Ever heard of the story behind the origin of sambhar, the delicious lentil stew a jewel from the andhra kitchen? Read this interesting story at wiki. Stories apart, a couple days earlier, I posted how to make home-made sambhar powder, and do not want to leave it half complete to  my readers without posting the [...]

Does’nt matter what time of the day it is, I’m always ready for a bowl of soup and the first one I pick wherever I go is none other than “Tomato Soup”. On regular days, you will see me devour a bowl of creamy tomato soup and a french baguette on side at panera bread, [...]

I have a thousand reasons to quote why there was a delay to my new posts . Well atleast to name of few so my dear readers would be aware of, I have been busy with meetings at office, and the weekends occupied catching up with friends to watch the election results in India [...]

Summers during childhood usually passed at my grandmothers place. “Ammamma” thats how I called my granny, which means mother’s mother. She was very tender and gentle by nature and took great pleasure in feeding me while sharing memories of her childhood, her marriage with my grandfather, her days as a young bride so on and [...]

This is a simple and delicious dish that is cooked in andhra homes. There are lot more variations in cooking this dish. Today I was a bit busy with my other household chores so had to opt for a simple yet tasty recipe and here goes ….

Ingredients

Plain yoghurt/Curd - 1 cup

Water - 1/2 cup

Medium [...]

Gummadikaya, also called as squash is usually orange in color when ripe. Tastes heavenly when served along with steamed rice, mudda pappu and vadiyalu. Here is how we cook this dish.
We need….
Pumpkin - 2 cups diced (remove the seeds and cut them to cubes)
Green chillies - 3 slit into two each
Dried Red chillies - 2
Curry leaves - [...]