Tomato Soup - Kids Favourite

Tomato Soup - Kids Favourite

Tomato soup - is the only soup my daughter asks as the first item in any restaurant. We would advice her that there are many more soup varieties in this world which she can try. But we never won her decision in this soup matter. 

Mushroom Biryani (With Coconut Milk)

Mushroom Biryani Cooked With Coconut Milk

Mushroom biryani is another variety rice recipe which is a good choice for any potlucks or for any get-together. One of my best buddy P makes the best mushroom biryani. My daughter likes her mushroom biryani. Hence, I have to make mushroom biryani equally good as my friend's.

Simple Tomato & Onion Chutney

Simple Tomato & Onion Chutney - For Idli/Dosa/Poori/Chapathi

This is one of my childhood favourite side dish which my mom used to make for poori or chapathi. Sometimes my mother makes it in a gravy consistency to go with idli/dosai/paniyaram and more watery to go with venn pongal. In my home we call this as "thakkali chutney".

Mango Lassi - Use the Season

Mango Lassi - The 2nd Best Way of Consuming a Mango

You all might be wondering then what is THE best way to consume a mango. Well.. just take a nice.. ripe.. native variety mango from fridge..

Green Mango Rice - Use the Season

Green Mango Rice - Use the Season

Another rice variety for the season - raw mango rice - if not now, then when. It is my daughter who keeps asking me to make the mango rice. But i do just once a season. I find boring to grate the mango. So I start to do the rice on one deal with my daughter.

Bajji Bites - Easy for the Lazy

Bajji Bites - Easy for the Lazy

Not always.. but most of the times i am lazy!😌. But never lazy to munch. imagine.. one lazy evening.. someone serving you.. nice hot and crunchy home made onion bajjis with two spoons of coconut chutney beside the bajjis.

"Black night shade" Dhal / Manathakkali Keerai Kootu

Manathakkali Keerai Kootu - One Pot Dish

Manathakkali keerai  (Solanum nigrum), usually know as night shade plant has many medicinal values. It is very commonly used in south Indian cuisines. 

Perungayam or Asafoetida or Hing - In My Kitchen

Asafoetida

Katti perungayam or the compound (hard) type asafoetida is the resin of a plant  Ferula assafoetida. This compound form is more flavourful than

Avakkai - Use the Season - Awesome Mango Pickle

Avakkai - Easy yet Awesome Mango Pickle

Again, I am going to my college days when I think about this avakkai pickle. Until then I was not a big fan of pickles and used to wonder how in the world people ever ate pickles. My mother used to drool at pickles. My father was happy to, infact preferred to eat previous night's rice in water and pickle for break fast. Many of my friends were happy to eat curd rice and pickle everyday and survive! I was always detached from all these peoples' love for pickle and was looking at them like a bottled specimen in the zoology lab.