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 Family Time    The week passed by so fast, its already #foodiemonday #bloghop day. Our 33rd theme is #rice. When the theme was decided, I bought the ingredients to make a coconut rice pudding. But during the course of the week the rice was not used for the pudding but for vadas. When family visits, its food, food and more food. Its been really nice to have my dad, kaka, kaki and foi here. In between going out and having long chatting sessions, I try to cook something. I decided to make vadas as I wanted to make a quick but satisfying snack. Accompanied with a coconut chutney, this snack is perfect to take the edge off the nail biting  Twenty 20 cricket matches that are going on right now, to serve as breakfast, or as a side dish for a lunch or dinner. This is going to be a very short post as I have to rush out in a while. RICE VADA Makes approx 24 For the vadas : 2 cups cooked rice ½ cup finely chopped onion ¼ cup chopped coriander (dhania) 2 tbsp chickpea flour (besan, chana flour) 1

Happy Holi everyone    It's #Foodiemonday #bloghop day already. A group of 12 that post every month on different themes. We are still continuing with the Holi festival as Holi is just round the corner. Last week it was thandai based recipes and this week we are allowed to cook with a riot of colours. Choose one, two or many. I am waiting to see what my co members of this group come up with. I decided to work with 2 colours orange and red for the 32nd theme #FestivalofColors.     It had to a quick and easy recipe as I had travelled to Malindi for my Club's(Lions Club of Mombasa Bahari) medical camp.Please do check out our website  http://www.lionsbahari.com/ The sweltering heat was made bearable by the lovely cool breeze from the sea. The camp was held for 4 days where patients requiring re- constructive surgery, normal surgery were operated on. The plastic surgeon was able to repair a cleft palate for a tiny baby and the mother couldn't stop praising us. She kept on tellin

Happy Holi                   In recent years, many of the Gujarati communities in Kenya tend to organize Holi celebration functions, fun and frolic with colours, pichkaris, water filled balloons, delicious food and cool drinks. When I was growing up, I had not even heard of Holi. My first experience was when I went to school in Mt.Abu and got hit by a water filled balloon. It really hurt. Those days the balloons were filled with plain water. Now people fill them with coloured water.  I cannot remember anything special being made at home on Holi or any special celebrations. When I got married and came to Mombasa, no special celebrations were organised by most families and communities. The popularization of Indian Television series world over brought all the various festivals celebrated in North, East, South and West right to our doorsteps. With that came more families wanting to celebrate festivals like the way they are televised. Slowly the celebrations became a community event. In our

Bura na mano holi hai    Its a bit early to post Holi recipes but I've just join a new  group #Foodiemonday #bloghop. Every Monday we post a recipe based on the chosen theme. The 31st theme is #Fusionthandairecipes. Its really really hot in Mombasa and the only thing I could think of was something extra extra cold. I decided to make kulfi with my thandai masala. Taking photos was not easy as the kulfi was melting too fast.               Holi, a festival of colors is celebrated by Hindus worldwide. In India its mainly celebrated by throwing, applying, drenching friends and families with different colour powders and coloured water. The true reason for celebrating is lost in all the colour throwing, drinking and partying. In reality, the eve of Holi also known as Holika is when an effigy of Holika is burnt to celebrate the triumph of good over evil. Prahlad, a devotee of Lord Vishnu did not burn in the fire while his aunt did(who had a boon that she cannot be destroyed by fire). Ma

Chocolate Orange Swirl Buns#Bread Bakers Orangey Fragrance      Not only is the combination of chocolate and orange heavenly, lovely, delish, flavourful but the aroma is just out of this world especially when baking. When Shireen Sequeira of Ruchik Randhap  set the theme of baking with cocoa, cacao, carob in any form for the month of March, I was in a bit of dilemma. Have baked muffins, quick breads, bundt with cocoa. Don't like carob at all. So I thought of a yeast bake but using cocoa, carob or cacao in a yeast bread, I was a bit apprehensive. Will it turn out too chocolatey, or just right? So the hunt for a recipe started. I knew it had to a yeast based bake though I so desperately wanted to make a quick bread, a safer option. My search took me to smitten kitchen.com and chocolate orange swirl buns was decided on. A recipe with probably just the right amount of chocolate. The buns turned out really good with the orange and chocolate combination of flavours. I've frozen half

Recipes for Ekadashi or for Fasting day Farali rotli Farali Dokhra Buckwheat savoury pancakes Coconut barfi Raw banana and paneer kofta curry Strawberry frozen yogurt Cassava in coconut milk Farali kadhi Sabudana khichdi Sabudana kheer

Making fasting a bit more healthy       Usually when we all fast, I think we land up eating more than normal. I always find that the food we prepare for fasting is so much tastier even though we don't use many spices. Most of what we prepare during fasting is full of carbohydrates. However these are good carbs, high in soluble fiber and have low glycemic index, as long as your preparation is not fried. I don't like the fried puris that are usually prepared during fasting as I find them too oily. So a good alternative to the puri is farali theplas or even farali rotli (roti). Yes, you read right farali rotli. Delicious with whatever farali sabji you make.        Some of the healthy options for fasting and also to incorporate in your daily diet are amaranth (rajgira), buckwheat (kuttu), water chestnut (singhara), little millet (samo, sama), tapioca (sabudana, sago). Can have these in grain form or in flour form to make pancakes, parathas, uttapams, idlis, dokras, theplas etc. All