Cream Cheese Frosting
Looking for a fantastic cream cheese frosting that tastes great and is also better for your health and the environment? Well, look no further!
Author: Lekshmi Radhakrishnan
Easy Tips For a Greener Holiday Season
During the holiday season, between Thanksgiving and New Year’s day, the amount of waste we generate increases by a whopping 25%. That equates to an extra million tons each week in the form of food waste, shopping bags, bows, ribbons, packaging, and wrapping paper, to …
Sambar Masala Powder
You’ll never go back to store-bought sambar masala powder after you give this a try! You can make it in bulk and store it in an airtight container for ease.
Roadtrip to Yellowstone & Grand Teton
This year has been rather unsettling, to say the least. We have been staying completely isolated especially since my Mom lives with us and she falls into the high-risk category because of her age. If that wasn’t bad enough the smoke blanketing Seattle from the …
Split Chickpeas Pudding | Kadala Pradhaman
Kadala Pradhaman is hands down everyone’s favorite Kerala dessert in this house and it makes an appearance for every single sadya we make throughout the year! If you’re a chickpeas lover like us, I guarantee you’ll be a fan too. Mashed split chickpeas is simmered …
Vermicelli Pudding | Seviyan Kheer | Semiya Payasam
This is quite possibly the easiest and quickest Indian dessert. Roasted vermicelli is cooked in milk, cardamom, and sugar, then garnished with roasted cashews and raisins. Typically payasams from Kerala are made with coconut milk and sweetened with coconut sugar. This particular one is not …
Cucumber Pulissery | Vellarikka Pulissery
Diced cucumbers in spiced coconut and yogurt-based curry. Pulissery is typically served last during a sadhya when my stomach is ready to burst at the seams so I usually end up not eating it. But I do love it as a casual every other week …
Ash Gourd & Black-Eyed Peas Curry | Olan
One of my friends who tried olan for the first time said, ” It tastes like a bowl full of love!” Yeap, that pretty much sums it up. Black-eyed peas and ash gourd or winter melon are simmered in coconut milk and seasoned ever so …
Kerala Vegetable Medley| Avial
Avial is an original from Kerala. It’s Kerala’s very own unique vegetable medley. Veggies are layered, steam cooked, and enrobed in a mixture of spiced grated coconut and luxurious coconut oil. A sadhya is just not complete without this on the upper right-hand corner of …