Pudhina Chutney

Recipe Source: Rakskitchen.net
Notes- Made twice the given quantity using 8 red chillies. Too Spicy for Ananya.Next time use 3 chillies and for double the quantity, try with 5 chillies.

Idlis

Recipe source: Rakskitchen.net

3/4 cup whole urad dhall
4 1/2 cups Idli rice
1 teaspoon Fenugreek seeds
Salt 4 1/2 teaspoons

Soak around 5 hours
Grind urad dhall for 20 to 25 minutes
Grind idli rice for around 30 minutes
Water- used 2/3 cup water in place of 1/2 mentioned in the recipe and as it progressed, added water whenever needed to help grinder run smoothly.

Mix the batters after adding salt. Heat oven and place the batter overnight in the oven.
Takes atleast 12 hours to ferment depending on the climate !!

Batter quantity:  Less than 3/4 of Big Thooku

Whole wheat Eggless Banana Muffins

Recipe source: priyaeasyntastyrecipes.blogspot.com

Hakka Noodles

Tried the recipe from Sharmispassions.

For 1/3rd of noodles packet (1 round plastic box full of cooked noodles), used 1 onion, 3 cloves garlic?, 2 teaspoon of soysauce, 2 teaspoon of pepper powder(double of recipe), carrots and capsicum. Oil- 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

Taste was very good and spicy !!
Mixing small quantity of noodles is easier than adding all the noodles.

Mythili Maami's Sambar Sadham

Dhalli Paati made this for us on New Year's Day!!
Simple to make and tastes great!!
Enjoyed and also made it myself :)

TuttiFrutti Cookies

 Tried and loved these colorful cookies from Sharmispassions.com
Baked them for Valentines Day...

Dhall for chapathi

Simple to make. Dhall can be pressure-cooked for this recipe. Source: Geetha Mami

AnushaMa's Rava Idli

This is one of the first recipes I learnt. From the Cookbook "Iyengar Samayal".

We all love Rava Idlis.. No Instant Rava idlis for us!!

Rava idli masala from Mallika Badrinath's cookbook goes well with this.

ChocolateNut Bark

Made this "Chocolate Nut Bark" for Valentines Day.
It was very simple to make and super tasty..
Madhavan loved it!!

Recipe from Usmasala.blogspot.com

Carrot Halwa

Super Tasty !!
 Tried the recipe from Rakskitchen.net

Onion Tomato Chutney

This is simple to make with few ingredients and tastes great!
Recipe is from Rakskitchen.net.

Idli Molaga Podi

I love Kappuma's Molaga podi .. It is tasty and uses few ingredients(no sesame) !!

Ingredients:
Gram dhall 3 handfuls
Urad dhall 3 handfuls
Red chillies 5
Salt
Asafoetida Sprinkle generously

Heat 2 spoons of oil and fry the red chillies till they perk up grow dark in colour. Remove them from the oil and let them cool down. Next, fry the gram and urad dhalls in oil until they turn golden brown.
Remove from oil and let them cool down. Sprinkle salt and asafoetida on the dahlls and red chillies. Once they are not hot, transfer to mixie jar and pulse in small bursts. Open mixie and using a spoon mix the contents to make sure the dhalls are ground uniformly. Once the dhall is ground to the right size, remove from mixie jar and let the poder cool down. Once it reaches room temperature, store the molaga podi in an airtight container.

Gobi 65

Tried this from Rakskitchen.net and loved it !!

Marbled Banana Chocolate Cake

Baked this with Ananya's help for Madhavan's B'day.

His first B'day as Director !!!
Followed the recipe from USMasala.blogspot.com

Appam

Appam..

Made this for "Aavani Aavattam"....
Turned out beautiful and also Yummy!!

Paati's recipe is on this blog for the first time !!!

Yummy Oats'N Almond cookies. Good for Cholesterol patients who want to eat healthy...

Baked Oats'N Almond Cookies

Tried this recipe from "Sharmis Passions" which is one of the blogs I follow..

Medhu Vadai....
This vadai came out very nice and all of us enjoyed it.
Followed the recipe from Rakskitchen.net

Made this for Tamizh New Year's Day and felt very proud of the well-shaped-vadais !!

thegrowingcook

My cooking blog is born today- Feb 17th, 2012.
Ananya chose this blog name !
Hope it stays well-nourished :)