Recipe: Vegetarian Taco Boats Vegetarian Taco Boats are easy to make, delicious and excellent as a meal for Taco Nights or as appetizer or starter option for any get together parties. What I like about this recipe is that it comes together in a matter of few minutes as the boat shells are ready. Make the filling with canned beans and corn and ready salsa or homemade one. Memories I had first shared this recipe with the group FoodieMonday/Bloghop. The theme was Mexican Food. At that time I was in Montreal visiting my son. Hubby and I went to the local supermarket Metro to buy some tortilla. The plan was to make enchiladas. I put a packet of tortilla in the cart. As I walked…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Chocolate Coated Banana Chocolate Coated Banana is a fun, easy to make, healthy treat and so delicious. This is one dessert little helpers will have fun making during summer. Cut the banana into bite size pieces or cut them into halves. Whichever you prefer. If you dip half cut bananas in the melted chocolate then you will need to insert a popsicle stick. Memories I’d not tasted chocolate coated bananas before. Had the opportunity to taste it for the first time during one of my trips to Montreal years ago. During a hot summer day my son decided to take us to the Old Port area. It was bustling with people, many food trucks were around selling food, and stalls selling hats, sunglasses, souvenirs,…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Tricolour Mini Rava Idlis Want to celebrate India’s Independence in style? Try out this easy instant tricolour mini rava idlis where I have not used any artificial colours. For orange idlis I added cooked carrot puree and for the green ones cooked spinach puree. Rava idli batter is white. Healthy, easy to make and a satisfying breakfast or brunch with coconut chutney, tomato chutney, sambar or podi masala. The choice is yours. What Is Rava Idli? Rava is semolina in hindi. Generally, idli is made from fermented rice and lentil batter. But for a faster and quicker idli, semolina is used. Semolina is allowed to soak in water and plain yogurt for 30 minutes. This process helps the semolina grains to become a bit…
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Continue ReadingPineapple & Banana Sorbet Pineapple & Banana Sorbet is the easiest, most flavourful, cooling, guilt free summer treat. With no refined sugar used, enjoy this sorbet to your heart’s content. Since I had maple syrup at hand, I used added it to the sorbet. Therefore, this sorbet is vegan. Over Ripe Bananas Hot weather means that bananas tend to ripen faster. Instead of throwing the over ripe bananas, I chop them up and freeze them for later use. Sometimes I’ll use them for the following recipes: So many options, so please don’t bin those over ripe bananas. Pineapple & Me I love pineapple and can eat bowlfuls of it. Unfortunately, hubby is not a big fan of enjoying pineapple on its own like…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Carrot & Apple Bread Carrot & Apple Bread is a quick bread full of raisins, nuts and seeds. Using wheat flour, jaggery powder or brown sugar this nutritious bread is enjoyed both as breakfast or dessert. We enjoyed it as a dessert with some hot custard poured over it. Though this bread can be quite dense because of all the added ingredients, trust me it is so moist and soft too. Put a slice in your or your kid’s lunch box. Take it for picnics. Sharing This Recipe With Sunday Funday Sunday Funday is a really fun group. Each week members come up with different themes and we make a dish accordingly. This week Wendy suggested we share any recipe where we’ve used…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Lemon Rice Lemon rice or Chitranna as it is known in Kannada, is the easiest but yummiest rice dish. With spices and lemon, this spicy tangy rice is best enjoyed with some some rice papad. Makes an excellent lunchbox or travel food option as it tastes equally good whether hot or cold. The other good thing about this rice dish it that you can use leftover plain rice. Refreshingly Lemony The first appealing thing about lemon rice is the lovely fresh yellow colour and secondly it definitely the lemony taste. Eat it alone, hot or cold, have it with sambhar or yogurt it tastes yum. A good way to create a new dish with leftover rice. Simple ingredients make it tasty. Memories The first…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Rose & Cardamom Cookies Rose & Cardamom Cookies are so easy to bake, flavourful and perfect for any festival season. I bake these for Diwali, Weddings, Tea Parties, Eid,etc. I simply love the combined flavour of rose and cardamom. Trust me, it is so exotic. Adding a different kind of flavour to the basic nankhatai recipe. Cookie, A Must With Tea Or Coffee Isn’t it intriguing that many feel like having a cookie with their cup or tea or coffee? I am one of them. My afternoon tea is always served with cookies. I mostly stick to one cookie though I get tempted to reach out for another 🙂 But the good thing is that since hubby has retired, he has taken on…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Egg-Free Date Cake This Egg-Free Date Cake is moist, flavourful, full of nuts and dried fruits, wheat cake. Makes an excellent teatime, breakfast or picnic cake. No icing or frosting required as it tastes so good on its own. Best part is that once you’ve got all the ingredients, the cake is so easy to make and bake. Memories Being away from family is not very nice. Most of my family live either in India, UK, US, Europe, Dubai, Canada or Nairobi. That means I hardly ever get the opportunity to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, festivals with them. Though a disheartening reality, I tend to make the occasions special by making something sweet to celebrate with my hubby. It sometimes results in something sweet within…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Quinoa Dhokla Quinoa Dhokla is a gluten free, protein rich, healthy snack or breakfast option. Easy to make, these spongy, melt in the mouth dhokla are a good way to include protein rich quinoa in your family’s diet. And the best part is that they taste good whether they are hot or cold. This makes them ideal as lunch box snack option also. What Are Dhokla? Dhokra or dhokla are famous Gujarati snack, usually made with chickpea lentils and rice which are soaked overnight, ground to a paste and then steamed. Or dhokra flour is soaked overnight in warm water and sour yogurt. Then it is steamed. Nowadays there are so many variations too. Instant ones made from chickpea flour and semolina, from moong…
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Continue ReadingRecipe : Irio, Kenyan Style Irio, Kenyan Style is an easy to make, delicious, Kenyan staple side dish. Pronounced as eee-ree-yo, it is usually made with some potatoes, peas and fresh greens. No fancy ingredients are required for this version of mash. It is usually served with stew, grilled meat or fish. As for me, I love to have it on its own or with some curry like the Green Moong one. A Bit About Kenyan Cuisine Though Kenya falls in the Savannah region, many parts of the country grow a rich variety of fruits and vegetables that provide the people of the area with their basic requirements of carbohydrates, proteins and minerals. Colonization by the Portuguese and then the British Empire and the…
