We celebrated our dear son’s star birthday and ayush homam at our home. I prepared rava kesari for neivedhyam. Skandhu enjoyed his birthday celebrations and we felt very happy and contended 🙂 Rava kesari is an easiest sweet recipe that can be made in a jiffy! Some dont roast the rava before making kesari. But […]
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Wishing you all a very happy Holi 🙂 Am here with a Holi (virtual) treat – Dry fruits ladoo!! A healthy and tasty recipe that everyone would love. Ingredients: Dry dates (Khajur): 100 gms Cashew: 100 gms Raisin: 100 gms Almond: 100 gms Edible gum: 50 gms Dessicated coconut (Copra): 50 gms (grated) Poppy seeds […]
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Hope everyone enjoyed the Makarasankaranthi/Pongal 🙂 Dear son Aanand is growing pretty well. Can’t believe he is 3 months old now! Time just flies away. The other day we were chatting with Panaji (great grandmom) via webchat. She mentioned that as the babies reach their milestones, its a customary that we prepare few dishes so […]
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Wish you all a very merry Christmas! This is my 75th post in My Scrawls 🙂 I wanted to try something sweet to celebrate the occasion. Dear reader Chitra had asked me about this recipe. She had kindled my taste buds and I wanted to taste it very badly! Why not celebrate the 75th post […]
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I love kadalai urundais (Groundnut balls). I have seen people using sugar syrup to make these ladoos. But I love to add jaggery (Vellam / Gud). I couldn’t find paagu vellam (dark colored jaggery) hence this pale color. Nevertheless the taste was gud!! Ingredients: Peanuts: 1 cup Jaggery: 3/4 cup Elachi (Cardamom) powder: a pinch […]
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Recently I got a box of mangoes and made mango milk shake. Still few mangoes were remaining. As usual (now starts my rant… ) we cannot expect the flavor and taste that we relish in our Indian mangoes… Leave alone the taste and flavor, not even the color can match with ours! Dear buddy Dido […]
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