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| Mosar avallaki |
| 2008-08-30 19:12:00 |
Mosaravallakki... that is curds and poha, is a very common dish in temples. I remember the best version i ever had at the Katil Durga parameshvari temple. On ekadashi this happens to be one of the most favorite offerings made to god. It is very easy and quick. Makes an excellent break fast or.This evening i was talking to my friend, she had had this dish for breakfast this morning. So i had to eat it! So i made it. We were also remembering a lesson we had in our college on this dish written by ...
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| Fish and Stew |
| 2008-08-30 18:46:00 |
Giada De laurentis's every day Italian happens to be one of my favorite shows on the food network. the other day she was showing a recipe with fish and a vegetable broth. I had to try it! But my way! So this is what i did. The taste was unbelievable. I had never had a more delicious stew or so perfectly moist but crisp on the out side fish ever! This makes a complete meal, filling and wonderful. I am just waiting to make it again! For the fish:Tilapia 1 fillet ( i serves two)Olive Oil (upto ) 2...
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| Al la Greece |
| 2008-08-30 18:11:00 |
In my quest for food from different parts of the world, there is something in recent days that I really liked! It is the Greek food. It is so curious to see that all ancient cultures have a common under current running..a similar blend of spices and carbohydrates constituting the meal, of course the creative use of vegetables and limited importance of meats!!!Food from Greece, Ethiopia, South Asia, East Asia, Rome,Persia, Hindukush.....are all so similar in theme... extensive use of spices. (No...
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| Badanekai Gojju |
| 2008-08-22 17:35:00 |
Brinjal/Egg Plant/ Aubergine is a vegetable native to India. I was rather surprised even Okhras, Chillies and Tur dal were not actually native to India which has so much become a part of our diets these days. So Brinjal happens to be a vegetable which our ancestors feated on. No wonder every part of India has delicious brinjal dishes. and a variety of it too.So Here is one recipe which my grandmom makes and is a very very rustic dish. I remember watching an old Kannada movie with Rajkumar and Le...
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| VGT Omnivore's hundred! |
| 2008-08-20 21:57:00 |
I can across this activity the other day.. The foodie that i am could not resist the idea of checking all that i have ever had in this list... After the excerise i realise for all the things that i have tried, i still cant get myself to try something that walks on four legs! Sometimes i ponder if i can bring myself to eat a chicken and fish, what is the difference between these small creatures and the bigger ones say goat, lamb, pork... Beef however being absolutely out the question because of m...
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| Eeerulli Bonda (onion bonda) |
| 2008-08-20 20:05:00 |
This is a deep fried savory fritter made of chickpea flour and onions. I should actually confess that i often get confused between bonda, bajji and pakoda! I don't know the difference between all these. Actually i end up using these as synonyms for all savory deep fried goodies!!!So this might be bajji/bonda or pakoda. I do not know...This again brings me back fond memories... One of my favorite street foods, i have had the previlage to eat it in expensive hotels and on the dirtiest of road sid...
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| Varamahalaxmi Pooja |
| 2008-08-17 16:15:00 |
Laxmi pooja for Kannadigas (may be for telugus as well because i saw a lot telugu ladies dressed in their finery, going around in our apartment complex!) is celebrated in the auspicious month of Shravan. It actually the beginning of our festival season, of fasting and feasting. This week was the feating festival, next week Janmastami is a fasting festival!So this is what i ended up doing for the festival. Though it is more elaborate back home. I just love the idea of wearing our fine cloths and ...
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| Kaalu Bassaru |
| 2008-08-17 15:18:00 |
Last week I was just browsing some of my favorite blogs and came across SWC Karnataka So i decided to pitch in. This is my entry for the event.Bassaru is a spiced stock of vegetables and pulses along with the vegetables/pulses on the side.It is a very healthy dish too. It is very popular in the drier parts of south interior Karnataka.Generically there are broad types of Bassaru as i know.. the 'red bassaru' and the 'green bassaru' as i used to differentiate as a kid! (something that has stayed ...
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| Kobbari Biscuttu |
| 2008-08-05 21:04:00 |
As i have mentioned many a times in this blog before, Iyengar bakery is something i really really miss.. the aroma just round the corer of the street in Mahalakshmi layout opposite the pancha mukhi ganesha temple ...(which used to be very close to my home) man!! nothing can beat it!! not the most exotic of cookies and french pastries can beat it....One of my favorites happens to be Kobbari biscuttu... i also love benne biscuttu and khara biscuttu and ragi biscuttu... well the list goes one.. th...
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| Bhindi Do Pyasa |
| 2008-08-05 20:31:00 |
Bhindi Do Pyasa is one of my favorite foods of all time.. Not all Bhindi Do Pyasas (BDP) are born equal... of all the BDP i have tasted the best was undoubtedly the one at Inchara! Puttenalli/ J.P.Nagar. The restaurant has come a long way from being a sort of family Dhaba to an expensive fancy restaurant..Back in the days when dinner for two still did cost about Rs 300, we were there almost every week end.. right next to the pool. I have a special place in my heart for the restaurant.. That wer...
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| Raju Hotel |
| 2008-08-02 11:19:00 |
I was just thinking of masale dose again this cloudy saturday noon... the memories of Raju hotel revived!! the old ghosts had come to roast again...I was very young back then. Born and raised in Mysore for the first 10 years of my life, Raju hotel ( hotlu as we would say!!) was such an intergral part of my life... Every other week we ..me my father, mother and my little sister would go to Raju hotel.. It was an unpretentious place, very close to home.. walkable indeed. We lived in 4th cross sha...
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| Moolangi Chutney |
| 2008-07-19 12:47:00 |
I was not familiar with the pink radishes when i was in India.. Never can remember ever finding them even in Nilgiris, Brigade road..But they are so cute and pretty i wanted to try then. So i adapted it to an age old recipe from Karnataka .. that my mom, my grand mother all have made so many times. Besides this is a dish that does not need a lot of cooking. So it is best for hot sunny days when standing in front of the stove is not actually a good idea.Radish- pink 1 packCoconut grated 2 tbsp ...
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| Aloo Gobi |
| 2008-07-19 12:34:00 |
I love Aloo Gobi... my love for this dish has its roots in my stay in Punjab as a kid. Well Aloo that is potato and Gobi which is cauliflower might just be the post popular vegetables in the whole of northern plains! And I am not complaining about it.. Aloo.... may be a second thought .. but Gobi .. i am gonna eat it all. I love cauliflower. I remember back in those days when we were in Punjab- Amritsar to be precise, cauliflowers were mostly available during winter, and were dirt cheap during ...
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| Short cut Spanakopita |
| 2008-07-16 17:41:00 |
Last week of so, namratha of www.fingerlickingfood.blogspot.com had posted the recipe for spanakopita..they looked so yummy.. i simple could not resist. So i headed out to Shop and Stop determined to get phillo sheets, even though i knew phillos could be pretty tricky for a gauche person like me! Phillo are after all the princess of pastry, me a lowly, lazy bum of a cook.However there was a surprise awaiting for me in the departmental stores. To make lives of lazy piggies like me, there are pa...
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| Set Dose |
| 2008-07-16 16:36:00 |
When i was young, Parry's confectioneries introduced this candy called coffee bite. I assume it is still very popular back home. Their advertisements were cool.. It always ended up with the punch line ...'......coffee... toffee.................and the argument continues' very smart indeed. If the punchline were to endorse the best amongst dose (that's the way we Kannadigas call Dosa!) then it would be ...'set dose...masale dose.....and the argument continues..Personally for me, the best of the...
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| Spagetti wine sauce |
| 2008-07-15 16:37:00 |
These days its getting so hot that its really a pain to be in front of the stove cooking for longer hours!! I simple find myself craving for lighter dishes! This one happens to be a light dish. Originally inspired by a dish from Everyday Italian on Food Network!Here is what i didSpagetti 1 hand fullPrawns/shrimp 12garlic minced 1 cloveWhite wine 1/2 cupSpinach 2 hand fullsChilly flakes 2 pinchesSun dried tomato chopped 1 tbspSaltOlive oil 1 tbspParmesan cheese (optional, as desired. I did not ...
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| Gadsoppu |
| 2008-07-15 16:12:00 |
Gadsoppu is a generic dish which is particularly popular in and around Tumkur, Bangalore and Mysore. It is generally made with a combination of pulses and greens, the most popular being moong, alasande (pigeon peas), moth dal and greens like palak and methi. It is very nutritious given the goodness of both pulses and greens. I love it and my mom makes it often with chapatis, akki rottis for breakfast. Well now for me making this dish for breakfast might not be a good idea ... but i love to eat ...
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| Habanero Habba!!! |
| 2008-07-06 17:33:00 |
Habaneros!! the very name makes me break out in sweat. The other day i was just doing my favorite pass time!! browsing the aisles of the super market... Right on the chilly aisle, there were these stubby orange peppers.. they looked cute. I read the name - HABANERO! I remembered they were supposed to be hot chillies, hotter than jalapenos. But Jalapenos are nothing to me and my family. We fry them up and eat it in our Bhajjis!! and they are yummy. So my adventurous instincts prodded me to buy a ...
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| Padvalapai Gojju |
| 2008-07-06 16:47:00 |
Padavalkai or snake gourd is something banned in my mother's kitchen. There is a story to it... long long time ago when me and my sibling was not even born. ...and my parents were not even married, my father had an accident and my grandparents decided to appease the snake god!!! they performed a puja in this place called Vidhuraswattha (Also known as the Jallianwala bagh of Karnataka.. there was a massacre of freedom fighters) and they erected the statue of the snake god. Since then my father w...
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| Stuffed Mushrooms |
| 2008-07-06 16:32:00 |
For some weeks now, my palate has been craving for different foods, not the regular anna,huli,rasam that is typically conjured in my kitchen! So this is one more recipe that i cooked up on a week day.. so obviously it is very simple and tasty as wellMushroom 6 capsPotato 1 medium chopped finechilly flakes one generous pinchsaltOilGarlic 1 cloveMozarella Cheese a handful (or more if desired)Coriander 1 tablespoonMethod:Clean the mushrooms remove the steam and save it for stocks/soups etc.Drop t...
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| Yummy Blog Award |
| 2008-07-06 16:14:00 |
Yuppy!!! I got this yummu blog award from easycrafts of http://simpleindianfood.blogspot.com/ this is the first time i ever got an award like this in these six months of food blogging!!! Wow it feels great. Thanks a lot Easycrafts! luv it!So if i am pass this award on i wud pass it on toNamratha of www.fingerlickingfood.blogspot.comAsha of www.foodieshop.blogspot.com but i look at their blogs, they have already received it !! Being lazy to spend more time on blog.spot and learn more techniqu...
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| Strawberry triffle |
| 2008-06-29 15:32:00 |
The summers are perfect time for some cool desserts, frozen, chilled and comforting!This week end my friends had gone strawberry picking and returned with some juicy strawberries. She sent me some of them. So i decided to make the strawberry triffle with a small twist on top!!! Here is what i did.( A note of the picture... well as usual i do not have fancy dishes to make for nice presentation. By spouse does believe in eating with your eyes before eating with your mouth! but not me.. for me blin...
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| Biscotti/ Rusk |
| 2008-06-29 15:04:00 |
One of my favorite bakery foods back home is the Rusk.. its crunchy, mildly sweet and goes very well with coffee,tea! I remember as a kid i used to adore my eldest maternal uncle (jaggi mama as we call me fondly) because when ever he used to visit us, he used to get us huge bags of Iyengar bakery goodies.. usually including a kilo or so of rusks. Since they are light and airy, a kilo fetches a lot of them in deed. They used to last for weeks after my mama had left!! Yum yum yum... i luv my elde...
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| Stuffed poblano peppers |
| 2008-06-24 19:03:00 |
Like all my culinary adventures this one begun with a harmless looking habanero sitting cutely on the super market shelf. The orange beauties stole my heart, so i had to get a few of them. So standing there in front of the pepper section of the produce aisle, i had to conjure something to accommodate my beloved habanero. My mind could think of nothing more than another pepper, to make a Mexican inspired stuffed peppers! Bingo this dish was born in my kitchen.
Needless to say i did have an adven...
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| Tomato Bhaat and Pacchadi |
| 2008-06-24 18:00:00 |
Tomato Bhaat is quintessentially the tiffin that we enjoyed... The dish stayed moist thru the mornings till we had our lunch, of course it tasted good....Now i have started making it more often because it is simple, tasty and of course stays good even when packed.
This is also my one of the few dishes my paternal grand mom makes it great..
This again is my short cut version so that it wont take too much of blending, mixing and time..
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Rice 3/4 cup
Curry leaves 5-6
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| Kalmi Kabab |
| 2008-05-26 17:45:00 |
Kalmi Kabab is essentially chicken drumsticks marinated in yogurt and spices and cooked in a tandoor. Well i do not have a tandoor so here is what i did. I also managed to recreate the onion relish usually served with kababs in north India. Its very easy to make up requires planning ahead! Chicken drumsticks 5Full fat Yogurt 1/2 cupsalt Chilly powder 1 tbspDhania powder 1 tbspgaram masala 1 tspChat masala 1 tsp for the onion relish:red onion 1 mediumlime 1 salt Chat masala 1 generous pinch Met...
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| Ambika's fish curry and kaalan |
| 2008-05-26 17:28:00 |
We have this wonderful neighbours and we meet for dinner parties often. (It is sad that one of our friends is moving to California.we will miss them) So the last time our friend invited us for dinner she had made this wonderful fish curry- Malayali style. Of course, if it is a malayali and fish, it makes a winning combination. But its not just the fish curry but something along with the curry that really took my heart. Its called Kaalan. (I hope i am right, i tend to make a mistake with its pron...
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| Triveni Dal |
| 2008-05-26 17:11:00 |
There are days when i feel like eating something not-so-spicy and light yet make my stomach feel contended and happy. One such days my palate crave for good old dal...It is such a versatile dish that probably there are as many recipes back home as number of households!!! I am a keen dal-recipe collector.. collecting dal from cousins, aunts, granny's!!What can be more comforting than steaming rice, dal and a spoon of ghee... I remember eating it as a kid, feasting on it as a teenager and now mak...
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| Dahi Baigan |
| 2008-05-11 15:45:00 |
Dahi Baigan is originally a Oriya dish, that i first tasted in my hostel mess during my university days. I fell in love with it the very first time and i have been a very big fan of the dish ever since.This is the recipe the chefs at my hostel gave me when i was about to graduate.Love it...Indian Eggplant (brinjal/Aubergines) cut into quarters 3Thick Curds 2 cupsOnion 1 smallTomato 1 smallTurmeric 1 pinchJeera 1 big pinchMustard 1 big pinchSaltChilly powder 1 tspGreen Chillies 2Dhania Powder 1...
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| Menasinakai Bajji |
| 2008-05-11 15:30:00 |
One of the most popular street foods of Karnataka is the Menasinaakai Bajji.. also know as Mirchi bonda/Mirchi Majji in north Karnataka. Its actually a tradition in the northern parts of the state to eat the Mirchi Bajji with Puffed rice (Mandakki, Puri). I love it with or without the puffed rice part of it!! Its actually related to rains... In my family we just need an excuse to dash to the street corner and get these fiery hot bajjis for may be Rs10 or Rs 15!!! Its good enough to feed and arm...
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| Spinach Cream Spaghetti |
| 2008-05-06 20:12:00 |
Spaghetti brings me very very fond memories. It reminds me of my beloved family which is right now far away in terms of distance, reminds me of my initial days in the kitchen trying out hundreds of inedible stuff that only my father used to some how force down his gullet. It was his way of appreciating my efforts.(He never appreciated my essays though!!!)There was one distinct party that i hosted and turned out to be a memorable experience for me and my extended family as well. It was my pare...
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| Savoury Tart |
| 2008-05-06 17:26:00 |
The other day me and my hubby decided to have a continental dinner. Bingo i ended up making my very rare savoury tart and a pasta dish. I used to like continental cuisine a few years back but these days its all about mother's-home-style-recipes.Italian and French are my favorite cuisines. When I was in the university, there was this sweet french friend of mine. She introduced me to the nuances of french cooking, though i never got too close to the intricacies of a french palate. She was vegetar...
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| Sweet Chariot Style- Pineapple pastry |
| 2008-05-05 18:55:00 |
Well yet another craving struck me the last week. This time around i really wanted to eat the pineapple pastry right off the Sweet Chariot Pastry shop shelf!!!! The juicy, melt in the mouth pastry Bangalore style has always been the most successful way to melt my heart! In fact i during my college days, one of my friends made up with me after a hot headed fight by getting one of these for me! me alone! Those days obviously we could not afford one whole pastry per person with our meagre pocket mo...
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| Essential Idli Sambar |
| 2008-04-20 13:13:00 |
Every South Indian cook's toughest exam i guess is making the perfect idli. Making the perfect one in India is not much difficult because the ambient conditions leaves the job more than half done. But in colder places, the toughest challenge is to ferment the batter just enough that it is very well aerated but not sour. I should confess it is no joke. The idli batter in my home keeps travelling around the house through out the day moving along with the sunlight from the windows, beginning with t...
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| Lazy Lunch Thali |
| 2008-04-20 12:36:00 |
Yesterday was a lazy day. We did not have any guests, nor did we have any other engagements (which is rather unusual). Therefore i was feeling very lazy. I woke up and just went through my beloved week end news paper and began to think of food. I fixed up some pongal for our breakfast which left me half hungry and half craving for something simple but very good. But my laziness was not letting me do much.So i aimed at something 'Rachel Ray' style. So this is what we ended up having for lunch a...
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| Molake Hurali Kaalu Saaru |
| 2008-04-19 21:23:00 |
Horse gram is probably my favorite pulse! I just love it. We were told during our younger days that high bred race horses were fed this gram because of their nutrition value. We readily ate the story up. Wonder how far it is true in today's world. However it is undoubtedly a wholesome food and what better way to enjoy it than in a curry over hot steaming rice and a dollop of butter!!!Horse Gram 1 cupOnion 1Coconut 1/4 cupTomato 1Red Chillies 7 and aboveDhania 2 tbspGinger crushed 1 tbspGarlic c...
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| Saag Chicken |
| 2008-04-19 20:59:00 |
I generally make chicken on friday nights.. Somehow the unwinding mood of friday drives me to go the extra mile and prepare goodies.. This friday i had made pineapple pastries- Bangalore style..But forgot to take the pictures. We polished it in no time, only then i realise that i should have taken a few pictures. I am planning to make it once again shortly so will post it then. The other dish i made this Friday was the saag chicken. Chicken is not the best if partners for greens. However there...
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| Rasmalai |
| 2008-04-07 20:16:00 |
My tryst with Rasmalai began when i was in my early teens and my father was posted to Amritsar up north. Back then Rasmalai was not as popular back home in Bangalore, though Rasgulla was already a popular favorite! I cant figure out a reason for the historical lag in terms of this popularity.Anyways!I owe this recipe to our gracious land lady Minnie aunty a gutsy Punjabi Women. Also i should remember our co-tenants Dolly aunty. These two ladies used to host the monthly Kittie parties where in g...
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| Bajra Poori and Aloo Palak |
| 2008-04-06 20:41:00 |
During the course of my research i found that though Bajra (Sajje in kannada) had been rated an inferior grain, it was one of the most nutritious cereals. High in protien as well as micro nutrients. Impressed by its nutritional values, i got a pack of bajra flour. I remember my maternal aunty narrating us ( me and my kid sister back then) about the food habits of my forefathers my great grand father and his family to be precise who has been dead for almost thirty years now. Accordingly they use...
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| Iyengar Bakery Style Vegetable Puffs |
| 2008-04-06 19:54:00 |
Another ubiquitous eatery in southern Karnataka is the Iyengar Bakery. Traditionally only communities have been associated with bakery business in the region. One is the Iyengars (A vegetarian Sri-Vishnava bramhin community following the visistadviata school of Sriramanujacharya), The other being the muslim community.Of course in the recent decades socio-economic liberalisation has lead to a state of affairs where such generalisations are far from reality. But used to be true for the by-gone era...
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