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C ongratulations Team India for the wonderful win today against Pakistan. Amazing cricket match and at last the result we were waiting for. Got to double today’s performance if they have to beat Srilanka in the finals. Wishing Team India all the luck for the final match !!! I have heard about this chatti pathiri so many times, but I never tasted it before in my life. In many TV shows during ramzan time they will show how to make this. I will be thinking that this is impossible for me to make and the process looked complicated but when I saw this in Ria’s collection , I was like mesmerized and I never thought I would try this ever. Ria is a wonderful chef and nothing is hard for her :-). I think by now most of the food bloggers might know her very well. When Magpie announced in the Kerala Kitchen March series about the challenge of trying this chatti pathiri, I thought of making it by hook or crook. The end result was thrilling. YYYYIIIIIIIPPPPPEEEE YAY I made it. At last it came out ve...

T his chicken curry recipe has come to rescue several times when there are guests for lunch or dinner. I got this when I was flipping through the pages of a recipe book and thought of trying this. Speciality of this recipe is roasted spices and coconut milk. In this recipe, chicken is prepared with different varieties of Kerala’s herbs and condiments. This has an amalgamation of spices and way too scrumptious dish.  Recipe looks a bit  complicated, but it is actually simple and I am sure would come out with great flavors and amazing taste. Ingredients Chicken- 1kg Turmeric powder- 1 ½ tsp Salt- as per taste Curd- 1tbsp Coconut (grated)- 2cups Water- 2cups Coconut oil- 2tbsp Whole dry Kashmiri red chillies- 8nos Whole dry red chillies- 2nos Ginger and garlic paste- 3tbsp Pepper corns- 1/2tsp Aniseed- 1tsp Cinnamon- 2sticks Cloves- 10nos Green cardamoms- 3nos Coriander seeds- 4tbsp Cumin Seeds- ½ tsp Onions (chopped)- 2nos Green chillies- 2nos Tomatoes (chopped)- 2nos Method: Ma...

This is a Keralite dish which is served as a part of sadhya and is made of curd, coconut and any  vegetable like yam or plantain. The consistency and ingredients vary from place to place. This has a thick gravy. In this recipe, the important thing is that the curd should be sour. I learnt this dish soon after my marriage as I did not know what to cook and my Husband liked Kerala food a lot ( I had this recipe with me from so long ), so I thought of making this and surprise him as soon as he comes back from office. To my surprise, I didn’t know that he doesn’t like most of the veggies :)  But thank god, he liked this a lot as this contains of curd ( he likes curd a lot ), from then on this is made regularly in my kitchen. Ingredients: Raw banana(peeled and diced)- 1no Green chillies- 3nos Curry leaves- few Pepper powder- ½ tbsp Salt- as required Water- ½ cup Curd- 2cups Turmeric powder- 1tsp Red chilli powder- 1tsp Salt- as required Coconut (grated)- 1cup Cumin seeds- 1tsp Coco...

There you go.. India has beaten Australia in a WC quarter finals.  Awesome display of talent. Win is much more sweeter since it is the mighty Australians on the receiving end. Now lets wait for the semi final against Pakistan. Congrats to Indian team.. especially, Sachin, Yuvraj and Raina for the wonderful show they put up today. Congrats again to the Sachin for completing 18000 runs in ODIs. Amazing achievement !! Now just two matches away from bringing back the WC 2011 back home. !!!

            Happy and Colourful holi to all my dear friends . Y esterday was Holi and as we wont celebrate this, the day started of normally preparing the breakfast and so on. Suddenly the bell rang and it was none other than our sweet neighbours who came to wish us on Holi and to smear colours on us and they have a cute little gal who is of my cutie pie’s age ( they are close friends in play school also ). She put colour on and my gal, who really didn’t know anything about holi. But since she is very fond of messing around with things, she enjoyed a lot smearing colours on her friend and all the others nearby:-). When she came back she was full of red in colour. Then again the bell rang and this time it was our neighbour friends. They have a cute little boy ( who is again my gal’s age ), they gave a small pichkari to my little one and she really freaked out with that for the whole day. Now she remembers Holi fest...