Pallipalayam Chicken Fry

Pallipalayam Chicken is a spicy chicken fry variety, that has a fancy name, but is quite simple to prepare. To those who don’t know, Pallipalayam is a small town near Erode in TamilNadu. It is famous for being the birthplace of the Math genius – Srinivasa Ramanujan. This dish is unique because it relies on … [Read more…]

Roasted Asparagus with chopped eggs

Of late, I have been experimenting by trying out new vegetables and fruits. This time I tried ‘Asparagus’. I was curious about this vegetable and was wondering how it was grown, and what part of the plant these spears were. Like an answer to all my questions aired this episode of ‘Good Eats’ and who … [Read more…]

Chicken Biryani – North Indian style

Briyani, is one of the most favorite dishes in my family. My brother loves it, my husband loves it and it is often the specialty of most of the women in our families. I love to make briyani, mostly because it is a one pot meal and it has always been my number one choice … [Read more…]

Mushroom Badami Curry

To go with the multigrain chapatis, I decided to make a Mushroom Curry. I had gotten these beautiful mushrooms from Costco. Everything in Costco is big size, even the size of the mushrooms. They were huuuge… And that meant, they were meaty. I decided to make a rich curry and came across the recipe for … [Read more…]

Multi grain Chapati/Roti

When I went to India I saw the muligrain atta that Pillsbury has introduced recently. I checked here in the Indian grocery stores, but they didn’t have it available. It has always been on the back of my mind, to try and recreate this multigrain chapati. And, I came across this recipe in the book … [Read more…]

Muttai Kuzhambu(Eggs poached in a curry sauce)

This post is long pending…I seemed to have lost the photo of this one, in the midst of the tons of photos I have been taking recently, and this just slipped through. I made this to go with the Chicken Briyani a while back. It is made by poaching the eggs in a spicy and … [Read more…]