India !!! Indiaaaa!! the cricket fever is high all around from past many months. Starting with world cup and now ending with IPL, each and every match deserved to be watched and cheered too. My son is a biggest cricket fan in my family. From world cup to IPL he didn’t missed even a single match. And for every match he use to prepare the room as the stadium’s VIP stand where he use to cheer, shout, hoot and do all what he could do while watching the match live…and for such a die heart cricket fan COKE was the…

Pilaf, also known as pilav, pilau, pulao, palaw, plov, polov, polo, and polu, is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth. In some cases, the rice may also attain its brown color by being stirred with pieces of cooked onion, as well as a mix of spices. Depending on the local cuisine, it may also contain meat, fish, vegetables, and (dried) fruits. Pilaf and similar dishes are common to Balkan, Middle Eastern, Caucasian, Central and South Asian, East African, Indian, Latin American and Caribbean cuisines. It is a staple food and a national dish in Afghan,…

‘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. It is an initiative started by a handful of food bloggers and food enthusiasts who have taken up the challenge to explore unique and traditional recipes with a motive to expand culinary knowledge as well as to promote the hidden gems which are yet to make an impact in the culinary world. The monthly challenge at ‘Chefs Across Boundaries’ this month is the Brazilian Cuisine. The challenge was set up…

It was a year back from today when i started my blog just to keep my sanity in check. The journey within this one year taught me so much that helped me getting better and bigger. By God’s grace and good wishes of all my near and dear ones, my blog/website got both National and International recognition. During this term i was pleased and proud to c my recipes getting published in various leading online food magazines/ twitter and expert Chef’s websites. This wouldn’t have happened without all of u. So today while celebrating my blog’s 1st Anniversary i would…

My mom has a huge farm where she grows lots of fruits and vegetables. The orchard has a variety of fruit giving trees like mangoe, litchi, jackfruit, banana, mulberry, almond, chikoo, tomato, guava etc etc. It’s summers and the farm is flooding with mangoes all over. There is a huge variety of mangoes there…the best one and my most favorite one is LANGDAA ( a variety of mango found in India). My family is a mango lover in all means. We know how to utilize mango from it’s raw version till it ripens. The season of enjoying mangoes begin from…

Flattened Rice or Poha is one such common snack of India which is made in almost every house in the country. Like my mom says Poha has to be our National breakfast which is consumed in heavy quantity both at homes as well as street side. Basically there are two variants of poha, thick and thin. The thin one is usually used for making crunchy mixtures, whereas the thick ones are used for making savories for breakfast. Kanda Poha, Aloo Poha or mex veg poha are some of the common favorites across the country. Since childhood i had been surrounded…