My Food Journey

Home-Made Nuts powder is something which I have been making since Jeremy was a 9 month old. Initially to introduce nuts, I used to powder each nut separately (one day each) and mix with every food. As he grew older I realized he hates whole nuts especially Almonds and Pistachios. Cashews are still ok with him provided they are salted ones. But still he wasn't consuming much. Thats when I decided to continue making the essential and important nut powder. He hates the fact that nuts or chunky powder has been added and just rejects the whole meal even though its tasty and likes it. But this fine nut powder is a winner and I add it up in almost everything on a daily basis.  So this nut powder is perfect for fussy kid like mine or if you just wanna introduce nuts to your kids diet, this is a good solution. Its pretty simple and fuss free.   The powder is suitable for babies over 8 months, but before you feed this to your baby, make sure that baby has already tried the powdered vers...

Making paneer at home is very easy. Its definitely has better taste and freshness than the store bought ones.  I always used to buy paneer from outside since I used to think that's the easy way. Well I do buy even now sometimes when I need them urgently, but the homemade soft malai paneer is the one I prefer over store bought  With just two ingredients you get this soft fresh cheese which is made by curdling milk using am acidic food ingredient. In brief - milk is boiled, then curdled with an acidic ingredient. This curdled milk solids are then drained onto a cheese cloth, and then pressed with a heavy object to set (this is optional)  Ingredients : Full fat milk - 4 cups or 1 liter Lemon juice - 3 tbsp approx.  Method:  First add the milk in a sauce pan. Keep it on a medium low flame and bring it to boil.  In the meantime , keep the colander  lined with cheese cloth and the lemon juice ready.  Once the milk starts to boil, turn off the heat ...

These make an amazing snack for that instant energy boost. These bite-sized Apricot- Dates Energy Bites are also healthy snack that’s tasty too!. These stay great for a week in fridge. Perfect for sweet tooth cravings, post work out energy. These amazing Apricot-Date Energy Bites are nutrient rich, ridiculously delicious, sugar-free and gluten-free little beauties! And they are so, so easy to make – just let the food processor or blender do all of the work! 😀 A healthy protein packed snack perfect as a post- workout snack and you can tuck these beauties in kids lunchbox.They taste more like dessert than a healthy protein bite. They also make a great dessert when you are craving something sweet! 🤪😋 Things you would need for these cute lil bites -15 dried apricots -6 -8 medjool dates -1/4 cup almond meal -1/4 cup desicated coconut -1 tbsp coconut oil -Blender or food processor. Method: Add everything in blender and process till it's all combined. Cover these in Coconut flak...

This is a very simple coconut chutney which you can combine with rice or  Dosa ,  Appam and Idli's . Its pretty simple to make with few ingredients. Ready in 5 mins. I usually make this when I have no time to make an elaborate side dish, but still need something to have my rice with; this is perfect side dish for those lazy days. Lets see how its done:  You can check out other quick chutney / sides  Here .  Ingredients:  1 cup shredded coconut 2-3 Dried red chillies 1/2 onion roughly chopped 1/2 inch ginger roughly chopped 2 teaspoon coconut oil 1/2 tsp Kashmiri Red chilli (optional) Salt to taste Method:  Add coconut oil in a pan. Once hot add red dry chillies, onion and chopped ginger to it. Saute for about 5 mins Take off the flame and in a mixer jar add in 1 cup coconut.  Add in the onion/dry red chilli mix along with some salt Pulse it for 2 mins and crush everything in mixie.  Your delicious coconut chutney is ready to be served Notes:...

Since we all going through a quarantine life and every one is working from home along with their family duties, I am sure every mom must be finding it extremely difficult and tiring to start cooking e from scratch along with engaging kids, and other daily chores. So today as I was reading some of my favourite bloggers, I got to know about a quick hack which you can make in advance and keep for 2 to 3 weeks. This reduces efforts and also allows us have ample time for other things. We talking about bhuna masala which is the base in most of our Indian curries. This recipe is inspired by a food blogger I follow. You can check out her blog  here .  So lets get started Ingredients :  3 Tbsp oil 1Tbsp Jeera or cumin seeds               750 gms onions- cut into chunks  50 gram s Garlic⁠- peeled cloves 50 gram s Ginger⁠- roughly chopped 4 – 5  Green Chillies  (adjust to taste) 1  kg Tomatoes- cut into ch...