Capsicum Chutney

Today we are beginning the second week of Blogging Marathon #34. I will be posting under Cooking With Capsicum for the three days. Whenever I see capsicum in store, I buy it. I add it in all my recipes as it adds a nice colour and taste to the final dish. I love the mild taste it gives to the dishes. This chutney is one of the dishes I make with capsicum. It goes well with idlis and dosas.  I have used only two green chillies so that even my daughter can enjoy this chutney. Feel free to use as many chillies you want.  I paired with solam / Jowar dosai and it was very tasty. It is quite easy to make. Today is the first Sunday of the month and I am also linking this post to Lets Brunch on Sundays

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Eggless Orange Tutti Frutti Cake

This cake has been in my draft folder for so long. When I saw this recipe at Srivalli's Blog during the A-Z Blogging Marathon, I book marked it and made it for the next month's Cooking From Other Blog theme. But as I opted out of that Blogging Marathon, this has been lying in my drafts since then. The texture came out very different from Srivalli's cake but it tasted very delicious. The orange flavour was so strong and the tutti frutti added a nice colour and crunch to the cake. I served it topped with the caramel syrup. Never forget to mix the tutti frutti with flour, otherwise all the tutti frutti will sink to the bottom of the cake. 

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Diwali Special - Round up and Winner Announcement

Last month I announced a Special event for Diwali. I hope the recipes in the collection would be very helpful for your upcoming celebrations. Though this Diwali is over, there are many more festivals to come and this list would be an online cook book for many of you including me. There are 85 delicious sweets and savouries in this list and I hope you enjoy the same. And it is time for the announcement of winner in this event. I selected a lucky winner using random number generator. It is entry number 78 - Ragi Ribbon Pakoda from Nandoos Kitchen. Congratulations Nandoo. Please mail me your Indian address along with the phone number to gayathriraani@gmail.com to claim the gift.. 

Pear and Apple Crumble

For the third day of cooking with fruits, in the Blogging Marathon, I made this delicious crumble combining apple and pear. I have become so lazy nowadays. I tend to prepare for any event on the final day and at the last minute I blog about it. Though I am not missing any of the events, I am making my life very hectic with this type of activity. I need to plan every thing beforehand to avoid such situations. For the past two days, I am sort of depressed. Our jet pump, the only source of water stopped working and I have been living on the stored water for the past two days. After so many calls to the electrician, he is still busy and I am still depressed. It is raining heavily and from morning there was a power shut down. So all my plans to make the crumble in the morning crashed heavily. I thought of skipping the post today but I didn't want to do it. And finally power was retained at 3 pm and I started working on my crumble. It is quite easy to prepare the crumble. With very little water left, I have accumulated a pile of dishes in the sink and this crumble added some more to it. It took just 45 minutes to get the crumble out of the oven and finally I am enjoying the rain with the hot crumble. I am missing out on the ice cream but it is OK. After 2 days, I am little happy now for the crumble turned out delicious. The top was crunchy and the inside was gooey. I thought of adding chocolate chips to the topping but while working on the topping, I completely forgot about it. Next time I will be adding some chocolate chips to make it more delicious...

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Nutty Pear and Carrot Salad

For today's Blogging Marathon with the theme Cooking with Fruits - I made this simple yet satisfying sald pairing the pears with carrot and nuts. When you crave for some snacks in the evening but do not want to stack up calories, this salad would be a wonderful choice. It takes just 5 minutes to make this salad and is very light on your tummy. If you want you can also chill it and serve it with a scoop of ice cream for a rich dessert. The addition of honey gives the sweetness and the black pepper and cumin powder give the punch. My hubby liked it very much and I was happy to have served it...

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Eggless Pear Upside Down Cake

After a month long gap I am back in the Blogging Marathon. This is the Blogging Marathon #34 and I will be doing all the four weeks. For the first week, it is cooking with fruits. I chose Pear as the fruit and I am posting the very first recipe made with pear. As mentioned in my earlier post, I celebrated my birthday before two days. And for that I made this soft delicious cake with a nice caramel soaked pear topping. It has been my dream to try out upside down cake and it came true with this cake. Upside down cake is one in which the fruit layer is arranged at the bottom of the cake tin and the batter is poured on top. After baking the cake is flipped up side down and the fruits will become the topping. Caramel is added at the fruit layer and it gives a nice finish to the cake. I saw so many pear upside down cake recipes but finally went with my usual cake recipe. This recipe is best when done in a 9" or 10" pan. As I didn't have one I made it in an 8" pan and I was so nervous while it was in oven. But due to luck, the batter didn't over flow and it saved my day. The cake turned out so soft, moist and delicious. The caramel soaked pears were so soft and just melted in the mouth. We all loved the cake so much and Sruti was double happy as I made this for my birthday. 

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Winner of WTML October and Announcement of WTML November

Walk Through Memory Lane was started to bring out all those childhood memories and recreating them. This event has been successfully running for nearly two years and thanks to all the bloggers who have guest hosted the event and made it successful. Every month a lucky winner is chosen and is awarded with a cook book from a famous chef/ author. Last month's guest host Asiya of My Healthy Happy Kitchen has done a wonderful job in hosting the event and she is even ready with the round up. But lazy me, because of so many preparations going on for Diwali, I couldn't get enough time to draft this post. Let me first announce the winner of October event before going to the November announcement.I selected an entry from the 148 total entries received using random number generator. It is entry number 27-Paruppu Chutney by Sathya Priya of My Kitchen Odyssey. Congrats Sathya Priya. Please contact me with your Indian address and telephone number to claim the book by Sanjeev Kapoor.

And now coming to this month's host, Shailaja of Sahasra's Recipes is hosting the event this month. Please visit her page for more details and linking up your entries.. For this month the book I have chosen for the giveaway is The Pondicherry Kitchen by Lourdes Tirouvanziam-Louis. Please send in your entries and get a chance to win this wonderful book full of Pondicherry's Authentic recipes.