My daughter was home last month for Winter break and that is when these cookies first got done. She bought me two small packs of lemon flavoured cookies and chocolate flavoured cookies, the vegan and gluten free kind. I fell in love with the lemony cookies and finished them off the same day (10 in read more…
Almond nut milk | Non-dairy milks | GFCF | Vegan

Considering that I have been a vegan for quite a few years and make nut milks on a regular basis, this recipe should have arrived much earlier on the blog. It did not feel important to me until a few emails nudged me. Nice. I always wanted to take a picture of milk in read more…
Vella Payaru – Black eyed peas in a jaggery based sweet

When we cook black-eyed-peas in a sweet roast, we call it ‘vella payaru’. It literally translates as ‘jaggery with black eyed peas’. This is the offering I made today as prasad or bhog. It is a very tasty dish, and gets done in minutes. Since I am blogging a dish every day, I am read more…
Carrots, leek and zucchini soup

Me: “H, do you know where your pink jacket is?” Jr.H: “I gave it you to store it somewhere till the next Winter.” We try to flaunt our winter wear as much as possible in that one week of chill that December provides and then store them neatly till the next year. Officially we do read more…
Step by step making of Arachhu utta sambar – Lentils & vegetables in tamarind, coconut sauce

(The meanings to the italiced words are given at the end of the post. It would have been blasphemous to replace those words with translations for they would not have done justice to the meanings they convey in Tamil). Aracchu utta sambar Though Arachhu rhymes with Machu-Picchu, it is not a place. It is just read more…