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Today's recipe can be made by kids too.  You just need 3 ingredients and a sweet treat is ready for you and your kids. Great  snack  for parties, specially for kids parties.  This simple and delicious recipes goes to the 2nd day, week 4  of BM 59 under the theme Kids Delight- Party Pleasers ( finger foods). Ingredients: Fresh Strawberries 5 Semi sweet Chocolate chips 1/4 cup Sprinklers of your choice Preparation: Wash and pat dry fresh strawberries. In a microwave safe bowl add chocolate chips and run it for 15 seconds. Give it a stir and dip each strawberry into it, so that half of the strawberry is coated with chocolate. Add some sprinklers on top. Let the strawberries rest for sometime so that the chocolate dries up completely. You can even refrigerate  them for few minutes. Serve. Check to see what my fellow bloggers are cooking for BM 59. Also sending this recipe to Srivalli's  Kids event hosted by Priya Srinivasan for this month.

Today we are starting with the final week for BM 59 and most importantly we are in the last week of the year 2015. Soon we are going to enter into New Year with new goals and resolutions.  We have started our celebrations  with Christmas Eve Party in our apartment complex. Me along with another 5 families wanted to give a surprise party to our kids today. We had potluck party with lots of yummy food. I choose to bake cupcakes which are kids all time favorite.  Wanted to make these cupcakes in a healthy version  so I have used Whole wheat flour instead of regular all purpose flour. This recipe goes to the first day of week 4 of BM 59 under the theme Kids Delight- Party Pleasers (finger food).  Ingredients: Whole wheat  flour / All purpose flour 1 1/2 cup Cocoa powder 1/2 cup Powdered sugar 2 cups Baking soda 2 tea spoons Salt 1/4 tea spoon Vegetable oil 1/2 cup Mixed fruit Jam  2 spoons Vanilla essence 2 spoons Water 1 1/2 cup Chocolate chips 1/2 cup Pr...

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 ...

 As the Christmas holidays are approaching kids are making their plans for their play dates and sleep overs.  Kids love to have cookies, chips  and chocolates and what not. Being a stay home mom, I always love to cook something exciting and new for my kids. Not only me but I guess most of the mom's  feel very happy when your kids and family  love and appreciate your food. Saw this easy and delicious butter cookies recipe in one of my friends place and wanted to give it a try. With few modifications made these Butter cookies with a touch of pistachio flavor. My kids are picky eaters and not  a big fan of eat nuts in their daily diet. So I have added some pistachio powder to the cookie mixture, believe me or not kid's didn't even know that I have added some nuts to the cookies. Now these are a big hit in my house. Today we are starting with BM 59, last marathon  for the year 2015. Starting this months Marathon with a special theme called "Holiday Bakes"....

Today's recipe is one of the simplest recipe which can be made in no time. Just roast the masala ingredients make a powder, combine with rice and cook. Found this interesting recipe in Sanjay Thumma's Vahrehvah.com Very simple and flavorful dish with very few ingredients. If you have any left over rice from the previous day or got bored of having the same old rice and curry for lunch. Make this flavorful dish and enjoy  your dinner. This recipe goes to the 3rd and final post for BM 58 under the theme " Rice Dishes". Here are the ingredients and the  procedure for the dish... Ingredients: Bell peppers 2 Cooked rice 3 cups Udad dal / black gram 1 spoon Cinnamon stick 1 inch Cumin seeds 1/2 spoon Mustard seeds 1 spoon Coriander seeds 1 spoon Dry red chilies 4 Roasted peanuts 3 spoons Curry leaves 10 Oil  5 to 6 spoons Preparation: In a small pan heat 1 spoon oil and add cumin seeds and udad dal (black gram). On low to medium flame fry till  cumin splutters, add coriande...

I am a big fan of spicy food, specially when it comes to Chinese and South Indian food. Made this dish couple of month ago when my family was craving for Chinese food. Kids wanted noodles, so made hakka noodles for them and Spicy Schezwan Fried fried rice us me and hubby dear. As I had some Cauliflower in my fridge, made Gobi Manchuria along with  sweet corn soup to make it a complete Indo-Chinese meal. Schezwan Fried Rice is a Indo-Chinese dish, which I made with home made Schezwan Sauce. If this sauce is ready and handy to you in your refrigerator you can make this spicy and delicious fried rice with in few minutes.Very easy to make with very few ingredients.I have  made this a veg version, but you can also add cooked chicken, eggs, shrimp and any other meat too. This is  the perfect dish for lunch or dinner who loves to have spicy food. Here goes this dish to the 2nd day, Week 4 of BM 58 under the theme "Rice Dishes". I ngredients: Long grain rice / Basmathi rice 2 cu...

Today we are starting with 4th week of Blogging Marathon 58. My theme for the week is "Rice Dishes".  From savory items to sweet dishes there are thousands of recipes which we can think of making with rice. Rice is widely consumed staple food for large part worlds human population, specially in Asia. Rice is cooked by boiling or steaming. Rice is cooked plain and served with any vegetable curry or Non veg curry. Rice is also cooked along with some vegetable, meat and fish with some spices to flavor to the  rice. They are either called Pulao, Pilaf or Biryani. For day 1, am here with Sindhi Style Chicken Dum Biryani.  Rice is layered along with chicken curry which is cooked with some spices and potatoes. Biryani is one of our family favorite and made at least twice or thrice a month. This recipes goes to BM 58, Week 4, day 1. Ingredients: Chicken 1 kg / 2 lbs Onion 1 large Tomato 2 medium Potato large 3 Ginger garlic paste 1 1/2 spoon Green chili 3 Mint leaves 1/2 cup Cila...