tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20416859548224418562025-10-29T08:10:45.300+05:30simple everyday recipes for Foodies and of LifeMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300721582759704706noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041685954822441856.post-40957358402740382082022-04-01T14:43:00.001+05:302022-04-01T14:43:53.427+05:30

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FOOD, now celebrated with a Tops Selfie Contest Baked, fried, toasted, roasted, boiled, steamed, raw and fresh or prepared and preserved with the harmonious mix of love and culinary talents. If this is how you prefer your taste buds to be treated, then you fall under the hearty category of “Foodies”. Not for nothing has such a love for food been celebrated daily by thousands of people

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Hooray!!! My post on Kanda Poha got selected as one of 100 unique, simple and easy recipes for the 100 Kids Lunchbox Recipes event hosted by Indus Ladies.com. Please do have a look at the book..looks lovely. The link for downloading the Book is below - Recipe Book - http://www.indusladies.com/food/kids-lunch-box-recipes/ The cover of the book . 

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A Little Read Up about the Main Ingredients -  The main ingredient is flattened rice or beaten rice. Dehusked rice is parboiled, rolled, flattened and dried into flakes. It is fat-free and a good source of 11 vitamins and minerals including iron. Poha is easily digestible and easy to cook. There are different varieties of Poha; fine and medium flakes. Jada Poha  (the medium variety)

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A well known , most popular food during fasting in Maharashtra; the main ingredients are Sabudana / Sago, fried potatoes and ground peanuts. A Little Read Out About the Ingredients - Sago / Sabudana is a food product made from the milk of the tapioca root, which is then converted into small globules, using a special machine. Sago is nearly pure carbohydrate which is a great energy booster

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My fellow Anglo - Indians... not a single post / picture / articles / recipe has come in and it has been a week... Please do share your Sunday lunch recipes..... which I am sure are strictly AI cuisine. Please do share your thoughts and memories too. Looking forward to it...

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Everything Anglo Indian ........ Hi !!! I am back after a long time. But my Flavours & Aromas was always with me though I couldn't post anything. Something has been in my mind for a long time and I decided to pull up my sleeves and get down to it ultimately. I realised that there wasn't a comprehensive record of Anglo-Indian cuisine, the kind my grandmother and mother makes and which has

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Just before my son's first birthday, I was scouting for party suppplies, return gifts, party cutlery etc all over Mumbai. I did get a few things from the lanes behind Crawford Market. But my list was long and what I could get from there hardly made an impression on my list. I went to places like the The Party Shop (above Badshah's), the Sutar Chawl lane but couldn't get much. So I went on to

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SHOP ONLINE FOR CHILDREN/ BABIES Its been a long time that I posted anything here.That's because I was involved full time in nuturing my one-year-old son. Now that things are a little settled, I decided to continue where I had left off. Recently, when I was looking for some information online about birthday gift my son received, I chanced upon a number of Online Shopping websites especially

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Flipkart launched as a humble online book store for India. Within two years and a workforce of no more than five people, purely through word of mouth of their amazing services, Flipkart cracked the Top 100 Indian sites and was credited for being India's largest online bookseller with over 7 million titles on offer. Today, they don't just sell books, but mobile phones, gaming consoles,

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    I have finally perfected the art of making  Saucy Paneer. This is what I will name my dish as it is neither too spicy to call it Chilli Paneer nor is is like a Manchurian dish to call it Manchurian Paneer. It will satiated all taste buds. My family loved it. You can make it dry or keep a thick gravy. Its Versatile !!          &

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I have posted on Paniyaram earlier. Recently I came across an easier method to make those spongy, golden brown balls to snack on when one is peckish.  These are made with leftover Idli-Dosa batter . This batter is readily available at any store in Mumbai or you can prepare it at home. Hetal and Anuja have posted a detailed video on their site Show Me The Curry. It takes just 10 mins to

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International Food Bloggers Auction for Japan: A Little Help Goes A Long Way This what Aparna writes on her website. Marie - ( I thought of sharing this with you . A Little Help goes a Long Way Everyday we read of the devastating effect the earthquake and tsumani has left on the Japanese who have been brave but need a lot of help, monetary or otherwise. Let us all join together and help

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For those who loved reading my travel posts would have guessed how much I love travelling and more off the beaten path. The usual touristy " spots " have been so well publicised that everyone knows about them. I love bringing life and new meaning to the well known places. Kind of looking at it from another perspective. So if there is any publication who would like to have a place covered,

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Hello Everyone.  I am back after a long hiatus.  Well. I have busy with tending to my little son and now that he is 3 months old, I decided to come back here and catch up with everyone. I have Pav Bhaji (Mumbai style) on my mind for sometime now. Never made it myself however. Yet. But am planning to do so very soon. Will share all my experiences then. I came across a Pav Bhaji video

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Recently, I have begun following the posts written by Kalyan Karmakar on his blog "Finely Chopped" . Its quite an interesting blog and very well written and presented, I must say. On his recent trip to Kolkata (Calcutta), he visited Jugal's at Park Circus, Kolkata. That's a Bengali sweet shop. I won't reveal anymore. Please do visit his post "Just a li'l bit of the human touch". Jugals,

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I haven't been very active recently on my blog due to some medical constraints but this snack is so delicious and was something new, atleast for me ; therefore I had to share it with all of you.  Kuzhi Paniyaram is a popular Chettinad tiffin item, where fermented rice and lentil batter (idli / dosa batter)  is mixed with seasoning and steamed in special pans which comes with

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POHA A delightful, easy to cook, nutritious breakfast item, brunch, evening snack or a quick fix, light meal when one is not feeling too well, made from flattened rice flakes. Very healthy. Flattened rice (also called beaten rice) is a dehusked rice which is flattened into flat light dry flakes. This is primarily a Maharashtrian dish, light and easy to prepare; at the most around 15 mins from

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Congratulations and Celebrations !! The proud winner of the Giveaway  is Pavani - Cook's Hideout.

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I received an email from CSN, (an online retailer based in Boston) the other day. This was a coincidence as I was browsing through some products in their stores, looking for a gift idea for a elderly couple celebrating 50 years of wedded bliss !!  Seated on my brand new bar stool in my warm kitchen, I went through their email wherein they asked me if I was

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Parampara ready - to - cook spices are available at any supermarket in any Mall in Mumbai (Bombay). I had about 500 gm of fresh paneer sitting in my fridge waiting to be prepared for a meal. When I came across this packet stating that Paneer could be prepared with capsicum and onion, I decided to give it a try. The packet has instructions on the reverse but i will mention the ingredients here

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for St. Patrick's Day on March 17th http://rlv.zcache.com/st_patricks_day_tshirt-p235338382406070103tdh0_325.jpg... Please stop by my store SPARKLES at .....http://www.zazzle.com/sparkles_marie

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Yes !!!!    I have created my very first T-shirt today and put it up for sale at my very own online store 'SPARKLES' hosted on zazzle.com My t-shirt is labelled Ave Maria (in praise of Mother Mary) the t-shirt can be viewed at Ave Maria Shirts from Zazzle.com, http://www.zazzle.com/ave_maria_tshirt-235443287942068115 the store link is http://www.zazzle.com/sparkles_marie

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 I am so so EXCITED !!! Emerald  - May ..... yes that's the name of my store at Inkfruit.   All the products in the store are by other designers, all over the world. I am only bringing them to you through my store.  http://www.inkfruit.com/affiliate/emeraldmay    For Girls, Womens' tees go to - http://www.inkfruit.com/girlstees.php Inkfruit is a place for

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