FEBI'S COOK BOOK

Oh no! not again! I don't want to deliver usual introductory lecture, 'posting after so long' again! Let me jump to this recipe fast. This time I am up with Beef curry which is more on gravy side unlike the original recipe which is more like a dry roast. To feed my entire family I did not let the gravy dry completely. I make this kind of Beef recipes usually which is being followed traditionally in our family. And thus felt its just a normal recipe which does not needed to be a blog post as I felt it is like plain rice that everyone knows how to cook cook which does not have to posted on blog for some one follow. But now I realise that our Kannur style of Beef is different from what is usually made in other parts of Kerala and I made slight change of adding grated coconut to the gravy. If you let the gravy dry completely while roasting the cooked beef in the end, I am sure that would taste definitely delicious than this version. So adjust water content depending on how...

None of our family members are a great fan of soup. This time I attempted to prepare only because I found soup sticks at a supermarket. Once a while I make chicken soup. But with sticks to offer with, I guessed everyone will easily consume veggie soup. And so I made half quantity and four of us had it without much difficulty. This is a green peas soup with roasted garlic, which imparts a unique flavor. The procedure might sound lengthy but is easy to make and perfect for winters. Ingredients: For roasting garlic: Garlic- 1 pod Black pepper powder-  a pinch Olive oil- 1 tsp Salt For soup: Green peas (frozen)- 1 cup  Chicken stock cube-1 Onion- 1/2 finely chopped Cream- 1 tbsp. Lime juice- 1+1 tbsp Butter 2 tbsp. Black pepper powder- 1 tsp Salt- to taste Method: Take an aluminium foil and place the garlic pod on it as it is. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on top. Drizzle olive oil. Wrap the foil around the garlic and p...

 I know, AGAIN, its been so long, I ve been blogging. And last time I posted, I promised about blogging regularly. Every time I promise, it seems to get out of my schedule. Well, Last month I was on one month vacation in India. And this time we visited beautiful nearby places which we never knew existed before. Almost like tourist attraction spots, we had to visit them atleast once being located not too far from my town.  Morning we decided to leave, with our mobile phones as guide and got dresses up and left home then itself. Well it was  a beautiful experience, with long drive and beautiful greenery and beautiful places, never seen before. Not much people knew about it, being in same district and so having not heard about the beauty of those places, it was very refreshing experience that we could narrate about to our relatives and friends. Sorry for loading this page with pictures. So those were places. Vellikkil ...

Seems like its been ages, since I have been blogging. Absolutely missed it. Blogging, Cooking, photographing, everything. I was much busy and could spare very little time which I liked to spend alone with a cup of tea. This month has been very relaxed with only few cake orders and to keep myself occupied (though I am occupied in household chores) in my kind of time, I thought I will bounce back to blogging. When I cooked it seemed like I have not cooked properly since so long and photography and styling seemed like a forgotten passion. Everything seemed like I have lost touch in it, thanks to my caking. On post today is Quail roast. Hubby bought fresh Quails from market and he asked me to fry it and make thick gravy like curry. All that clicked me was to make something like this and I gave it a go to have it for dinner. Here goes the recipe: Ingredients: To marinate: Quail- 4 pcs Kashmiri chilli powder- 2 tsp turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp Salt ...

Now I feel lucky to be a house wife. When I was in school i was One girl with high ambitions in life. Scoring high in Grad school, then working and earning was my dream. But after I got married, the whole scenario changed. Even though my husband did not have any objection in me working, my priorities changed to being a good home maker. While I waited for kids to grow up and things to settle down, things got out of my calculations and I got confined inside the four walls. And it was late before I realised that being a house wife or home maker is no less than all other paid jobs plus I now feel lucky that I discovered a new passion which I would n't have discovered if I were a working person. I dont make money but I have plenty of time to execute my passion. Not that I have no work at home, of course i run in short of time and that is not rarely and that is the case always with three little kids but I feel atleast I am not bound by work or a boss which would have been otherwise...

 Nowadays my focus is shifting to something else. Not a vague obsession, This time I am investing most of my time for it too.... Its a cake thing.. Cake has always been my weakness, not in terms of taste but in baking it. But recently it has shifted to cake decorating and its only a while back I started getting it right without any mistakes. For months I had this problem of either not getting the cream rightly whipped or over whipping and yielding butter out of it. Now that I have started getting it right, my next look on was for different ways of cake decorating. Now that I have started doing it artistically, I started making it for friends and families. Also I started getting requests from some neighbors and friends in doing it for them. Thus my cake page on facebook   'The Cake Mistress'  was born. Click on the link to see some of my works. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cake-Mistress/341317546074465?fref=ts .  If all you people...

Ever since I was introduced to this large group on fb, all my heart-bookmarked recipes has been coming to implementation which i delayed solely due to my busy schedule. The group demands bake along by every member of the group in which a recipe is posted every week. I always wanted to try a classic pancake, but with so many recipes on internet and failing to settle on one and also doubting if that would turn up good, I always hesitated to give it a try. But being part of the group left me with no choice other than giving it a try and fasting hubby meant I had to prepare breakfast only for kids who would love to have this even as lunch. And so did I tried and came out awesome. Recipe adapted from here Ingredients: All-purpose flour – 1 1/2 cups Baking powder – 1 tablespoon Salt – 1/2 teaspoon Sugar – 2 tablespoons Egg – 1 Pure vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon Milk – 1 1/4 cup Butter – 75 gms Honey – to serve, optional Method: 1. Add all the dry ingredients t...