tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23679981722419887352024-03-05T18:34:28.800-06:00SpiceBuds.....Journey to Food WorldSpicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-69869548876658688202015-08-20T12:41:00.000-05:002015-08-20T12:41:30.510-05:00Are You A Busy Parent, relying on packed snacks.....lets have some homamade snacks
In today's world, everybody seems to be running. Either you are running for your work or taking kids to activities, social gatherings and specially in the beautiful weather of summer it seems there is so much to do in so little time.
We all know time never stops. Back in June me and my friends were talking how this long summer break gonna pass and here we are only last little bit of summer Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-67763832232458614662015-06-28T09:27:00.000-05:002015-06-28T09:31:56.461-05:00Fish Cakes
Finally, I'm here, actually drafting this post....over the past so many months, I took many pictures even drafted the blog post in my mind but than period, no actual writing, picture editing & clicking of "Publish Post" button happened. Well, now I'm here and really hoping I'll make it to the "Publish Post" button.
The recipe I'm going to share today is of Fish Cakes. I usually make Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-28050679965473122522014-03-03T05:43:00.001-06:002014-03-03T05:43:05.434-06:00Quick and Simple Vegetable Soup
What do U do next after baking a big batch of smelling so good kinda and of course so yummy bread sticks ? You make a soup for the dinner. I know it doesn't look very tempting but taste wise it's not a compromise. Simple enough to put together in just a few minutes, let it simmer for little bit and it's ready.
It also happened to be the day when I was running out of&Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-47709824715318426902014-02-19T22:36:00.000-06:002014-02-19T22:36:33.868-06:00Eggless Baking : Sundried Tomatoes & Cheddar Cheese Breadsticks
“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”
- James Beard
It's been long time since I posted any bread recipe here but that doesn't mean I'm not making one. Buying a bread is a rare occasion in my home now, which is actually limited to occasional bagel purchase. I feel it's more easy to bake at home Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-28613738792454610352014-02-05T20:08:00.002-06:002014-02-05T20:22:20.265-06:00Meet Indian Cousin of Falafel
Yes! you read it right, Indian Cousin of Falafel. Both are Legume based snacks, made with grinding soaked legumes, mixed with spices & herbs and deep fried. I know I got you when I say deep fried, who doesn't like deep fried food. One is world famous, made with garbanzo beans or you can say our very own white chana/chite chole or in plain English chickpeas. Where as other one is not Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-40655360167773926592014-01-23T21:26:00.000-06:002014-02-19T18:49:22.768-06:00Eggless Baking : What's for Breakfast ? Milk & Cookies....
Note to myself : I should write a blog post today.
With kids at home b'coz of snow day here in north east, I didn't expected myself to write this post. But after a relaxing day of not cooking much & simply watching kids play in the snow, now when kids are tucked into their beds I'm here. First thing first "Happy 2014 to everyone out there".
As a first post of new year I'm gonnaSpicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-24945143879798223862013-10-14T00:27:00.000-05:002013-10-14T00:27:54.273-05:00Kale and Vegetable Soup
Right now is the perfect time, to start back on to the blogging. Nothing special about this time, it's just that once you take a break from something it's always difficult to go back. So, right now and I really mean that, hardly 5 minutes back(before I started to write this post) while checking some old photos I saw this photo taken back on August 24th of this year and I decided Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-48811115973262939012013-03-04T00:04:00.000-06:002013-03-25T07:34:04.939-05:00Everyday meal : Sabut Masoor & Chana dal /Whole Red Lentils soup
Dal is an important part of any Indian meal. We all love chicken and fish in our house but it's dal which comes under the category of everyday food. It's comfort food for us. Growing up soup was a fancy meal it was dal which was our soup/stew, without it dinner felt incomplete. Even now after so many years it's same. If there's no chicken or fish, there has to be dal, that's our Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-61637280773558483882013-02-27T14:29:00.000-06:002013-02-27T14:33:34.856-06:00My Brother
List of foods I'm gonna cook & bake for him was ready in my mind. Last time when I was there he liked the kheer/rice pudding I made, very much, so I made it every other day just for him. He always loved the cakes I made, but plan for this vacation was mainly baking breads, one of his favourite.
In the morning when we skyped I kinda gave him the warning that this is the last time I'mSpicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-17154761752197926532012-05-09T16:42:00.000-05:002012-05-09T16:42:27.319-05:00It's Pink......It's not a food.....I made it
Only 3 yr. & 6 months late....call me lazy or real life mom. Back in the summer of 2008 I started this quilt when I was pregnant with my second daughter. Bur never get to complete it on time and once she came, life started getting busy & busy only.
My crafter friends would know once U leave the project in between how hard it can be to finish. But, finally I managed to complete Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-17937677707615405202012-04-30T07:33:00.000-05:002012-04-30T07:33:26.871-05:00It's Easy....It's Colorful....It's Dessert....It's Wiggly too...
If you guessed Jello....you are right......a dessert is wiggly if it's made out of gelatin or in this part of the world more commonly known as Jello, no matter what U do it's gonna wiggle. First of all let me clear one thing, it's easy as it's no cooking required dessert other then boiling water BUT it's a time consuming process. If U gonna do all the layers it will take U Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-4469001955951084022012-04-19T00:01:00.005-05:002012-04-19T00:08:17.910-05:00Couscous Salad / Pilaf
Couscous - the national dish of North Africa, is a wheat based product made out of semolina of hard wheat using water to bind them. When using couscous for cooking it's a two part process....first part which is most time consuming is forming the couscous (click here to read the process), which is rarely done anymore. You can easily buy instant couscous(ready to cook) in most of the Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-67661307854507531042012-04-11T23:25:00.003-05:002012-04-11T23:29:56.891-05:00Kanji......A Fermented Black Carrot Drink made without Black CarrotsPerfect sunny day for having A Perfect tangy drink : Kanji
A black Carrot drink, you read it write. It's fermented, made at home....so I call it desi wine. In northern parts of India, during the months of basant(spring) that's march, a seasonal carrot which is dark purple almost similar to beet and is called Kali gajar (Black carrot) comes in to the market, is used to make this drink Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-17435437824442647812012-04-03T02:20:00.003-05:002012-04-03T02:42:04.530-05:00Bloom Fairy Birthday cake for Winx Club Fan
What was I thinking? When I thought that now my older one is out of Princess & Fairies age, here comes the new favourite The Winx Club....more hi-tech kind of fairies. Yesterday my 4th grader turned 10.....do you notice it's double digit number. Now, for the cake.....last year the picture she drew for me had 6-7 fairies on it, which I totally rejected and we finalised this cake with Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-36411877295343260542012-03-03T11:06:00.000-06:002012-03-03T11:06:45.479-06:00Adraki Pyaz Murg / Ginger & Onion Chicken Curry
In north Indian kitchen (yes didn't I told U earlier I'm from north India) you don't cook chicken curry if you are out of two main things needed for almost any kind of curry : Tomatoes & Garlic. And in my kitchen U can't even think about that BUT I did it and everyone ate it & to top that he said complemented chicken curry is very tasty. It doesn't happen every day but other day when I Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-12309196537729211252012-02-23T06:01:00.001-06:002012-02-23T06:02:00.836-06:00Recycling Project......Broken Plastic Hanger & Candied Orange PeelDo you believe in reduce, reuse & recycle ? I do. I hold on to lot of (recycling) stuff on the name of craft but I've been doing some cleaning as I don't have enough space & time at this moment to put all the recycling stuff to good use. So, while doing one of such cleaning other day, I found this plastic hanger with hook(top part) broken, I was not sure if I can recycle it or I haveSpicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-30325006425044680212012-02-13T10:40:00.009-06:002012-02-14T10:43:36.494-06:00Heart Healthy, Valentine's Day Pancake : with Whole Grains, Almond & Eggless too
You read it right Valentine's Day Pancake. Valentine's Day is all about your loved ones. And on a food blog what can be better than heart healthy food to show your loved ones that U not only love them but care for their heart too. Back in DEC. 2009 I posted egg less pancake in this blog & that is fourth most popular post on this blog. That time I use to use store bought Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-56580911953415335562012-02-05T16:31:00.004-06:002012-02-05T16:37:03.689-06:00Super Bowl Sunday 2012- Football Cake for Game Day
I'm assuming all you football lovers out there must be getting all the food ready for munching during NY Giants & New England Patriots Game today for 46th Super Bowl. We are also all set, with no major cooking done today at home it's gonna be store bought chips with some home made salsa(will post the recipe later) and pizza from Papa John's with garlic sauce(R decided that 2 weeks in Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-35542013323856073162012-01-30T01:00:00.001-06:002012-01-30T01:00:04.203-06:00Surviving Cold and Flu Season : Natural RemediesSo, what's the first thing you reach for when cold or flu symptoms knock at your door. Actually I had been thinking about this post since the beg. of Nov. but lazy me or let's put it in this way one by one kiddos & me getting sick and all the festivities going on(Nov. to first week of Jan.), never got around to write this post. But I believe it's still not too late as we have cold Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-22756299359355624312012-01-09T23:19:00.001-06:002012-01-09T23:19:52.988-06:00Vegetable Soup with Roasted Red Peppers and a surprise visit from a FairyI know it's 10th of Jan'2012, we are already in the second week of 2012 but I believe it's not too late to wish my fellow bloggers "A Very Very Happy New Year......Hope 2012 brings lots of happiness around the world"And to contribute a little to this happiness around the blogging world, I have something to share with you guys, I have been visited by Fairy Hobmother, Yes! U read it right Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-18199056972591873582011-12-22T23:27:00.005-06:002011-12-23T23:28:34.151-06:00Eggless Royal Icing for Eggless Sugar Cookies and Season's GreetingsWishing all my readers a Very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season. It's officially Christmas here at our place. Girls have decorated little X'mas tree, just big enough to place gifts underneath. Personalized hand made Stockings are hung with no special directions for Santa this time, only a wish list. Gifts are bought for the kids & tucked away somewhere, where they won'tSpicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-36610431093830116762011-11-30T18:21:00.001-06:002011-11-30T18:23:17.218-06:00Eggless Baking : Oatmeal Sandwich Bread.....Mini Loaves & Buns
Though the official name for this bread is Oatmeal Sandwich bread, it doesn't contain Oatmeal but plain rolled Oats. I adapted this recipe from King Arthur's Bread Flour bag with minor changes only so I didn't felt like changing it's name. But telling you the truth, at home it was called bread just plain bread because sometime it's better to not mention everything to 9 yr. Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-73317243016935682512011-10-26T00:45:00.001-05:002011-10-26T01:08:26.755-05:00Eggless Baking : Home made Soft Pretzel and Diwali Wishes to All my ReadersWishing all my Readers "A Very Very Happy Deepavali" the Indian festival of lights. These were her words when R came back from her school the other day : "Wow! U made them?? I knew U made something like bread I could smell it. Do U have Cheese sauce/dip with it???? And in reply to her Cheese dip question when I said sorry I didn't had any yellow cheese in the fridge, in the Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-37681989005240799312011-10-12T22:20:00.000-05:002011-10-12T22:25:31.079-05:00Punjabi Mathi/Mathiyan...to welcome the festival Season
With the onset of autumn, festival season starts in India and along with it starts Wedding Season too. Yes ! it's a season in itself, Navratri marks the beginning of auspicious period in Indian calender(Lunar calender is followed to calculate dates of most of the Indian festivals), followed by a list of festivals. Weather is perfect, time is auspicious so most of the weddings in Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367998172241988735.post-27350032128084007202011-10-02T01:06:00.001-05:002011-10-03T00:12:10.445-05:00Knock Knock....It's me, I'm Back... Hello EveryoneI'm Back, with hope to blog regularly. More than 3 months have been passed since I posted any recipe here. Time flies, I totally believe in that. Back in June I was writing about our strawberry picking experience(never posted) and sudden plans of vacation to India kept me busy for a while and it's already pumpkin & apple picking season now. Even after coming back every single day I blogged Spicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780083912877289009noreply@blogger.com11