Kalakand | Easy Kalakand Recipe | Festive Sweet recipe

Happy Diwali , lets this festival of light brings you prosperity and good health. No festival is complete without a sweet so let me share with you a simple dessert which can be prepared in a jiffy.With just a few ingredients you can make this easy sweet for this festival.

Thandai spice powder | Homemade thandai powder

Thandai is a drink prepared on a colorful day, Holi, the starting of the spring season.Although Holi is celebrated in a grand manner in northern India nowadays I see people in the south also enjoy this fun-filled day by splashing color over one another. Two years before I have prepared this drink with instant one-time masala where all ingredients are soaked, ground, mixed with milk and then filtered. You can check that recipe here.

Plantain Stem Buttermilk | Vazhlathandu Moor | Summer Drink

Plantain stem buttermilk with step by step pictures.The climate here in Chennai had slowly changed and we can feel the heat of the sun in midday.Although early morning/dawn, we can feel the cold weather afternoons are too sunny.As it is hot I felt its better to post a summer drink here.After making banans stem thoran I was left with a little piece of it which I made this buttermilk.

Bread Halwa | Easy Dessert with Bread

Bread halwa a sweet which comes in handy when there no special ingredients in the pantry  to make a sweet.Usually, in many marriages, I have seen they serve this sweet in banana leaf when the main course is biryani.This sweet taste awesome after having heavy biryani.Have you not tasted this combo ,then do try in the home.

Tapioca /Maravalli killangu Maisyal | Side Dish for Rice

மரவள்ளி கிழங்கு /Tapioca is one of my favorites, which I can take it any time of the day in any way.I like to have it plain with some spicy fish curry and some times I make like this kottu version for rice. This tapioca is available in papad/appalam form in our native district which I never miss buying when we go there.

Blueberry Lemonade | Blueberry Lemonade using Blueberry Crush

Happy new year to all,You may think why I post-summer drink in winter, I don't cook anything special to blog  as we  are in native for the  Christmas. I notice that it had been a long since I update my blog.So to keep my page active I post this which was in my draft.

Coming to this drink which I made it with readymade blueberry crush. Since the crush had sugar in it I did not add any. but if using fresh blueberry add sugar as per your taste.