Gifting Award

Requirements:

I must thank the person who gave me the award and list their blog and link it

I must list 10 honest things about myself

I must put a copy of The Honest Scrap Logo on my blog.

I must select at least 7 other worthy bloggers & list their links

I must notify the bloggers of the award and hopefully they will follow the above three requirements also.

1. I love sweets very very much
2. I love to travel
3. I want to go to a private island with my hubby
4. I love gifts
5. I love to try out new recipes. (and make my poor hubby eat it)
6. I want to go back to my college life again
7. Love to go to coffee shops
8. I hate to arrange my clothes
9. we are in a joint family and i love it.
10. I love cats a lot.

And the honest bloggers are:

Rekha

Sanghi

nithya

ramya

Pavithra

Ammu

Faiza

Gita

priyaraj

Vineela

Arti

Pooja

Mythreyi

Priya

Hema

tina

subhie

sarah

kitchenflavours

sushma

shobana

padma

preety

paritha

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Carrot Pudding

I am very happy to participate in the FIL - MILK event conducted by my dear friend sanghi.
and this is my recipe for the event.




Ingredients:

Carrots - 500gms (grated)

Milk - 3-4 cups

Sugar - 3 cups

Ghee - 3 tsp

Cardomom - 3 nos (mashed)

To garnish:

Cashewnuts, raisins, walnuts

Method:

1) Heat milk in a pan, when it is above to boil, simmer for 20 mins (keep stirring in between).

2) Heat another pan, put ghee and the grated carrots and fry for 5-6 minutes.

3) Grind the fried grated carrots, 4-5 tsps of milk and sugar into a fine paste.

4) Add the above mixture in the boiling milk (step 1) , add cardomom and keep stirring till it becomes thick.

5) Garnish with nuts. Serve hot or cold.

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Scrambled Egg

Ingredients:

Eggs - 6-7 nos

Small onions - 7-8 nos (finely chopped)

Tomato - 1 no (finely chopped)

salt to taste

tumeric powder - 1/4 tsp

red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Method:

1) Beat the eggs with a spoon or fork. Add little salt to it and beat it till bubbles form on surface.

2) Heat oil in pan. Add mustard seeds, when it starts to pop, add the chopped small onions and saute for 3-4 minutes till it becomes soft.

3) Now add chopped tomatoes and saute for a minute. Add tumeric powder, red chilly powder and little more salt. Saute till raw taste goes off and the tomatoes are well-cooked.

4) Now add the beaten egg slowly. Keep stirring till the egg mixture appears scrambled. serve hot.

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Sweet Kozhukatai

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 3 cups

Jaggery - 2 cups (grated)

Coconut - 2 cups (grated)

Method:

1) Mix rice flour with 2 cups of water and make it a stiff batter. (like the one we make for chapathi)

2) Mix the grated jaggery and coconut together. Keep aside.

3) Spread little amount of the rice flour batter in hand. Stuff in the jaggery - coconut mixture in it. and make it in small oval shapes.

4) Steam the kozhukatai in idly cooker for 15 - 20 minutes. Serve hot.

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Tagged

My sweet friend Sushma Mallya has tagged me..thx dear!

The Rules:

1. Link the person who tagged you.

2. Post the rules on your blog.

3. Share the ABCs of you.

4. Tag 4 people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.

5. Let the 4 tagged people know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

6. Do not tag the same person repeatedly but try to tag different people, so that there is a big network of bloggers doing this tag.

The Tag:

1. A – Available/Single? No

2. B – Best friend? My mom n my hubby

3. C – Cake or Pie? Cake

4. D – Drink of choice? Coffee or orange juice

5. E – Essential item you use every day? My computer / my baby's nappy (which i have to change atleast 25 times a day)

6. F – Favorite color? Green, black

7. G – Gummy Bears Or Worms? Gummy bears

8. H – Hometown? God's own country (kerala)

9. I – Indulgence? Chocolates

10. J – January or February? March (me and my son's b'day - 18th n 19th)

11. K – Kids & their names? 1 Son - Aaryan

12. L – Life is incomplete without? Family

13. M – Marriage date? Sep 5th 2005

14. N – Number of siblings? My younger brother

15. O – Oranges or Apples? oranges

16. P – Phobias/Fears? all adventurous rides (bt my hubby loves it)

17. Q – Quote for today? Always keep smiling

18. R – Reason to smile? My son n my hubby

19. S – Season? Spring

20. T – Tag 4 People? All my fellow bloggers

21. U – Unknown fact about me? I don't know to hurt people by words (when others do it, i go blank) (i don't like tht character of mine)

22. V – Vegetable you don't like? spinach

23. W – Worst habit? forgetting things!

24. X – X-rays you've had? Many

25. Y – Your favorite food? chicken (all types)

26. Z – Zodiac sign? Pieces

Now to tag people

Rekha

Sanghi

nithya

ramya

Pavithra

Ammu

Faiza

Gita

priyaraj

Vineela

Arti

Pooja

Mythreyi

Priya

Hema

tina

purva

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My family!!

Hi friends,

Just wanted to share some of our family photos!.

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Bread egg toast

Ingredients:

Bread - 3 nos

Egg - 3 nos

Tomato - 1 (finely chopped)

Onion - 1 (finely chopped)

Redchilly powder - 1/2 tsp

Jeera powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Tumeric powder - 1/4 tsp

cucumber - dice cut

Method:

1) Beat the egg with a pinch of salt in a bowl till bubbles form on surface and keep aside.

2) Heat oil in pan, add onions and saute till it turns brown and soft. Add redchilly powder, tumeric powder, salt and jeera powder and saute it the raw taste goes off.

3) Add the chopped tomato and saute for 2 minutes. Now add the beaten egg and saute for 4-5 minutes till the egg is cooked.

4) Toast breads in a tava till it turns brown on both sides. Put the egg masala in between the 3 breads and serve hot. Garnish with cucumber on top.

Sending this to priya for ss event

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Ulli Theyal (small onion - coconut curry)

Ingredients:

Small onions - 20 nos (cutted into 2 halves)

Coconut - 2 cups

Round chillies - 3

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

curry leaves

salt to taste

drumsticks - 2 (cutted)

redchilly powder - 1 tsp

coriander powder - 1 tsp

tamarind - large lime sized (soaked in water for 10 minutes)

Method:

1) In a kadai, add 3-4 small onions and coconut. Fry till coconut becomes brown. Now, off the stove and add redchilly powder, curry leaves, coriander powder. Keep stirring for a minute.

2) Grind this coconut mixture as paste by adding 1/3 cup of water.

3) Heat oil in pan, add mustard seeds and round chilles. After spluttering, add remaining small onions and fry till it turns brown.

4) Now add drumsticks and tamarind juice. (Small onion-drumsticks mixture should be floating in tamarind juice)

5) Add salt and allow it to boil. When drumstick is fully cooked, add the coconut mixture and saute for 10 minutes till the raw taste of masala's goes off. Serve Hot.

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Award

I got this beautiful award from my sweet friends Faiza and priyaraj..Thank you so much friends!
I wud like to give this award to my fellow bloggers::


Gita

Rekha

Vineela

Mythreyi

Arti

sara

saraswathi

preety

Priya

Ammu

Pooja

Paritha

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Awards

I got this lovely award from my dear friends pooja n sangeetha subhash...thanks to her..


The Kreative blog award comes with certain rules. The rules are:

1. You must thank the person who has given you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it in your blog.
3. Link to the person who has nominated you for the award.
4. Name seven things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 other Kreative bloggers.
6. Post links to 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blog to let them know they have been nominated by you.


I am really feeling excited to answer all the questions. Here are my answers.

1. What is your current obsession?

Blogging


2. What are you wearing today?

Skirt and t-shirt

3. What’s for dinner?

Black chenna and chapathi

4. What’s the last thing you bought?

groceries

5. What are you listening to right now?

My baby's cry

6. What do you think about the persons who tagged you?

Rekha - My school frd, the one who bought life in my blog....my blog guru
Pooja - Pooja has a very beautiful blog and i m a fan of all her recipes

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?

In chennai

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?

cottom pyjamas


9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

my mom's house

10. Which language do you want to learn?

German

11. What’s your favorite quote?

Live life to its fullest

12. Who do you want to meet right now?

My mom

13. What is your favorite color?

Green

14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?

cotton pants

15. What is your dream job?

s/w engineer

16. What’s your favorite magazine?

Mother & baby

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?

a gift for my hubby n mom

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?

Bindi with jeans

19. Who are your style icons?

Nobody
20. Describe your personal style?

very simple

21. What are you going to do after this?

cooking

22. What are your favorite movies?

mouna ragam

23. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?

chambor

24. What inspires you?

Quotes by my hubby

25. Give us three styling tips that always work for you.

b simple n comfortable

26. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
Take a shower

27. Coffee or tea?

coffee

28. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?

I talk with my hubby

29. What is the meaning of your name?
Love

30. Which other blogs you love visiting?

Plenty
31. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?

Icecream

32. Favorite Season?

Spring

33. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?

Non-veg

34. What is your funniest cooking disaster?

Many to mention

35. What would you do, if you crave something sweet in the late night?

eat horlicks
My question is "Which food item do you enjoy cooking the most?"

Payasam

A diet tip ?

Have less of rice and more of veggies
Take very less quantity of food at night

Which is ur favourite restaurant?


Add a question of your own, Rework and Reward and have fun!
And I would like it to share it with my following fellow bloggers.

Faiza Ali

Gita

Rekha

Priyaraj

Vineela

Mythreyi

Arti

pinky

sara

saraswathi

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Gifting award

I am gifting this award to few of my good friends:

Rekha

Arti

Pooja

Mythreyi

Sangi

Vineela

Gita

Preety

sarah

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Award

I got this award from my sweet friend rekha. Thank you for nominating me dear.
I would like to give this award to my friends:

Pooja

Mythreyi

Bromography

Rekha

Gita

Vineelasiva

Sangii

Preety

Pinky

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Okra kootu (ladies finger kootu)

Ingredients:

Ladies finger - 1/2 kg (slice cut)

tamarind - marble sized

red chilly - 1 no

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

orid dal - 1/2 tsp

curry leaves

asafoetida powder- 1/4 tsp

tumeric - 1/4 tsp

salt to taste

Method:

1) Soak tamarind in 1/3 cup of water for 10 minutes.

2) Heat oil in pan, add mustard seeds, asafoetida, red chilly, curry leaves, orid dal and cumin seeds. After spluttering, add the cutted ladies finger.

3) Stir once, add tumeric powder and tamarind juice, close the lid.

4) When the ladies finger is almost cooked, add salt. stir till all the tamarind juice evaporates and the raw taste goes off. serve hot.

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Simple Rice sweet

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Jaggery - 1 cup (grated)

Coconut - 1 cup (grated)

Method:

1) Fry rice in a pan for a minute, grind it (it should not be powdered) in mixie.

2) Now mix the grinded rice, jaggery and coconut together in a bowl. Keep it marinated for 1/2 hour and then serve.

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Cabbage poriyal (Kerala style)

Ingredients:

Cabbage - 1/2 kg (finely chopped)

redchilly - 1

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

curry leaves

salt to taste

coconut - 1 cup

small onions - 2-3 nos

green chillies - 2 nos


Method:

1) Heat oil in pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chilly and curry leaves. After spluttering, add the chopped cabbage, salt and 1/3 cup of water. close the lid.

2) Grind coconut, green chillies and small onions into a fine paste.When the cabbage is fully cooked, add the coconut paste, saute for a minute. serve hot.

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Sweet bread roast

Ingredients:

Bread - 5- 6 nos

Sugar - 1 cup

ghee - 1 cup

Method:

1) Spread ghee in front and back side of the bread. sprinkle sugar on both sides.

2) Now heat the pan and toast the bread on both sides till it becomes little golden.

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Peanut curry

Ingredients:

Peanuts (shelled) - 1 cup

capsicum - 1 no (cutted)

tamarind - marble sized

coconut milk - 1 cup

redchilly powder - 1 tsp

coriander powder - 1 tsp

gram flour - 1/2 tsp

asafoetida powder - 1/2 tsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

curry leaves

salt to taste

red chilly - 1

coriander leaves


Method:

1) Soak tamarind in 1/3 cup of water for 5 minutes.

2) Heat oil in pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida powder, redchilly and curry leaves. After spluttering, add tamarind pulp and salt.

3) Now add cutted capsicum, peanuts, cover the lid and allow it to boil. When capsicum and peanuts are half cooked, add redchilly powder, coriander powder, gram flour, stirr well and let it boil till the raw taste goes off.

4) At last add coconut milk, simmer and keep it for 5 minutes more. Now garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice or rotis.

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Red chilly chutney

Ingredients:

Red chillies - 6-7 nos

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida powder - 1/2 tsp

chana dal - 1 tsp

small onions - 1/2 cup

tomato - 1 (chopped)

salt to taste

Method:

1) Heat oil in pan, add mustard seeds, asafoetida and chana dal. After spluttering, add redchillies and saute for a minute.

2) Add small onions, tomato and salt. Saute for 2 minute till fully cooked. Grind it to a paste. Serve hot with idly, dosa.

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Moong dal and rice sweet

Ingredients:

Moong dal - 1 cup

Rice - 1/2 cup

Milk - 1 cup

Jaggery - 2 cups

Cashewnut - 2 tsp

raisins - 2 tsp

Method:

1) Fry moong dal in a pan for 2 minutes. Keep aside.

2) Fry rice for 2 minutes, mix fried moong dal with rice in pan. Add 2 cups of water and let it boil.

3) When rice is half cooked, add milk. When milk becomes half, add jaggery and 2 cups of water and stir well.

4) Stir at regular intervals till the mixture becomes like a paste. Garnish with cashewnut and raisins. serve hot.

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Tamarind Rice

Ingredients:

Large Lime sized tamarind

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp

red chillies - 5-6nos

coriander seeds - 1/2 tsp

curry leaves

urad dal - 1 tsp

chana dal - 1 tsp

peanuts - 1/2 cup

cooked rice - 1 bowl

salt to taste

Method:

1) Soak tamarind and salt in water for 10 minutes. In another cup, soak fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds and red chillies in water for 10 minutes.

2) Grind the above contents into a fine paste with 1/3 cup of water.

3) Fry peanuts in a pan for 2 minutes and keep aside. Heat oil in pan, put mustard seeds, red chilly- 2, chana dal, urad dal, curry leaves and fry till dals turn golden.

4) Add the grinded mixture, peanuts and little more salt with 1/2 cup of water and keep stirring. Stir till the content becomes like a paste.

5) Add this paste to the cooked rice little by little to prevent lumps. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.

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Dal curry with yam

Ingredients:

yam - 1/2 cup (cut into cubes)
toor dal - 1 cup
tamarind - marble sized
salt to taste
tomato - 1
green peas - 1/2 cup
tumeric powder - 1/2 tsp
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
curry leaves

For spice paste

coriander seeds - 1 tsp
cumin seeds - 1 tsp
fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
chana dal - 1 tsp
urad dal - 1 tsp
curry leaves
red chilles - 3

Method:

1) Pressure cook the toor dal, green peas, yam, tomato (cutted) with 1 cup water and keep aside
2) soak tamarind in a cup of water and extract juice frm it. Heat oil in pan, add all ingredients of spice paste, fry for 2-3 minute. grind it with little water. keep aside.
3) Heat the dal in cooker, adding tumeric and salt. Now add tamarind juice and spice paste and stirr well for about 5 minute (in simmer).
4) cook it till the raw taste goes off. Now heat oil in another pan, put mustard seeds, curry leaves. after spluttering, add this to the above dal curry. serve hot.

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Aravana payasam (rice payasam)

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

ghee - 2 cups

dry grapes - 1/2 cup

cashewnuts - 1/2 cup

elachi - 4 nos

jaggery - 2 cups

coconut (grated) - 1 cup

Method:

1) Grate jaggery and keep aside. Heat water in pan, add rice and let it boil. when rice is half cooked, add the grated jaggery and stir well.

2) add 1 tsp ghee and keep stirring. In separate pan, add ghee (1 tsp), dry grapes, cashew and fry till golden. keep aside. Fry coconut in the same pan with 1 tsp ghee till coconut turns brown.

3) stir the jaggery - rice content at regular intervals till the water becomes half. add 1 tsps of ghee at regular intervals. Now add the fried coconut, drygrapes, elachi and cashew in it and keep stirring.

4) stir the payasam, until it becomes like a paste. serve hot.

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Curd curry with cucumber

Ingredients:

Sour curd - 2 cup

gram flour - 1/2 cup

green chillies - 2

ginger - 1/2" (grated)

redchillies - 4

fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp

salt to taste

cucumber - 1 cup (cut into cubes)

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

curry leaves

Method:

1) For spice powder - heat oil in a pan, fry fenugreek seeds and redchillies for 1 minute. grind them and keep aside.

2) Add gram flour, tumeric and salt in sour curd, blend it well and keep aside.

3) Heat water in a pan, add green chillies, grated ginger and cucumber. when it comes to boil, simmer and add the curd content and stir for 2-3 minutes.

4) Now add the spice powder and stir for 1 minute.

For tempering:

5) heat oil in pan, add mustard seeds and curry leaves, after spluttering, add it to the curd curry.

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Rava sidai

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 1 cup

rava (sooji) - 1/4 cup

coconut grated - 1 cup

salt to taste

bengal gram - 2 tsp

asafoetida powder - 1/4 tsp

oil for deep frying

Method:

1) Mix all ingredients except oil in a bowl, gradually adding water to make it a stiff batter.

2) heat oil in a pan. Wet hands, roll the batter into a size of a small marble and put it in the oil.

3) fry till it becomes golden brown.

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