October 27, 2021 Milk Bread Milk Bread I make bread every week. Ever since the pandemic started, I have decided to make bread at home. I’m not as talented as my best friend, but my family loves the fresh bread smell at home, the softness and a huge slab of Kerrygold Butter on it. It’s not that hard to make especially since …
July 28, 2020 Saggubeeyam (Sabudana) Payasam Saggubeeyam (Sabudana) Payasam VJ is not a fan of desserts, and Arlo is very picky when it comes to sugary treats, but I LOVE them! I have been fan of Indian desserts since childhood. I would wait for my mom to perform her Pooja and offer prasadam to God (the only part of prayers I participated in). She …
July 19, 2020 Vengaya Kulambu Vengaya Kulambu I have been pestering Arch for recipes for a LONG time now. During our engineering days, Arch and I would constantly eat from each other’s boxes. I was bored of eating my moms pappu and she was bored of eating her moms sambar (I hope it was because she was bored, or I might have …
July 10, 2020 White Bread White Bread Honestly, we love bread, I mean who doesn’t! And VJ and Arlo absolutely love home made bread. And me too! Especially right after it comes out of the oven, piping hot, slathered with butter. The smell that fresh bread fills is just amazing. I feel I can get this recipe done better. But right now …
June 4, 2019 Buttermilk Chilies Buttermilk Chilies To be frank, me and mom were so hurried with this recipe that I want to update this with better pictures in the future. But for now the pictures I have now will have to do. Buttermilk Chilies or Oorudu Mirapakayalu are a famous side with pappus (dals) in Andhra. For as long as I …
May 21, 2019 Gavvalu Gavvalu I used to love sweets a lot. I still do, but now because of my medicines for my diabetes, not a lot of sweets appetize me anymore. I love everything with sugar so much no wonder my body has an excess of it. When I was newly married, my mother in law made so many …
February 15, 2019 Sambar Podi (Powder) Sambar Podi (Powder) I make sambar quite regularly at home. Arlo always wants to have sambar with his idli that I make at least once every week. VJ loves it with pongal and rice too. Arlo is his father’s son when it comes to his eating habits. He loves all sort of crunchy things like his dad too. …
February 4, 2019 A Review of Vegetarian Indian Cuisine In LA A Review of Vegetarian Indian Cuisine In LA Okay, to be fair only one of this restaurant is in LA. The city of Angels is a huge city and the traffic is barbaric. VJ was so frustrated to drive around that he missed Kansas for a little while. Getting to LA was irritating too. I never knew traffic like this until I visited …
January 19, 2019 A Review of Vegetarian Indian Cuisine in San Diego A Review of Vegetarian Indian Cuisine in San Diego There’s something about the Californian air. It’s got this sense of weird calm in the air that made me feel relaxed, but it also could be that I was on vacation finally after two whole years. After being parents, VJ and I never had the opportunity to travel or have a vacation. Traveling to India …
December 4, 2018 How To Make Ghee How To Make Ghee When we were small, not just young, but smaller like when I was seven and my sister was only two, my parents used to get fresh milk from the milk-man. The same guy Ravi would come every day early in the morning to delivery freshly squeezed out buffalo milk. Buffalo milk is more common in India …