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Cooking with Kids

Easy Holiday Snack

Woo-hoo! I’m back to blogging after more than 3 years! Well, all is good with us 🙂 If you have been following me at my other (parenting) blog, you would know the reason for my absence here. I took a break from blogging after our twins came into our lives. Though I kept (sporadically) updating my […]

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Indian Festival Celebration

Happy Ganesh Chavithi

Wishing you all a very happy ganesh chavithi! Today our 35 months old son was excited as it was “Om deva’s” (God) birthday. Together we plucked flowers from our garden and decorated the pooja cabinet with flowers and lights. Skandha sang the famous tamil song “vinayakane vinay theerpavane”, few ganesh slokas and the happy birthday […]

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Anu's Kitchen Cakes & Biscuits

Melting moments – Eggless butter cookies

Every time my parents leave our place, I make sure to send some home made delicacies with them. Last time they carried eggless butter biscuits with them to India.  Back home folks especially my granny enjoyed them very much! This time as usual I was hunting for eggless desserts and I came across a simple […]

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Anu's Kitchen Snacks

Uppu Seedai (Cheedai) Recipe

Wishing you all happy Krishna Janmashtami 2012! Seedai (aka cheedai) is the most prominent item of the Krishna jayanthi bakshanams (snacks). There are two varieties of seedais – sweet and the salt version. Sweet seedai is called “vella seedai” (vellam refers jaggery). The salty version is called “uppu seedai” (uppu means salt). If somebody refers […]

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Anu's Kitchen Tanjore Marathi Recipes

Kosambari | Koshimbir

Koshimbir is a “No-Cook” recipe. It is a healthy salad prepared with lentils and raw veggies. Mustard seasoned in sesame oil acts as the salad dressing. This cruchy recipe is a must in Thanjavur Maharastrian festive menu. We dakshini Maharastrians enjoy sweet kosambari made with roasted channa dal along with moong kosambari. Here is the […]

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Anu's Kitchen Appetizers

Onion Samosa

Samosa, the deep fried pastry is a famous snack in south Asian cuisine. These days, fried and baked samosas are available in almost all Indian/Pakistani grocery shops in US! Our American friends just drool over fried hot samosas 🙂 For those who wonder what samosa is – A Samosa is a fried or baked pastry […]

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