Paal Kozhukattai / Doodh ka Modak – Traditional Tamil Pudding
- 30
- November
- 2010
Paal Kozhukattai: I have heard about this particular sweet, a million times(both through movies and friends)…but never got a chance to see it or to taste it!!! My mommy is a kind of person…who is very content with her own style of cooking,he he…I mean, she never showed even slightest curiosity to try anything traditional […]
Brownies
- 15
- September
- 2010
Brownie: Ingredients: 2 Cups of unsweetened cocoaSugar 1 cupButter 1/4 cup Flour 1 cupEggs 2Salt 1/4 spoonMelted chocolate to finish. Method: Mix everything together with electric beater. Transfer the contents to well-greased oven safe pan. Now bake them over 350 F for about half hour. Cut them into squares and run the melted chocolate on […]
Pootharekulu:(Andhra Special) When I was studying at Hyderabad, I got introduced to this sweet’ by my best friend, Kranthi. Well, when she presented this sweet’, all I thought was…it looks like tissue paper and was so skeptical to take a bite!!! Anyhow, once she explained…how it was prepared’ I was all thrilled:) But somehow, I […]
Semolina Pudding / Sooji Kheer / Rawa Payasam
- 03
- August
- 2010
Semolina Kheer: Ramzan Payasam. Ramzan Kanji. Sweet Porridge-Ramzan special. Thari Kanji. Sometimes, its very easy for me to be a terrible cook…no, its not a joke. I make blunders, okay some huge blunders, simply irrevocable mistakes while fixing even good old simple recipes. The each time, I tried to whip this sooji kheer, I was […]
Chocolate Mousse & Memoirs of School Days Fun:)
- 19
- July
- 2010
Chocolate Mousse: When I was in high school, I loved recess. Come on who didn’t? Its a chance to get away from the regular boring classes. The usual obedient show’ we put up on, will be broken in split second upon hearing the bell sound! We were allowed to run around like a maniac and […]
Sandesh – Sometimes, Nothing is Everything!
- 06
- June
- 2010
Sandesh:(Bengali Style) When I was a kid, my grandma kept making sandesh quite often for me, almost every day:) She just split milk intentionally, added some sugar to it and dished out as decadent sweet! No practical errors! Of course its not cooking at all! But that’s what so good about it:)I never understood that, […]
Badam Puri – Sinful Indulgence
- 30
- May
- 2010
Badam Puri: Ingredients: Almonds 10-15 Saffron few strandsMilk 1/4 cupAll purpose flour 1 cupGhee for shallow fryingSugar syrup thick 1 cupSliced nuts to garnish. Method: Soak almonds ahead in warm water. Peel their skin off and wet-grind the nuts to thick paste. In a wide bowl, bring the flour, crushed saffron and almond paste…if needed, […]
Rabri:(Bengali Sweet) Paneer Payasam? Thirattu Paal – Payasam Ingredients: Milk, Milk and more Milk…as much as you wanted,Sugar as per your tasteNuts to garnishCardamom to flavour. Method: Split a litre of milk, using lemon juice, or citric acid or salt. Boil continuously and remove the whey. BTW, whey is full of milk protein too, try […]
Stuffed Jamun – I am Going Weak for Sweets:)
- 24
- May
- 2010
Stuffed Dry Jamuns: Nothing much to talk about the preparation. Just prepared everything in a routine Jamun method. Except that I stuffed some of my favorite nuts inside. Discard the strong syrup, after done with enough imbibing, serve chilled as dry jamuns.:)
Maravalli Kizhangu Halwa:(Country Style) Manihot esculenta is the Botanical name of this plant. Where they have modified tap root…rich in starch. Its eaten in many parts of the world today, but traces its origin to South America. In India, it is often associated with famine food’. During depression, people mainly sustained with just few tapioca […]
