Everybody's favorite at home..

Phova Fest!

Festive Mood- Happy Ganesh Chaturthi.

Sunday treat!.. Malabar spinach switched for palak.

Saturday brunch- Mixed Veg Pulao with Raitha.

The 5 Element Sweet- Panchakajjaya for Choodi Pooja..

Shravana Special- Choodi Pooja- Nature Worship..

Shriya's unofficial 1st b'day yum yum..

This is my very first post in this blog.........I always wanted to start blogging and what would be better than blogging about food. We spend most of our time, money and energy on "aaj khane me kya hai?, mujhe aaj ye khana hai!".

With the birth of my daughter, Shriya and a long, long career break...... This blog keeps me going.I look forward to cook new dishes almost everyday, some for my daughter, some for my husband and some for this blog.
I hope you will enjoy going through the familiar recipes which have been re-visited and some new ones.
I had prepared this for my daughter's first birthday...

Semiya Kheer/Vermicilli Payasam-

Servings-4                                          Cooking time- 20 minutes

Ingredients- 1 small cup of store bought vermicilli
                      1/2 the amount of sugar
                      1/2 litre of full cream milk
                      1 tsp of ghee/clarified butter
                      2-3 elaichi/ cardamom
                      a small fist full of golden yellow raisins.

Procedure-

• Heat ghee in a pan and roast the vermicilli to light golden yellow color. Keep aside.

• In a sauce pan, heat milk. Once it reaches boiling point, add the roasted vermicilli and keep stirring.

• Cook the vermicilli in the milk and once its done, add sugar.

• Continue stirring till again the whole mixture starts boiling.

• Switch off, add powdered cardamom and keep aside.

• Roast the raisins in ghee, till they puff up and add it to the payasam.

• Serve warm.