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Hope everyone had a great weekend!  Last Friday night I taught a class at Prep Kitchen Essentials and we had a great time.  The class was on Fresh & Easy Dinners and it turned out to be a fabulous night!  But before I share all the delicious details from the class with you I wanted that thank you all for you for your great inspirational ideas. I loved reading each and every one and couldn’t pick a favorite, so instead I let the random number generator choose the winner (I know…I’m pathetic)!  Anyways, the winner is BRANDI!!! Congratulations Brandi and I hope you enjoy this book as much as I do!  

Well, onto the menu…

Caribbean Shrimp Salad with Lime Vinaigrette

Panzanella 

Rigatoni with Grilled Summer Vegetables & Feta Cheese

Bake Pork Chops with Radicchio Slaw

Creme Fraiche & Lemon Sorbet

Here are some photos from the class&#8…

Wow, getting the kids into the kitchen this week was a bit of a challenge. You see, we were out camping most of the week. And well, there isn’t a great amount of cooking going on when we’re there, so we quickly fit in our cooking yesterday. This was perfect for a Sunday lunch (and fit into our schedule this week).

After watching The Lion King a number of times, Abby thought that the dish called Hakuna Frittata (which is a play on words from a song in the movie) would be a fun dish to make.

All of the Cooking with Kids recipes come from Company’s Coming Kids’ Healthy Cooking. If you want to get your kids in the kitchen AND eating healthy foods, this is the book for you! It’s e…

Mangalorean Chicken Curry was cooked some weekends back, but getting around now. I was in mood to cook something new, so took out my chicken cookbook. The name sounded exciting and since I was thinking I should make something different, I was eager to try this out. On checking the recipe, I knew immediately that its almost the same type that I make, except it calls for Fenugreek seeds and no ginger. Now I don’t normally add fenugreek seeds unless its for Chettinadu style, where you grind all the masala. This is almost similar. I guess all southern states of India, share more their of cuisines. But still it held to its name.

Weekends are getting more hectic as kids demand more of our time. So we have to plan something that gets done fast. Yet I didn’t want to miss out Sunday, a day to experiment new dishes. As I was busy with breakfast preparations, Hubby dear took over the task of giving the kids their bath. I remember those days, when Konda was about 3 yrs, she never used t…

Thanks so much everyone for the comments you left on the last post…you are too kind!  I am so glad that you all enjoyed Beau-Coup and I loved reading about your favorite finds!  The winner of the gift certificate is Landa from the All-Purpse Blog!!!  Congratulations…hope you buy something fun!

Well, two days before that huge cookie order was due I actually had a cooking class scheduled that I would teaching at Prep Kitchen Essentials.   The class had been scheduled a while back and while at first it didn’t sound like I would be able to make it through it with a smile on my face (since my legs were about to go out on me) I ended up meeting a lot of great people, cooking some fabulous food, and enjoying the night. Here are some photos from the c…

Finally I get to post this weekend lunch, that I prepared some weeks back. At times I find other posts getting priority and these weekend lunch gets delayed. Yesterday I didn’t cook lunch as we had gone out. We went to a restaurant called Tandoor, which dishes out awesome tandoori authentic dishes. They have open kitchen, covered by glass, so you can actually see the chefs working on your Naans, Kebabs and other things. Wish I could’ve gone in for a visit but seeing through the glass the chef working on them were great enough.We had a wonderful time enjoying all the dishes on the buffet.They served a traditional buttermilk in jeera which was awesome. Konda had a field time, lapping only on Achari Paneer tikka and Paneer Butter Masala.All in all, it was a memorable lunch.

Konda has a fancy dress competition today and we had to really think hard what to dress her up as. Since it was told to us very late, we had Friday left for shopping. Hubby dear took her and got a dress whic…

Change is the only consistent thing in this life! One can’t escape what changes life brings to one, happiness is when when one can adapt to those changes. I guess in general, life sounds exciting when you have a new overlook or a new thing happening to us. But if you ask me, I am more of a routine, mundane person, though I don’t mind the changes, life has brought to me, if its something related and within my scope, I never get bored with the same thing. But hey colours bring in lot of happiness right. Few friends have been telling me, that I got to change the template atleast. I looked through few but was always coming back to this one. I like white background, so best would be to change the header!

How do you like the new header? I thought this suited my theme and title! With the four seasons and four seasonal cooking style. I somehow loved that Boar getting BBQ! It took me back to those wonderful childhood dreams, spent reading Asterix, the gaul. I even imagined wild boars…

Everyday seems to come with a new challenge and I am determined that I meet them all. The latest one on the breakfasts and another one given by hubby dear are top of my mind. Hubby dear has given me the mission of cooking all that I posted a year ago. Want to know the reason why? Well he feels those pictures have to be replaced with new ones. So here I am with the first in that attempt. Nawabi Biryani is the first of the posts I did and it holds very dear to heart as its the most delicious one I can remember eating when I used to eat meat some 2 decades back. And now its a favorite with hubby dear and is prepared quite often. But only this time I had a mission of clicking it away. I also wanted to try some dry roast that will go well with this biryani.

Last night when hubby dear called from the station before starting home, Peddu pulled the phone from me and said ‘Dada Da Da” meaning Daddy come come, well I was sure that would have put the Daddy dear in one spot. This mornin…

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