Eggs in a Hashbrown basket

As soon as I saw the recipe for ‘Eggs in a basket’ by Sunny Anderson, I knew this was going to be my weekend brunch. I planned on making pancakes to go along with it, but I made waffles instead, since hubby dear prefers that. I simplified Sunny’s recipe a lot since I was making … [Read more…]

Oven Roasted Chicken and Potatoes

My latest craze is ‘oven roasting’. It started with broccoli, and then cauliflower and now it is potatoes. I had some baby red potatoes on hand, and they were the victims. I threw in some chicken to make it a wholesome meal. I never realized that using the oven to roast vegetables would make them … [Read more…]

Easy tomato kothsu – Side Dish for Idli/Dosa/Pongal

I made this tomato kothsu to go with my whole wheat tortillas for lunch today. It is my go-to side dish for chapatis, idly, dosa and sometimes even bread. It’s very flexible and can be made with just about an onion and any number of tomatoes on hand. I had quite a lot of tomatoes, … [Read more…]

Caribbean Channa(Spicy crunchy Oven roasted Garbanzo beans)

I missed out on IHCC – It’s time for Bed in Breakfast event last week, because I picked out a recipe and didn’t have an ingredient, but mostly it was also because I didn’t have any books by Mark Bittman on hand to inspire me. So, this week, in preparation I headed to the library … [Read more…]

Muttai poriyal/Scrambled eggs/Egg bhurji

If I was stranded in an island, and was asked to choose one edible item to eat for the rest of my life(vegetable/meat/egg), I would choose ‘egg’. I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, as a snack, anytime, all the time, prepared any way. I never realized I was so much in love with … [Read more…]

Pork Pepper fry

I made this pork pepper fry for lunch yesterday. DH had got some pork the other day, as one of his attempts to try ‘other’ meat. Yeah, he mostly eats chicken and mutton(goat meat), and he prefers them over other meat. But, some days he gets adventurous. I had made this recipe once before and … [Read more…]