A true foodie is one who is open to eat anything and almost everything edible. One such foodie is my sister. Since childhood me and my sister has been the biggest food hogger in our family. Living in a metro for years often allows one to eat and explore new cuisines which is normally not so common at home. One of them is Gratin, which is a widespread culinary technique in which an ingredient is topped with a browned crust, often using breadcrumbs, grated cheese, egg and/or butter. Gratin originated in French cuisine and is usually prepared in a shallow…
Ingredient: cheese
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India is known for its vivid variety of cuisines that comes from various regions. Bengal being one of an important region of India has blessed us with Culture, Arts & Literature, Politics, Football and Sweets. Bengal sweets are suppose to have a world wide recognition. Commonly known as ‘Bangali Mithai’ in sweet shops, the Bengals sweets have a wide range of variety and tastes superior than any other sweet. Roshogulla, Sondesh, Chamcham, Payesh, Patishapta etc are just some popular sweets given by West Bangal. I myself got an opportunity to visit couple of Bengali marriages and believe me it’s the…
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‘Chefs Across Boundaries’ is a group of Chefs who set up challenges every month to encourage the participants to innovate, think out of the box and explore the culinary world. This month, one of the Members Hetal Kamdar (http://hetalkamdar.blog.co.uk/) hosted the challenge and her theme was Pondicherry cuisine. The Union Territory of Pondicherry boasts of a sumptuous cuisine that shows strong French and Tamil influences. Puducherry formerly known as Pondicherry is a small charming Union Territory on the east coast of India consisting of four small regions namely Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. Whereas Pondicherry and Karaikal is in Tamilnadu,…
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A croquette is a small bread crumbed fried food roll containing, usually as main ingredients, mashed potatoes and/or ground meat, shellfish, fish, cheese or vegetables. The croquette is usually shaped into a cylinder, disk, ball or oval shape, and then deep-fried. The croquette (from the French croquer, “to crunch”) gained worldwide popularity, both as a delicacy and as a fast food.
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A Scotch Egg consist of a shelled hard boiled egg wrapped in a sausage meat mixture. coated in bread crumbs and deep fried. Scotch eggs are commonly eaten cold, particularly with pickles or salads. . Ever since i came across this recipe in one of my blogger friend Nidhi S Raj, i have been wanting to make this. I studied the recipe from http://soulandspicebox.com/scotch-eggs/ and was waiting for the winters to try my hands on these Egg headed beauties. It can be made by using either goat/lamb mince or chicken mince. I used chicken as it is anytime available in…
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It’s the 3rd day of Jan’2015, the climate is super cold and raining too…Never ever imagined that winters can be this chilling here in Raipur. Now as God is being so kind to me, i just thought to enjoy the freezing climate with some crunchy munchy snack that can go perfect with evening Tea. Something hot and cheesy…. just the way i like. Evening snacks are a quite challenging in my home. It should neither be too light nor too heavy. Should be tasty, something new always….phewww! Still i love to take up the challenge and try to create something…
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Cheers to a healthy morning again. Honestly, today i had nothing planned for breakfast. Yes, wanted to have something healthy n nutritious for sure. Few days back i made Chill-o-Melt Bonanza n Pan cakes for my son. Just revised both the recipes again n innovated The Whole Wheat Spinacho-Egg Pan Cake. Though pan cakes are made with all purpose flour but to make it more healthier i chose to opt wheat flour. Easy n a quick fix recipe again to make ur breakkie tasty, healthy and completely filling. Lets proceed with the recipe…..
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For any mom the toughest job is to prepare new n fancy dishes to feed her children and make them happy. This morning as i were scratching my head as to what to make for breakfast and tiffin which my son wud love to have, a friend of mine Rajiv Iyer, suggested me with one of his humble quick fix recipe named Chill-o-Melt Bonanza ! The recipe not just sounded quick but was interesting, fancy looking and equally healthy. Though the recipe he shared to me was in a jiffy but i still managed to do justice to his creation….