I’m Padmaja, Working for Jacobs Engineering Group Inc, live in UK with my adorable and lovely Hubby and my sweet little 6 year old boy.I am enthusiastic,energtic and a lively person absolutely in love with food. I started my own food blog which is my personal allusion and to keep …

I don’t know a lot about others but Winter in UK is so depressing at least to me and I tend to put on a lot a weight , I try to make up some time after work to go for regular walks and swimming but still unable to maintain …
31 October 2006
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Ingredients:Boiled potatoes: 6Dried peas: soaked overnight and cooked in a pressure cooker.Tomatoes: 2Yoghurt: 1/2 cupOnions: 1Chillies: 2Ginger garlic paste: 2tbspPoppy seeds and coconut paste: ½ cup.Cashewnuts: broken into small piecesChilli powder: 1 tspTurmeric: 1 tspBay leaves: 2Cinnamon, cardamom and cloves : few eachSalt to taste
Fry Bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom …
30 October 2006
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Many of my North Indian friends didn’t know about these dosas until they tasted at our place and in an instant they have become a huge hit around here
Ingredients:Moong dal: 2 cupsChillies : 3 to 4Jeera: tspGinger: an inch
Soak moong dal overnight and grind it the next day with chillies, …
30 October 2006
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Ingredients:
King prawns: 1 pktGinger garlic paste: 2 tbspOnion : 2Chillies: 4Garam masala: 1 tbspCoriander powder: 1 tbspBay leaves: 2Cinnamon stick: 1Cardemom : 2Cloves: 2Cashewnuts: 10 to 12Basmati Rice: 3 cupsChilli powderturmeric
Take oil in a heavy bottomed vessel, and fry bayleaves, cinnamon, cloves and cardamoms for couple of mins, …
30 October 2006
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Ingredients:Self Raising Flour: 2 cupsEggs: 6Cherries and Raisins: all colors and sorts ½ pktBaking powder: 2 tbspVanilla essence: 2 tspSugar: 1 cupButter: 1 cup
Start whisking the eggs with sugar and butter first and when u get a smooth paste, start adding flour in small quantities. Then finally add the cherries, …
30 October 2006
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Roast chicken:As christmas is round the corner, i started improving my culinary skills from now on so that my recipes would come out the best at the christmas party we are gonna have.So tried this chicken roast this weekend and its absolutely amazing!!!
For the marinade:3 freshly squeezed lemon juice2 …
30 October 2006
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One of our colleague’s birthday today and she bought some lovely cakes from the bakery which is just next door and u can imagine what a daily struggle for us to cope with non ending aroma from the bakery, daily temptation to resist those beautiful cakes, pastries, muffins etc.I haven’t …
27 October 2006
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It is next to impossible not to like Munnabhai and his sidekick Circuit in their second innings. Almost three years after the loveable duo cured the incurable in Munnabhai MBBS , the street-savvy taporis find themselves face to face with Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology in ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’. Once again, Sanjay …
27 October 2006
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