Whole wheat mushroom pie | Eggless pie

Mushroom pie with step by step pictures.

This is one best pie I baked and it's a savory pie. I made the pie base with whole wheat /atta flour I made it for one Sunday lunch in January. My kids loved it as it was totally delicious and yummy. I made the stuffing with mushroom but you can make with non-veg.

Ven Pongal | Easy Breakfast

Ven pongal/ Ghee pongal is the healthier ,easier and filling breakfast.I usually make pongal with oats,pearl millet and mostly with broken wheat.This rice pongal will be very rare in my kitchen and this is my daughter's favourite.

Thinnai Sarkkarai Pongal | Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal

Starting my day with a sweet note is always a bliss for me but my daughter won't prefer anything sweet in her food in morning hours .So mostly I make savory recipes and rarely I prepare sweet pongal or puttu  for me to satisfy my sweet carve.

Butterscotch Cupcakes | Butterless Butterscotch Muffins

Today I am with an easy cupcake where I have used butterscotch chips. Whenever I go grocery shopping I buy many new products aiming to try new recipes but it never happen and many times the products near the expiry date I have to trash it out with heavy heart.Yesterday I trashed out my fridge with products that I never used, I feel guilty for wasting money.So I have decided not to buy any new products hereafter.

Homemade Gulkand / Rose Petal preserve | DIY

Gulkand  is nothing but  rose petal jam with many ayurvedic properties.While googling i found its very easy to make at home.Tried it and sharing .

Steamed Christmas pudding | Eggless pudding

Steamed Christmas pudding with step by step pictures.

At last, I did it, yes I want to make this steamed Christmas for a long time and I did it today. I referred many pages but many of it uses alcohol and eggs. I gathered some information from Sharmis passion and adapted my own way. I fully used atta and avoided white flour. Also instead of breadcrumbs, I used rusk powder. If using bread use fresh bread powdered in a mixer. The only time-consuming portion is the steaming part. My idli pot was not able to hold two pans to steam together. So it took 4 hours together to steam it,2 for each pan.

Betel Leaves Rasam | Vethallai Rasam

We would have seen grand parents chewing this betel leafs after lunch.Once for a while i take pan from the pan-wala outside restaurant after having heavy lunch.This pan leaf/betel leaves help in digestion.During summer I had plans to make paan ice icream must due to lazziness i didn't try but i promise will try and post next summer.This leaf also cures cold,so next time when you are left with some of this leaf try this rasam.

Keerai Kootu | Spinach and Moong Dal Recipe | Step by Step Recipe

Spinach with moong dal makes the best pair and I would say anything with split moong dal will taste superb.This recipe can be used as a side dish for roti or naan else one can just mix it up with hot steaming rice with a  dollop of ghee. It tastes soo good even kids won't refuse it.

Orange Skin(Peel) Kuzhambu | Kuzhambu Recipe

We all throw out the skin of oranges after eating the fruit but the skin has more vitamin C than the fruit.Try to make this kuzhambu and eat it.

Witch Finger Cookies | Halloween Special | Step by Step pictures

Witch finger cookies with step by step pictures. This is a simple cookie that can be made for a halloween party.With the simple cookies dough, some jam and few whole almonds you can easily make this cookie.Every year during Halloween when I see bloggers posting this I want to do it but due to laziness I never did.This year I had a strong decision that I must do it.Since today is rain holiday in Chennai I had more leisure time and I mostly prefer to bake a new stuff when my kids are near about so as I can share my happiness if the baked products with them.I baked it and my kids loved it.

Murungai Keerai/ Moringa /Drumstick Leaves Thoran | Healthy Side Dish for Rice

Murungai Keerai also known as moringa is one healthy green available loaded with iron.The first food most physician would recommend for an anemic patient would be this green.Most houses have this wonder green tree in their backyard.Only the leaf separating part from the stalk is a bit time-consuming.To do that job easier just keep this green in a  poly bag in the fridge overnight.Next morning all the leaves would have fallen from the stick.Collect the leaves and make dishes with it.

Kollu Rasam | Horsegram Tamarind gravy | Horsegram Recipe

Horse gram is also known as kollu has lot of health benefits.It reduce blood cholesterol and is very good for cold and cough and mainly help in weight reduction.

Motichoor ladoo without making boondhi | Easy diwali sweet

Motichoor laddoo with step by step picture and video.

Motichoor ladoo is sweet/balls prepared by soaking tiny fried besan flour balls in sugar syrup. One difficulty in making it is the tiny balls. Here I have shared an alternate way to make this laddoo by not making that boondhi.  Here we use channa dal instead of besan flour. Let us see how to make this.