FEBI'S COOK BOOK

Why is this emptiness..?? Mind is blank even with all beautiful things around. Life is going on perfect and nothing to complain about. Yet something wrong.  Having a healthy, happy mind is also an asset. Its not just a blessing but something someone should develop himself/herself. Feels like I have lost it, lost the skill to develop a happy mind. Life is full of ups and downs, yet most of us complain about the downs and never appreciate ups, just like now I complained about not having a happy nature. Its into my nature, digging into sadness with no reason. It must be some kind of unnecessary mentality or illness. I don't know, I really don't know. Feeling down and don't know why? Yet there is light of hope left, left in us by God. That's his love for us that He never leaves us in complete darkness. Sometimes, its his way of drawing us closer to him, by putting us in dark. And then gives us light of hope, again to draw closer to him. His ways ar...

The health benefits of Almonds are never ending. I love the versatility of Almonds and when infused into milk, it serves as best warm drinks that can be served. This drink is easy to make however the peeling part is so time consuming for me. Also it requires to be planned ahead as Almonds takes time to soak. If you want to make it immediately, you can still do it by soaking in hot water or simply by microwaving with little water, so the skin peels off easily. But I really do not like it that way as I feel the flavor somehow becomes a little vague by doing so. Over to the recipe, Ingredients: Almonds-20, soaked for about 2 hours and peeled Milk- 2 cups+ 1/4 cup Sugar- 3-4 tbsp ghee- 1 tbsp cardamom powder- 1/4 tsp saffron- 1/2 tsp Method: Soak the Almonds for two hours and peel the skin. Grind with 1/4 cup of milk to a smooth paste. Heat a pan on medium low heat and add ghee. Add the Almond paste to ...

I am never out of obsessions. Its always there in me. I am pretty obsessed with all the beautiful things around and it keeps changing with time. My recent obsession is this page . What wonderful photographs and recipes!!. Whats amazing is that author has wonderfully composed delicious recipes with awesome twists. Otherwise would you ever imagine of Carrot Halwa Ice cream ? And the best part is he is Indian. Indian recipes got a superb dimension and International status in his page. There are so many awesome recipes which I have already bookmarked to try in future. Also I have committed to go through all his recipes, not missing a single one, everyday or whenever I find time. Now that is called a sincere obsession. Speaking of his photographs there is something noticeably magic about it and it has some signature style. There is no need of adding any copyright watermarks as anyone familiar of that space can guess to whom those photographs belong. When I came across this recipe, I d...

Bavarian cream, a new name I came across just a few days back when my one of my blogger friends,  +Rafeeda AR   made a mention of it on her fb post. I was curious to know what it was and when the blog post on this wonderful dessert  appeared which was a combo of many desserts along with Bavarian cream, I decided to try Bavarian cream, alone which can be had as a dessert itself. Having said that, Rafee's blog is one of the wonderful blog with a wide range of recipes and Rafee is a consistent blogger and  Masha allah, she manages to do atleast 3 posts a week. I love reading her write-ups and every time her posts appear on blog, its like a new movie release for me. The recipe is made with egg yolks, basically its a kind of custard and it tasted so very delicious. I added some nuts on top and praline powder, which added more to the taste. Ingredients: 2 egg yolks 1 cup milk 2 tbsp sugar A pinch of salt 1/2 tsp vanilla essence 1 pack (10 ...

When Mangoes are in season, it cannot be a coincidence that I am posting second Mango recipe in a week. My favorite childhood fruit and still is, Mangoes, are so versatile. However, if it wasnt't for the awesome bake along by this wonderful group, Fondbites in which I joined recently, where every week the admin posts wonderful step by step recipe, I would not have given this recipe a try.  A Panna-cotta recipe always caught my attention, but never got an opportunity to try them. The dessert turned out to be super delicious and was incredibly easy to make too. The Mangoes gave a nice lift in taste to this dessert. After all, anything made of Mangoes is impossible to go wro ng. Ingredients: Mangoes – 2 Big & RipeFresh  Cream – 600 ml Coconut Milk – 400 ml Sugar – 1 cup Vanilla Extract – 1 teaspoon Gelatin – 2 tablespoon Warm water – 1/4 cup Jelly Top - Mangoes – 1 ripe Sugar  1/3 cup Water – 1/2 cup Gelatin  1 tablespoon W...

T his is one of my favorite side dishes for rice. A day when there is some short of curries or if there is curry but in little quantity, I love to prepare this. I love most of the yogurt based side dishes, especially this one with my favorite veggie. It is very easy to prepare and pairs awesomely with rice. This is definitely the 'Sadya' type curry or Raita. All you have to do is first dry roast some spices and powder it with yogurt so that yogurt get the flavor of these spices and then roast ladies finger till all the the stickiness and gooey texture vanishes. Combine the veggie and yogurt and then final thing is tempering. As easy as that. Over to the recipe Ingredients: Ladies finger- 10 medium peices Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp Salt Dried red chilli- 1 or 2 Coriander seeds- 1 tsp Cumin seeds- 1 tsp Yogurt- 1 cup Coconut Oil- 1 tsp Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp Curry leaves- 1 stem Method: Dry roast dried red chilly , coriander seeds and cumin seeds i...

Beef is our family favourite , especially when cooked in an array of spices. My hubby is a fan of Beef and spicy recipes and particularly when prepared in a thick and minimum gravy, the bowl is always wiped clean. Shema's wonderful blog and recipes always left me in complete awe with her lip smacking dishes and photographs. And thanks to her description about this dish in this post which left me drooling throughout the read. I gave it a try the very next time I bought fresh beef and it turned out to be a family favorite. Every time there is a family gathering or any other occassion, this dish is sure to find its place on the menu. This is definitely the best of beef recipes and I am sure once you taste it, you will never give up trying it over and over again. The only drawback I would like to mention here of this recipe is that it is extra spicy hot even for a person like me who can really tolerate pretty much hot and spicy dishes, even though it is the heat that ad...

Although I am sweet tooth, its been long I've been into pudding. This time I decided to try a pudding with the mangoes hubby bought which wasn't sweet enough to be eaten as it is. Usually such Mangoes end up in the juicer and drunk as milkshake or Lassi. This time, I had already prepared hung curd in hand, which I was planning to use for any cheesecake filling. But as a blogger, mango cheesecake being already on blog, I wanted to have a new recipe for blog to feature, so I give it a go for this one. The pudding tasted awesome and despite mangoes being not so ripe, the mango part particularly tasted really good and my doubt if the pineapple jelly flavor would go well with the mango pudding, was all vanished once I had it. I tried this recipe once with little changes with strawberry mousse and strawberry jelly and topped with whipped cream and strawberry slice. Being not happy with the pictures I took, I left it aside and decided not to post on blog. Nowadays, I think I...

Ever since I became a member of Home Bakers group, I always take the pledge to do the monthly challenge, but every time I failed to do it... The host, Priya, chooses wonderful recipes from different blogs every month, this time she chose buns for the monthly challenge. I was so much touched by one of the recipes, Mozarella stuffed buns, Mozarella being my favorite of all cheeses, but due to unavailability of other ingredients mentioned in the recipe, I opted to skip it. The second recipe was of Srilankan Seeni Sambal Buns, which again caught my attention, as it was another form of stuffed buns. I love buns with filling in it. But however, I was unsure of the taste, doubting wheather sweetness of Jaggery and sourness of Tamarind will go well with each other. But I knew, more I keep thinking, the more will be the chance that I'll skip this months challenge too. So, there was no second thinking and I sticked to Srilankan Seeni Sambal Buns and jump started with the baking...