Monthly Archives: December 2009
S&S Bake: Cranberry Pecan White Chocolate Cookies
| December 31, 2009 | Posted by usha under Appetizers/Snacks, Bakes, Baking, Cookies, Biscuits, Event Entries |
It feels like just yesterday when I was munching on last month’s snow flecked brownies, which were helplessly sitting on my dining table for 2 weeks, waiting for me to finish them and it is already time for the next bake. Unlike last couple of bakes, I baked this month’s Sweet & Simple Bake when… more
Looking Back on 2009
| December 30, 2009 | Posted by usha under Event Entries, General |
This year my blog has taken a back seat due to my traveling and various other reasons. I did not have any recipes or posts for three months this year and only one recipe in the month of November. Looking at these statistics, I wasn’t sure if I should even do a post on retrospective… more
Vegetable Dum Biryani
| December 12, 2009 | Posted by usha under Biryani, Entrees, Event Entries, Rice, Rice Varieties, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
Biryani is one of my favorite one pot meals. I usually make non-veg biryani and when it comes to vegetable biryani, it is always Vegetable Pulao or Vegetable Bagara. For some reason, I am obsessed with kaccha (raw) biryani, where the meats & rice are cooked together in layers. I wanted to replicate the same… more
Spinach Raita
| December 6, 2009 | Posted by usha under Daily Recipes, Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Raitas, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian |
A typical South Indian meal, to be more precious, an Andhra meal, ends with a bowl of yogurt or yogurt rice. But in my house, there are days when yogurt doesn’t even make it to the dinning table, as both of us are not very fond of it. I don’t drink tea, coffee and am… more
The BloggerAid Cook Book
| December 3, 2009 | Posted by usha under Cook Books, General |
BloggerAid – Changing the Face of Famine, is a group of international bloggers who have come together to fight famine word wide. Their first initiative was the cook book project, where they collected recipes from fellow bloggers and published a cook book. That cook book is The BloggerAid Cook Book, which was recently published and… more
S&S Bake: Snow Flecked Brownies
| December 1, 2009 | Posted by usha under Appetizers/Snacks, Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Event Entries |
This month’s Sweet & Simple Bake is Snow Flecked Brownies. I am a chocoholic and ever since I saw the bake for this month, I was eager to bake it. However, I was preoccupied with other stuff and could not bake it until this afternoon. Even today, when I woke up this morning, I was… more








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