Chocolate Chips Cookies
- 13
- March
- 2026
My little one is all excited about baking cookies these days. Ingredients 1 stick unsalted butter 1 and 1/4 cup flour pinch of salt 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips 1 egg 1/2 tsp baking soda Method Bring melted butter and egg in large bowl together […]
Banana Pancakes – Toddler’s Plan
- 13
- December
- 2019
I call this two ingredient breakfast as Toddler Plan – B. When nothing works…I sneak an egg and a banana to the batter and make things work. Ingredients 1 cup all purpose flour 11/2 tsp baking powder 11/2 tsp sugar pinch of salt 1 whole egg 1/4 cup milk 1/2 a banana – mushy a […]
Strawberry Waffles – Girly Breakfast
- 13
- December
- 2019
Girly breakfast for my little girl. Ingredients 1 cup all purpose flour 11/2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp sugar salt to taste 1/4 cup milk 1/4 cup grated strawberries an egg white(optional) 1-2 drops vanilla essence(optional) a cube of butter) Method Mix all the above mentioned ingredients together (except butter). And pour them onto heated […]
My Very Own Damn Burger – Desi Style!
- 09
- January
- 2018
First of all ‘Burger’ is not for the faint heart, weak, vegetarian Indians! The very sound of the word Cheese Burger (a.k.a) Ham Burger is so unorthodox to many!! And, of course…we Desis (Indians…the East Indians, I mean) have invented a quite a number of options for ourselves! The meat is carefully replaced with aloo tikkis (potato […]
A Fruit Pizza – To The Apple Of My Eye
- 11
- June
- 2017
Love is fruit in season at all times – Mother Theresa Cooking with fruits – rarely happens in an Indian kitchen! It’s so deeply ingrained in us…that, eating fruits fresh (and in a raw form) is so good. In […]
Coleslaw – Southern Cooking
- 30
- March
- 2016
Having lived in Mississippi for nearly a decade,(before rooting here at Carolina’s)…sometimes, we consider it as our second native place (besides India)! And, when friends call…emotions just pile up & I end up cooking something Southern that day. On one such lovely day, we were endlessly chatting about the people we have got…how many amateur […]
Spicy Masala Fries – Anyone?
- 28
- May
- 2013
Also Known As Indo French Fries. Finger Chips. Potato Fries, Freedom Fries, Curried Fries. Spicy Masala Fries. Lately, I have been obsessed with fusion cooking! I know, I haven’t shown any proof to you all for this claim, yet! Well, in the process, I have discovered a short cut for Indianizing everything that comes to […]
Hickory Chicken – True Southern Cooking!
- 19
- May
- 2011
Hickory Chicken: A friend of mine, Dennis Tindall cooked this ‘Hickory Chicken’ for me. It was fully cooked in the hickory sticks smoke! Yes, that’s right…sloooooow cooking, one of my favorite. Well, more than the dish, the preparation style is lot more fun. On the other day…after done with considerable amount of sweating under the […]
Grilled Trout:(Southern Cooking) You enjoy restaurant food…And you have tried re-creating it at home, what was the result? Yeah, I agree sometimes we flunk over simple ones! Honestly, many a times…I abstain from fixing ‘Restaurant Secret Recipes’ at home. Not that because it is still a secret or hard to fix kind! And come on, […]
Kale and Cheese Omelette – The Infinite Variable
- 06
- April
- 2011
Kale-Cheese Dinner Omelet: So you know spinach omelet…and why not Kale? Isn’t it a perfect choice to include some greens in your diet. Whenever I had to fix a bitter-tasting greens…I put some extra effort to make it quite appealing and palatable. The moment I saw this recipe on Kalyn’s Kitchen, I knew that I […]
