TANDOORI CHICKEN 

Tandoori Chicken

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My Son's favorite Tandoori chicken ............When ever I do this recipe my son used to stay in kitchen till it get baked................ This chicken was something special after watching  KONG FU PANDA  he wanted me to make the chicken look like lifting its hand like panda in that movie ............ at last I succeeded to some extent  he was satisfied too..............

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PONGAL

PONGAL

When we were kids myself and my bro both were fans of Lalli's amma Pongal.............. during pongal Aunty will give more of her sweet pongal to our house as she knew about me and my bro........ the combination of  sweet pongal with this vadai used to awesome ........ hot peppery taste and sweet pongal make us drooling ........... after marriage I started doing on every Pongal festival day.......... as my hubby prefers ven pongal than  sweet pongal I cook it with sambar and chutney for him ......... but today display is for u Bro  on this Pongal day enjoy!!!!!!!!

HAPPY PONGAL TO ALL MY FRIENDS.........

Sweet Pongal, Ven Pongal and Pepper vadai

INGREDIENTS:

Raw rice                           - 1 cup

Split yellow moong dal    - 1/2 cup

Salt                                   - to taste

TEMPERING INGREDIENTS:

Cumin Seeds                    - 2 tsp 

Whole Black Pepper        - 1 tsp 

Curry leaves                     -  15

finely chopped ginger      - 3 tbsp

Asafoetida Powder          - 1/2 tsp 

Ghee                             - 4  tbsp

Oil                                 - 2 tbsp

METHOD:

Dry roast moong dhal until slightly browned, set aside with raw rice. You can soak rice and dal for 30mins.  Pressure cook rice, moong dhal and salt with 4 cups of water for 3-4 whistles until mushy.

Take a frying pan first add a tsp of  ghee and fry the cashews, set aside. 

In the same pan add a tbsp of ghee and  oil  when hot add  cumin seeds,  pepper, asafoetida and curry leaves then add the chopped ginger saute a little. 

Add it to cooked rice...add the cashew too and mix it well....

Ven Pongal is ready to taste........ Serve it with sambar and coconut chutney ......

SAKKARAI PONGAL RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:

 Raw rice             -1 Cup

Split Moong dal      -1/4 Cup

Jaggery              -2 Cups

  

Milk                 -1 Cup 

Cardamom powder      -1/2 pinch

Cashews              - a handful

Ghee                 - 7 tbsp 

Water                - 2 Cups

Wash the rice well and set aside and roast the moong dal for a few minutes until aromatic.

Boil milk in the cooker then  add the rice and dal along with the water and pressure cook for 2 to 3 whistles.

Melt the jaggery adding very little water and strain the liquid  to remove impurities in it.

Open the cooker and add the jaggery to it.

Mix it well and cook for some more time with the lid open in low flame.add 3 tbsp of ghee to it.

Heat the remaining ghee and fry the cashews until golden brown and add it to cooked  Pongal along with  cardamom powder .

Close the lid and let it sit for a few minutes before serving.

Yummy Sakkarai Pongal is ready to taste.........

Teacher's Day Cards

These cards were made  my son for his Teachers on Teacher's day [Sep - 1]........... I helped  to paste the lace...................

CHOCO ICING CAKE

This Icing cake was decorated my Son himself  on his birthday ............. As he is a learner using icing cone he was so happy writing of his own with shaking hands................... 

Chocolate Icing Cake

Chocolate Icing 

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MY LOVELY ROSE BUNCH..................

I made this rose bunch with  buds .......... But.............My Son on seeing this started bullying me saying "How come you rose plant yielding PINK CHILIES " ............. Yes now when ever  I see them I too feel like pink chilies hanging below............... Anyway Iam not going to change it becos if I wish to change it I feel I would make it worse ........... ........... so left it as it is .....................

MY OLD BUTTERFLY

MY OLD BUTTERFLY


I made this butterfly a few years ago...............

My Old Doily

MY CUTE BUTTERFLIES

MY CUTE BUTTERFLIES


This is  my recent work .............. I have an idea of transferring these butterflies as my hair clips............

BOOTIES WITH BEADS

BOOTIES WITH BEADS


Booties which I made before  were just simple in look. This time I decide to make something different from  my previous work. When I got to see this booty in a library book I decided to do it and to my surprise the out come was far better than the book model. The color combination was my choice [book model was blue and pink ]

CLOCK WITH POPSICLE AND POLYMER CLAY WORK..........

CLOCK WITH POPSICLE AND POLYMER CLAY WORK..........

 I had some ice cream Popsicle and polymer modelling clay [which was a left over of my son's project work]. I bought a clock in a budget shop. Thinking of doing some craft work I got an idea of  giving the clock an upgraded look with the things I had................. hmmmmmmm............. the finished work was satisfying to me.................

Ice-cream Popsicle 

Polymer modelling clay Rose with leaves

Upgraded Clock

NAN KHATAI COOKIES

NAN KHATAI  COOKIES

Nan Khatai cookies brings me the nostalgic days................Those days  my Mum do Nan Khatai  cookies at home of which I used to eat more than my siblings .............. I longgggggggg for my Mum's cooking ...........So I decide to do it by myself with the recipe my mum has given me before................. Of course the outcome was quite satisfying and it was very near to my Mum's cookies...................... I made these cookies last year but could not upload it for some reason ........... Only today I found time to upload them....................


Ingredients:-


All Purpose flour / Maida - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1 stick
Baking Soda -  1/4 tsp
Salt -  1 pinch
Cardamom powder -  1 tsp (optional)

Method:

      1.  Pre-heat the oven at 150C for 10 minutes.

      2. Grease  your baking tray with butter  and set aside.

      3.  Powder the sugar along with cardamom pods.

      4.  Sieve the maida flour along with baking powder. Also sieve the powdered sugar upon maida.

      5.  Mix the flour well with your hands.

     6.  Add butter to the flour and keep mixing, first the flour becomes like crumbles. keep on adding the butter till flour comes together as a smooth pilable dough. Do this process patiently, this process takes 10 minutes.

      7. Once you get the smooth pilable dough, pinch a small ball of dough and roll it with your palms. Slightly press it with your palms, so that the ball flattens a bit. Place the flattened ball over the tray . Likewise fill the tray. Press nuts of your choice over each nankhatai.

Before baking

8.      Bake the Nankhatai in pre-heated oven at 150c for 10-12 minutes. Till the bottom of the nankhatai turns light brown in colour. Change the sides of tray in between, to ensure even baking.

After baking

 9.   Remove from the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to cooling wrack and let it cool for another 5 minutes

Ready to eat

 Tasty cookies ready to Eat.................