Peppa Pig Cake

It was lil A's best friends birthday today and I baked and decorated this peppa pig cake which is his favorite cartoon character for his party.This was my first attempt on Fondant cake and fondant figurine(peppa pig) ,I am glad that everybody liked the cake and appreciated my effort. I am pretty new in Cake decoration and lil A's birthday cake was my first attempt on cake decoration and ever since few of my friends encouraged me to take it up seriously and I thought of even attending a cake decorating course but the price of the courses were too expensive so I gave up the idea and thought of learning it myself. So here I am presenting my first fondant cake !! I made the peppa pig with fondant so it was edible and soft unlike the one which we make with Sugar paste,so kids at the party wanted a share of their favorite pig too.

Cheese and veg omlette

Wishing you all a Happy Holi !!

I miss all the vibrant Holi festival that we had when we used to live in Pune,the whole flat used to come down and paint each other in colours and if somebody decides to stay home and not get messy they were wrong,the gang used to hunt such people ,ring the bell and pour colours on them...it was nothing but pure fun !

Lil A is down with chicken pox ,so I am pampering him with all the food that he likes , and this cheese omlette is one of his favourite,to make it more healthier I add some spinach and carrot aswell.

Ingredients

Egg - 2 nos
Onion- half of a small onion
Spinach - 1 full ( cereal) bowl
Carrot - 1 small
Cheese slice -1
Salt
Pepper

Preparation

1. Roughly chop the spinach and cook them in saucepan until slightly wilted.
2.Grate carrot,chop the onions and cheese.
3.Break 2 eggs in a bowl and beat it slighltly,add wilted spinach,grated carrot,cheese and chopped onions.Season it with salt and pepper.
4. In a nonstick pan add some oil and pour the egg mixture and cook it covered until done.

Chocolate Mocha Cupcake , A guest post for Good Food !!

My first guest post ever..I m so thrilled !! Sobha is one of my close friend in virtual world with a wonderful blog Good Food.Those who havent been to her space please take a peek,She has a good collection of vegeterian recipes and eggless cakes ! Her eggless oats muffin, guacamole and Avacodo milk shake which I tried was simply delcious :)

Chocolate Mocha cake is now one of my favourite cake,Eventhough I made it for the first time for the guest post after that I have already tried 2 more times as we all love the flavour :)The taste of coffee is subtle in this but it kind of enhances the taste of plain chocolate cake.

please find the recipe here.

Once again thanks to Sobha for giving me this opportunity and passing me an award for participation.

Mussels fry/ Kallummakayi porichathu

Being from Malabar in Kerala, Mussels is something that I grew up eating a lot,and like me most of the people in Malabar will go crazy for this shell fish.Eventhough we get Mussels here in U.K it doesnt taste good like the Mussels that we get back home and the size of it is too small compared to the one that we get back home.Like prawns,we get cooked and ready to use Mussels in supermarkets here,but it doesnt have much flavour ,so once in a while when we crave for this very badly we pick up live mussels from Fish mongers.
This weekend I picked up a whole bunch of it . Me and S had fun cleaning and cooking it.We prepared a whole lot of Arikadukka /Stuffed mussels which is a malabar speciality, and the rest I used for this fry.

Ingredients

Mussels - 50 nos
Redchilly powder - 1 1/2 tbs
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt

Preparation

1.Clean the mussel's shells and remove any dirt outside the shell.
2. In a vessel add a little water and add the mussels and cook it covered for 5 minutes or until shells are open.
3.Remove the shell and take the flesh.
4.Marinate it with masalas and shallow fry it.

Tandoori Chicken wings

Vahreh chef has inspried me to cook many of his recipes and none of the recipes that I tried from him has let me down.This recipe is from him and this always turns out good.You can find his recipe video here.

Ingredients

Chicken wings- 500gm
Kashmiri redchilly powder - 1 tbs
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tbs
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder- 3/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tsp
Yogurt - 2 tbs
Lime juice - 1 tbs
kasoori methi powder - 1 tsp
Salt
Oil - 2 tbs

Preparation

1.Marinate the chicken wings with all the ingredients and keep it atleast for 1-2 hrs or preferably overnight.
2.Place them in a preheated oven at 180 degree centrigrade for 25 - 30 minutes,turning the sides halfway through.

Kerala Egg roast

Spring is not that far and I am totally enjoying the day lights now, When I open my kitchen windows I can hear the birds chirping and singing which is so soothing and somehow it brings some nostalgic feelings of home !! Last week on our visit to Supermarket we saw a isle dedicated to spring cleaning items and we too picked up few things, so this weekend we did some spring cleaning to welcome spring and summer :)

Like I said last week, todays post is Kerala Egg roast which is one of my favourite side dish with appam,chapathy,Godambu dosha etc

Ingredients

Eggs - 3 no

Onion -3

Tomato - 2

Ginger -1 tbs (minced)

Green chillies - 2

Red chilly powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder -1 tbs

Chicken Masala- 1 tbs

Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves

Salt

Oil

Preparation

1. Boil eggs. Remove the shell and slice each egg into 2 halves.

2. In a saucepan add some oil and sputter fennel and cumin.

3. Add chopped onions and saute till soft and brown.

4. Add curry leaves, greenchillies, ginger and saute for 1-2 minutes.

5. Add chopped tomatoes and all the spice powders and cook until tomatoes are cooked.

6. Add the sliced eggs and mix carefully .

Wheat Dosa/ Godhambu dosha

Yet another chilly week passed by and this time we got a little bit of snow again and we all enjoyed it and the best part was that snow melted away quickly without becoming slush or ice !!

To continue with the last week happenings,I grew one more year old last week and I had a great day. S who never surprise me gave me a surprise gift that morning later that afternoon I had a great lunch with my friends in a Italian resaturant and in the evening S came home early and cooked a special dinner which was absolutely yummy !! The lunch I had with my friends was in an Italian restaurant and it was simply the best Italian food I had in a long time.

I took a pic of my lunch to show S and make him drool which you can find below :)

Also you can find the Snow in our Flat's garden, I was too lazy to go down and take a picture , so I clicked this one from my window :)

I think thats enough of blabbering for now,coming to today's recipe ,its wheat dosa which was a regular in my home and even in my hubby's home and you can fix this dosa without pre planning , soaking, grinding etc.This dosa goes well with Kerala egg roast which I realised that I have never uploaded here,so my next post will be Kerala Egg roast :)

Here goes the dosha recipe.

Ingredients

Wheat Flour (Atta) - 2 1/2 cup

Water - 3 1/4 - 3 1/2 cup

Salt

Oil for greasing the pan

Preparation

1,In a mixing bowl mix wheat flour, water and salt . Break all the lumps with fingers.

(the batter shouldnt be too thick or too thin)

2.Heat a nonstick pan on medium heat and grease it with little oil.Pour one ladle of batter and spread it to circle.Cook it uncovered.

3.Flip the side over and cook for few seconds.

Sending this to Kerala Kitchen at Roshan's cucina

Also to Just for Fun at Good food.