Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu The season of cakes and cookies is here! Have you started your holiday baking yet? Raspberry Crumble Cookies… this super easy and quick eggless butter cookies filled with Jam is a delicious addition to your gift hamper. I was on the look out for a cookie recipe, that can go with the festive season. Also, I wanted something that's simple without compromising the taste and texture. I'm sure I'll be baking this again and again and not just for the holiday season. After all, what's not to love? There is butter, sugar and Jam ;) Do give it a try and let me k ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Chicken Do Pyaza, literally translated as Chicken Two Onions! Well, google says…This means that the onions are added twice in the recipe or double the amount of onions are included. But nothing of that sort is there in this particular recipe. The only thing is, onions are cooked twice. First in raw form and later on, the cooked onions are ground into a paste and cooked. Anyways, let's come to the flavors and texture. This Chicken Do Pyaza has a thick gravy with amazing flavors. We prefer curries with thick gravies in general, I somehow feel the fla ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Onam is here and there is no Onam celebration without Payasam! Pineapple Gothambu Payasam is like a new take on the traditional gothambu payasam recipe. When it comes to celebrating festivals, I kinda prefer to keep it traditional. Usually I stick with traditional Payasam recipes for Onam and experiment new recipes on other occasions. However this time, I changed it slightly by adding pineapple to a traditional payasam recipe. Though the pineapple flavor was subtle, it added a nice bite and people who tasted it, were curious about the unexpected texture ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Onam is almost here! I can see the social media flooded with Onam recipes and attires of all sorts. How about you? Have you started your Onam preps? Though I've made a full fledged Onasadya, only one or two times, we've covered almost all sadya recipes on the blog. One thing that was missing was a madhura curry (sweet curry). This Pineapple Pulissery is more like a sweet and sour curry. I do like sweet and sour flavor combo and so I tend to make this every now and then. The sweetness from the pineapple and the sourness from the yogurt, gives it a wonder ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu I've been wanting to try Korean food at home for quite sometime. As always, I pinned a lot of recipes and it remained just like that. Well, there was something that stopped me from trying those recipes, the ingredients list! There would always be some ingredient that wasn't easily available. Then one day, I happened to come across a video of Gordon Ramsay making a Korean Street Toast and I was like, hey I can make this at home. It's super easy, ingredients are easily available and looks like it's gonna tastes fab! So, that's what I did…I narrowed down m ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu This Chemmeen Kovakka Thoran is a simple yet flavor packed Kerala lunch side dish recipe. Vegetables cooked with fish/meat is a common dish in Kerala. However, apart from the potatoes I add to meat/chicken dishes, I rarely cook this kinda dishes. There's no particular reason as such, but it doesn't happen often. How about you? Are you a fan of such dishes? Anyways, here I've used small variety of prawns and kovakka (ivy gourd) to make a thoran for lunch. I like both prawns and kovakka, so the idea of these two combined together appealed to me! It was di ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Here's something I never thought of sharing with you! Forget about sharing here, I never ever thought I'd be making jams! Well, my new mantra is “never say never” ;) I love Jam and I always try to get good quality homemade ones whenever possible. I was under the impression that jam- making is a complicated and time-consuming process, so never thought of giving it a try. What changed then? I happened to see a Jam roll picture made by my friend Chinnu (using MM Jamroll recipe) with her mom's homemade pineapple jam. That picture looked so beautiful and th ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Fish Tawa Fry – so, what's special about it? Is it just the usual fish fry with a glorified name? Well, it's more than your usual “meen varuthathu”(fish fry). For one it's flavor-packed and the taste lingers even after you finish your meal, leaving you wanting for more ;) We've taken our basic fish fry to another level, the fish is fried yet it's succulent and coconut milk and tamarind and other spices come together to make it finger-licking goodness! Ok, I'm stopping my description here. You try it for yourself and let me know how you like it. Here is ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu You can see recipes strewn all over my workspace. It will be in the form of handwritten notes on white paper, sometimes on the back of bills, tissue papers, printouts, or paper cutouts. This is in addition to the digital collection of recipes! There are days when I go through all these and still can't find something that I like to try out. But there are days when recipes just kinda call out to me. This is one such recipe! I was organizing or “trying” to organize my desk and suddenly this handwritten note fell out from one of my books and this recipe hap ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Here I'm after a mini break, four months to be exact! I know the breaks were becoming a regular thing these days, but here's hoping for minimal breaks and regular posts :) So shall we start with something sweet? This Biscuit pudding with dates & nuts is an everyday dessert if there is one! It's a fuss-free dessert with easily available ingredients, no complicated steps, and it isn't time-consuming. This is a go-to dessert if you wanna have something sweet after a family meal or just for a weekend chill ;) Hope you like it! Please read the “notes” se ..read more