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Strawberry Lassi

2013-05-20T22:50:00.002-05:00

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Hearth and Soul Blog Hop: 152: 5/20/2013

2013-05-20T17:56:00.000-05:00

Hearty Welcome to another edition of Hearth and Soul blog hop. We are looking forward to a delicious, healthy, recipes as all as health related information which helps to energize our body. We welcome posts that are shared in other events.Recipes should include healthy ingredients and can be old or new recipes or posts. Articles on real food, slow food, foraging, herbal

Thin Crust Vegetable Pizza: Best Pizza I ever made: Baking Partners challenge 10

2013-05-14T22:33:00.000-05:00

Pizza is everybody’s favorite including my princess. If you ask her what you want for dinner, her answer will be pizza or pasta. Until my marriage I used to eat only frozen pizzas. After marriage I found a pizza loving hubby, and when we are staying in Utah there was a 5 dollar pizza joint, hubby buy pizza from every alternate weekend. Once we moved to Houston, we have lot of pizza places

Hearth and Soul Blog Hop: 151: 5/14/2013

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Besan Ladoo/ Laddu/Sweetened chickpea/ Garbanzo flour balls

2013-05-11T19:24:00.000-05:00

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Cucumber, Celery, Pear and Lemon Juice: A Green Detox

2013-05-06T23:02:00.000-05:00

We celebrated our princess birthday party with great fun, she enjoyed thoroughly, thanks to everyone who wished and blessed her. Since birthday party has heavy with pizza, cake and gulab jamun, I thought I will start this week with a healthy juice. I have seen on Dr OZ show that there is even a 3 day weekend detox diet, for which you have to drink 5 juices a day and eat one meal that has

Hearth and Soul Blog Hop: 150: 5/7/2013

2013-05-06T21:37:00.002-05:00

Princess You Are Four Today

2013-05-04T12:40:00.004-05:00

She came into my life exactly 4 years ago on a Monday afternoon. When I saw her for the first time, I forgot all the pain I had gone though to get her. She made me an extremely important person, for each and everything she will call, mama this, that. Then her brother was born about 15 months ago, and at first she thought her baby brother is her doll, she can play with it, and now she has

Mexican Grilled Street Corn

2013-05-01T14:00:00.000-05:00

May is here at my door step. The month of May brings lot of happiness to me, as my princess birthday falls in the first week, and she wants to celebrate her birthday with great fun, and for last one month that is the most important thing for her. Then at the end of May she starts her summer holidays. My hands are going to be full as I am not going to get the few extra hours of time she

Favorite Recipes Event: Drinks

2013-05-01T13:28:00.000-05:00

This month Favorite recipes are coming to Zesty South Indian Kitchen. Thanks Pallavi of Cook Eat and Burp to host last month favorite recipes event As summer is approaching, sun is going to at his prime; we can make some delicious juices/drinks to cool down our body. Whether it is a cold coffee, lassi, Juice, smoothie, or any drink you like it. Whatever tasty drink you choose to make

Flavors of Cuisine: Thai Event coming at Zesty South Indian Kitchen

2013-05-01T10:03:00.003-05:00

This month I am guest hosting the Flavors of Cuisine event started by Julie of Erivum Puliyumm. We are going to explore the delicious dishes of Thailand. I would love to visit

Hearth and Soul Blog Hop : 149 : 4/30/ 2013

2013-04-30T18:32:00.001-05:00

Twisted Yeasted cookies/Biscuits/ Torcettini di Saint Vincent

2013-04-28T11:21:00.001-05:00

Do you know who makes all the rules in my house, I think it’s both my kids, yes my son doesn’t like mom taking a nap or sleeping, he wants to be comforted all night and day. If mom just holds him and watches him without doing anything he is happy. I was sleepy all the morning, and thought I will take a nap in the afternoon, we all three, I, daughter and son were ready for. But then he

Southwestern Pile up: A Guest Post from MJ’s Kitchen

2013-04-26T09:59:00.000-05:00

Today I am going to introduce a wonderful blogger, Mary Jane from Mj’s Kitchen. Her blogs reflects South Western dishes especially from New Mexico. She works in the field of nanotechnology and also is a food blogger and recipe developer at MJ’s Kitchen. She and her husband Bob make wonderful dishes and shoots breathtaking photographs. Moreover, she is very friendly and a nice person, and

Strawberry Nutella Coffee Banana Smoothie

2013-04-22T22:41:00.000-05:00

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Hearth and Soul Blog Hop: 148: 4/23/2013

2013-04-22T22:36:00.000-05:00

Traditional Indian Recipes Event: Roundup and Giveaway Winners

2013-04-22T14:52:00.001-05:00

I got lots of interesting and delicious recipes for this event. With 53 entries it was really hard to pick the winners as each one of the recipes are great. Thank you all for participating in this wonderful event and giveaway. I am thankful to 27 coupons.com for gladly sponsoring this giveaway for the 2 winners with e-gift vouchers of Rs 750/- that they purchase their favorite items

Pineapple Rasam/ Pineapple in spicy lentil soup

2013-04-19T15:03:00.001-05:00

Please keep in your thoughts and prayers for the innocent victims whose lose their life and injured in the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant on Wednesday 17th 2013 in West, Texas. This week has been really been a somber one for me, on Monday people hurt and killed due to man-made activities in Boston Marathon.Wednesday again, people died and injured from the deadly explosion at a

Cotton soft Japanese cheesecake/ Chiizukeiki for Baking Partner’s Challenge No. 9

2013-04-15T20:09:00.001-05:00

We are praying for the innocent victims and their families and friends of tragedy during Boston Marathon 2013. Hope for a speedy recovery for the injured victims. This is another delicious challenge for this month Baking Partner’s. If you are new to this blog, baking partners are a group of home baker’s who love baking and intend to learn from each other. You are also welcome to

Hearth and Soul Blog Hop : 147 4/15/2013

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Pazham Pradhaman/ Pazham Payasam/ Apple Banana Rice Pudding: Aranmula Vallasadya Special For this Vishu

2013-04-14T16:08:00.000-05:00

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Pazham Boli/ Batter fried Plantain fritters

2013-04-09T15:49:00.000-05:00

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Hearth and Soul Blog Hop: 146 49/2013

2013-04-09T09:38:00.003-05:00

How to make Homemade Vegetable Broth and Fresh Ginger garlic Paste

2013-04-05T20:57:00.000-05:00

I grew up in a vegetarian family, with my mom, aunts and grandma cooking with vegetables and converting them into delicious curries and stir fry’s. The only raw vegetables I used to eat are carrot or raita (combination of yogurt, cucumber, onion and tomato made it into side dish). Once I left India, I came to know more about eating salad. I went on my salad eating spree for first three days

Vegetable Biryani/Biriyani : An Easy Way

2013-04-02T19:47:00.000-05:00

Hope everybody had a wonderful Easter. We had a wonderful weekend, and both kids got outing in form of shopping and we also planted a few plants in our garden. Still I wanted more plant, so went out to buy a few rose plants, however it turned out be too expensive, so dropped the idea and came back to plant a few more from my seed collection. Earlier we had three roses which I had