Kitchen and Home Making

Join with us in EFM - Oats SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE!   Ingredients: Potato - 3 Fresh Green peas - 50 gms Onion - 1 (lengthwise chopped) Tomato - 2 (large in size - roughly chopped) Aniseed - 1/2 tsp Coriander Powder - 2 tsp Cumin Powder - 1 tsp Chilly Powder - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste -  1 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Coriander Leaves - 2 tsp (finely chopped - to garnish) Salt - to taste Cooking oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the potatoes and pressure cook for 3 whistles. Do not overcook it, since the gravy won't taste good. Once it is cooked, peel off the skin and cut into small cubes. Meanwhile, heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan and add onions to it and fry till it becomes golden brown and add tomatoes at this time and cook for few seconds. Switch off the flame and let the mixture to cool. Once it is cooled, grind this mixture to a fine paste.  Heat 2 tbsp

Join with us in EFM - Oats SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Am planning for the past 2 days to bake a cake for my birthday which falls on 27th September (yes, TODAY is My BIRTHDAY!)  but had guts to play with a simple  recipe, since its only the second attempt for me to bake cake. So i don't want to take risk with a tedious cake recipe. I started to browse for cake recipes and bookmarked a few. I asked my hubby which cake recipe to kick in. At once, he answered me let's order for a cake in bakery shop, instead of baking at home and added that he is the only one who has to eat cake whether it comes out good or  bad. The reason is he got afraid of my baking skill. But i refused to order a cake. I strictly told him that I will bake cake for my birthday and its going to be a thrilling experience for me and he too accepted for it. I went for shopping along with him, day before yesterday evening, to purchase the ingredients

I am really thankful to all the blogger who participated in the EFM - Breakfast Series and made it successful! Now its time to announce the theme for this month. Theme for EFM (Event for the Month) for the month of September - October is "OATS RECIPES". So, come out with all your OATS recipes and am awaiting eagerly for your entries. Rules for Participating in the Event: 1. Prepare recipes with OATS, and post it in your blog between September 27th,2009 to October 31st,2009 with the logo and a link back to this page. 2. If you already have appropriate entry archived, please make sure to re-post it during the period of event with the logo and a link back to this page. Only the entries re-posted during the event will be accepted. 3. Provide a link back to this announcement page and use the logo without fail. 4. Interested people can Subscribe my blog via E-mail, so that you can receive my recipes to your mail address itself. 5. Email your entry to srikitchen@gma

Moist Chocolate Cake! Wow! My first attempt in preparing cake! Oh my God! To be true, it turned out successful! It taste really good and awesome! May be its a simple task for the daring bakers but for me its a great thing! I was crossing my fingers for the whole time that the cake took to bake in the oven! My heart beat slightly started to beat fast when the cake started to raise in the tin and I become much tensed and my body started to sweat and I started to pray God that the cake should not overflow out of the tin. Once the cake stopped to raise, i felt as i have got one more chance to take birth and live in this world. Anyways, it came out too good and i started to serenade for the cake! And now coming to my recipe.... Ingredients: All Purpose Flour - 3 cups Sugar - 2 cups Water - 2 cups Oil - 1/2 cup or 8 tbsp Cocoa Powder - 6 tbsp Baking Soda - 2 tsp Vanilla Essence - 1 tbsp White Vinegar - 2 tbsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Cooking Instructions: Sift all purpose flour, coc

I am very happy to enter into this blog world and to my recipe blog after really a very long break! Rally i missed you all a very lot and of course, your yummy recipes too! But very happy that have bank up lot of recipes in the drafts section and hope soon will publish it asap! One thing which made me felt very sad in the break period is, i missed to announce the winner of EFM - Breakfast Series! Hope the winner will be angry towards me for my long absence! Am so sorry my friend, if you have guessed already that you are the winner! And, if you people have not guessed who the winner is, then its my high responsibility to announce it before i start to publish my recipes! Now, may we know who the lucky person is? Cross your fingers! Its no one but one of my good blogger friends, who pay regular visit to my blog, Shama Nagarajan with 27 recipes! Congrats Shama and wish you all the very best and thanks a lot for your active participation in the event! Here is your award Shama! An