Sarah’s Yeasted Appams

Appam is one of my husband’s favorite breakfast items. I always made it by grinding raw rice with some coconut and letting it sit overnight to ferment, the way my mother makes them. But, with weather in the northwest being very unpredictable, the time the batter takes to ferment, is never guaranteed. So, I couldn’t … [Read more…]

Kaima Idli – Hotel Saravana Bhavan style

It’s been a month since I started my blog, and coincidentally this is also my 50th post. I am so happy that I started this blog and its been a blast since then. This has helped me discover myself in so many different ways, through food and more importantly in expressing myself, through writing.  Many … [Read more…]

Vegetable Rava Upma/Kichadi

Among a lot of sweet nothings that goes on the phone calls that go on between you and your fiancee, in an arranged marriage, there are a few unavoidable questions, like, ‘Whats your favorite food’. Its just a subject you bring up – talk for talk’s sake – but you don’t at all expect to … [Read more…]

Semiya upma

This week is probably the first week of ‘summer’ in Seattle. We in the Northwest are probably one of the last places to get good sunny weather, and it was evident how people yearn for such good weather. I shouldn’t complain much, for we didn’t have a bad winter. Compared to other places in the … [Read more…]