fruits

According to the Raw Food Movement, at least 75% of the diet must be living or raw. But can raw food taste good? One bunch of mums think it can.
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Aam Panna also called Kairi Panha (Kairi meaning raw mango) is a summer tradition at my home. Summer is incomplete without cool sips of deliciously cardamomy, sweet and tart, iced mango panha.
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Happy Vishu to all my readers! Vishu this year was a complete success for me, everything went right! My daughter, who's growing up so fast, not only comprehended what the early morning fuss was about but also appeared to thoroughly enjoy it. The previous evening we made the mandatory trip to the local supermarket...
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I recently had no bake cookies at a cousin’s place, crumbled over ice cream these cookies filled with dates tasted rich and deliciously decadent, and ofcourse I loved the fact that it needed no baking and took just minutes to put together. The original recipe had an egg and butter in it – I...
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This recipe was a result of a case of sour grapes, that happened recently. Quite simply I picked up a bunch of green grapes that were a little too tart, so it sat languishing in the fridge where the cold temps was doing nothing to slow down the ageing process. I googled frantically, I...
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Of all the smells that envelope my family home, the prominent ones are seasonal. The coffee blooms – can anything be more redolent than the smell of coffee blooms. Why hasn’t anyone bottled it yet? The orange blossoms, the mango blossoms, and the sickly sweet smell of overripe jackfruits bursting at the seams –...
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Vegan Fruity Pear Upside Down Cake This cake is very simple, again its eggless and butterless (like the vegan chocolate avocado cake) though not fat free. I have been really keen on baking an upside down fruit cake. It seems like a proper kitchen goddess thing to do. And though I had butter and...
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Thank your for dropping by, I am moving my recipes to my new webblog: eatWRITEthink – click here for Moist Vegan Chocolate Cake (with Avocado). See you there!
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Muhallabiah is a very simple and yet a rich tasting Rice & Almond pudding from the middle east. Flavoured with rose water or orange blossom water, and topped with pomegranate and nuts, a spoonful of this creamy pudding can send you into throes of ecstacy, if there’s such a thing. Anna of Morsels &...
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Even though it feels vain I really might like to grow old like Dev Anand the evergreen heart-throb of atleast a couple of Hindi movie going generations. Yes he’s gazillion years old, and someone really ought to tell Dev saab that dyeing his hair black (or is that a black wig) does nothing to...
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