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Breakfast is the first and most important meal of the day. It is said that we have to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. The menu varies from place to place. Globally there are very wide range of preparations and ingredients that are associated with breakfast. Me being south Indian, out typical breakfast consists of idly, dosa, upma, poori etc.... Now that I am living in USA for quite sometime now, we have changed our menu to cereal, toasted bread, oatmeal, scrambled eggs etc.... I sometimes mix and match the menu and ingredients involved in it.  Today's recipe is one such mix and match dish of french toast and bread roll. I had some left over  potato which I used for making parathas. Here I will cutting the edges of bread then roll it to make it thin. Fill it with potato and fold it to dip in  beaten eggs. This dish was so delicious and filling. I served it with some sliced avocados too to make it more rich and healthy.  This re...

Cinnamon roll is a Swedish sweet roll made of yeast leavened dough. These delicious rolls are filled with ground  cinnamon and sugar. Baked and then coated with sugar frosting. In Sweden Cinnamon rolls are enjoyed during coffee break or Fika which means get together with friends. In America these rolls are served for breakfast or as a dessert. These simple yet delicious cinnamon rolls are my family favorite rolls. Try making them with your kids, they would love it I promise. This recipe is adapted from here . This recipe  goes to week 3, day 2 of  Blogging Marathon 103 under the theme " Roll and Fold for a Bun". Ingredients for dough: All purpose flour 2 cups Warm milk 1/2 cup Sugar 1/4 cup Ground Cinnamon 1 tbsp Dry active yeast 1/2 tbsp Butter 3 tbsp Large egg 1 Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp Salt 1/2 tsp Ingredients for filling: Sugar 1/2 cup Ground cinnamon 1 1/4 tbsp Butter 3 tbsp Ingredients for sugar frosting: Powdered sugar  1 cup Butter 1/4 cup Vanilla extract 1/4 ...

Today's recipe is my kids all time favorite snack. It has been on my to do list for a quite some time now. Found this simple recipe on Food Network Magazine last week. Believe me its very simple to make with just few ingredients. I have used store bought pizza dough along with some minced garlic, parsley, butter and olive oil.  Perfect snack for kids to have after school. This recipe  goes to day 3 of BM 98 under Kids Delight- School Closer - Bites / Snacks. Here goes the recipe.......   Ingredients: Pizza dough 1 lb Butter 3 tbsp Olive oil 2 tbsp Garlic cloves 3 minced Parsley minced 3 tbsp Red chili flakes 1/4 spoon Salt to taste Preparation: Cut pizza dough into 4 equal portions. Now flatten each pieces into 4 inch squares.  Cut each square into 4 strips and tie each strip  into a knot. Place a parchment paper on a baking sheet and transfer the knots onto it. Brush the knots with olive oil and cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap. Set them aside to rise...

These are quick and easy to make Nutella French Toast Roll Ups. Its a great breakfast treat or after school snack or  can be packed in a lunch box.  My kids LOVE Nutella, but they do not like french toast. This is the best way to feed picky eaters like mine with their favorite chocolate spread inside the roll ups.  This recipe goes to  day 3 of Week 2, under the theme "Cooking on Tawa". If you like you can even chop some strawberries / raspberries / banana or any other fruit and place the fruit slices on top of nutella and then roll the bread before cooking on tawa / skillet. So that your family gets some of  those extra nutrients from fruits and eggs.  Here goes the recipe....... Ingredients: Bread slices 4 Egg 1 Milk 4 spoons Sugar 4 spoons Cinnamon powder 1 spoon Nutella 1/2 cup Butter  Preparation: Cut the edges of the bread slices and keep aside. Using rolling pin roll each bread slices to become thinner. Now spread nutella on each bread slice and...

Hello friends ! Feels so good to be back, blogging after almost 2 months break. Was in India ( Hyderabad) to attend my sister's wedding, met all my relatives and friends. Feels so good to see all of them at one place  after so many years. Unfortunately couldn't meet any of the food bloggers :( Will plan to meet in the next visit for sure. Coming to blogging, today we are starting with 69th Edition of BM. My theme for this week is " Small Bites". Serving anything in a mini version / bite size. For day 1, am here with nice and crunchy Bread Vada. I must say this is healthy too as am adding lot of greens and carrots to this, specially cilantro, mint and spinach. Great snack for any party, or as a snack for lunch boxes. Here goes the recipe..... Ingredients: Bread slices 4 Chopped onions 3 spoons Chopped cilantro 2 spoons Chopped mint leaves 2 spoons Chopped Spinach 3 - 4 spoons Grated carrot 3 spoons Salt to taste Corn flour / Rice flour 3 spoons Chili powder 1/2 spoon Y...

Banana is one of my favorite fruit.  This is one of the recipe which  I  wanted to make but was keep postponing since very long time. I like the Banana Walnut bread which we get in Starbucks. Its been a while I had it. Thought why not make it at home and enjoy it with a cup of coffee. It make this bread more tasty I have added chopped dates also along with chopped walnuts.  Very simple to prepare yet healthy. This recipes goes to the 2nd day of BM 59 under the theme "Holiday Bakes" As kids wake up late during holidays and love to have their favorite food  apart from the regular rice, roti etc...I made this delicious and healthy banana  bread which they have it at any time of the day.  Here goes the recipe...........  Ingredients: Ripe banana 1 Walnuts 1/4 cup chopped Dates 1/4 chopped Melted butter 1/2 cup All purpose flour / Maida 1 cup Sugar 3/4 cup Eggs 2 Vanilla extract 1/2 spoon Pinch of salt (optional) Preparation: Mash banana in a bowl and ...

My kids are a big fan of pizza. Birthday party or a play date pizza is a must for my kids. They love it so much. I usually make pizzas in the weekend or on Friday for dinner. But today my daughter was insisting to make pizza,  it was also time for my son to come back from school, thought why not make a instant pizza with bread. Bread Pizza which can be made in no time. Just cut the veggies which you have, spread pizza sauce, throw some veggies on top and of course on pizza without cheese, so add some cheese  on top. And that's it, toast these slices in  a toaster oven or on stove top. Perfect snack for kids, nice and crispy bread with veggies and melting cheese on top.  So this recipe goes to the day 3 of BM 52 under The theme Kids Delight- Snacking all the way. Ingredients: Bread slices 4 Bell pepper ( Red and Green ) Onion small 1 Mushrooms 3 Tomato 1 small Mozzarella Cheese 1 cup Pizza Sauce 1 cup Olive oil / Vegetable oil 1 spoon Preparation: Chop or cu...

For day 3, my day started with a simple yet delicious Nasta- Bombay Sandwich. This is one of the simplest dishes to prepare for breakfast or mid day snack. Perfect to carry for picnic's  and lunch lunch boxes too. This is one of the dish which is light yet filling. Mumbai or Bombay has been my Favorite city for long time. Couldn't spend much time there but loved the city, specially the Mumbai monsoon, shopping malls, food and of course I loved the local train journey. You might be thinking what this girl likes Mumbai crowded train journey? But yes I used to enjoy them. Coming to our post, I  never had Bombay Sandwich when I was in Mumbai, but tried it recently when Srivalli announced this theme for Blogging Marathon. It is  one of the delicious  sandwiches I must say. So please try out and let me know how you liked it. Here goes the recipe.....                   ...

Today for day 3, under Restaurant menu- pick a menu card, am choose to cook  one of the most delicious snack "Bread Cutlet" from Satya Asha Restaurant.   This is one of the simplest and healthy snack which my family liked, specially kids. Bread Cutlet can be served as  evening snack, party snack  as a starter. You can use any kind of bread like whole grain, wheat or white bread. I used white bread here and just added boiled potato for binding. You can even add grated carrots, boiled peas, onions or any other vegetable which  ever you like.  Serve hot with green chutney, hot sauce or just ketchup.  Here goes the recipe..... .                                          We need: Bread slices  4 Boiled potato 1 large Chopped cilantro 1/2 cup Chopped green chili 1spoon Salt to taste Chaat masala 1 1/2 spoon Lime juice  3 spoons Italian seasoned ...

Do u want to prepare some  healthy and quick  breakfast  dish?  French Toast is one such simple and delicious breakfast recipe.French Toast also know as Eggy bread, soaked in beaten and spiced eggs and then fried. In France and Belgium French Toast is called as Pain Perdu,which means lost bread in French because its is the way to reclaim stale or lost bread. The hard bread is softened by dipping in spiced beaten eggs  and then fried in butter and dusted powdered sugar and served with jam or syrup  on the side. For day 2 ,am here to show you how to prepare French Toast. Here is the original recipe of Felicity Cloake who shows us how to prepare the perfect French Toast. We need: Large eggs 2 White bread 4 slices Butter 2 spoons Granulated sugar 2 spoons Salt to taste  Pinch of cloves  powder Pinch of mace powder Pinch of nutmeg powder Cinnamon powder 1/4 spoon Lemon zest of 1/4 lemon (optional) Plain flour  or maida 2 spoons Method: Melt dow...

Potato is one vegetable which my family loves.  As brinjal , potato is also loved by most of them around the world. I also heard that potato  skins along with honey is used as remedy for burns in India. Burn centers in India  have experimented with  the use of the thin outer skin layer to protect burns while healing. Potatoes are prepared in many ways with or without skin. Steamed or fried or baked. There are N number of recipes with potatoes. For today, end day , week 2 of BM 38, am here with potato toast / potato sandwich. Simple and delicious  snack for mid day, after school or for breakfast. Here goes the recipe.... We need: Red Potatoes 4 small Bread slices 8 Grated carrot 1/4 cup Chopped cilantro 3 spoons Chaat masala 1/2 spoon Salt to taste Green chili 1 ( optional)  Chili powder 1/2 spoon Lime juice 1 1/2 spoon Oil  or butter Method: Boil red  potatoes and mash them. You can use any kind of potatoes here.  Add chopped cilantro, grated...

 Today we are starting with 1st week of BM 35. For this week I choose to cook Dessert, which can be served warm or chilled.  Hyderabad is popular for its  Dum Biryani with Mirchi Ka Salan and  to end the meal with yummy dessert "Double ka Meetha". Double Ka Meetha is Dessert made with fried bread soaked in hot milk and sugar syrup with some dry fruits. This dessert is popular in Hyderabadi Cuisine, usually served during weddings or during Festive month of Ramadan and Eid. This rich and delicious dessert is good to serve after a spicy meal. Instead of soaking the bread in hot milk, I made rabri to to top the fried bread. Here goes the recipe.... We need: Bread slices 6 Milk 2 cups Sugar 1 cup Water 1 cup Elachi powder 1/4 sp Ghee for deep frying Dry fruits of  your choice 1/4 cup Method: Add water to sugar in  a pan to make a syrup. In a non stick pan boil 2 cups milk on medium flame to make rabri. Keep string milk in between so that it won't stick...

Today we are starting with 4th weeks theme "Breakfast on the run ".  Today's recipe is very simple yet healthy dish. We need: Bread slices 4 Eggs 2 Milk 1/4 cup Butter 1/2 sp Black pepper powder to taste Salt to taste Method: Beat eggs in a mixing bowl add milk and salt to taste. Heat pan add butter. Now add egg mixture and black pepper powder. Mix well and cook on low flame. Keep stiring till done. Add cheese if u like to. Toast bread on pan or toaster. Spread the cooked  scrambled egg mixture on toasted bread and top it with another bread. Serve hot or warm with a cup of milk. Check to see what my fellow bloggers are cooking for BM 25.