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winter persimmon salad with apple, carrots, blue cheese
beginner, Fresh, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Greens, Healthy, Salads, Winter

Winter Persimmon Salad with Kale, Apple and Carrot

January 2, 2018

This winter persimmon salad brings colours of the rainbow to your plate. Super delicious and healthy, with seasonal produce, try this one out when persimmons are in season. Appearance of a new fruit While I’ve… [Continue Reading]

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easy, Easy Bakes, Healthy, Vegan, Vegetables, vegetarian

Recipe for a Simple Eggless Carrot Cake

January 21, 2016

[easy baking] A simple carrot cake recipe, eggless (can be made vegan too), with a sesame seed crust – totally delicious and a must try when red carrots are in season!

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beginner, Beverages, Breakfast, gluten free, Greens, Healthy, Vegan, vegetarian

Green Goddess Juice

November 30, 2015

A recipe for Green Goddess Juice that is brimming with super nutrients that are so good for you! Get the recipe now!

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Easy Bakes, Healthy, KiddieLunchBox, medium, Snacks, Teatime Treats, vegetarian

Super Moist Eggless Apple Cake Using Coconut Sugar

September 25, 2015

The perfect cake to kick off fall, or to use up apples – either way this Super Moist Eggless Apple Cake is the perfect tea cake, and reasonably healthy too. You’ll find a secret here to keeping it super moist despite not using eggs. Read on to find out 🙂

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Breakfast, easy, KiddieLunchBox, Snacks, vegetarian, VegProtein

Apple, Peanut Butter & Cheese Sandwich

September 13, 2015

This apple, peanut butter & cheddar sandwich is surely an upgrade from my undying love for the quintessential Bombay chutney toasted sandwich!

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Veggie Salad With Passionfruit Dressing

September 12, 2015

When we were setting up our terrace kitchen garden 4 years ago, I was insistent on having a passion flower climber to grow around the railings. The way the graceful leaves hang over the deck and produce those stunningly showy red passion flowers, was what I had in mind. After some months, the sapli

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Baking, Nutrition, Vegan, vegetarian

Vegan Prune Tea Cake

May 30, 2015

Long time, no bake! It was vacation time and were mostly not at home and the weather was not too beckoning to bake either. But now, back in Bangalore, the evening rains and drop in temperature is reason enough to get the oven cranked up. I also spent a better part of Friday morning cleaning up the r

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Homemade granola, at last – with homemade applesauce

August 13, 2010

I am not a big fan of store bought cereals. However I do stock whole wheat flakes and unsweetened cornflakes for breakfast in a hurry. Buying boxed cereals with sugar and salt overload are totally avoidable as the first meal of the day. Oats is another regular during breakfast hours. That is one thi

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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!

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Kathrikka Rasavangi - a traditional Tamil recipe prepared using brinjal / eggplant. This is a kind of sambar but somewhat thicker and we add boiled peanuts to the curry.
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To serve 4:
Cube 4 brinjals (smaller variety). Cook by boiling in salted water.
Dry roast 1 tbsp Chana Dal, 1 tbsp coriander seeds, 4 dried red chillies, 1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds and 1/4 cup desiccated coconut until Dal is golden brown. Grind to a fine paste with water.
Boil 1/4 cup peanuts. Keep 1 cup cooked tur dal.
Add paste, peanuts, Dal and 1-2 tsp tamarind paste to the cooked brinjal and boil until combined. Season with salt.
Tempering: in hot oil, add mustard seeds, Curry leaves and asafoetida. Transfer over the curry.
Serve with rice.
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  • Sticking to my promise of more spontaneous posts here!
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This boho-cozy patio just came together this evening. The cane guy got the chairs ready, the pouffes got delivered and the weather turned for the better.
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I had barely 15 minutes until it turned all cloudy and dark so just clicked a pic to send to my husband. No styling, nothing! But you will see plenty of beautiful pics of this space on my feed. Couple of things that need to be done are hanging the bird cages and fixing a fan - do you say table fan or pedestal?
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Where I bought what:
⭐️Vintage looking white table that can be extended to 6 feet length - @zefo_india
⭐️Green velvet chair cushions and chindi rug - @amazondotin
⭐️Rest of the chair cushions from @flipkart
⭐️Pouffes @pepperfry_official
⭐️Pine wood chairs -bought from IKEA US
⭐️Old cane chairs- now refurbished in a bright green blue weave
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Need those chair leg caps because the cane guy did away with them 😂
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Loved shopping with @trumatter via whatsapp for some of the accessories :)
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I had the blue green theme in mind and I think it turned out pretty much like how I had visualized it.
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This was so much more fun that picking up one coordinated and expensive patio set. This is my space and it is a reflection of me :)
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  • All my favourite summer ingredients in one frame - ok may be a couple of them missing ;)
.yogurt
.cucumber 🥒
.mint 🌿
.pomegranate
.black salt
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For all those who think Indian cuisine is complicated, try this raita made using diced cukes, mint and pomegranate with bare minimum flavours of black salt and roasted cumin. You'll realize that Indian food can be restrained and minimalistic and yet pack a punch.
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Get the step by step recipe for this on @liebherrappliancesindia
FreshMAG blog-- will link in stories
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QUESTION FOR YOU:
What is your favourite raita?
  • Holidays have started with a bang and it was homemade pizza for dinner on Friday and yesterday :)
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Always make enough dough and sauce so that you can make pizza for two dinners at least :)
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Easy tips to make a solid pizza at home on my blog - old post so swipe up from stories.
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What's your favourite pizza topping? For me, less is more. I'd think my favourite topping is mushroom and some fresh rocket tossed in olive oil.
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  • When the skies put on a show for sunset, you can't help stop in your tracks and soak up all the beauty as time stands still. This sunset filled my heart.
  • I've been struggling without fresh basil in my kitchen garden for more than 4 months now. The cloudy Bangalore winters didn't help and whatever little I had growing, gave up on me.
A smarter gardener would have started the seedlings in early Feb when the weather turns warmer and more sunlight is available in the day. I sowed these seeds 3 weeks ago and now I can see a set of true leaves coming up. SUCH JOY!
With more intensive gardening, I think I need to keep a diary or Excel sheet of all the seeds sown to keep better track of things and also for better learning and reference for the next round of sowing.
Note: leaves are very very tiny. This is a zoomed in shot
  • A gratefulness collage of some of the gifts from my garden for #tamilnewyear - 
May not end up cooking much because it's just two of us at home. Another way to celebrate is to be thankful for all our blessings and my garden is surely one of them.
Wishing all those celebrating a very happy new year and may lots of happiness, love and prosperity come your way.
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  • A happy moment from our last weekend's family trip to Lalbagh nursery. While I was shopping for ferns, seeds and edible plants, I couldn't help clicking a photo of this trolley put together by another gardening enthusiast. Such pretty flowers in colours of the rainbow!
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There are two kinds of flowering plants. Perennial flowers that grow round the year and Annuals that grow once in the season and die. Annuals need to be planted every spring.
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I've sown seeds of poppy, gomphrena and calendula this week (this may be a totally wrong season for calendula but no harm trying). These flowers will add colour to my vegetable garden while also getting in the bees, which are important for pollination.
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I'm on a gardening mood on my blog too. There are two back to back very useful blog posts - one on my fav gardening channels on YouTube and another on growing lemon trees in pots. Go check them out on SAFFRONTRAIL.com
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QUESTION FOR YOU:
Have you tried growing flowers at home? If yes, which one is your favourite?
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