone are those days when we used to have a proper South Indian breakfast every morning. Those breakfasts have been replaced by quick cereals, oatmeal and toasts. Though we have

Here I am with the roundup of Show me Your Cookbook. Thanks a lot to the following bloggers for sending in their cookbook entries.
Cook Like a Bong - Mainland China CookbookNot Yet 100 - Cooking with Pedatha
Kanchan - Cookbook Showoff
Yummy 4 Tummy - Showing my Cookbooks
Arundhuti Rama - Kadhai Murg from cookbook
You can check out the current event "Show Me Your Soup" in the series here.

And..The winner of my little 3rd year blog anniversary giveaway is Karunya. Thanks everyone for entering.
Karunya, please email your address and I shall ship the gift to you.

These chips are a great snack. These slightly salted, deep fried goodies also can be used to accompany any rice dishes. Amma usually serves these chips along with tomato rice, lemon rice or bisibelabath. They are so easy to make and a single plaintain yields a huge amount of chips. I made these last weekend along with sanbar saatham and we munched on the leftovers as an evening snack. The bananas

Today, Dil Se.. turns three!

It all started a day without much thinking inspired by all the blogs out there. I just wanted to record all my kitchen experiments being a newbie to cooking. Blogging has introduced me to several new friends, people from all parts of the world and also to various cuisines. I have acquired a few photography skills as well. Blogging gave me the courage to venture

It is freezing out there in many parts of the world and what can be more comforting than a warm bowl of soup and some crusty bread to dunk in it. After showing off your cookbooks, it is time to get cooking your favorite soups this month.

According to Wikipedia, "Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water or some liquid base.

Blue Plate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain is a tiny, cute restaurant located in downtown Portland, OR. It is really really small with just four to five tables and the food is cooked right there in a small kitchen where you could look at your orders getting cooked.

We reached there after hearing some rave reviews from a few people we met and also after looking at some reviews on the web. We did

Kuzhi paniyaram has been one of my favorite snacks since childhood. My mom used to make these beauties both savory and sweet versions and serve them piping hot as evening snacks after we return home from school. They taste great by themselves or along with some spicy chutney.

 I was only able to drool at these kuzhi paniyarams when I saw them in various food blogs until I got these back along

Happy New Year to everyone! Hope everyone had great Christmas and New Year celebrations..

This is a to-go snack at my place. Whenever we feel like munching on something hot along with our chai, I make these quick and easy onion bajjis. It comes together in no time and is made with staples available in our kitchen. The bajjis can be made soft or crisp by adjusting th amount of water in the batter

This event was started by Priya and is all about veggies and fruits. Every month a veggie or fruit will be features and you could share your delicious recipes made out of the star ingredient. Thanks Priya, for the opportunity to host this lovely event. The star vegetable chosen for this month is Potato.Who does not like potato right? We have countless recipes using the humble potatoes and

Aloo Parathas are our favorite kind of stuffed parathas. I make parathas often for dinner with different kinds of stuffings. I tried these aloo parathas with baby purple potatoes. They were equally delicious as the normal aloo parathas. The potatoes quick really quick and I made these real quick. I mildly spiced the filling and they tasted great all by themselves. We had them with some yogurt,

This is one delicious curry I prepared for the Indian Cooking Challenge. It goes well with any dish - pulao, plain white rice, chapati, naan roti etc. I loved the tanginess of the curry due to the addition of yogurt. It is a different version of the normal curries prepared at my home. The spices filled my house with aroma and was so appetizing. I made my curry with purple baby potatoes and I

Hello friends,I am finally here with the roundup of "Show Me The Curry" event. I am so thankful to everyone who sent in their amazing entries. I received a whopping 116 entries and it took a while to post the roundup and I apologize for the delay. Hope you enjoy the roundup!Also do check out the current event - Show Me Your Cookbook!Usha - Microwaved mixed vegetable curryDeepti Sidana - Malai

My favorite way of having Peanut Butter is in the form of these cookies. I wanted to make something for the lovely ladies I was going to meet Priya, Anu, Shubha and Hetal at the LA Foodies meet. I decided to make an eggless version of these Peanut Butter Cookies. They came out crispy and were ready in less than an hour. We had an amazing time over some amazing food at Rajdhani, Artesia. Anu was