Guest Hosting Flavors of Sri Lanka Event

Hello Friends,


I welcome Flavors of Series event once again to my blog. I feel honored that I could host it 2nd time. Thanks Nayna for letting me. First time around was Flavors of Bengal. And, this time we are going international to India's neighboring country, Sri Lanka.


Source: Wikipedia
Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the Maldives. It is part of South Asia.


The customary diet in Sri Lanka are rice and curry, pittu (mixture of fresh rice meal, lightly roasted and mixed with fresh grated coconut, then steamed in a bamboo mould), Kiribath (cooked in thick coconut cream for this unsweetened rice-pudding which is accompanied by a sharp chili relish called "lunumiris"), Roti (made from stoneground wholemeal flour, traditionally known as Atta flour), String hoppers (prepared by mixing rice flour with hot water and salt), wattalapam (rich pudding of Malay origin made of coconut milk, jaggery, cashew nuts, eggs, and various spices including cinnamon cloves and nutmeg), kottu, hoppers ("appa"), etc.^[267] Jackfruit may replace rice and curries at times. Traditional meals are usually served on plantain leaf.


Isn't that all fascinating and so tempting to try. Did you see how most of the food is gluten-free. Now, that you understand Sri Lankan Cuisine to an extent, all you need to do is cook a dish from Sri Lanka (Vegetarian only, no meat or seafood allowed, Eggs allowed only in baking) and send it my way before31st December 2011. This event will run from 1st Dec 2011- 31st Dec 2011.

Here are some basic rules for this event:

Mandatory:

• Vegetarian dishes only, no meat or seafood allowed, Eggs allowed only in baking.
• Use of logo as it promotes the event.
• Multiple entries and Achieved entries allowed if updated with the event details.
• Entries must Include link back this announcement and original announcement.
• Non bloggers can participate by emailing image and recipe.
• Send entries in this format to priya.mitharwal@gmail.com

Subject: Flavors of Sri Lanka
Your Name:
Blog Name:
Post Name:
Post URL:
Include Image no larger than 300 pixels.

So, what are you waiting for? Let's cook wonderful dishes from Sri Lanka and enjoy another international cuisine :)


That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Seyal Maani - सेयल मनी (Indian Flat Bread Cooked in Spices)

Hello Friends,


I have had this bookmarked for a while now and I got to make it last week and post it today. Seyal Maani - सेयल मानी (Indian Flat Bread Cooked in Spices). I have to use the description that Vaishali used as that is the best you can describe it. Maani is chapatti or fulka. Seyal Maani is chapattis mixed with herbs and tomatoes,made a little mushy and served for breakfast in Sindhi homes.


As she has mentioned in her post, this is usually made for breakfast, but I made it for dinner and it was a hit. I served it with little bit of plain dahi as it already has enough spices, so we need something to cool it down. My hubby, who is usually a critique of most of the dishes, really liked it and appreciated it without being asked to ... lol

The herb mix was so aromatic, spicy and a refreshing taste in mouth. Take a look at this tempting pic and run over heels to Vaishali's post and re-create this deliciousness. Thansk Vaishali, this is going to be a frequent in my house with leftover rotis (Indian Flat Bread cooked without oil).


This goes to Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 69) event hosted by Aipi and I

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Chakkarai/Sweet Pongal for Blog Hop

Hello Friends,


I don't know where to start. These last couple of weeks or shall I say months have been crazy busy. So, many things happening (nothing bad). Like I was telling this friend of mine, it is an action-packed days, full-to-busy from morning 4:30 am till 10 pm (before I crash in bed).


I guess I am also going through that blogger block or whatever it is called where I don't know what to do or what to post. And, again, I am also not cooking very new and uncooked dishes, so that is also one of the reasons.


Anyways, I want to apologize here to all my readers and my blogger friends whom I follow religiously as I did not get to post or visit anyone in last month or so.


I love Blog Hop event, but unfortunately, could not post my dish on time as I should have. Sorry Saras about it. I was paired with wonderful Saras. While I was going through her blog, this dish caught my eye right away and I knew what to make. I always wanted to try Chakkarai/Sweet Pongal as I love it as a prasadam. For my non South Indian friends who have not heard of this before, let me explain it. It is cooked rice/moong dal mix in milk and then sweetened with Jaggery and loaded with ghee. Have I tempted you enough? :)


Here is the delicious recipe.


Chakkarai/Sweet Pongal

Ingredients
Rice - 1 cup
Moong Dal - 1/3 cup
Milk - 1.5 cups
Water - 2.5 cups
Powdered Jaggery - 2 cups or to taste
Green Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp
Cashews - pieces, 2 tbsp
Ghee (Clarified Butter) - 3 tbsps
Preparation

• Pressure Cook Rice & Dal till almost mushy with Milk and Water mix (as mentioned above).'
• Meanwhile, heat jaggery with about 1/4 cup water till it melts nicely.
• Pour Jaggery water and 2 tbsp ghee in cooked rice/dal mix (add about 1/4 cup water, if needed).
• Add cardamom powder and mix well.
• In a small non-stick pan, fry cashew pieces to golden brown in 1 tbsp ghee.
• Mix cashews well with the sweet pongal and take it off the heat.

Serving
This is usually made as an offering to God, but we enjoyed it as a delicious dessert. If I were you, I will serve it warm :)


That's all for now. Hope to be back on track. Take care till next post.

Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 69)

Hello friends,

This is the 69th volume of Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday Event. You can find recipes for all other volumes here, where we all with link the blog posts where we posted a recipe that we had Bookmarked from another blog or book or magazine or simply from a TV show written on a blank paper. It would be great to know when you bookmarked it (date), if you would like to share it, not mandatory.

Remember, you will have to post that recipe on Tuesday, 29th November 2011 and no archived or past recipes are allowed to be entered in this event. You can make that recipe any date or time, but it has to be posted on Tuesday. Hope that it is clear :)


OK, so here are the rules,

• You will have to prepare a recipe that you bookmarked previously from a blog, or any recipe source, it can even be from a book or magazine which you had cut, or taken notes from or folded the paper of, to remind you to make it sometime. In short, any kind of bookmarked recipe is allowed. No disrespect or offense to anyone, but recipes from some relatives will NOT BE allowed, as they don’t fall into the criteria of bookmarking.
• For every recipe you make, please post the recipe source (a link if it is a website or picture of the book/magazine, if it is from the print media) along with picture (s). You are NOT ALLOWED to copy/paste the recipe and just link it to the original blog or website. If you took it from a magazine, we will appreciate a scanned picture of the recipe mentioning the book name specifically than you copy pasting the recipe. We have seen quite a few of copyright issues in last few months in blog world, and this is keeping that in mind. If you tweaked the recipe in any way to suit your needs, please ONLY mention the tweaks.
• This is a pure vegetarian blog, so, I will only allow vegetarian bookmarked recipes here (eggs are allowed ONLY in baking).
• You can prepare the recipe anytime, just blog about it ONLY on a Tuesday :)
• No Archived entries please.
• Your dish can be from any course, no restrictions on that.
• You can link more than one bookmarked recipe (with picture).
• We will add a "Mr. Linky" to every Tuesday's post, so that you can link your post directly to my post and that way everyone can see those recipes right away and do not have to wait for my roundup. No need to send me an email with your posts.
• If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send me an email @ priya.mitharwal@gmail.com with your recipe and a picture and of course the recipe source.
• Please link your posts which have tried bookmarked recipes with the following logo. This is mandatory.
• Once you have posted your recipe on your blog, simply link it using "Mr. Linky" below. Linking will open only after 12 am on 29th November 2011 (India Time) and will stay open till end of the day (US Pacific Time).

I would like to specially mention here that this beautiful logo was designed by dear Aipi. Thanks sweety for this wonderful creation :)


Hoping to see lots of recipes as we know all of us have bookmarked recipe, blogger or non-blogger. If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send us the recipe with pic and the source of your bookmark.

You can link your recipe either from my blog or Aipi’s blog.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 68)

Hello friends,

This is the 68th volume of Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday Event. You can find recipes for all other volumes here, where we all with link the blog posts where we posted a recipe that we had Bookmarked from another blog or book or magazine or simply from a TV show written on a blank paper. It would be great to know when you bookmarked it (date), if you would like to share it, not mandatory.

Remember, you will have to post that recipe on Tuesday, 22nd November 2011 and no archived or past recipes are allowed to be entered in this event. You can make that recipe any date or time, but it has to be posted on Tuesday. Hope that it is clear :)


OK, so here are the rules,

• You will have to prepare a recipe that you bookmarked previously from a blog, or any recipe source, it can even be from a book or magazine which you had cut, or taken notes from or folded the paper of, to remind you to make it sometime. In short, any kind of bookmarked recipe is allowed. No disrespect or offense to anyone, but recipes from some relatives will NOT BE allowed, as they don’t fall into the criteria of bookmarking.
• For every recipe you make, please post the recipe source (a link if it is a website or picture of the book/magazine, if it is from the print media) along with picture (s). You are NOT ALLOWED to copy/paste the recipe and just link it to the original blog or website. If you took it from a magazine, we will appreciate a scanned picture of the recipe mentioning the book name specifically than you copy pasting the recipe. We have seen quite a few of copyright issues in last few months in blog world, and this is keeping that in mind. If you tweaked the recipe in any way to suit your needs, please ONLY mention the tweaks.
• This is a pure vegetarian blog, so, I will only allow vegetarian bookmarked recipes here (eggs are allowed ONLY in baking).
• You can prepare the recipe anytime, just blog about it ONLY on a Tuesday :)
• No Archived entries please.
• Your dish can be from any course, no restrictions on that.
• You can link more than one bookmarked recipe (with picture).
• We will add a "Mr. Linky" to every Tuesday's post, so that you can link your post directly to my post and that way everyone can see those recipes right away and do not have to wait for my roundup. No need to send me an email with your posts.
• If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send me an email @ priya.mitharwal@gmail.com with your recipe and a picture and of course the recipe source.
• Please link your posts which have tried bookmarked recipes with the following logo. This is mandatory.
• Once you have posted your recipe on your blog, simply link it using "Mr. Linky" below. Linking will open only after 12 am on 22nd November 2011 (India Time) and will stay open till end of the day (US Pacific Time).

I would like to specially mention here that this beautiful logo was designed by dear Aipi. Thanks sweety for this wonderful creation :)


Hoping to see lots of recipes as we know all of us have bookmarked recipe, blogger or non-blogger. If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send us the recipe with pic and the source of your bookmark.

You can link your recipe either from my blog or Aipi’s blog.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 67)

Hello friends,

This is the 67th volume of Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday Event. You can find recipes for all other volumes here, where we all with link the blog posts where we posted a recipe that we had Bookmarked from another blog or book or magazine or simply from a TV show written on a blank paper. It would be great to know when you bookmarked it (date), if you would like to share it, not mandatory.

Remember, you will have to post that recipe on Tuesday, 15th November 2011 and no archived or past recipes are allowed to be entered in this event. You can make that recipe any date or time, but it has to be posted on Tuesday. Hope that it is clear :)


OK, so here are the rules,

• You will have to prepare a recipe that you bookmarked previously from a blog, or any recipe source, it can even be from a book or magazine which you had cut, or taken notes from or folded the paper of, to remind you to make it sometime. In short, any kind of bookmarked recipe is allowed. No disrespect or offense to anyone, but recipes from some relatives will NOT BE allowed, as they don’t fall into the criteria of bookmarking.
• For every recipe you make, please post the recipe source (a link if it is a website or picture of the book/magazine, if it is from the print media) along with picture (s). You are NOT ALLOWED to copy/paste the recipe and just link it to the original blog or website. If you took it from a magazine, we will appreciate a scanned picture of the recipe mentioning the book name specifically than you copy pasting the recipe. We have seen quite a few of copyright issues in last few months in blog world, and this is keeping that in mind. If you tweaked the recipe in any way to suit your needs, please ONLY mention the tweaks.
• This is a pure vegetarian blog, so, I will only allow vegetarian bookmarked recipes here (eggs are allowed ONLY in baking).
• You can prepare the recipe anytime, just blog about it ONLY on a Tuesday :)
• No Archived entries please.
• Your dish can be from any course, no restrictions on that.
• You can link more than one bookmarked recipe (with picture).
• We will add a "Mr. Linky" to every Tuesday's post, so that you can link your post directly to my post and that way everyone can see those recipes right away and do not have to wait for my roundup. No need to send me an email with your posts.
• If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send me an email @ priya.mitharwal@gmail.com with your recipe and a picture and of course the recipe source.
• Please link your posts which have tried bookmarked recipes with the following logo. This is mandatory.
• Once you have posted your recipe on your blog, simply link it using "Mr. Linky" below. Linking will open only after 12 am on 15th November 2011 (India Time) and will stay open till end of the day (US Pacific Time).

I would like to specially mention here that this beautiful logo was designed by dear Aipi. Thanks sweety for this wonderful creation :)


Hoping to see lots of recipes as we know all of us have bookmarked recipe, blogger or non-blogger. If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send us the recipe with pic and the source of your bookmark.

You can link your recipe either from my blog or Aipi’s blog.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Coffee and Chocolate Pudding - Sweet Punch for November 2011

Hello Friends,


Another month and another wonderful Sweet Punch Entry. This time it was mouth watering and super yummy Coffee & Chocolate Pudding. 


It was super easy to put together, about 5 minutes and then 20 min. to bake and this is a dessert that you can enjoy right out of the oven, so no need to wait for it to cool down completely :)


Enjoy !!!

  Print this recipe

Coffee and Chocolate Pudding

Recipe Source: Fair Lady
Ingredients (makes 4 servings)

All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Baking Powder - 2 tsp
Cocoa Powder - 2 tsp
Salt - one pinch
Brown Sugar - ½ cup
Butter - 2 tbsp, melted
Milk - ½ cup
Egg - 1, beaten
For the topping
Brown Sugar - ½ cup
Cocoa - 3 tbsp
Strong Black Coffee - 1 cup (I used Nescafe Decaf)
Preparation

• Preheat oven to 180°C. 
• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Stir through butter, milk and egg until well combined.
• Spoon batter into 4 ramekins.
• Sprinkle over brown sugar and cocoa then pour over coffee but do not stir.
• Bake for 20 minutes.
• Dust with cocoa powder or cinnamon and sugar; serve with vanilla ice cream.

Serving
I could not take pics of this, but I served it with a big dollop of Nutella at the top and warming it again to let that Nutella melt and have more gooey chocolate :)


That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 66)

Hello friends,

This is the 66th volume of Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday Event. You can find recipes for all other volumes here, where we all with link the blog posts where we posted a recipe that we had Bookmarked from another blog or book or magazine or simply from a TV show written on a blank paper. It would be great to know when you bookmarked it (date), if you would like to share it, not mandatory.

Remember, you will have to post that recipe on Tuesday, 8th November 2011 and no archived or past recipes are allowed to be entered in this event. You can make that recipe any date or time, but it has to be posted on Tuesday. Hope that it is clear :)


OK, so here are the rules,

• You will have to prepare a recipe that you bookmarked previously from a blog, or any recipe source, it can even be from a book or magazine which you had cut, or taken notes from or folded the paper of, to remind you to make it sometime. In short, any kind of bookmarked recipe is allowed. No disrespect or offense to anyone, but recipes from some relatives will NOT BE allowed, as they don’t fall into the criteria of bookmarking.
• For every recipe you make, please post the recipe source (a link if it is a website or picture of the book/magazine, if it is from the print media) along with picture (s). You are NOT ALLOWED to copy/paste the recipe and just link it to the original blog or website. If you took it from a magazine, we will appreciate a scanned picture of the recipe mentioning the book name specifically than you copy pasting the recipe. We have seen quite a few of copyright issues in last few months in blog world, and this is keeping that in mind. If you tweaked the recipe in any way to suit your needs, please ONLY mention the tweaks.
• This is a pure vegetarian blog, so, I will only allow vegetarian bookmarked recipes here (eggs are allowed ONLY in baking).
• You can prepare the recipe anytime, just blog about it ONLY on a Tuesday :)
• No Archived entries please.
• Your dish can be from any course, no restrictions on that.
• You can link more than one bookmarked recipe (with picture).
• We will add a "Mr. Linky" to every Tuesday's post, so that you can link your post directly to my post and that way everyone can see those recipes right away and do not have to wait for my roundup. No need to send me an email with your posts.
• If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send me an email @ priya.mitharwal@gmail.com with your recipe and a picture and of course the recipe source.
• Please link your posts which have tried bookmarked recipes with the following logo. This is mandatory.
• Once you have posted your recipe on your blog, simply link it using "Mr. Linky" below. Linking will open only after 12 am on 8th November 2011 (India Time) and will stay open till end of the day (US Pacific Time).

I would like to specially mention here that this beautiful logo was designed by dear Aipi. Thanks sweety for this wonderful creation :)


Hoping to see lots of recipes as we know all of us have bookmarked recipe, blogger or non-blogger. If you are a non-blogger, please feel free to send us the recipe with pic and the source of your bookmark.

You can link your recipe either from my blog or Aipi’s blog.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Roundup of Veggie/Fruit A Month - Coconut Event

Hello Friends,


I had whooping 28 brand new dishes come my way for Veggie/Fruit A Month - Coconut event that I hosted for the month of October and I am ecstatic. Wonderful thing is that most of these dishes are very less known and so amazing and intriguing dishes. I would like to thank Amy from Food Corner for sending 5 dishes. I am so happy and thankful to my blogger friends for stepping up to the task of creating new dishes for this event. Love you guys !!!

Roshan from Roshan’s Cucina sent Coconut Cake with Custard Apple & Cream

Rupali from Recipe GrabBag sent Banana Coconut and Coffee Cake and Rava Naral Laddoo

Amy from Food Corner sent Coconut Toffee, Fried Coconut sambola (Fried Pola Sambola), Pol Mallun (Coconut Mallun),  Milk Rice (Kiri Bath) and Sri Lankan Pol Roti (Coconut Roti)

Deeksha from Dee’s Kitchen sent Navratan Korma in White Gravy

Sadhana from Sensibleveg sent Pineapple Curry in Coconut Milk

Rudra from Mom’s Corner sent Coconut Burfi

Aarthi from YUMMY TUMMY sent Kadala Theeyal and Mysore Rasam

Sravani from Srav's Culinary Concepts sent Kobbari Bellam Ladoo/Coconut jaggery Ladoo

Janet from The Taste Space sent Butternut Squash, Coconut and Lentil Stew

Kalinda from Wheat-Free Meat-Free sent Coconut Plantain Soup.

Taruna Deepak from Easy Food Smith sent Malabar Vegetable Ishtew with Set Dosa

Manasi from A Cook At Heart sent Rava Laddoo

Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal from Mharo Rajasthan’s Recipes sent Nariyal aur Kaju ki Aloo Sabzi (Coconut Potato Curry with Cashews)

Neetu from TipsNDeals sent Sooji and Nariyal Ke Laddoo

Rajani from My Kitchen Trials sent Povitica

Amina from Amina Creations sent Coconut Barfi

Archana from The Mad Scientist’s Kitchen sent Coconut Semolina Cake

Kalyani from Sizzling Tastebuds sent Poricha Rasam and Corn Almond Kurma

Riddhima from Culinary Vibes sent Coconut Ladoos

Deepika from My Life & Spice sent Coconut macaroons

Seema from Amchi Bong Konnexion sent VaaLi Sukke - Malabar Spinach in Spicy Coconut Paste

If I have missed out anyone's entry by mistake, please let me know by email.


This month's Veggie/Fruit A Month event is being hosted by Archana of The Mad Scientist's Kitchen. The STAR ingredient is PLANTAIN (Raw Banana). Please do send in your entries to the event.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.