Chana Biryani | Chickpeas Biryani

Here's another easy to make lunch box recipe. My daughter does not like taking sambar rice so I try to make some sort of a variety rice for her and my husband. And this is another recipe that worked well. 
Channa is also called as chickpeas, it is very healthy so it makes a wonderful dish for kids lunchbox.
Check out the other channa recipes - chana masala, chana sundal, oven roasted chana dal.

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Mushroom Kurma

I love mushrooms, it's one of my most favorite! Every time we go grocery shopping, I never fail to pick up a couple of packets of mushroom, if it's fresh. I like to add mushrooms to everything I make. So it's easy to understand why I made a kurma with only mushrooms! I know it's a lot more healthy to make a mixed vegetable kurma but on this particular day, I wanted to enjoy the goodness mushrooms all by themselves!

This kurma tastes absolutely delicious, we truly fell in love with this dish. You can make this as a side dish for idli/dosa and roti/paratha. If your a true blue South Indian, I know you will enjoy this with rice as well! I adapted this recipe from my baby potato kurma recipe.

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Carrot Paratha

My kids love parathas, I was really surprised to find out that they like parathas, mostly because I don't like it at all! You can see that since so far, off the 300 plus recipes in my blog, I have only one paratha recipe - aloo paratha and that too my aunt made!! So when I realised my kids like it, I started making a lot of parathas and the best part of it is I get to add some vegetables along with it.
So this is a regular in my daughter's lunch box and my husband's lunch box. Since I was making this for my daughter's lunch box, I did not add any masala, you can add more masala and green chillies to make it more tasty.
You can also add some cheese to this. Check out the carrot cheese paratha.

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Double Chocolate Chip Muffins

I'm here writing my 300th post! It's an amazing feeling whenever I write a milestone post, simply because with the way life is, I'm really surprised I am able to find time to blog! But yes, I am blogging and quite actively off late! Well, I am a firm believer in celebrating with chocolate so here's a wonderful chocolaty post! 

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Corn and Peas Pulao

We love to have pulao in our house and when my aunt visited us from Delhi she made this corn and peas pulao. We loved this pulao especially the kids loved eating the sweet corn and peas. We make peas pulao regularly since it's a favorite now we have another favorite!
Check out the beetroot pulao and mushroom pulao.

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Edible Chocolate Cups with Eggless Strawberry Mousse

Valentine's day is around the corner and everywhere you turn there are red hearts and red roses! This is the day people celebrate love! We are not too big in celebrating Valentine's day, if you ask my husband he always says, everyday is valentine's day to him!! We don't go overboard celebrating this day with gifts and other cute nothings but I do make a dessert to enjoy. Actually, even that I make because I simply love to bake or make some desserts and this day is a great excuse for me to make something chocolaty!

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Keerai Sadam

Here is a nutritious lunch box recipe that you can pack for your family. I love to make this for my daughter's lunch box and it's one of the few days when the lunch box comes home empty! This is a healthy dish and greens being very rich in iron, it's a very good option for lunch boxes.
You can make this with any variety of keerai (greens), on this particular day I made it with arai keerai.

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Mashed Dal and Vegetables | Baby Food

I wanted to post some baby food recipes that I have used for my kids. These are recipes that have worked well with both my kids.
When you start weaning a baby at 6 months, it is best to start off with rice porridge/cereals. Slowly you can start including other foods too. This recipe can be started at 7 months. 

So here's the second recipe for babies. The first recipe that I posted was mashed idli and banana. This is a wholesome meal with rice, dal, greens and other vegetables. You can modify this to your needs, add more vegetables if you prefer.

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Mashed Idli with banana | Baby Food

I wanted to post some baby food recipes that I have used for my kids. These are recipes that have worked well with both my kids.
When you start weaning a baby at 6 months, it is best to start off with rice porridge/cereals. Slowly you can start including other foods too. This recipe can be started at 7 months.
This is homemade idli with banana. This makes a wholesome breakfast with idli and a fruit.

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Brownie Butter Cake

I baked this cake ages ago but just did not have time to post. It all happened on a day when my kids started hogging a store bought cake that some one had dropped off in our house. Me being someone who loves baking, just could not stand to watch them eat store bought cakes! Hence I set off to bake something for them and I had to satisfy both of them. My son likes chocolate and my daughter does not prefer chocolate so I made this cake and it worked like a charm!! 

This is truly a delicious cake with the best of both worlds! I love brownies, they are my weakness and who doesn't like a perfectly delicious butter cake! To have them both in the same piece of cake is simply divine! The brownie in this cake is so fudgy, just the way I like it and the butter cake is soft and moist making this combination utterly delicious!

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