Day after tomorrow, my sweet little angel turns ONE. He is the one who made our life so busy, engaged always, happy and so responsible too. As a gift of our love marriage, God has sent us a guardian angel, who takes care of both of our families too. He was born after the great loss of our Grandpa, who is the backbone for all our families. Hence my kid is believed as our grandpa returned home to bring back his loss.He is the first grandchild of both our parents, hence he is the apple of everyone's eye. He is the best entertainer...

Children nowdays march against veggies and are totally towards fried foods and pasteries. Moms are really finding it difficult to inject the health component into them. Here is one easy and tasty way, to make them have the veggies. This chutney will serve as a good combination for idly, dosa and paniyaram. Ingredients:Ridgegaurd - 1/2 kg peeled and mincedPearl Onion - 20Tomato - 2Green Chilies - 8 (Depends on how spicy you want)Salt to taste. Method:In the kadai, add 2 tsp oil and saute all the ingredients, till...

This is the first Non-Veg entry in my blog. We occasionally prepare non veg at home as my inlaws are pure veg. My mom really prepares good non veg that too if its for a crowd. she prepare dum biryani well, but only when it is prepared in bulk.  Otherwise she will prepare it with cooker alone. Coming to the recipe, Ingredients:Chicken - 1/2 KgBasmati Rice - 1/2 kgCurd - 4 tbspChilly Powder - 1 tbspGinger Garlic Paste - 1 tbspCinnamon - 3 sticksClove - 3Bay Leaf - 1Onion(Big) - 1Tomato - 1Green Chillies - 2Ghee...

Whenever it rains very heavily and the whether is too cold, my mom used to prepare two dishes. One is this kathirikai kadaiyal with rasam and one more is avarakkai poricha kulambu along with rasam. It will be delicious to have these curries with hot rice in that chill whether. We wont even eat by ourselves, my mom used to prepare urundais for me and my sister and feed us, even when i was doing my college. She is used to prepare it with mansatty only, to increase the taste more. Recalling those golden days.Ingredients:Brinjal...

This is also one more stolen recipe from my granny. There they will prepare this only with potato, just i have added some green peas to it. We use it for all kinds of tiffins like chappathi, dosa, poori and idly. Its a good combination with everything. Ours is a very big family and we gather together for pongal in my native village. To serve everyone she used to prepare either this kurma with idly or else sambar. But the taste will be great there, as she will grind the masala with hand grinder. She have never missed the...

This rice has a special attachment in my heart. My mom prepared this rice for my valaikappu function for the first time and has never tried this before. But for my surprise, everyone was asking me for this recipe and who has prepared this. It was so excellent and the flavour of the food was also marvellous. This is an easy to make recipe which can be packed for lunch for school kids. Its really good to use pudhina atleast once in a week, as it is rich in calcium. Ok here comes the recipe. Ingredients:Rice...