Chicken Curry ~ Perfect for both bread and rice

I still haven't forgotten how wonderful that Appam and Chicken curry tasted that I had from Kairali restaurant at Bangalore. It was on my first visit to that restaurant. I have been to the same place several times and have had different dishes from their menu, but Appam and chicken curry is the first thing that comes to my mind when I speak of Kairali.

I am so glad that I came across this recipe. Now I can make and have it whenever I feel like, rather than just drool over the thoughts of the chicken curry that I had years ago. So here is how you should go about making it if you feel like having a chicken curry with a thick and rich gravy with Appam, Puttu, Bread, Rice, Chapathi or Kerala Parotta.

Get away to the Fountain Hills!

With no tight schedules/agenda for the hot and sunny long weekend, our lazy souls made us stick around within the four walls of our house. When nature surprisingly brought in some clouds, giving us a better weather to enjoy outdoors, we couldn't let it go waste.

A drive to the Fountain Hills was nostalgic as it brought down memories of picnics that we used to have as kids by the lake side.

Strawberry Smoothie

It has been a long time since I posted something here. Not that I didn't want to, but was left with no choice. I got few warts removed from my fingers on my right hand. All I was left with was my little finger without bandages. Like how we say in malayalam Vellukan thechathe pande ayi - I now see that saying coming true. I shouldn't have messed with the painless/harmless warts, else it would have been so easy to type out this post using both hands. I did not think that through !

                            

Last week when I got so hungry and figured out that it is gonna take me a lot of time to serve and have food with my left hand, I chose to have this strawberry smoothie to calm down my hunger a little before I go for lunch. Surprisingly, these were so filling and refreshing that I was left with no room for lunch.

Homemade Puff Pastry and Chicken Puffs

During my hostel days, I remember that my parents/brother/uncle/aunt whoever visited me, a package from the bakery would come along with them. In that package, puffs would be one of the things. It used to be one thing that you take with you when you are visiting family members / having a tea party / having a bride viewing at home etc. etc.

I have noticed the current generation have a different trend these days. They would rather prefer fried chicken, burgers, hot dogs, pizza... Since the demand for puffs has gone down, the bakeries tend to make only a hand full of them and only the early birds get lucky. So, it had been a while that we had them. 

Fruit Salad ~ Beat the Heat !

When we moved from the freezing Salt Lake City to the oven roasted city of Phoenix, my friends(Pallavi and Gowri) here, had just one tip to share - stay cool. Esp. for us, since it was snowing while we left SLC and in an hour and half we were into this hot land. People say its the best weather here but oh boy, for us its super hot. I don't even wanna guess what we would go through during summer here.

Well, as per the tips shared we have been making a conscious attempt to keep ourselves cool and have been religiously feeding ourselves with fruit salads, shakes and vegetable salads - yeah, I know its kind of very unusual for pure non vegetarians like us. But I am loving it :) .