Ladled

Easy chocolate cake  with  Vanilla frosting

Banana caramel custard Had to get the process wrong. Mixed banana in before the milk. Salted caramel icecream

 My neighbour called for an informal meetup. And this is on the countertop. I first had to marvel at how beautiful it looks and then ask for the name. Momos. Heard of it in a movie goer's context and thought it might be some sort of popcorn. You can relate them to dumplings and potstickers, but only behind the back of a Momo  purist. The way to do this shaping is hold the half of oval wrapper in pleats and press it with the other half of the oval sealing the stuffing. To someone who grew up eating and making momos, they can do this even without looking at it and continue the even more important task of talking, the real reason for having the food and meeting up. Momos are had with achar, made from blanched tomatoes. Now since there is no free lunch, I had to contribute  my ill formed ones on the right side. I am told that the wrappers in the purple one are better than the one in the yellow above. Momos are had for when your tummy wants food and so the movem...

Usually when I make banana bread I try to make it with 1 cup flour. But I had 3 bananas that wanted to go into the banana bread. I didnt have the time/patience to look for the recipe or slash it. And through the process, I realised there were 4 bananas. I used the 9 by 13 pan and got done in 53 min.               Banana bread

I wondered how an a book be of just crackers and dips. All the photos in the book have a picture on a slate accompaniment as a background. Coconut flour

Today is  Varalakshmi Vratam  day. Lakshmi Sahasranama Stotram Chamunda Vada . I couldnt get the normal grinder to run without adding water. And then I had to add urad flour to make it pliable. In the end the vadas were too hard in dahi but fine when microwaved with sambar. You know what else tastes good with sambar. Quinoa. Later my friends shared some vadas they made. Antithesis to ours. Their recipe - store bought mix. I should try that next time. And husband and other sources say baking soda would have helped with our recipe.

Haupia

Coconut fried pineapple My mom once wanted me to make  Khubani ka meetha  from the Costco apricots. I tried to persuade her to have the dried apricots thinking why add all the xtra calories. But now I believe its ok to jazz things up for special ocasions. while making this dessert pineapple = pine + apple, suddenly figured that its the fascicles of needle shaped leaves (just kidding, thats the dictionary, not me). May be it tastes like  Jackfruit  chips.

Cornish  at Persian room.

at  Tandooritimes . 

I have seen the cover page dessert in an article. The book has edible interpretations of art works of many artists that I do not know at all. Double bonanza.  How cool is this cutter?

while making pulihora from left over rice, I was curious about  Quinoa pulihora . I made a sample of it by mixing some of the seasoning in the precooked quinoa. One more recipe in the bag. Quinoa tastes good with raita too. Stumbled on this one because of oversalting pulihora. Kobbari quinoa can be made in the fashion of  kobbari annam . Kobbari annam recipe uses coconut milk to boil the rice. Since I have precooked quinoa I will use the shortcut of panfrying the scraped coconut.

I saw  Waikiki Melon  from Yankee Candle and want to know about it.

portobello  Mushroom

Lettuce sticks with Papa Johns  pizza sauce .

Brownie Brittle Hake loins Chocolate covered acai. chocolate trumped acai's taste.

While going through Seemantham Menu , I found   thuvaiyal

Malai chicken tikka Chicken hariyali tikka

sooji halwa

I walked in on a friend having boiled egg with  Karivepaaku podi

No carb bread

Coho salmon

Calla lily tea sandwiches Chicken Salad in Baskets