Wanderberry Tales

A new recipe on the blog to celebrate Diwali - Pineapple Kesari. May joy, love and prosperity illuminate your lives and homes. Wishing you all a Happy Diwali! Ingredients Pineapple - 1 cup roughly chopped Rava/Semolina - 1.5 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Ghee - 1/2 cup  Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Saffron strands - 3 or 4 Water - 3 cups Raisins - 2 tbsp Cashew nuts - 2 tbsp Method Heat about 2 tbsp of ghee in a pan and fry the cashew nuts until color begins to change. Drain on kitchen towel In the same ghee fry the raisins until they puff up. Drain and set aside. Add another tablespoon of ghee and fry the pineapple. Keep it covered and let it cook for about 5 minutes. Remove the pineapples and add 2 more tables spoon of ghee and add the semolina. Cook the semolina until roasted and fragrant. Meanwhile heat water in a saucepan along with saffron strands. Add the semolina to the boiling water and keep mixing to avoid lump formation. Once it is mixed well, ...

Even the best of the hostel food seems bad when the monotony in their menu gets to you. That was the case with our hostel. We were blessed to have non vegetarian food for every dinner except on Fridays but yet after a point in time we began craving outside food.That is how food from Ande ka Funda, a small food joint near our hostel caught our attention. It was very affordable on our student days allowance and quite tasty too - Egg roll, bread omelette, aloo paratha, gobi paratha were their popular items. I took a liking for their egg rolls which came either as single egg roll or double egg roll. The double egg roll made a good meal! My paratha egg roll came into being trying to replicate theirs. Its a favorite due to the simplicity of the whole thing! You need not make paratha from scratch, you could always use the store brought ones when you are in a hurry! The same recipe goes well with chapati too! It is my go to recipe when we need a quick dinner! Ingredients Plain P...

If you were to name one item in your pantry that you cannot do without - what would that one item be?  I do not have to think twice about this - its definitely EGG! I cannot do without eggs in the pantry, doesn't matter even if I go a week without eating eggs but to know that it is in the fridge and I can always reach out to in case of emergency makes me at peace. As I speak, I have just one egg left in my pantry and I am desperate to restock. This week has been Egg-strodinary week with egg on the menu almost all days simply because its the easiest thing to cook especially when your health prevents you from making elaborate meals. Hard boil, soft boil, fried , sunny side up, poached, omelette - there are many ways to go about it.  I have been meaning to dole out some easy egg recipes but laziness got the better of me. But then I realised that eggs are meant for those lazy days when you want something to eat other than veggies and defrosting and cleaning of the meat a...