Creamy Mushroom Soup

Creamy Mushroom Soup

Creamy mushroom soup - never guessed it would be this easy to make it at home. Few ingredients.. quick recipe.. quite filling dish.

Just pick fresh clean mushrooms and make sure you have fresh cream and thyme at home. The thyme does the magic. That's all..

Poondu Kaara Chutney / Spicy Garlic Chutney

Spicy Garlic Chutney / Poondu Kaara Chutney

Poondu kaara chutney - as the name says.. the key ingredients are.. lots of garlic, dry red chillies, small tomato, sesame oil and salt to taste. That's all. This spicy and flavourful chutney is sautéd with enough oil, it therefore stays good for 2 days on shelf and for a week in fridge.

Beans-Carrot Poriyal / Green Beans and Carrot Stir Fry

Beans-carrot Poriyal / Green Beans and Carrot Stir Fry

Beans-carrot poriyal is a very common side dish for meals in any south Indian home. excellent side dish for sambar or rasam or curd rice. 

Paneer Pasanda

Paneer Pasanda

Paneer pasanda is another paneer gravy dish which is quiet easy to make as there is no chopping of onion and tomato.

Kadamba Saadham - Comfort Food on a Cold day

Kadamba Saadham - Country Food with Native Vegetables

Kadamba saadham(rice).. i was not familiar with this rice until few years back when i read the recipe in a cook book during Navarathri festival.

Vegetable Fried Rice

Vegetable Fried Rice

Fried rice - its such a simple rice dish, not too strong, yet flavourful. colourful for the eyes and satisfies the taste buds. if it is accompanied by some perfect side dish like any manchurian gravies.. it can satisfy your soul too !

Kathirikkai-Murungakai Sambar - Namma Sambar !!

Kathirikkai & Murungakai Sambar - My Style.

Sambar.. in my house was never like the restaurant style or like any of you would guess. It is close-to-my-heart dish. This sambar will be plain without any heavy spice. May be that is the reason why I was initially very very fond of hotel-sambar. once I learnt to make the hotel-sambar I started making it quiet often. But then

Mysore Pak - Deepavali Is Just Around the Corner !

Mysore Pak - Melting Ghee-licious South Indian Sweet

Mysore pak - I was not a very big fan of Mysore pak during my childhood days. But I saw people going crazy for this simple not-so-soft or not-very-flavourful south Indian sweet. Especially my father. I remember, this Mysore pak used to be an important sweet in the wedding sweets ("Kalyana seer palakaram" list along with boondhi laddoo and badusha).