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Categories Categories American Baby/Kid friendly Bread Breakfast or snacks Cake decorating Cakes, Cookies, Pies Chaats and Street food Chicken Chutneys and bhajis Clams Crab Dosa Corner Drinks(Non Alcoholic) Egg Festival food Fish From our garden General Gravy (Curry and daals) Healthy Options Home Remedies Icecream Idlis Information center Jams Konkani festivals Konkani Recipes Mexican Munchies (dabbe khaaN) My lunchbox NonVeg Noodles Parathas and rotis Pastries and puffs Pickles and powders Pizzas and Pastas Poha/Avalakki Prawns(Shrimp) Rice items Salads/Kosambaris Side dishes Simple and Easy Soups Starters Sundried items Sweets Thai Upma/uppittu Disclaimer Contact Mango sweet pickle(GooD nonche) Aayi makes some of the amazing pickles I have ever tasted. I never liked any of the ready made pickles because of this reason. She puts very less oil and her pickles remain good for a very long time (more than 2 years, if I don’t finish them off before that). Her pickles are very … Shilpa On May 12, 2019 May 12, 2019 Filed under Pickles and powders 31 Comments Hulk Smash – Spiderman Cake If you know me, you know how I plan ahead for kids birthdays. I get so excited about them and plan everything well. But this year was completely different. It has been a very busy year and I did not plan anything till last moment. I had plans for inviting his friends from school since … Shilpa On May 5, 2019 Filed under Cake decorating , Cakes, Cookies, Pies No Comments Moringa Leaves Rotti (Maskasangi Palle Rotti) I grew up playing around moringa(maskasangi) trees. Everyone has atleast one tree in their garden in our place. My parents always told us how maskasangi was full of iron and slightly nudged us to eat it. But I had never tasted the leaves(pallo). Aayi would make phodi (which is still one of my all time … Shilpa On January 9, 2019 January 9, 2019 Filed under Breakfast or snacks , General , Konkani Recipes , Simple and Easy 2 Comments Cucumber chutney (Taushe huLel) Cucumber is called “Taushe” in Konkani. “Taushe hulel” is a side dish which is usually a part of meal that is offered to god during festivals. I saw a similar dish here, the only difference being, we use the cucumbers (used for salads) and everything is used raw. So this dish can be … Shilpa On September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 Filed under Konkani Recipes , Side dishes , Simple and Easy 14 Comments Jackfruit Seed Vada (Bikna Vade) Summer in our region brings a lot of seasonal fruits like mangoes, jackfruits etc. We have few jackfruit trees in our backyard and during season, the trees give so many fruits. Jackfruit is eaten ripe, cooked into curries (both ripe and upripe), chips and lot many dishes. During season, we take out the seeds, … Varada On June 3, 2018 Filed under Konkani Recipes , Side dishes 4 Comments Spicy Mixed Flour Vada We were in Belgaum in December and we visited pachi (aayi’s sister). As usual, she had a feast planned for us. I have so many memories associated with her food that I can clearly feel the taste just by looking at the dishes. When I saw her making these, I did a happy dance. … Shilpa On March 28, 2018 Filed under Breakfast or snacks No Comments Pressure Cooker Cake (A Princess Birthday Cake) One of the queries I got over and over from my readers is a recipe/method for baking a cake in pressure cooker. I rarely have any free time to experiment these days, so although this request was always there in the back of my mind, I never tried it. But recently I got a chance … Shilpa On March 4, 2018 March 5, 2018 Filed under Baby/Kid friendly , Cake decorating , Cakes, Cookies, Pies 8 Comments Edamame Chakli Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali. This year has been one of the busiest years as far as I can remember. Although I have weekdays and weekends packed with work, kids activities and other household stuff, I am trying my best to take out some time to celebrate festivals. Diwali for me … Shilpa On October 17, 2017 October 17, 2017 Filed under Munchies (dabbe khaaN) 5 Comments Fig Burfi (Anjeer Burfi) It is festival season with Diwali just around the corner. I miss the festivities here that we had in India. Over the years we have started celebrating few festivals in a small scale. Ganesh Chaturthi is one festival which we celebrate every year without fail. We think of inviting all our friends but that hasn’t … Shilpa On October 8, 2017 Filed under Festival food , Simple and Easy , Sweets 9 Comments Dates Almond Oats Cupcakes My 7 year old is a very active little guy who loves to run around entire day. I have tried giving him healthy food, but he is not great when it comes to eating. The other day I was discussing about healthy snack bars with a friend. I have to make an honest effort hereafter … Shilpa On September 19, 2017 Filed under Baby/Kid friendly , Cakes, Cookies, Pies 7 Comments 1 2 3 … 111 Next Page → Hey, Nice to meet you! I’m Shilpa : a foodie and a food blogger, a Software Engineer, a mom of two young kids. We live in Kansas, USA, born and brought up in India. Love gardening, knitting and crocheting, art and crafts. This blog is to preserve my Aayi’s (Varada, my mom who also blogs here) Recipes and cooking methods as well share my adventures with cooking. Learn more Search for: Search Most Popular Popular Comments Today Week Month All Date Cake (Eggless) (782 views) Coconut Jaggery Burfi (Soyi Khadi) (623 views) Mistress of Spices - Teppal or Tirphal (472 views) Urad Dal Paddu(Udida Appe) (439 views) Posu (Ginnu, Junnu, Kharvas) - Without lactating cow's milk (377 views) Today Week Month All Sorry. No data yet. 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