Thursday 26 March 2015

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich/PB&J Sandwich

Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwich which is also known as PB & J sandwich is quite popular in America especially in North America. This sandwich is definitely an easiest sandwich to prepare,  which goes for a layer of peanut butter and with jelly or jam on bread. This sandwich can be prepared either as open faced sandwich without an another bread slice or simply as one slice sadnwich folded over. Its seems that this sandwich is the most favourite among the American children especially schooling going kids.

Peanutbutter & Jelly Sandwich

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Black Bean Jucy Lucy/Vegetarian Juicy Lucy Sandwich

As per wiki,"a Jucy Lucy or Juicy Lucy is a cheeseburger that has the cheese inside the meat patty in addition to on top. A piece of cheese is surrounded by raw meat and cooked until it melts, resulting in a molten core of cheese within the patty. This scalding hot cheese tends to gush out at the first bite, so servers frequently warn patrons to let the burger cool for a few minutes before consumption to avoid injury. In Lebanon, Roadster diner has also attempted its very own cheese-stuffed patty in which they call the "Cheese-At-Heart". Unlike the traditional Lucy, the patty is stuffed with Swiss cheese and topped with cheddar cheese, lettuce, and potato chips".

 Black bean Jucy Lucy Sandwich

Tuesday 24 March 2015

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My kids are great fan of cheese obviously anything with cheese are their favourite. Am running my fourth week of blogging marathon with American Sandwiches, yes from today to next two days am gonna to post three different American sandwiches under this theme. For my today's post, am posting this ultimate cheese sandwich which i just prepared simply with tomato,onion and bellpepper salsa and cheddar cheese.This sandwich makes a filling breakfast or dinner when served along with a salad or soup. Kids went crazy when they saw this alluring grilled cheese sandwich.

Grilled cheese sandwich

Thursday 19 March 2015

Biscuit & Vanilla Icecream Shake

Summer means icecream, obviously i cant imagine summer without icecream. Anyhow am a person who love to have few scoops of icecreams even in winter too. Since am running third week of blogging marathon with Kid's delight-Beat the summer as theme, i couldnt stop myself to whip out my kids favourite milkshake. This biscuit and icecream shake have an important place in my kid's brunch during summer here. When its summer here, obviously its summer vacation here, if its vacation needless to say we dont forget to skip our breakfast coz of late wakeup and hot climate.Just to feed easily my kids, i do prepare this shake often with different biscuits and icecream.

Biscuit & Vanilla Icecream Shake

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Orange & Strawberry Lollies

Fruit lollies are big hit among kids and they are very easy to make at home either with storebought fruit juices or simply with the freshly squeezed fruit juices.My today's post goes for an easy breezy summer friendly fruit lollies, i simply prepared this fruit rich lollies with freshly squeezed orange juice along with some chopped strawberry chunks. Just a fruit juice and some fruit chunks are quite enough to make your fruit lollies. Once gets freezed, your fruit loaded lollies are ready to relish. What a summer special treat na.

Orange & Strawberry Lollies

Tuesday 17 March 2015

Avocado Lassi

Its not officially summer here but still am gonna share different summer treats to beat the heat.Am running my third week of blogging marathon with Kid's delight - Beat the summer as this week's theme. Heard that its too hot already in India specially in chennai and everytime i call my family members they just cant stop complaining about the hot weather. Thank god, here its still bit chilled and rainy, however for this week's theme i couldnt stop myself making this healthy drink with avocado. This lassi is quite easy to make and definitely a summer friendly drink.

Avocado Lassi

Thursday 12 March 2015

Akara - Nigerian Fried Bean Cake

Akara is the most popular Nigerian bean cake prepared with black eyed peas. This fried cake are quite famous among the Nigerians as they can be consumed for breakfast or snacks. This cakes are dangerously addictive and you cant just stop with one.If you make this crispy fritters you wont  just stop yourself having them. As i told earlier Akara is made with soaked and deskinned black eyed peas blended to a puree and fried in oil with chopped onions and peppers. Most of the akaras are prepared either by blending onions and peppers together with the deskinned peas or else both chopped onions and peppers are added later to the blended puree too. I tried the second way and they came out simply fabulous.

Akara, Nigerian fried bean cake

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Falafel

As per wiki,Falafel  is a deep-fried ball or patty made from ground chickpeas, fava beans, or both. Falafel is a traditional Middle Eastern food, commonly served in a pita, which acts as a pocket, or wrapped in a flatbread known as lafa; "falafel" also frequently refers to a wrapped sandwich that is prepared in this way. The falafel balls are topped with salads, pickled vegetables, hot sauce, and drizzled with tahini-based sauces. Falafel balls may also be eaten alone as a snack or served as part of a meze aka appetizers.Falafel is a common dish eaten throughout the Middle East. The fritters are now found around the world as a replacement for meat and as a form of street food.

Falafel

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Onion Pakora

When the weather is too chilled or rainy nothing can beat a cup of coffee or tea with a plate of hot and spicy pakoras. Needless to say the weather in Paris is really very worst and rainy since few days. However we keep ourself comforting by pampering with some deep fried crispies. Weekend went really very quick and the weather kept us indoor as it was raining whole weekend here. Obviously i couldnt stop myself making some hot pakoras with onions. Everyone at home love pakoras very much especially with onions. If i make onion pakoras even i wont keep myself away from them, i wont stop myself munching them, i cant control myself my tastebuds if i have a plate onion pakoras in front of me.

Onion pakora

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Tomato Cream Sauce

Tomato and cream makes excellent sauce to serve along with pastas, this creamy sauce tastes absolutely fabulous to have with any type of pastas. This sauce is also my younger one's favourite and he just love this lipsmacking sauce. This sauce is very simple to make and easy to dish out, with this delicious tomato cream sauce am sure that you can have a filling meal in just matter of minutes. I used fresh tomatoes for making this delicious sauce in case if you want something very quick, just go with canned tomatoes.However i love the taste of fresh tomatoes in this sauce than the canned ones.

Creamy Tomato sauce

Garlic Cream Sauce

After rice, pastas have their important place in our daily menu. My kids devour pastas with anything, even just with ketchup. However i dont forget to make couple of sauces to enjoy with. From Marinara sauce to White sauce, sauce for pastas may goes for many different variations and for easy preparation. My today's recipe goes for an excellent, very creamy and garlic loaded sauce. This sauce need just garlic cloves, all purpose flour and fresh cream which is spiced simply with salt and pepper powder.This sauce goes awesome with pastas else you can make a garlic flavoured gratin with pastas as well. This cream sauce sounds almost like the white sauce but fresh cream is the key ingredient of this sauce.

Garlic cream sauce

Tuesday 3 March 2015

Sugo Rosso - Red Sauce

Earlier, for me pasta sauce is always a quick sauce with tomatoes but later i learned many and now i make excellent pasta sauces. Pasta, this word itself makes my kids happy, they can have pastas everyday and they never get bored of pastas. However we have pastas atleast twice or thrice a week. My today's recipe goes for Sugo Rosso, this sauce is called Red sauce which is prepared simply with fresh tomatoes and flavored with basil leaves,garlic cloves. This sauce is very quick to prepare, easy to dish out and delicious to enjoy with pastas.

Red Sauce, Sugo Rosso