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Have you remember a s cene from the movie of Jodha Akbar ? Where a typical vegetarian meal was serving at the Royal Court (Darbar) of Akbar with over 100 items . In Tradition this meal is called Thali . Here thali represents a round platter with small bowls of food items. In M ughal period G ourmet T hali was like that. Image courtesy : Google image  Nowadays when we are celebrating any party basically it contains mix and match of Indian recipe and International recipes . But I like to celebrate traditional foods with a combination of c ondiments, s alad, s nacks, r aita, d al, c urries, r ice/ b read, s weets/ d essert, d rinks. So here is no exception when I am going to celebrate party for my House Warming Ceremony .   It was my dream to celebrate gourmet party in Traditional way for my New Home Griha Prabesh . All in above it should have to celebrate in Auspicious Day at an auspicious time. The main door will be decorated with an Indian W all H anging called a T oran...

Tiramisu , hope you heard it before. So first of all sharing little more about Tiramisu .Tiramisu is an Italian dessert. Basically the recipe has been adapted into many varieties of pudding cake and other dessert. Origin wise it is a layered dessert consisting of soaked coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and mascarpone cheese and flavored with cocoa. Hope you are now really happy to know about little more Tiramisu which is such a popular dessert of Itali.   Source : Wiki But what do you feel if it gives some mix and match with Indian dessert? Nice right?  Here is the recipe of that kind of fusion dessert which came out just fabulous after trying at home. One more thing , do you know the meaning of Sandesh? Sandesh meaning is same for Bengali,Sanskrit & Hindi. Basically sandesh meaning is News. In earlier days when somebody was visiting to their relative house or any other occasion with any good news, they used to carry some sweets too. From then some k...

Whenever I am thinking for some special cuisine at my home, it has to be really a special dish for me. No any common dishes I would not prefer to follow absolutely. So Some state or region has its own culture for their cuisines. So we identify them only by their special and identical cooking preparation which are really well known by all of us.As for example For Mughlai khana we always know that Biriyani is the most favorable delicacy. Same to same Awadhi cuisine or Lucknow cuisine has their own specialty too. In maximum cases they are cooking in Dum Puckt style foods means cooking will be done in a big hundi with a lid including all the spices but in low flame. But think as Mughal culture and Lucknow culture are more or less same in their cooking style. Still it has to be some differentiation in some cases. Hope you got to know that why I had given so many lectures about the Awadhi Cooking. Because today I want share one Awadhi special recipe. It's a simple and easy cooking reci...

When I wanted to do something easy and tasty recipe with paneer, my only choice goes to Kadhai Paneer. compare to other recipe of paneer it seems little easy and quick recipe to me. Since there are lots of option with paneer preparation,like palak paneer , awadhi paneer , paneer corn korma , paneer peshawari , aloo matar paneer , paneer tikka masala and many more in my blog. Still I am very much positive to do some experiment with paneer preparation. So this is my latest try with paneer. Kadhai paneer a popular dish in North India . And you will find this paneer recipe in most of the north indian restaurants too. So have a look at the recipe of Kadhai paneer.  To my best level I tried to match the preparation with restaurant category. Kadhai paneer is a preparation where some colorful capsicum,onion cubes and paneer are sauted in delicious tomato gravy. Nutritional facts about paneer is very high. It is good source of protein, fat,carbohydrates, minerals,calcium and phosphoro...

Hello friends one more favorite fish recipe from kitchen . This fish is very tasty to have. In my childhood, this is favorite fish . Still I am loving it. When I was in Pune I got some fresh ayer fishes in fish market. That day I bought this one and cooked for my son and myself. My husband is not very much eager to have this fish. But anyway I cannot resist myself whenever see this fishes as this is some kind of boneless. Bengalis are saying aar fish . It can be prepare with onion garlic paste too. But I like without onion garlic simple curry. I do not want anything with rice if this fish curry serves to me.My son is also fishy boy. He loves to have fish everyday. so here is the time to share one more fish recipe for you. try this quick and easy tasty recipe if you get ayer fish in your fish market and serve it with warm rice. I bet you can not resist yourself until you are not have it. If you ask for health benefit of ayer fish. It is really good for health. It is basically a white...