This is absolutely new recipe for me which I got from one of my good friend Rani. I hope I it right. She emailed me this recipe and asked me to try it out. I tried this yesterday and as she said, it tastes really good and goes really well with rice and can be used as side dish for roti, dosa etc. Here is the recipe..Ingredients: -Potato - 4 (medium sized) (chop it into cubes)Carrot - 2 (chop it into cubes)Peas - 1/4 cup ( i used frozen)Onion - 1 (if its medium or 1/2 if its big)Tomato - 1 (chop it)Coriander powder - 1 1/2 tspCumin Powder - 1/2 tspRed chillies powder - 1/2 tsp (acc to taste)Salt   read more

This is another recipe I learned from my cousin Rashmi. During our last visit to her place for get together, she made this curry. I really loved the combination of cabbage and Garbanzo beans. I usually add green peas with cabbage. But this is something new to me. So thought of trying it today.Ingredients:-C abbage - 3 cups ( chopped)Garbanzo beans - 1 cup ( I used canned beans cos its already cooked)Salt to tasteOil   read more

Somedays you don't feel like cooking anything but you have people around and have no other choice, this rice comes handy. I learned this recipe from one of my friend's mom. Frankly speaking, it is easy to make and luckily my girls really liked that rice. I usually make carrot rice in this way. Here is the recipe. Ingredients:-Carrot - 1 (shredded)Onion - 1 finely choppedTomato   read more

HAPPY DEEPAVALI TO ALL MY FRIENDS HERE Diwali is one of our favorite festival we celebrate everyyear. I bet you guys must have celebrated it in a grand manner this year too. WE went to a potluck party this year and had fun there. I was planning to make lots of goodies this year, but ended up making only two because of some unavoidable reasons and the news from India that my patti (who is my first inspiration in cooking)is sick and she is in the hospital. I just made Atta laddoo and omapodi this year for diwali. Thanks to Rashmi who shared this recipe with me. Here is the recipe for Atta laddoo.   read more

am reposting this Corianderseeds Podi (Dhaniya podi) for Priya's Think Spice-Think Coriander Event. This is my husband's favorite. Ingredients for making this podi are as follows:Ingredients: -Channa dhall - 1 CupToor dhall - 1 cupUrad   read more

have never tried roti/chapathi with oats. One of my friend from the kids' school told me about this oats chapathi and I wanted to try this today. She wanted me to try this adding more oats than wheat. Since I wasn't sure whether it will wor, i just tried with more wheat and a part of oats.Here is the recipe I followed..Ingredient s:-Wheat flour - 1 cupoats powder - 4 tbsp (grind quaker oats into a fine powder)salt to tasteWater to kneadSesame   read more

Saraswathi Pooja is my most favorite celebration when I was a girl. Cos thats when we don't have to do any homework nor do we study on that day(lol). Since its the last day of navrathri, in my mom's place, we make lots of goodies on that day. This year, I wanted to do the same way so that my girls could also learn our tradition and culture. This year I made aama vadai, pal payasam, kondakadala(black channa dhall) sundal and the regular south Indian traditional samayal. It was really fun that day and we successfully enrolled our girls for swimming lessons. Since I have posted recipe for pal payasam   read more

We might have come across many websites which check our credit score and position of our networth. I was curious about the credit scores and credit repair and wanted to check mine. So thought of looking for some websites which do this job. While searching I came across this Ovation Credit and just started browsing this website.First we can check our credit score for free at the time of sign up. They follow the four easy steps to improve credit . Those include selecting a program & options and sign up, then order and forward our bad credit report and the third one is login and activate the   read more

HAPPY NAVRATHRI TO ALL MY BUDDY BLOGGERS!!!Hope you guys are having fun with all those wonderul dolls. Kolu is one of my favorite Indian festival where we get to see lots and lots of beautiful dolls. This year I got some help from my girls cleaning up the dolls, setting kolu padi, giving manjal kumkumam to friends etc. Since I had to go get thamboolam from my friend's place, I am doing sundal & sweet on every other day and the remaining days, I just use white rice for neivedhyam. Yesterday I made Kadala paruppu sundal & Rava Kesari for neivedhyam. On sunday I made Garbanzo sundal and aval   read more

Well now a days people have started investing in gold. The value of gold has been increasing day by day. I have heard that the market for purchasing gold coins never closes and we can buy from any country at any time. In my family itselt, few of my relatives have started purchasing gold instead of jewelry which includes making charges etc.Also many companies have started issuing gold bonds through which we can invest in gold and gain profit as the value increases day by day. One of my uncle's client referred to a site which sells gold and gold bullion. Some people prefer to have it as a gold bullion   read more