SaleBhai Website Review - Online Shopping sweets and snack

SaleBhai – Website Review – Online Shopping for sweets, snacks & handicrafts

Posted on May 27, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

SaleBhai – Website Review – Online Shopping for sweets, snacks, dry fruits & handicrafts

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We all have branched out to various cities, states & countries seeking different opportunities. Technology has been helping us stay in touch with our roots, no matter where we live. When I had to move out of the country, I started missing our traditional food very badly. It’s true that we won’t realize what we have, until we miss those. I always dream of how nice it would be to get my native sweets & snacks delivered internationally at my door steps. 😐 It’s slowly getting realized these days. There are so many online shopping websites that deliver our desi products internationally. While searching for such websites, I came across – SALEBHAI – an online shopping platform for all your native food cravings. When I checked their website, I came to know there is much more than food in their website like health & herbal products, arts & crafts, gifts and puja needs.

SaleBhai Website Review – Online Shopping sweets and snacks – Home-Making-Delight

We all have been ordering pizza for home delivery with a few clicks. Won’t that be cool if we could do just the same for our desi foods from our favorite location? SaleBhai covers the products from the length and breadth of India. So, you don’t have to think about planning a holiday, booking tickets and all other hassles when you have a desire to taste authentic Assam tea or to buy genuine handcrafts from Rajasthan, saffron from Kashmir, or homemade chocolates from Ooty. SaleBhai offers them all; you can buy anything from anywhere and it will be delivered right at your doorsteps. 🙂 Continue reading →

Kadala Curry – Peanut Gravy – Groundnut Curry Indian Recipe

Posted on May 25, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Kadala Curry – Peanut Gravy – Groundnut Curry Indian

Kadala Curry / Verkadalai curry is an easy side dish in which the dry groudnuts are pressure cooked to soft and mixed in the onion tomato spicy gravy base, flavored with mint and cilantro. The tanginess of lemon really brings out the taste of this spicy gravy. This is usually served as a side for chapathi or roti varieties. And, it would go well for dosa, idly or pooris.

Kadala Curry – Peanut Gravy Recipe from Homemaking Delight

Chapathi is always there a couple of times on our weekly dinner menu and our channa masala gravy usually tags with it. I have been trying to increase my protein intake for a few days now. I was browsing for ingredients that has high-protein content and I was surprised to know that the protein content in peanuts (46%) are a bit higher than chickpeas (38%). That’s how I ended up making this Kadala curry as a sidedish for chapathi instead of our usual channa masala. 😀

Usually, in kerala, kadala curry is cooked from black chick peas. In Tamil Nadu, we call most pulses as “kadala” or “kadalai“. Channa or chick peas are called kondakadalai or mookadalai and peanuts/groundnuts are called verkadalai or nilakadalai. If you are here looking for chick pea recipes, please check out our Channa puli kolambu and south Indian style channa masala gravy.

If you are a peanut lover, you would totally dig this kadala curry recipe. 🙂 The cooked salted peanuts were tasty just as they were and I ended up eating half of those as such (which I had planned to save for making my yummy peanut salad). Though, it’s just a onion-tomato based gravy, the flavored peanuts along with the tanginess of lemon would make the gravy extra-delicious. If you are so bored of making your usual gravies for your dinner, here is a healthy alternative recipe to meet your expectation!!! 🙂

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Mother’s Day Giveaway – Free Personalized wood frame from CutOutArt

Posted on May 5, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Mother’s Day Giveaway – Free Personalized wood frame from CutOutArt

Dear all,

Mother’s Day Giveaway – Free Personalized wood frame from CutOutArt & Home-Making-Delight – With Mother’s day coming up, most of you would have already planned for gifts for your moms. If not, here’s an option for you to get an awesome customized gift – A personalized wood frame for your mom FOR FREE as a gesture from Home-Making-Delight and CutOutArt. 🙂 Go on, read and you could get yourself or your mom a cool custom art gift for free just by following a few steps.. 🙂 All the best 🙂

Gifting choices are more for us nowadays. We could buy clothes, jewels (may be a ring or necklace or an anklet), perfume, her favorite coffee or may be a trip to her dream place. If you would like your gifts more personalized & customized, you can always go for photo-printed mugs, T.shirts etc. Photo printed mugs are kind of out dated now. So, We have decided to get a personalized wood frame (Photo-printed) with our family photo for our mom for this mother’s day from CutOutArt. Also, we are also planning to get our own customized fruit basket with all her favorite fruits and chocolates. 🙂 We got her a coffee powder already, as she’s a big fan of coffee. 🙂

Although we are promoting this giveaway for the upcoming mother’s day, it’s not limited to gifts for your moms. You can print your little one’s photo in wood and frame it in his/her bed room. A family photo would be a great idea for living room. If you love pets, you could take one with your pet and frame it. You could hang that personalized wood frame on your wall or place it in your office desk. You could make a collage or print your favorite place in the world in wood. What if it’s your wedding photo printed on a wood and framed to be cherished forever??!? 🙂 It would be way cooler than your usual photographs, I bet. 🙂

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Baked Okra Recipe – Bhindi Fry in Oven – Quick Starter for Parties

Posted on May 4, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Baked Okra Recipe – Bhindi Fry in Oven Recipe

Baked Okra Recipe is a non-sticky baked version of our bhindi fry in which the finely chopped & seasoned lady’s fingers are baked in the oven after which they are sauteed with onions. Finally, they are garnished with freshly grated coconut. Easy, risk-free, non-sticky & baked okra version for the okra lovers out there. 😀

Baked Okra - Bhindi Fry in Oven Recipe from Homemaking Delight

Baked Okra Recipe – Fried bhindi from Homemaking Delight

As much as I loved to eat bhindi fry aka okra fry, cooking “bhindi fry” was not my favorite during my initial cooking days. It was mainly because of its sticky nature and long minutes of sauteing okra in kadai with constant stirring to get the perfect okra fries. During that phase, I had made a few funny dishes in the name of bhindi fry. 😀 Hope, people who had tasted that, had quite forgotten and moved on now. 😐 Here’s the solution to the biggest okra problem ever – how to cook okras fast, tasty and non-sticky. 🙂

Pan-fried okras are good to make in small quantities. But, when you are planning to prepare in bulk for any party or get-together, baked okra is a better option that saves a lot of time. You don’t need to worry about adding curd or rice flour for making non-sticky vendaikkai fries. Just, layer the bhindi in single layer and bake. It won’t be sticky at all, when it comes out of the oven fully cooked. You can have it as such with some freshly added coconut or saute them with onions & curry powder for more flavor. So, don’t have any second thoughts on buying lady’s finger from the market fretting on its stickiness. Remember, that our baked okra recipe is there to save you. 🙂

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Mashed Red Pumpkin Curry recipe – Parangikkai masala sabzi

Posted on May 3, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Mashed Red Pumpkin curry recipe – Parangikkai masala sabzi

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Red Pumzpkin Curry recipe – Parangikkai masala sabzi – Mashed red pumpkin cooked with onions & chosen Indian spices – A very simple & spicy side dish cooked with mashed red pumpkin and a few chosen spices to go with rather plain/mild dishes like mor kolambu or pulao or even with Chapathi or roti varieties.

I am a picky eater. I eat very less (This doesn’t include cakes, chocolates and snacks especially mullu bonda 😀 ), but I am so choosy with my food as well as my cooking. When it comes to cooking vegetables, I have a big constraint list based on the veggies. For poriyal or side dish types, veggies like carrot, beetroot, radish, cabbage must be grated. Beans, long beans, broad beans must be chopped very thinly. Veggies like bitter gourd, turkey berry, banana flower must be cooked with dhal as “paruppusili“. For masala poriyal or karaporial, there should be onions and for plain veggie curries, there should be grated coconut finishing. 😀

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Vegetarian Spaghetti – Spaghetti with Pasta Sauce Recipe

Posted on May 2, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Vegetarian Spaghetti – Spaghetti with Pasta Sauce Recipe

Vegetarian Spaghetti is a staple Italian food in which the cooked angel hair pasta is sauteed with onion & garlic, tossed with vegetables, pasta sauce, soy sauce & a tint of balsamic vinegar, seasoned with salt & pepper and topped with Mozzarella & parmesan cheese.

Vegetarian Spaghetti – Spaghetti with Pasta Sauce Recipe from Homemaking Delight

I hate Mondays and the heavy downpour here just made the last Monday the worst of all. It usually takes me at least until Tuesday to get back to weekday mode. 😀 Same with my tummy. It’s still expecting something exotic that we get in restaurants over weekends. If there’s something that could solve my problem (lazy but want a special home-made meal), that would be vegetarian spaghetti. 😀 I cooked that and I totally loved it! Though the recipe works good with all varieties of spaghetti, I highly recommend using “angel hair” which has a unique taste. You have multiple choices to choose with the sauce. The seasoned pasta with the tomato sauce, soy sauce with crunchy veggies and a tinge of balsamic vinegar would make the pasta quite tasty. Adding roasted veggies instead of cooked one would give nice texture & taste in every spoon. Enjoy a hearty meal with your special home-cooked vegetarian spaghetti!!! Continue reading →

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Broccoli Paratha Recipe – Stuffed Paratha Recipe

Posted on May 1, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Broccoli Paratha Recipe – Stuffed Paratha Recipe

Broccoli Paratha –Stuffed Veggie Paratha is a healthy lunch box/dinner dish in which the minced broccoli florets are seasoned with spices & onion and stuffed inside the Indian wheat flat bread which is then cooked on hot tawa with butter or oil.

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Homemade Gift Basket – DiY – Fruit Gift Basket for mother’s day

Posted on April 30, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Homemade Gift Basket – DiY – Fruit Gift Basket – Hand-made gifts

Homemade gift basket / DiY Fruit Gift basket is an easy handmade gift in which the hand picked fruits are arranged in a decorated basket and delivered to the recipient at his/her home or workplace for special occasions such as Mother’s day, Valentines day, Christmas & other holidays or as a ‘Thank you‘ gift. 🙂

We all exchange gifts on special occasions & holidays as a token of love. Though, store-bought gifts make our loved ones happy, hand-made gifts are the ones that make them feel special & stay in the heart. It just shows the time & affection they invested in making the gift. I got an opportunity to make a homemade gift basket, when we were invited by our relatives. We were not sure about our visit until the last moment, so I had not planned earlier for a gift and also I didn’t have enough time to buy something special for them. My nephew is a big fan of fruits. So, I thought of making this special & healthy homemade gift basket. There were a few small imperfections here & there (My first time, please!), but together it looked beautiful. 🙂

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4 In 1 Dual USB Car Charger Adapter Review – Product from Tophatter

Posted on April 29, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

4 In 1 Dual USB Car Charger Adapter Review – Tophatter Product

Hi there!!!

There were times when only rich people can afford cars and telephones at homes. They both were status symbols. (iPhone’s still a status symbol these days) 😀 But, cars and mobile phones have become very important in our lives these days. With the growing technology, starting from automatic gear to autonomous driving, we have seen much development in cars. I am not an expert in cars/automobiles. But, I guess the one basic thing that every car needs in this era is an USB portal. This is all because of the mobile phone that’s like our sixth finger. Busy or not, I keep forgetting to charge my mobile and it will always have low battery holding its last breath waiting for me to charge (My mobile charge is 4% right now) it. The USB portal in our car has saved my mobile a lot many times. If you are like me then, you definitely need a USB car charger adapter to keep you connected when you are busy hitting the road. 🙂

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Poha Recipe – Aval Upma – Quick breakfast with flattened rice

Posted on April 28, 2017 by HomeMakingDelight

Poha Recipe – Aval Upma – Quick breakfast with flattened rice

Hi Folks,

Poha Recipe – Aval Upma – Quick breakfast with flattened rice, peanuts and onions – Aval Upma called as Poha in North India is an easy, simple breakfast prepared by cooking soaked flattened rice with onions and peanuts.

Normally Tamil people would have Idly/Dosa/Upma for their breakfast. But, many people would run farther whenever they hear the word ‘Upma‘. 😀 There are loads of Upma varieties – Arisi Upma, Rava Upma, Wheat rava Upma, Semiya Upma, Ragi Semiya Upma etc. They would make a proper full-supplement delicious breakfast when accompanied with matching chutney/sambhar/kothsu. They are easy to prepare and would mostly be preferred by Bachelors/Bachelorettes for breakfast. Here is one simple but delicious recipe for Aval Upma commonly referred to as POHA.

Easy Poha Recipe – Aval Upma – kanda poha – Flattened rice recipe – HomeMaking Delight

Growing up, I was never a big fan of upma varieties and never touched them. My mom would prepare dosa for me whenever she prepared upma at my home. Luckily, they never served upma in my college hostel too (Not so lucky, I could have killed a few people with my hostel IDLIES in a single hit 😐). Once I was at home for my study hols and I was reading ( ??!??!!? ) something. As I was reading, I saw my Thatha (Grandfather) rushing in and out of the dining hall very frequently munching something. He normally used to eat very less irrespective of whether he liked or not. Out of curiosity, I opened and saw what it was there in the hot pack and to my surprise, I saw steaming ‘Aval Upma’ in there. I had already had dosa then, so I rushed to tell my mom that Thatha seemed to have like it so much. My mom was so glad hearing that and then she asked me to try that. Saying that, she put a spoonful of that AVAL Upma into my mouth and that moment I realized that UPMAs are all not that bad like I had been assuming ( After started my own cooking while I was staying with my friends, UPMAs are the ones that kept me alive, that is a different story 😛). Good thing is her poha recipe is quite simple too. She prepares so many flavors of POHA (Sweet, Tamarind, Lime, Dhal flavored) all of which would be so delicious. I would post them soon for you guys. Over to my mom’s delicious poha recipe – Onion Aval Upma – Kanda Poha from Home-Making-Delight with step by step photos.

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