Pasala keerai adai.

As far as I am concerned, the image below requires no further explanation for me to know how to prepare the dish. I will eat it in less than a minute. However, many people would like to know what it is and how to cook.

It is called keerai adai. The keerai is pasalai keerai aka spinach. I have heard of kerrai vadai but never adai made of keerai. Do you know how easy it is to make it? It does nor require over night keeping for fermentation. Yes!, you can prepare a crispy keerai adai almost instantly with the following ingredients.

Boiled rice   ¾ cup

Raw rice  3/4 cup

Urdh dhal  ¼ cup

Bengal gram ½ cup

Tovar dhal  ¼ cup

Moong dhal  ¼ cup

Cumin seed   ¼ tsp.

Red chillies 10 no

Ginger grated 2 tbsp

Curry leaves 2 stem

Hing   ½ tsp

Salt      as required

Finely chopped spinach  1 ½ cup

Finely shredded carrot   3 tbsp  ( Optional)

Finely chopped cilantro    1 tbsp.

Oil  as required

 

As far as to the actual method of making the spinach adai, you better read the original content located at http://anudinam.org/2013/07/15/keerai-adai/

World's rare soup recipes.

I love soups-do you? I love to taste exotic soups of different nations. But I hate making them because most of the ingredients mentioned in soup recipes are not available locally.

That is why, whenever I visit a restaurant, I first look up for soup items and order something that I have not tasted yet.

So, what I am going to with a range of wonderful soup recipes if I never attempt to make a soup? Here, I am sharing with you a web site on soup recipes exclusively.

A new recipe that looked appetizing to me in it is a potato-celery recipe. (see, celery is a rarity in Madras). Visit cooksoups.com for a big range of recipes.

Would you invite me if you cook it?

Recipe for Mashed Yams

Michelle Karam looks and cooks good-right? She is expressive and all smiles showing a lovely set of teeth. Though I have not had an opportunity to taste her dishes, I am sure they must be as nice as she cooks and looks.

Today, I watched cook mashed yam as a thanksgiving recipe. Frankly speaking, I did not the westerners ate yam. I was under assumption that the yam truly belong to the Indian kitchen. How poorly educated I am!

Yam is very difficult to cook. Imagine how hard it will be to mash it on pan. Michelle did it very well. I could have told her to a few Indian spices like turmeric and tamarind.

Nevertheless, watch her cook mashed yam below.

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Mission impossible at Karisma Hotel.

My friend, who just returned from a Riviera maya family vacation, was low on confidence because her pride took a beat in Mexico.

She used to have her ways around restaurants in the hotels all over the world and get the chef divulge the secret ingredients of the food she liked.

My friend who is a well known author of rare recipes of the world prides herself with sweet talking techniques in hotel kitchens.

During her recent stay at one of the top resorts in Karisma Hotels in Riviera Maya, she happened to eat the Mexican dish ‘Fajita’. (See image) She immediately liked it so much that she ordered it for five consecutive days at the restaurant.

Her ploy was to impress the chef and somehow get the recipe from him. But, to her disappointment, the chef didn’t budge.

This mission took so much of her time that she was not able to enjoy the other luxuries offered at Azul Blue resort such as the low-carb lobsters, tequila and non-motorized water sports.

May be she can think of applying for a job at Karisma Hotels?

Excellent vegetarian recipes.

I found myself drawn to a recipe blog for the past two days. There are some new recipes that I have never heard of. The author of the blog Finger Licking Food is Namratha, an Indian settled in the U.S. I thought she misspelled her name which could be Narmatha. (how dare I )

I think she is originally from Karnataka state in India. Her recipes for a change looked cookable. I mean the ingredients are all familiar to me. There are hundreds of recipe blogs and sites that mention ingredients which they seem to get from Mars.

Two recipes that I intend to try out this week are:
Curd Kodubale
Bombay Kojju

The pictures of food in her blog also seemed to be taken from her kitchen.

Thank you Namratha.

Can’t I dress it up differently?

Dressing it up differently, the corn based meal tasted ok of course but my husband ridiculed at my own certificate. “Malathy, a southerner should say whether your cornbread dressing is ok or not”. Yes, I too have read that the authors of cornbread recipe are from the southern part of America and Texas comes to my mind first among them.

Let me tell you how I made it differently. Instead of the usual celery, I used a few basil leaves and a generous dose of spinach. And I avoided garlic and onion totally.

I must agree that the buttermilk had gone slightly sour but I thought that will give a different taste to the dish.

I still vouch that it tasted different.

I am hungry for a carrot cake.

I should blame Yahoo! for making me hungry for a carrot cake. That appetising and salivating picture of carrot cake made me hear the rumbles in my stomach.

This is the first time I am hearing about a cake made of carrot. We use carrot only in salad. Of course my son loves carrot juice.

This carrot cake picture is given below.













For the recipe of this carrot cake, you should read Yahoo! food. Oh, the recipe is all fine but the mention of egg in it makes me to have second thought. How can I eat a cake with egg as one of the ingredient?

No, I am going to compromise for once and prepare the cake. God, please pardon me once, just this once. If not, why else you made me look at this carrot cake?