Hi All, Happy Dussehra ..What you prepared for festival? This Ayutha pooja I wanted to celebrate perfect bcoz Ashley ( my daughter) started going to school this year and Ayutha pooja is special for education. I planned the menu earlier itself . I made Jelabi , Diamond chips , Palkova ( milk kova) , Urad dal vada and presented to God along with Poha , Rice puffs , groundnut .Pooja went very well just as I planned.Even though I was in hurry in making everything without any help ,I didn't miss to take photographs of my dishes. Now coming back to recipe , Diamond chips is my favorite .When I was conceived I carved for this chips more and more.Earlier I tried but I was not able to achieve crispiness.This time I understood the trick and made perfect chips. The recipe and trick is as below, INGREDIENTS : Maida / All purpse flour – 3/4 cup. Rice flour – 1 tsp. Hing – 1/8 tsp. Omam/Ajwain – 1/4 tsp. Sesame / Ellu – 1/2 tsp. Red chilli powder – 1 tsp. Ging...
Hi, Sea has lot of creatures in it that we can cook and we were much more unaware of many . Squid fish is one among the yummy species which I was totally unaware even after coming to Chennai.One day in market I saw them and surprised that they are selling octopus ( it looked like that to me :)). Then I surfed in net and found actually they are squid ( kadamba / kanava) and not octopus , My friend Saranya cooked this gravy for us during her visit to our home .I copied the recipe from her and tried next week itself.Though the squid fish looks very weird the taste was so yummy and there is no fish odor in that.It just tasted like mutton. The cleaning part is little tricky but easy, I suggest once you finished cleaning dispose the waste immediately out of your house as the waste from squid fish is very smelly and also it starts leaving water .So dispose the waste of squid as quick as possible. Other than that the fish tastes heaven , spicy, yummy and very easy to cook. I have...