Cook's Diary

Baingan is Brinjal and this dish is more like a ‘kathirikai masiyal’ that we’ve in south India. Here we like to eat it with steamed rice w...

At our home this is one of the regular side dishes that accompany the pongal which is prepared on the day of Pongal festival. We just lo...

We both also like chutneys a lot like most south Indians, so I am keen about trying out varieties of chutney to go with idly/dosa. Yester...

Whenever the women of a family is planned to absent for some days from cooking, we have a habit of preparing thokku (pasty pickles) so th...

As Kundan is very fond of pudina I make pudina thovials frequently but I prepare pudina chutneys only for chaats. Yesterday, I had prepa...

This chutney was an instant idea that I got for dinner today; however, this combination of the ingredients is a familiar one to us as gra...