We are having first snow of the season and it\'s snowing real thick today. Whole place is covered in snow, it looks beautiful and serene and it\'s so Christmassy. I like the slow build up of the Christmas mood in here and the snow just makes it perfect. Here is a warm recipe for the cold winter...
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A very happy thanksgiving to all of you. Here is something simple if you want to try for this occasion. It’s a bit of a summery treat using peaches and berries, but you can always substitute the fruits with anything of your choice or use canned ones or frozen ones as I did. After all the berry...
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Egg burji often sees our breakfast table on the weekends, especially if my lunch is going to be late or we are going out shopping. This is one of the easiest recipes and was passed down to me by my dear friend Simi Reji, my husband’s friend’s wife. Several years back, they had stayed over at our...
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Hope you all had a great Diwalitime. I really liked the hype of Diwali celebrations on the social network and the blogs. For me, Diwali is associated with nothing but the Indian sweets and my feeds and updates have been overflowing with bloggers posting Diwali sweets! The amount of sweets that...
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Hi all,Happy Halloween! Hope you all had a great time today and had a wonderful Eid last week. Belated Eid wishes to all. I was hoping to post this on the day before Eid, but things did not work the way it was supposed to work. My terrible procrastination is to be blamed for that. For the reason,...
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It’s autumn and the winter is soon approaching. Days started getting really shorter and colder. That also means cooking and photographing foods are going to more difficult with sun setting soon, and having shady days more often. But I love the season and what the season provides - aubergines,...
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Are your bananas over ripened? Don’t bin them; smoothie them. They are high in fibre and a great energy booster. So you can whip up a smoothie like this and make an ideal breakfast and it will keep you full till noon. This is probably the simplest of smoothies that I make. I just breakup over...
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Sometimes it is the simplest of recipes that takes time to perfect, to master. For me, it has always been so. Partly, it might be due to me taking the simple recipes for granted. And partly I may be careless dealing with easy recipes and don’t pay enough attention. Or am I over-confident? I...
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I love the fact that the seasons here can be clearlyly distinguished by changes in the weather and surroundings rather than looking up the calendar. It’s raining cats and dogs today here and the husband is away for a five day course. I had my mind all set up for a healthy regime; I thought I kick...
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This is a recipe that my mother prepares at home quite often. Yesterday, I made it slightly different as I partly don’t remember her recipe and I was in a hurry to call her up to ask her eyeballed measurements. So I prepared the way I remember and it was nice. My mom serves it along with Arabic...
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It is a customary at my place to make panineer petty during Eid. It would be a very unusual snack or dessert for someone who never had it before, but sure to surprise. This is quite a popular Malabar dish mostly made in muslim households during special ocassions. The soft pillowy dessert made of...
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Hi all, Thank you all for checking on me. I Hope you all had a great time, Eid and a blessed Ramadan. On my side, I have been keeping great. I Had great time in India and Abu dhabi. It’s about 20 days that I am back from my holidays, but still in the holiday hangover. I always feel refreshed and...
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I once read or may be heard from somewhere that our life is just like an inn, where many people come and go; some stay in our memories, some just fades away and some leave behind a strong impression. Last year, on the way back from the hubby’s work, he met a person from Kerala who was on the same...
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I am travelling home tomorrow (27th june)and I am going to be there for quite a while. Packing, cleaning, arranging stuffs, last bits of shopping everything is over and here I am sitting totally exhausted, with least of energy to do anything. But hey, I am not going to be sitting here all night...
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Yet another year passes by and Shab\'s Cuisine turned four on March 11. This post comes tad late as I am caught up with my son’s upcoming birthday celebration. Apart from my family and friends, my blog is something thing that I love spending time with and look back for some leisure and to...
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Here is a spring roll recipe that I started making several years ago. Spring rolls also known as egg rolls are slender and crispy morsels packed with oriental flavours. Easy to fry up and assemble, I make slightly a huge batch and freeze the uncooked rolls to munch later. Here is a link with step...
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Muthabbal is one of the favorite Middle Eastern dips that comes along with most Middle Eastern platters. Made with grilled aubergines, these dip has a distiguishing smokey flavour. You can either chargrill it, bake it in oven or even cover in foil and cook it on hob fire. It is also known as baba...
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In my first macaron post, I did mention macarons are addictive, making them and having them, both alike. And now, I warm myself from doing anything that says ‘addictive’ because I do get addicted. I was bitten by this contagious mac-bug and since ever since I tried my first set of macarons and...
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The temperature has been hitting minus constantly for the past couple of weeks and nothing could be better than sipping on something hot to mellow down the bitterness of the icy cold weather. Here is a fantastic recipe of a refreshing drink that has simple, clean flavour with a whiff of Saffron...
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I have been making several types of chocolate cupcakes for a while now and I realise I haven’t even posted one of them. Like brownie, I tend to try lot of chocolate cup cakes so as to satiate our chocolate craving. Cupcakes are small and mighty and I also easily halve the recipe so as to...
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I am a rice fanatic and would try anything that has something to do with rice that I find appealing. Like wheat, rice too is versatile in its own way, making one of the best non gluten substitutes. Back home we make innumerable amount of preparation using rice and have them throughout the...
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I love chickpeas; May it be just plain boiled ones, in salads, soups or anything else. This is one simple salad recipe that I adapted from the Moroccan cook book which I borrowed from the library a while ago. It’s simple, easy, healthy and delicious! I loved the combination of flavours. In the...
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Hi Friends, Hope you all had a Great X’mas and a Lovely New year. I am quite late here to wish you both, yet, wishing you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. I really got caught up for the past few weeks, shopping, baking, cooking, roaming around and with the boy’s school off for nearly...
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This fiery paste, harissa, is known thoughout North Africa for its fiery and pungent taste and has well crossed its borders. It is served as a condiment, marinade or a dip for warm crusty bread. This is a basic harissa recipe, you can add your choice of spices and herbs such as fennel seeds,...
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I love the Christmas season in the UK. It is the most celebrated festival here where the preparations start as early as October. Everything around is in the X’mas spirit now and there is lot of things going on at Richu’s school too. There was a Xmas party this week and I baked loads of cupcakes...
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I recently started observing that every time I go to India, I come across many innovative and great range of food that is prepared using new techniques and new flavours yet retaining that rich Malabar whiff. Whenever I visit my relatives, the food they serve never stopped to surprise me. They are...
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Even though it is winter and apricot has nothing to do with winter, this cake is so good to have at anytime of the year. Canned apricots are readily available throughout the year and this cake is just can be made in no time. This is one of the simplest cakes I baked recently; packed with flavour,...
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I have always been fascinated by Arabic food. I like its simplicity, diversity and varied flavours. I assume most of them do. They are mild, full of flavour and require less manual labour compared to Indian cooking. Dint I tell you about the book that I borrowed from the Library, the Moroccan...
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Last week I had gone to the local library to pick some books. I then borrowed some cookery books and others. I was quite bored of all what I prepare on regular basis and wanted to try something completely new, nothing of that I cook or even that taste like my regular food. Even the best of foods...
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Someone at home has gone crazy on doughnuts, and it’s none other than my little picky eater! What surprises me is that he prefers the homemade ones and doesn’t like the shop bought ones. How much he trusts his mom, LOL. I have made doughnuts several times before, but I wasn’t really happy with...
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Pachadi is a usually a coconut and yogurt based dish which is served along side plain boiled rice and other curries. It’s so easy to prepare, and can just whip it up in a jiffy. I normally prepare this to compliment any spicy curries that I serve along with rice just as my Malabar fish curry....
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Hi friends, Hope you all had a great Diwali and Eid. I prepared these laddus just in time for diwali and planned to post on Diwali, but just got delayed. As wiLaddus need no special Introduction. It is one of India’s most popular festive sweets. These are seen all around Indian shops and bakeries...
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Aloo parattas are one of the most popular Indian flat breads served for breakfast or dinner along with condiments like curd or pickle to go with. It is easy to make, with less flaws however you make it. I should accept the fact that it is a bit time consuming with all the kneading, rolling and...
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Before I start, let me mention that this post is written specially for a fellow blogger, Neelu. She too hails from Kannur and these days it somehow happens that all Kannur-ians that I meet are somehow connected. After few chats with her, I realized that we are distant relatives and neighbours...
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Some foods can be so simple and easy to make yet taste great. One such food is these superlight American pancakes. I know pancakes are not something so great to blog and brag about, but this one worth a post. There are number of ways to make pancakes and they vary from region to region, and...
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Hi friends,
Hope you all had a great Ramadan, Eid and Onam. After a long gap of more than 2 decades, I was lucky enough to celebrate Eid and spend Holy Ramadan in India with my relatives. This post is going to be my 200th recipe post; a long awaited one, yet had to come late as I was confused...
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Kums/Kumsi in nothing but simple sponge cake flavoured with cardamoms. Kums/Kumsi is a famous snack/cake in Malabar areas and is served at tea time. It is not iced or frosted, but is eaten by dunking in Milk tea. Traditionally, in the olden times, the batter is churned for a prolonged time with a...
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Here is an easy and simple baked chicken for you to try over the weekend. A chicken that is bursting with flavours ; heat from the spices and tang from the lime. It’s a perfect non-veggie deal to compliment any vegetarian meal. I normally prepare this when I cook Dal curry with any un-leaved...
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