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Rice based Spanish One Pot meal with meat, seafood and veggies. This is specially dedicated for non-veg lovers 🙂

A lentil based vegetable stew cooked with spices and tamarind pulp. A South Indian delicacy. It tastes so good with dosa, idli and rice. This is my own evolved kinda sambar recipe with tips taken from my mom and my friends 🙂

Easy, spicy Kerala mutton curry that can be prepared in no time. It goes well with porotta, any sort of rice variants ( ghee rice, pulao, normal rice) and any Indian bread.

Valentine’s Day is always a fine dining restaurant for us. There’s a certain appeal about restaurant food that you can’t argue. The plating, the ambience, the cut of meat, the rich sauces; it’s the whole package. Replicating this restaurant quality food at home is something I obsess. I go great leng

Chocolate sponge cake moistened with cherry syrup, sandwiched with cherries and topped with whipped cream frosting.I prepared it for my sister’s bday and it was delicious!! This is inspired from Noor’s recipe with minor variations.

Inspired from Nirmala’s Caramel Apple n Pecan Trifle with some minor tweaks. A very very delicious pudding!! It is full of all the flavors you love when you mix caramel, apples, spices and vanilla pudding. A super duper easy one!

Chicken and veggies combined in simple white sauce and cooked in baked potato bed!

One of the best way to make use of rose apples in its season! Something that everyone falls in love 🙂

Pork varattiyathu!! Pork cooked and roasted with chilli and spices. This Pork masala Fry recipe is a “must” dish at a Kerala Christian home for any special occasion. This goes well with rice.

I made this for my American friend who did not want it very spicy. Instead of spurting mustard we’ve used cumin and there is no chilly powder at all. Coconut milk was added at last for the gravy and a little bit of water to dilute it. Use the coconut milk to reduce the spiciness but be careful to no

A moroccon dish usually served with pita bread for breakfast.

Lunch at memsql by Chef Daniel Norton

Chef Anisha at airbnb with her Thursday Indian menu. Cherian shooting. All of ingredients are set “to taste”. This was made for nearly 150 employees.

This is a fabulous cake! A melding of chocolate, mocha and cream cheese flavors 🙂 Without frosting, the cake alone  is also very delicious. Chocolate ganache also makes a wonderful topping for this cake.

Moist, rich and dense Chocolate cake!! I prepared it for my nephew’s bday and it was a big hit 🙂 It takes bit long time to prepare but definitely worth the effort. Adapted from http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Chocolate-Truffle-Cake

Baking bread at home has two advantages.
One it wakes up everyone. The aroma fill the whole town. Its like walking down a quaint German street.
Two, you don’t have to get your better half to go running for bread to walmart at night. This bread unlike a baguette or the normal French breads is actually bake-able.
The peasant bread is perhaps the easiest bread you can do. Make any mistakes with this and I’ll say you can’t bake. It’s that damn simple.
All that’s needed is fresh yeast. Don’t compromise on that. You’ll end up with un-raised dough.
Since we all have convection ovens at home I’d suggest getting a Borosil or Pyrex microwave proof bowl too.
Attribution: The Palo Alto Junior League Cookbook

Gratins are perhaps the best filling dinner bakes of the Euro cuisine. They don’t take much skill to bake and like Fritata’s can accommodate mostly anything as filling.
The key part is to get the Cheese – Bechamel Sauce in right quantity. Once you get a hang of gratins, this will be the major dish you turn to whenever you have an impromptu guest.

Fish cooked in chilly, coconut milk and cocum. A great combination with rice 🙂 Recipe adapted from my mom.

Prepare a refreshing drink in no time. Dilute lemon syrup with water to make wonderful lemonade. This syrup can be refrigerated , airtight , upto 2 months. Recipe adapted from my mom 🙂

My mom’s creation, favorite the world over. It gets over the minute I show this to my friends. Quick recipe.

A Three Layer pudding with caramel, sauteed pineapple and milk and condensed milk mixture. This is one hell of a pudding that tastes so well; angels may take over your home.

Chicken cooked with spices, dipped in an egg mix and then in breadcrumbs and deep fried. A great snack for special occasions and parties.

This is a simple dish but needs a lot of time for preparation. Also, if you don’t have cheese sauce then it becomes bit hard (although cheese sauce is easy to make). You can find the recipe of cheese sauce in my list.
Credit goes to BBC Good Food.

Fish curry cooked in red chilli, spices and well flavored with cocum. It is the typical Kottayam style fish curry. Served with rice or kappa (tapioca/yuca). Tastes better after a day.