Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Feb 6, 2012, 3:02 pm
I am reposting these two blog post for Vardhini 's Berries - Strawberry Event, an event by Anu. Strawberry Muffin :-   StrawBerry Sandwich :-
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jan 21, 2012, 3:17 pm
This post has been lying in the draft for a very long time.  Thought of finishing it today. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Basmati Rice - 1 1/2 cupsBeetroot - 1 cup (shredded)Onion - 1 medium sizedGarlic - 1 (chopped)Green Chillies - 3 (acc to taste)ginger - a small piece (finely chopped) Red ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jan 4, 2012, 12:41 am
This post has been lying in the draft for more than two months.  I made this sundal for navarathri. I followed my patti's traditional way of doing this sundal. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Red Karamani -  1 cup (soak it overnight)Jaggery - 1 cup (plus or minus acc to taste)cardamom - 3 (pow...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Dec 23, 2011, 10:54 pm
I love the cake pops we get in Starbucks.  I wanted to make some when my girls have winter break.  I made these last week and it came out pretty good. I would not say that it looked professional but the taste was good. I used the pre-packed Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix for basic cake and betty...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Dec 18, 2011, 8:31 pm
This is a easy breezy sandwich and a nice way to use the leftover sundal.  I made sundal for weekend evening snack and as usual one of my twin didn't eat properly. I had half cup of sundal and i didn't want to waste it. I used it for my breakfast sandwich, the next day. Ingredients:-Bread slices -...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Dec 7, 2011, 9:21 pm
My MIL made this rice last week. I make bell pepper / capsicum rice too but in a regular fried rice way. But this is something new which she made. She used a masala powder (homemade) to finish this rice. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Basmati Rice - 2 cupsBell Pepper/Capsicum - 1 1/2 cups (cho...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 28, 2011, 1:19 pm
I made this side dish couple of weeks back. My girls hate eating paneer, but luckily they liked this side dish. I made this as a very rich and creamy side dish. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Paneer pieces - 1 cup (cut it into small cubes)Green peas - 1/4 cup (I used frozen)Tomato - 1 medium si...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 7, 2011, 12:54 pm
I made this bread cutlet last week.  I got the recipe my Nithya's fourth Sense Cooking... Recipe is exactly the same and I also followed the tip she has mentioned. I used bread crumbs and shallow fried the cutlets...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Oct 30, 2011, 6:33 pm
This is something I made for my little one's lunch box. She likes to take it twice a week.  Pediatrician wanted my girls to take more dairy.  They hate milk and paneer.  They like to take yogurt. But that was not enough. So i thought of adding panneer in their diet.  Below given quantity is for ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Oct 20, 2011, 10:22 pm
I got this Strawberry Muffin recipe from AllRecipes.com. I followed the same recipe and the outcome was awesome as you can see in the picture. The taste was also wonderful..
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Oct 18, 2011, 10:44 pm
This is another way of making tomato pachadi.  This is a tribute to our blogger friend who passed away last week. We will definitely miss you Jayasree :(
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Oct 17, 2011, 5:16 pm
I made this vendhaya kozhambu and it came out very yummy. I got the recipe from my MIL. I haven't tried this before. So thought of giving it a try.  Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Tamarind - 1 medium lemon sizedSesame oil - 2 tbspMustard seeds - 1/4 tspUrad dhall - 1/2 tspChanna dhall - 1/2 t...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Oct 12, 2011, 3:04 pm
My chitti makes tomato poori. She infact advised me to make these kind of pooris for my girls. I tried this tomato Chapathi very long back and managed to find time to post this recipe. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- wheat flour - 3 cupssalt to tastesesame oil -  2tspTomato - 2 Medium sizedGre...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Sep 7, 2011, 6:55 pm
I made these burfi couple of week back. Just after the varalakshmi Vratam, I had so much coconut (we buy atleast two -one for kalasam & one for naivedhyam). My husband and my girls never take coconut. I was literally wasting two coconuts and I don't use coconut in my cooking. Thought of making this ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Sep 2, 2011, 3:51 pm
I am reposting my Adai Kozhakattai recipe for the Vrat ka Khanna Event by Mom Chef.
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Sep 1, 2011, 12:20 pm
Mezhukkuvaratti is a common side dish people make in most of the Palghat Iyer family. This is nothing but just a stir fry and requires very less amount of seasoning and very less amount of ingredients. I made Karamani mezhukkuvaratti last week.  Here is how I made. Ingredients:- Karamani/Long Beans...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Aug 24, 2011, 4:58 pm
My girls wanted me to buy them Kurkure from Indian stores. I was very sure that they will not finish it cos they have tried it many times and wasted the whole packet. Again this time, they promised me that they will finish it. I am quite sure that they will not. But I did not want to disappoint them...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Aug 23, 2011, 7:20 pm
I make vatha kozhambu with pumpkin most of the times and also with some vathals.  After seeing Prema's Verkadalai Kozhambu, I wanted to try this too. Wasn't sure whether it will be good without any vegetable. She has also used eggplant & onion in her version. I added pumpkin and onion and almost fo...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Aug 15, 2011, 10:32 pm
I am not a very big fan of blueberries. I eat with when they are in muffins. But one of my twin loves BlueBerry.  After watching an episode in Dora, she started eating blue berries cos dora loves blue berries :).  As you know blueberries have less life. She managed to finish most of'em except 1/2 ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Aug 10, 2011, 7:01 pm
I made this cheese Parathas last week for my girls. Well for one of my twin. She actually liked it a lot with a cup of yogurt and sugar as side.   Here is how I made this Paratha. Ingredients for making one Paratha:- Chapathi dough- a medium lemon sized Cheese Singles - 1 ghee - for cooking...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Aug 7, 2011, 11:10 pm
Ther are two ways of making porchia kozhambu. One is Thanjavur style and the other one is Kerala style Poricha Kozhambu.  This is Kerala Style Poricha Kozhambu. I wanted to make eggplant poricha kozhambu, but after finishing the preparations, I realized that there is no eggplant in my fridge. Then ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Aug 3, 2011, 11:12 pm
This is something I made when we were in Delhi last year. I finally managed to find time to write this post. I was actually searching for the picture in my folders.  I made this in microwave and it came out pretty good.  My girls were not so excited about this payasam ( they like pal payasam ). He...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 31, 2011, 10:50 pm
Molagootal is a very common dish in a Kerala Iyer family.  In my mom's house, people prefer molagootal than Sambar or rasam. Even now my mami makes this twice or thrice a week. I like molagootal with some thogayal. This is bottle gourd molagootal I made couple of days before. I started using bottle...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 28, 2011, 3:19 pm
Thamara kezhangu / Kamal kakdi / Lotus Stem is something i really love. I remember my patti used to make this vathal at home. When we were in Delhi, sabjiwala used to bring the fresh Kamal Kakdi. Even our landlady asked me to try out some sabji she made with kamal kakdi. It tasted pretty good but we...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 25, 2011, 4:08 pm
Original Recipe is from Raks Kitchen. I wanted mine squishy mushy. So I added more water than what she mentioned in the original recipe. It was really yummy. thanks Raks for sharing the recipe
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 19, 2011, 7:45 pm
 This is a all time favorite burger of our family. All four us like this burger. We usually buy frozen boca patties from costco and use it. When I first came to US,  I really have no idea about sandwiches or burgers. My husband used to make these burgers before and happily agreed to teach me when ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 18, 2011, 9:59 pm
I made this Gobi Parathas using the leftover cauliflower masala curry I made for yesterday's dinner. It came out pretty good.  Here goes the recipe. For dough:- Whole grain wheat flour - 2 cups salt to tasteWater - Just enough to knead the doughOil - 1/2 tspFor Filling :- Cauliflower Masala Curry ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 16, 2011, 10:01 pm
I made this curry last week along with drumstick sambar. It came out pretty good. My girls felt it was little bit spicy. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:-Cauliflower Florets - 2 cups Onion - 1 medium sized choppedTomato - 1 medium sized choppedTurmeric powder - 1/2 tspRasam Powder - 1/2 tspRed ch...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 15, 2011, 4:57 pm
This  was our yesterday's evening tiffin. My girls used to give trouble for eating this sevai. But this time, they liked it. This is one of my favorite tiffin too. Here is the recipe for making lemon sevai. Ingredients:- Rice sevai - 1 cupTurmeric powder - 3/4 tspSalt to tasteLemon - 1Green chilli...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 12, 2011, 2:18 pm
Yesterday I made Vaazhapoo Paruppu Usli & Sepagezhangu More kozhambu for dinner. My girls generally like to take beans paruppu usli. Whenever I feed them, I make sure they take vaazhapoo usli too. But now a days they have started eating by themselves. So yesterday, no luck with vaazhapoo paruppu Usl...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 9, 2011, 10:38 pm
I made this yesterday as a side dish for our dinner. It was really good and my girls loved. I had to combine potatoes with okra because the available quantity of okra in my fridge was not enough for four of us..It was so simple to make. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:-  Potato - 1 cup (chopped i...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 5, 2011, 10:46 pm
If you love to eat strawberry, then you should be loving this sandwich. I came across this sandwich recipe while reading a magazine. Forgot the name of the author. But its from family circle magazine couple of years old edition..  One of my twin loves to eat strawberries in any form. After seeing t...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 4, 2011, 2:58 am
I made this kootu last week. It came out pretty good and it went well with rice an also with Roti. Here goes the recipe. Ingreients:- Zuchini - 1 cup (chopped)tomato - 1 (chopped into cubes) Mixed Vegetables - 1 cup (frozen)Moong dhall - 1/2 cupToor Dhall - 2 tbspTurmeric powder- 1/2 tspSalt to tast...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jul 3, 2011, 2:35 am
The original recipe is from Lataji's Flavours & Tastes. Instead of shredding the vazhakkai, I just scrambled it. It tastes super good.
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jun 22, 2011, 10:19 pm
I made this pickle with the lemons I got from our backyard. I made lemon rice using one last week and the I used 4 lemons for making this pickle. Felt so good.  This is basically my patti's recipe. But most of us use the same recipe to make pickle.  Here goes the recipe:- Ingredients:- Lemon - 4 N...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jun 16, 2011, 11:34 pm
This is another kozhambu I tried when we were in Chennai.  I got the recipe from a aunt who visits our place very often and she is a very good cook too. I just followed the same recipe. Ingredients:- Tamarind -a medium lemon sizedulundhu Papad/appalam - 3 or 4 acc to the required quantityTurmeric p...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Jun 2, 2011, 12:08 am
Podalanga UsliI finally managed to find time to write a blog post after almost 6 months.  This is something I made when we were in Chennai. Till then I never knew that we can make paruppu usli with podalanga. My MIL said, its a common dish in Thanjavur iyer families. I was not very sure whether I s...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Dec 7, 2010, 4:04 am
This is my husband's favorite dish.  This is a dish which we eat whenever we go to Royal Taj, a north Indian restaurant, in San Jose.  I was very hesitant to try this recipe because I didn't want to spoil his taste buds.  But after seeing these Barta Baingans available in the markets here, I was ...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Dec 3, 2010, 3:25 am
I am reposting my Palak Pulav for Only - 'Greens' event hosting by Saraswathi, an event by Pari
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Dec 2, 2010, 12:39 am
I am reposting the following recipe for Complete My Thali - Dhall/Kadi/Sambar/Rasam, this time Priya of Enveetu Kitchen is hosting, an event by Jagruti of Joy of Cooking. Spinach Potato Dhall Kadamba Sambar Drumstick Dhall  Drumstick Molagootal Cumin Rasam Lemon Rasam
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 30, 2010, 10:29 am
I got the idea of making these vadai after seeing Priya's post, Chickpea bread masal Vadai.  It came out pretty good. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Garbanzo Beans - 1 cupInstant oats - 1/4 cupGreen chillies - 3 (acc to taste)Onion - 1 Medium sized (finely chopped)Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp (ch...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 29, 2010, 10:28 am
I am reposting my Microwave Rava Kesari recipe for Priya's MEC-Sweet tooth event, originally created by Srivalli.
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 28, 2010, 6:57 am
This kichadi is my favorite. I make this for myself whenever my husband goes out of town. Since I add moong dhall in this kichadi, it will be very filling along with vegetables.  Here goes the recipe Ingredients:- Coarse Sooji/rava - 1 cupRoasted Vermicelli - 2 tbspMoong dhall - 4 tbspSalt to taste...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 28, 2010, 6:23 am
This amla rice is a very very simple rice variety and it will just take less than 10 minutes to make this, if we have cooked rice.  I tried this rice last week. It came out pretty good. Ingredients:- Amla/Nellikka/Gooseberry - 2 (medium sized)Green chillies - 2 (acc to taste)Ginger - a small pieceo...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 25, 2010, 11:19 am
I love to try recipes from Priya's blog. There are few I tried from her space. Here I am posting her Garlic Potatoes recipe which I tried from her place. I am sending this recipe to T&T hosted by PJ, an event by Lakshmi. Garlic Potatoes
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 25, 2010, 8:54 am
I am reposting my Pav Bhaji recipe for Pari's 'Only' - Chaat Event. Pav Bhaji
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 23, 2010, 10:12 am
Well most of my blogging friends know that this recipe is from Madhuri's Cook - Curry Nook.  I followed almost the same recipe except for few changes.. Here goes my recipe. Ingredients:- All Purpose Flour - 3/4 cupCocoa Powder - 1/4 cupOil - 1/4 cupBaking powder - 1/2 tspBaking Soda - 1/4 tspSalt a...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 19, 2010, 8:42 am
My MIL made this usli bonda when she was here.  She used the left over paruppu usli we made for lunch and made this bonda.  Here goes the recipe:- Ingredients:- Urad dhall - 1 cupRaw rice - 2 tspGreen chillies - 2Red chillies - 2Salt to tasteParuppu Usli ( we used beans paruppu usli) Oil - to fry...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 19, 2010, 7:44 am
When you are asked to make evening tiffin without using oil, flour, wheat, idly/dosa batter, sugar etc., you will have no other choice other than vegetables. Thats how I landed in this recipe. I was doing bhel pori before, but turns out pori(puffed rice) is rich in carbs i guess. I saw a programme i...
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Vidhya I. posted an article on My Receipes - Nov 18, 2010, 3:53 am
These muffins I made last week. Kids really loved it. I followed the recipe from my all time favorite allrecipes.com.  I exactly followed the same recipe except the addition of sugar. I reduced the quantity of sugar. Ingredients:- 1 1/4 cups quick cooking oats 1 1/4 cups milk ...
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