Home made pasta sauce|Pasta sauce using home made tomato puree

I had a busy busy weekend with every one at home the school was almost closed like for a whole 8 days thanks to Diwali and the much awaited/needed rains here in our part of the world.How was Diwali?Everyone had a blast and truck loads of sweets dripping and flooding with sugar and ghee?So try some quick pasta recipes for a lean meal.

Eggfree Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake in a Cup|No bake No gelatin| Do it ahead desserts

I have a new found love for desserts in a cup I have tried to make a few earlier and its nice to always have a share just for each one of you than bowls of dessert lying around not that anyone is complaining!This one is truly heaven in a cup first time I ignored the calories going into this one cup of goodness I must say.

Diwali sweets and snacks|SS#6

Diwali is a festival of giving and sharing so many households get busy with making their sweet meats days before the festivities begin.

Wishing you all a Happy Safe Diwali.

Here is a compilation of sweets and snacks from the blog.

Sweets

Baadusha

Bread Gulab Jamuns

Carrot Raisin rolls

Chickpea sweetened balls / besan ladoos

Gulab jamuns from scratch(milk powder gulab jamuns)

Maaladoo/Pottu kadala/roasted gram ladoos

Oats roasted gram/pottu kadala ladoos

No cook oil free peanut coconut ladoos

Almond burfi/barfi - 3 ingredient sweet

Rawa ladoo/Semolina sweets

Dal boli/Parupu boli/Puran poli and boli pinwheels

Corn flour halwa/Karachi halwa 

Almond fudge balls     

Snacks

• Spicy Sev
• Moong dal Murruku
• Matthis/Mattris
• Rice Murukku

Sending this to Saturday Snapshots'' hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

South indian style Boondi ladoo and Boondi spicy mixture|Diwali sweets and snacks

I had tried these ladoos long ago and was waiting to post them for some special occasion but then I dropped my laptop and now I lost the precious Diwali post i had so lovingly prepared.Us bloggers I don't know if we take more pleasure in cooking something, clicking it or eating it.I tell my DH whether its any occasion or festival, i need to make something because my blog needs a special recipe.How many agree with me??

Spiced buttermilk Chicken fry|Breaded chicken fry

I love to try different chicken fry recipes.My DH who never took us to KFC because its not too healthy recently did take us and now we're waiting to go there again!!Thats one chicken noone can have enough.We love KFC during our school days when we were first introduced to it we kind of never liked it too much because it was chicken with the skin but now we are all drooling seeing just pictures of it on TV.This is what i recreated myself after looking for kfc type recipes online and some shows on tv.

How to make how to make paneer at home|Home made paneer from scratch

There's probably noone who doesn't have an accident with milk bad milk ending up in messy curdled milk and spluttering all over your stove top.And theres us bloggers or foodies who break milk specially to make  posts  paneer!! :) I once got a block of paneer from the shop you have to believe me it was like rubber so hard and thats when i swore I'll never even think of buying another block from the shops.

Paneer/Cottage stuffed Parathas/Flatbreads

I love parathas making them and eating them!I love to stuff them and roll them out (a few of my friends are dreading the stuffing part) but i keep assuring them its nothing.My kids loved this simple yet nutritious paratha.

No ferment no yeast Batura |Fried flat bread

I was checking out how to make baturas when i read few recipes that it needs to be allowed to ferment thats when I saw this show on tv so this recipe has no yeast or no need to ferment.Your chana baturas will be ready in few hours.

Indus Ladies Kids Lunch box ideas E-book

I am happy to tell you people that my recipe Paneer/Cottage cheese fried rice has been included in this E-book.

There is a lovely collection of kids friendly recipes in that e-book that you don't want to miss.So go on and quickly download the e-book from this link

Recipe book - http://www.indusladies.com/food/kids-lunch-box-recipes/

Restaurant Style Channa masala| Channa batura Chick peas Gravy

Hope everyone had a festive long weekend, today as I type this the weather is beautiful in Chennai!So this is the kind of food everyone of us would crave for.

Saturday Snapshots #5 Lentils

I a really liking SS now for the last task I got a little impatient and dissappointed because I couldn't get the picture like I wanted to.This time I'm happy.And i am learning to use the dslr finally the terms make more sense.

This time the subject was to shoot Lentils so i chose mixed lentils-the most used in a south indian household urad dal, chana dal and toor dal.

Sending it to SS#5 at Merry Tummy and Siris Food

Rose Lemonade|Lemon juice with Home made Rose Extract

 I had a bunch of red roses which i wanted to use to make rose syrup which never happened.And i was wondering how to not waste these roses which initially were to make crystallized rose petals to garnish a cake(that never happened too) :)
But this was a good refreshing drink on a warm afternoon.