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Why we must change to Organic Food? 2008-09-24 05:30:00 It is true that after coming to US, my perspective on Food has changed. Previously I used to think frozen food are bad for health. But, after doing online research, I confirmed that Frozen food are not as bad as we think. In fact, they are equally nutritious to raw food. Now, I have various queries on organic food. As usual started my online research and here is a basic information about organic f Read more:Organic
Foodie Chat - Interview with our lovely Cynthia! 2008-09-23 08:27:00 This week's foodie needs no introduction. She has been and will be a great inspiration to many. I am really happy to present an interview of our favorite Cynthia
from Tastes like home. When I started blogging, her blog is one of my inspirations. She is one of the simplest and humblest food blogger I have come across.I have learned many recipes from her blog and also have wondered how she takes suc Read more:Foodie
I update my Blogroll.Check and let me know if I need to add yours. 2008-09-22 16:22:00 Atlast! I updated my blogroll. This has been pending with me for a long time now. You can check if your blog is listed by searching by your name or your blogs title or your blogs URL (first part).You can check for the blogroll hereAs of now I have added almost all the food blogs which I visit. But, there is a possibility that I have missed yours. Not intentionally, but by mistake. Please go throug Read more:Blogroll
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If I say Italy, You say? 2008-09-22 08:36:00 Pasta! What else? Though there is lot other things to embrace in Italy
, the main thing most of us foodie remember is Pasta. Preparing any kind of Pasta salad recipe requires creativity and passion. Italian Pasta recipe has its own flavor and fans. As we all know there are different kinds of pasta, I used Rotini Pasta to prepare this salad.Cooking during weekends is difficult for me. With my husban
Did you get 2 free bottles of Country Bob's Sauce? 2008-09-21 21:50:00 A few days back, not days may be months back, I was contacted by a representative of Country
Bob’s all purpose sauce to review their product. In turn, they sent me 2 free bottles of their sauce. I get excited when I am asked to review something, especially when it is food related. Who will not? Within a week, I got their 2 bottle of sauce. As usual I was skimming through the ingredients and was
Eat Healthy Calcium Rich Update! 2008-09-20 16:36:00 I really appreciate the contribution to this event. Till now we have received 121 entries without including my contribution. I really thank each and every one who contributed.As you know, the contest ends on Sept 24th'08 and 10 random recipes will be selected for voting and the voting will be up from Sept 25th. Those who have thought of contributing, but have forgotten due to their busy schedule, Read more:Calcium
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How to make a sweet when you are out of Sugar. 2008-09-19 12:01:00 Every cook will have an alternate for each ingredient, so that he/she need not get panic when in crisis. Alternatives, have been and will always be of great help. The greatest alternative I have come across is, tofu for eggs and yes, it makes a lot of recipes involving eggs available for vegans.Yesterday, I wanted to prepare Rava ladoo. Sometimes you get this urge suddenly from no where to eat a p Read more:Sugar
Free Menu Planning e-course for Busy Moms 2008-09-18 14:50:00 Recently, I came across this site called menus4moms.com and their free tool for menu planing. The Menu Planning course
for busy moms, teaches how to spend less time and also save money planning your day to day meals. I find it very informative and c'mon it is FREE!Not only Moms, it is useful for every women/men who spends time in cooking and packing lunch. I found their site packed with a lot of i
Baingan Bhartha - Eggplant gravy/curry 2008-09-18 11:18:00 When it comes to spicy gravy
/curry recipe, no recipe can compete with the Indian recipes. They have their own 'it' factor that makes them unique. Baingan Bhartha is one such South Indian recipe, an Andra Recipe to be precise. I had bought a big eggplant to make Bagara baigan, one of the famous eggplant recipe prepared the Indian way. Unbeknownst to me, I had been preparing baingan bhartha. Got a l
How to prepare Vegetable Stock 2008-09-17 21:25:00 Stock is a flavoured liquid. It forms a basis for many of the Chinese food. Not only Chinese food, many Indo Chinese/Thai food. Many soup recipe calls for this vegetable/chicken stock as a main ingredient to add flavour to the food. I did not know that these stock play a major role in these soup recipes. Once I came to know, I thought it is one of the difficult process to prepare these stocks. But Read more:Vegetable
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Foodie Chat - An Interview with The Leftover Queen! 2008-09-16 15:35:00 As a newbie in this foodie world, I had lot of questions, lot of hesitations to contact people, a lot of unanswered questions about whom to contact and how to proceed in the right track. I did not have an experienced person to guide me. Every one would have struggled their way to get to the place where they are now. To get the inspiration and determination to sustain in this foodie blog world, I h Read more:Foodie
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, Queen
Vermicelli (Semiya) Biriyani/Briyani Recipe 2008-09-16 11:29:00 Recently I came across various version of Vermicelli (Semiya) Biriyani in many of our foodie's blog. This variety of Biriyani was really new to me. The only things I have tried with Semiya(Vermicelli) are Vermicelli (Semiya) Payasam and Semiya Upma. The main thing that made me skeptical in trying this biriyani is, lumps. If you screw the process it is for sure you will land up having lumps. But, I
Strawberry Apple Almond Cookies - A simple and easy cookie made from Leftovers! 2008-09-15 13:26:00 And finally! Here is my recipe for StrawberryAppleAlmondCookies
. I made these with the left over apple cookie dough. I have never seen strawberry and apple combo in cookies. The apple almond cookies were really tasty. I had left out with a little amount of dough which would make me around 6 more cookies. But, when I opened the fridge I had some strawberries that needed to be used asap. I don't
Eggless Apple Almond Cookies 2008-09-14 18:57:00 Sometimes when you try something new and if it is a hit, you really feel proud. I am writing this post with a pride to share my AppleAlmondCookies
recipe. It is a very simple cookie recipe which tastes great. I never thought apple will give such a flavour to the cookies. If you are a cookie lover, I suggest you to try this. You will never regret. I also made Strawberry Apple Cookies with the lef
Scribbling Scribe - My new Blog 2008-09-13 19:27:00 I have always wanted to write about topics other than food and I found 'Art of cooking Indian food' is not the place to write them. I want this blog to be more focused on food and food related items. Hence I decided to start a new blog and named it Scribbling (As this blog is like my diary where I share my views) Scribe
(I love to be a journalist!). Here is the link to my new blog, would be more
Strawberry Milkshake Recipe 2008-09-13 15:17:00 Every time when we go for grocery shopping, I plan to buy this strawberry but mostly come back without buying. Mainly because of the cost. But this time I wanted to try out strawberry cookies so I got it. But, before preparing the cookies, I had prepared this milkshake as per my husband's request. So here is the recipe of Strawberry
Milkshake. You can find the Strawberry cookies recipe soon in my
Coolest Toaster ever! 2008-09-12 13:57:00 Most of us grab a toast for breakfast. Be it with jam or with eggs, breads have become a major source of fulfilling our morning hunger. For all the toast lovers, from the heights of technology, I present to you the Electrolux Design Scan toaster! Isn't this the heights of creativity?Scan Toaster
Electrolux Design Lab via Gizmodo"People who don’t have time to wait for bread to toast can take their
Spicy Indian Omelet - Its HOT! 2008-09-12 13:17:00 If you are an omelet lover, you really enjoy this recipe. This very love for omelet made me start 101 omelet recipes. I was reading a cookbook, the other day for Vietnamese recipes. Though most of them required meat, the book had a great deal of luring recipes. In the Indian section, I found this spicy omelet recipe. Really spicy! I would suggest you to prepare the omelet the same way, without a Read more:Spicy
, Omelet
Microwave Cooking - Basic Guide and How to! 2008-09-11 10:01:00 Do you feel that you don't have time to cook? Do you like using technology in cooking? Are you a health freak? If yes, this is what you are looking for. Microwave Cooking - The wonder of technology making life in the kitchen easy, healthy and beautiful! As everyone, even I love cooking with a microwave not only because it is easy, but because I have bought one recently. Not every one knows how to Read more:Basic
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Vegetable Omelet 2008-09-10 11:26:00 There was a problem viewing my vegetable omelet which was posted previously, so I am re posting it for the 101 Omelet
series event.Ingredients for vegetable omelet:2 Eggs1 cup of mixed vegetables, which includes grated carrot, onions, tomatoes,mushrooms or any of your favourite vegetableSalt to tastePepper to taste1 tsp oil1 green chilli finely choppedMethod:Beat the eggs with yellow in high for 2 Read more:Vegetable
Aloo Muttar - Potato and Peas takes you to heaven, the Indian way! 2008-09-10 09:08:00 Are you the person who craves for something spicy? Do you love potatoes in any form? If you are answering at least one of the above as 'Yes', Aloo Muttar is 'the one' for you. Aloo is Potato
and Muttar is Peas in Hindi,an Indian Language. This is a gravy made with potatoes,peas and some Indian spices to make you go crazy! It has such a divine taste to it.Whenever you visit any Indian restaurant, y
Ribbon Beda recipe - Ribbon? 2008-09-09 10:35:00 Are you wondering why this snack is called Ribbon
Beda? If so, just take a look at the picture.May be my picture is not that good. But,Isn't it looking like ribbons? The shape of this snack is like that of ribbons. A spicy ribbon. I love this snack and this is my last in the Vinayaka chaturthi series of snacks and sweets. This very easy to prepare snack is also done with the Muruku maker. You jus
Manopu - A rice flour snack 2008-09-08 12:07:00 This is yet another snack we do for krishna jeyanthi. This recipe is also made with rice flour like cheedai but the shape is different. We add some more ingredients to give a different flavor to it. We make this recipe with an instrument which is used to make these snakes. Check out my other snacks made for krishna jeyanthi/Vinayaka chatirthi in my Recipe Index. Basically to get the desired shapes
Diwali Festival - Sweet and Snacks Recipes 2008-10-11 17:00:00 Time flies! It was like yesterday I celebrated last year's Diwali festival and now Diwali again! When ever I think of this 'Festival
of Lights', the first thing that comes to my mind is crackers! Yey! Diwali crackers are fun. The next obvious reason for which I love Diwali is, Sweet
s and Snacks! Duh! Then comes the new dress. I am not into fashion stuff these days. Oh! I have become old.
There w
Two Free e-books about Baking and Baking Ingredients 2008-10-10 20:30:00 If you had read my Halloween baking experience, you probably know where I stand. But, I am never going to give up until I do wonders. It is always good to learn before practicing. When I was browsing today, I found these two free e-books for baking. I am sure it will be of great help to all of us who love to bake cookies, cake etc.
The first free e-book is called 'How to bake: Your complete Refer Read more:Baking
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Me Me - All about me! 2008-10-10 09:00:00 I thought of combining this meme with some recipe post. But I am completely tired after the Pooja celebrations and my face is swollen like a pumpkin due to a gum/tooth ache! It is awfully painful! Why did I get this tooth ache? I brush my teeth regularly! :( My husband is having a lot of fun teasing me these days. First about my Halloween baking experience and now as I am a Pumpkin face, he wants
Navaratri series - Vijayadasami, Day 10 2008-10-09 20:30:00 I wish you all a very 'Happy Vijayadasami'. As for the Navaratri series
posts, it ends today! Though it is 'Navratri' - 9 nights, it officially ends on the 10th day where we do special pooja and complete the 9 days vrat/fasting. This day is considered to be the most auspicious day to start any new task! Schools generally open on this day after the dasara holidays!
I remember my cousin was waiting
Spinach Rice Recipe - For all the vegan and vegetarian lovers! 2008-10-09 09:18:00 I love spinach. Even as a kid, I used to eat them without making a fuzz, my mom still says. May be because of my mom's spinach recipe. But who cares, I love something healthy! Can you believe it? For a person who loves to roll in chocolates and Ice creams, this is something unusual. But, hey I naturally love Spinach
! God's gift! Who else is with me? Who else love spinach like me? C'mon there must
Navaratri Series - Saraswathi Pooja, Day 9 2008-10-08 21:30:00 Hiya! It is Saraswathi pooja! Apart from the variety of food that will be cooked for this occasion, the best part of saraswathi pooja is 'Not touching your books'. As a kid, I have longed for all the days to be this day! Getting up early morning, having your bath and starting to clean the house is what every one will do on this day. Me no exception.
With kumkum in one had and sandanam (sandal) in Read more:Pooja
Tabble Tennis Bat Cookie - An outcome of my Halloween disaster! 2008-10-08 08:00:00 If you had read my Halloween
baking experience, you pretty much know how this table tennis bat cookie got its life. Though my initial attempt was a failure, I am happy that at least I ended up with these cookies. Hey I tried! And Thanks to all those who commented and encouraged me to try more! All my foodie friends wanted to see how the outcome
was. With no further adieu, here are my Halloween bro Read more:Tennis
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