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easy, Easy Bakes, Snacks, Teatime Treats, vegetarian

Easy cake recipe – Quick Pumpkin and Spice Tea Cake

August 22, 2014

An Easy Pumpkin and Spice Tea Cake with a cocoa layer, perfect with your cup of tea or coffee

by Nandita Iyer 
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beginner, Breakfast, Easy Cooking, Easy Indian Cooking, Food Writing, Glutenfree, Rice, Snacks, Vegan

Puli Aval – My great grandmother’s recipe for tamarind poha

January 13, 2014

A recipe for Puli Aval / Tamarind Poha, one of my favourite tiffin dishes that my great-grandmother would prepare for us. This is her recipe and I’m sure you’ll love it as much as I do.

by Nandita Iyer 
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Baking, Coconut Recipes, easy, Easy Bakes, Healthy, KiddieLunchBox, Snacks, vegetarian

Healthy Baking : Savoury Rosemary Coconut Cookies

October 29, 2013

A cookie with not-so-common flavours of rosemary and coconut married off in a savoury cookie. If you don’t have a sweet tooth, this one is for you!

by Nandita Iyer 
9 Comments
apple-pie-pancakes
Breakfast, Easy Cooking, Snacks, vegetarian

Apple Pie Pancakes: Easy recipe with the flavours of apple pie

October 14, 2013

Bear with me. More kiddie recipes coming your way. It’s holiday time and I’m trying to combine my love for cooking, my son’s gourmet palate and his endless two week long vacation to do something productive. I keep buying a kilo of apples each time, with intentions of making an apple pie. As the days

by Nandita Iyer 
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easy, Easy Bakes, KiddieLunchBox, Snacks, Teatime Treats

Lemon Blueberry Muffins – with the kid in the kitchen

October 10, 2013

These lemon and blueberry muffins are my kid’s favourite! Do try it out with frozen blueberries that you get in most supermarkets these days in the frozen products section.

by Nandita Iyer 
3 Comments
Appetizers, easy, Lentils, Mexican Vegetarian, Party dishes, Snacks, vegetarian

Loaded Nachos topped with refried beans & more

April 23, 2013

Looking for a Loaded Nachos recipe that they serve at pubs? You’ve come to the right place – jump in, get the recipe and tuck in!

by Nandita Iyer 
3 Comments
Baking, Breakfast, Snacks

Bread baking tales and recipe for cinnamon rolls

August 12, 2012

The high point of July was this artisan bread-baking workshop most generously organised by Breadworks Boulangerie. We were hand held (literally) through this process of bread kneading, shaping and baking by master artisan baker, Maurice Chaplais from UK. It was so much fun messing around with flour,

by Nandita Iyer 
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Breakfast, Easy Bakes, KiddieLunchBox, Snacks, vegetarian

Eggless Savoury Muffins with Sun Dried Tomatoes, Cheese and Olives

April 17, 2012

It’s vacation time at the play group, which means the little boy, when not up to any nefarious activities, is hanging around the kitchen, making puppy eyes at me, saying “Mummy, I want something to eat”, which is not entirely a bad thing. He likes to eat most (if not all) the stuff I make, showers m

by Nandita Iyer 
7 Comments
Snacks, Tamil Brahmin Recipes

Masala Vadai from a tea shop in Mannargudi : Guest post by Bharath M.

March 15, 2012

A few days ago, Nandini Ajit, Bharath and me decided to cook up a mega Tambrahm feast for dinner. The menu was: Cucumber Salad Masala Vadai Seppankizhangu Roast Cabbage Koottu Radish arachuvitta Sambar Jeera Rasam Vetthakozhambu Arisi Appalam Banana Chips (from Hot Chips) Curds Rice Semia Payasam O

by Nandita Iyer 
9 Comments
Baking, Easy Bakes, Healthy, Snacks, vegetarian

Eggless Mango Cake

May 20, 2011

Recipe for a simple eggless mango paneer cake This eggless mango cake is a seasonal modification of the paneer cake that I blogged about sometime ago. I found the recipe for the paneer cake in… [Continue Reading]

by Nandita Iyer 
21 Comments
Breakfast, easy, Easy Bakes, KiddieLunchBox, Snacks, Teatime Treats, Winter

Apple Fig and Poppyseed Muffins

July 31, 2010

Apple, Fig and Poppyseed Muffins – delicious and simple, bake them over the weekend for a teatime snack!

by Nandita Iyer 
9 Comments
Appetizers, Curry, easy, Glutenfree, Indian, Party dishes, Snacks, Vegan, Vegetables

Ajwaini Arbi Tikka (Colocassia with carom seeds)

May 5, 2008

Arbi Tikka is a delicious way to cook the common colocassia root. They turn into spiced up, golden and crisp appetisers or a happy accompaniment with rotis.

by Nandita Iyer 
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