Saturday, March 17, 2007

Feedback on Saffron Trail

This is the official bouquets and brickbats (and queries) page for the Saffron Trail blog.

What inspired me to start this page were a couple of mails in the last two days from two very happy people. One had found a recipe she was searching for long, something her mom used to make and she wanted to recreate her mom's magic. Sharing my mom's version of that 'something' she was yearning for could take her back to the times she shared with her mom. That was extremely touching for me and she was nice enough to make me feel good about spending hours on writing and sharing my food experiences.

The other mail was from someone in my city, who had liked the simplicity of an everyday subzi and thought of writing to me, making me believe in the fact that simple is indeed beautiful.

The purpose of this page is to have a general interaction with my readers about anything mentioned in the blog. This is especially useful about old posts, because readers tend to think that comments left on old posts may be missed or go unanswered.

This feedback page is not restricted to bouquets and warm hugs alone. If you tried out something I've shared and you didn't think the end result was correct / good enough, please write back and I shall see where I have gone wrong. Blogging for me is a process of continuous learning. Learning to write enchantingly yet from the heart, learning to photograph in such a way that the person seeing it feels like recreating it in his /her kitchen and learning the art of precision. Although most of my recipes use simple ingredients available in most kitchens,for me -any waste of food is a crime, especially being from a country where many people are not lucky enough to have two square meals. So I sincerely wish that anything you've tried from my blog never goes waste. If it is a matter of not sharing my taste of a certain food, then of course it is a different story.

How can you use this page
  • What you've tried and liked from Saffron Trail
  • Any queries about a certain ingredient - nutritionally or otherwise
  • Any queries about what more can be done with a certain ingredient - for eg. If you've bought black chick peas for a certain recipe, you may want to have more uses for it than just one recipe
  • Any recipe where you don't find the instructions simple / clear enough to follow
  • Any traditional Tamil Brahmin recipe you are searching for. I could ask my elders at home and help you with it
Instructions

Leave your feedback in the comments section with a brief, relevant title such as :
Request
Query
Bouquet
Brickbat etc.

I shall reply back to your query as soon as I have the relevant answers.

Thanks again for all the love and encouragement!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Category-wise Recipes

Beverages
Apple honey shake
Ginger lemon iced tea
Madras filter kaapi
Spiced buttermilk

Breakfasts

Date pancakes
Eggless pancakes
Fortified poha
Four lentil pancakes
Green omelette
Handwo
Idli chutney
Indianised French toast
Instant khaman dhokla
Mango pancakes
Morning glory muffins
Penne upma
Podi idli with mushrooms and onions
Upma kozhakattai
Wheat flour porridge

Spreads, Chutneys, Sauces
Baba gannoush
Carrot garlic spread
Coconut chutney
Coriander chutney
Coriander mint chutney
Mango cardamom chutney
Marinara sauce
Mushroom and bell pepper chutney
Ridgegourd chutney
Spicy Indian hummus
Thuvaiyal

Breads
Banana cardamom bread (eggless)
Herbed breadsticks
Gingerbread
Methi paratha pockets
Potato focaccia pugliese
Vegetable paratha
Whole wheat pita bread

Salads, soups & starters
Asian cucumber salad
Black eyed peas burgers
Carrot peanut salad
Chutney sandwich
Fattoush
Minty cucumber raita
Tropical salad
French onion soup
Instant tomato soup
Red soup
Spicy pomegranate lentil soup
Colocassia pinwheels
Fat free sweet potato chips
Fat free whole wheat chips
Leafy fritters
Sookha bhel
Rice patties
Spicy khajas

Vegetables, Curries
Bittergourd and ripe mango curry
Brinjal podi curry
Cauliflower with fenugreek greens in spicy peanut gravy
Cauliflower and peas stir fry (Gobhi Mutter)
Cluster beans paruppu usili
Egg Curry
Parsi Dhansak
Red hot Thai curry
Simple spring onion curry
Vibrant green curry
Yogurt curry

Legumes - Lentils and beans
Beetroot sambhar
Blackeyed peas burgers
Dhansak - Parsi delicacy
Four lentil pancakes
Handwo
Kaala chana
Lasooni dal palak
Paruppu usili
Spicy Indian hummus
Split mung khichdi
Thalagam

Traditional Tamil Brahmin recipes
Beetroot sambhar (Beets and lentils in a thick soup)
Cashew payasam (Sweetened cashew milk)
Kathrikkai podi curry (Brinjal curry with lentil powder)
Kotthavarangai Paruppu usili (Cluster beans curry)
Masala Mor (Spicy buttermilk)
Paruppu Adai
Peerkangai thuvaiyal (Ridgegourd chutney)
Pomegranate rasam
Tengai chutney (Coconut chutney)
Teratti paal (Traditional milk fudge)
Thalagam (Spicy curry as accompaniment to rice)
Thuvaiyal (Spread)
Upma kozhakattai (Steamed rice dumplings)

Rice, noodles & pasta
Fusilli with tricolour peppers
Ginger sesame hakka noodles
Indo-Chinese fried rice
Marinara sauce for pasta
Riot of colour pulao
Split mung khichdi

Muffins, scones, cookies & cakes
Banana cardamom bread
Ultimate Carrot cake
Chocolate rum apricot cake
Coconut chai cake
Gingerbread
Honey banana muffins
Morning glory muffins
Naankhatai
Melt in your mouth scones
Orange rum cake
Spicy pumpkin coffee cake
Tricolour tarts

Dinner for two
Black eyed peas burgers
Egg curry and rice
Fusilli with three peppers
Ginger sesame hakka noodles
Indo-Chinese fried rice
Riot of colour pulao with yogurt curry
Upma Kozhakattai with thuvaiyal

Indian sweets
Baked karanjis
Cashewnut payasam
Dudhi halwa (bottle gourd fudge)
Peanut sesame balls
Teratti paal