Breakfast

Puri or Poori is a popular breakfast all over India and  we,GSB’s prepare it with potato bhaji more often.This is a very common recipe so I delayed it till now.But I felt my blog is incomplete without this famous dish.There are lot of combos served with puri like puri-sagoo,puri-kurma,puri-chana masala ,Puri-shrikand,Puri-Aamras etc.But the fast moving combo is Puri -bhaji.I will update ... Read More »

Hot cross buns!Yes, buns or Mangalore buns is my all time favourite snack.My Mamama used to prepare the best buns,miss it so badly.She used to always prepare it for my sake whenever we used to visit her on Saturdays.Whenever she  used to ask my wish to eat,my answer would be always” Buns” and only “Buns”.She used to serve it with ... Read More »

As I said in my earlier post that many dishes may be prepared with the leftover idli’s and Idli roast is one of it and also fast moving with the kids especially.This batch of idli I deep fried.You may also pan fry if you are health conscious.This is again an easy peasy recipe nothing much to do here.Whenever I visit ... Read More »

Idli is our permanent Sunday breakfast. Or else we prepare similar breakfast from idli family like Khotto,Mudo etc.Yes, 90% of the GSB’s prepare it as Sunday breakfast I can say.I follow my Amma’s recipe which she prepares with Idli rawa which gives a very good result. Idli is very easy to prepare provided you have idli moulds,high quality Black gram dal(urad) and an electric grinder. Definitely you ... Read More »

I adapted this rotti  recipe from Shyamala Kini  akka,admin of a food group named as Konkani Amchi Food,where I got the exposure to exhibit my culinary talent for the first time in my life.She has very innovative recipes and they are so tempting that one cannot resist without trying the same.I have bookmarked most of her recipes which I will ... Read More »

Chole is a popular North Indian dish  or a Punjabi delicacy famous all over the world.It is mostly served with Bhatura.If it is served as a breakfast,it will be  a heavy breakfast and  is mostly accompanied with a glass of Lassi. I prepared Chole bhatura for brunch this Sunday.I had this recipe in my folder which I had prepared long back,so I’m not sure whether its my own recipe ... Read More »

Bhatura reminds me of my collage days,where my friend Amitha used to get it in her tiffin for lunch along with Chole ofcourse and we friends used to gobble it up during the class hours.I took the recipe from Amitha’s mom and made my Amma also to prepare it and she did prepare it often after that.I used to relish ... Read More »

My husband had brought lots of ripe Mangoes from our factory garden and ever since my daughter saw that she wanted to eat Maavinkayi chitranna desperately.Immediately I called up Santoshi and asked the recipe and it seemed to be so easy peasy and I had some leftover rice in the fridge which I had prepared for Veg schezwan fried rice ... Read More »

Feels like singing hey Macarena song. Well I prepared this for our yesterday nights dinner and today it went for my sons tiffin too,so this can be had as a breakfast,lunch or dinner,choice is yours..My kids love pasta in any form,so I wanted to prepare something different.I used to prepare this often for my husbands tiffin since he prefers Indian food. Ingredients: ... Read More »

Avarekalu means  Lilva beans as  in English,Surti papdi as  in Hindi and the Kannada name is Avarekalu. Lilva beans is abundant during winter  and now we find it Mangalore very easily.When we were kids my Papas sister used to send it across to Mangalore from Shimoga in whole lots during the season since they had, have their own bus(public transport)….It is very ... Read More »