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Homemade Pizza with Coriander Chutney

Home Bakers, Pepperoni Mushrooms Jalapeno Pizza with Coriander Chutney

Home Bakers is a baking group started by Priya of Priya’s Versatile Recipes and this is our first baking challenge. For the first challenge, Divya chose a simple homemade pizza. She gave us couple of pizza crust recipes and few pizza recipes with various toppings. I chose Giada De Laurentiis recipe for without tomato sauce.… more

Thai Eggplants with Cilantro Green Chilies ~ Vankaya Kothimeera Pachi Mirchi Koora

Thai Eggplants with Cilantro Green Chilies, Brinjals with Kothmir Green Chilies, VAM: Brinjal, Veggie Fruit a Month, Veggie a Month

Eggplant or brinjal is not a regular vegetable in my house. I don’t mind eggplants but my husband is a little picky. He eats once in a while does not want me to cook it regularly. I usually cook purple brinjal and few months ago I tried round green brinjals, also known as Thai Eggplants… more

Brinjal Chutney ~ Vankaya Pachadi

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Before I get to today’s post, this is a gentle reminder that tomorrow is the deadline to send in your entries to Veggie/Fruit a Month: Brinjal ~ Eggplant I am guest hosting this month. Are you wondering why my blog was silent for almost two months and I have not even posted any recipes for… more

Sun Dried Tomato & Onion Tart

Baking Partners, Savory tart

The bake for Baking Partners # 6 is a tart and I chose a savory tart suggested by Samantha. I made half the recipe, following the recipe to dart, except for the cheese. The recipe called for gruyere cheese and I used gruyere cheese for half the tart and paneer (Indian cheese) for the other… more

Shaped Dinner Rolls

Baking Partners, Dinner Rolls, Rose Rolls, Kaiser Rools, Rosette Rolls, Loin House Roll, Clover Roll, Braided Roll

Holidays are just around the corner and this month’s bake is perfect to try out some homemade dinner rolls for the holidays. We were given two recipes for the rolls, one from the Loin House using egg and the other is an eggless rolls recipe. I followed the Loin House recipe. We were given seven… more

Royyala Kura ~ Shrimp Curry

Royyala Kura, Royyala Iguru, Shrimp Fry, Seafood Feast

I was thinking of updating some of the old posts with new pictures for quite some time. Last week when I prepared shrimp curry, I thought why not re-post the recipe again? Usually when I cook, I play around with the ingredients and add or omit ingredients depending on my mood. I usually prefer sautéing… more

Cornflake Coconut Cookies

Baking Partners,

This month I am very late in posting my recipe for Baking Partners. I apologize for the delay. The theme for this month is cookies. We were given three cookies and asked to bake at least on recipe. When the recipes were revealed, I deiced to bake Oreo cookies. Instead, I ended up baking cornflake… more

Oats Upma

Rolled Oats, Spiced Oats

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I spend the least amount of time preparing it. U doesn’t eat breakfast at home and I am lazy to prepare something just for myself. I usually make instant oatmeal in the microwave or eat puffed rice seasoned with some chili powder garlic & salt… more

Julia Child’s Reine de Saba avec Glaçage au Chocolat ~ Chocolate Almond Cake

Julia Child

Baking partners is a new virtual baking group. Every month, we will bake a recipe and post it in our blogs on the 15th of the month. For this month, the first bake of this new baking group is Julia Child’s Reine de Saba avec glacage au chocolat or Chocolate almond cake as a tribute… more

Bell Pepper Paneer Curry ~ Kadai Paneer

Paneer capsicum curry, kadai paneer, dish it out

Paneer is an Indian cheese and is often known as Indian cottage cheese. It is used extensively in North Indian kitchens and has also become quite popular in South Indian kitchens in recent years. It is a good source of protein & calcium. Every Wednesday’s, I do not eat meat and prepare something with tofu… more