Broccoli Soup

Broccoli Soup is a healthy, tasty and easy to make recipe. This creamy soup is prepared with broccoli, onions, almonds cooked in milk and flavored with salt and pepper.

Step 1: Ingredients for Broccoli Soup



1) Broccoli florets - 1 Cup 
2) Chopped Onion - 1/4 Cup
3) Garlic Pods - 1 to 2
4) Almond - 8 to 10 (soaked and skin removed)
5) Pepper - as per taste
6) Salt - as per taste 

Step 2: Cooking the Broccoli Soup

​

1) In a pan/vessel, add the broccoli florets, almonds, garlic, onions, milk and cook till broccoli is soft.

2) Allow it to cool down and blend it to very smooth consistency in a blender.

3) After blending transfer it back to the same vessel, season it with salt and pepper and allow it to boil.

4) Broccoli Soup is ready to be served. Enjoy !!! 

For more homemade items click here

Continue reading →

Homemade Play Dough

Homemade Play Dough is very easy and inexpensive to make at home. Play dough helps to develop motor skills in young children and also acts as a perfect medium to express their imagination and creativity. So lets get started to make it.

Continue reading →

Pumpkin Rice Pudding

Pumpkin rice pudding is a simple and delicious dessert made with pumpkin and rice cooked in milk and enriched with sugar, nuts and cardamom powder.

 

Step 1: Ingredients

1) Long Grain Rice - 2 Tbsp

2) Chopped Pumpkin - 1 Cup

3) Chopped Cashews and Raisins - 2 Tbsp

4) Milk - 1 - 1.5 Cups

5) Sugar - less than 1/3 Cup (as per taste)

6) Cardamom powder - 1/2 Tsp

7) Butter - 2 - 3 Tbsp

Step 2: Pumpkin Rice Pudding

1) Pressure cook the chopped pumpkin with little water and mash it well.

2) Soak the rice in water for 10 minutes.

3) Place a pan on medium heat and add butter.

4) Once the butter is melted, add in the nuts and saute till they are slightly brown

5) Drain the soaked rice and crush it as much as possible using hand

6) To the same pan, add the rice and saute for few minutes.

7) Then add the milk to the pan and put it on low heat and cook till the rice is completely cooked with occasional stirring.

8) Once the rice is cooked, add the cooked and mashed pumpkin.

9) Cover the lid and cook on low heat (occasionally stirring)

10) Using a potato masher mash it up so that there will be a even texture

11) Add sugar as per taste(I used little less than 1/3 cup sugar ) and the Cardamom powder to it.

12) Add the fried nuts and garnish.

Serve hot or cold as per wish.

Continue reading →

Naturally Colored Sprinkles

 
Naturally Colored Sprinkles are made from scratch using the colors extracted from vegetables like Beetroots, Carrots, Spinach and Red Cabbage without using any artificial ingredients, dyes or raw egg.

Continue reading →

Crayon Wax Pendant

In the Crayon Wax Pendant, polymer clay is used as base of the pendant. Different color Crayons are grated and filled in the design carved in the pendant and then baked. Finally coat with a clear nail polish to finish.

Continue reading →

Paleo Tandoori Chicken and a Coconut Cream Dip

Tandoori Chicken is one of the famous Indian appetizer and a snack. In this post, I would like to show an easy and simple method of preparing Paleo tandoori chicken using fresh spices and coconut milk with a coconut cream dip.

Continue reading →

Easy Homemade Clarified Butter (Ghee)

Easy Homemade Clarified Butter (Ghee) is used in most of the Indian food preparations because of its taste and aroma. It has healthy saturated fat unlike many of the vegetable oils found in the market and hence it is also healthy to eat. In this post, I would like to show you how to prepare a simple easy homemade clarified butter with the texture as the store bought one. Prepare and enjoy!!!

 

 

Step 1: Ingredients

1) Unsalted Butter - 454 grams

2) Water - 2 Tsp

 

 

Step 2: Points to be Noted (Important)

1) Use a clean and dry heavy bottom pan and spatula.

2) Either refrigerated butter or room temperature butter can be used. Room temperature butter melts faster.

3) Clean and dry air tight container is needed for storage. Preferably glass container.

4) Use clean and dry spoon to use/spread the clarified butter to avoid contamination.

4) Fine Mesh filter is required to filter the clarified butter.

5) Filter it as soon the clarified butter is formed. Don't allow it to rest in the pan the clarified butter is made as it becomes difficult to filter the milk solids once it starts to solidify.

6) Don't close the jar after filtering the hot clarified butter as water droplets will be formed on the lid which will contaminate the clarified butter.

7) Clarified butter can be stored in your kitchen cabinet (away from light, not on the counter) for up to 3 months.

8) When made in large quantity, place the clarified butter(lid tightly closed) into the refrigerator and can be used up to an year.

 

 

Step 3: Making Clarified Butter

1) Place a heavy bottom pan on medium heat and add the unsalted butter to it.

2) Once the butter starts melting keep on stirring so that it does not stick to the bottom of the pan or burn.

3) Initially there will be a milky layer formed on the top of the melted butter. (that is when the melted butter is starting to boil)

4) Keep on stirring continuously the boiling butter, still having it on medium heat till it changes from a milky texture to golden color translucent liquid. There will be some milk solids formed at the bottom.

5) Then reduce the heat from medium to low.When the sizzling in the translucent liquid stops then sprinkle 2 -3 Tsp water in it.(This is done to obtain a grainy texture of the clarified butter as the store bought one. If you require a soft texture then don't add water)

6) Once the sizzling caused by adding water stops then filter the clarified butter and store in the glass container. (don't close the jar lid till it cools down )

7) Allow it to rest undisturbed for 10-12 hours or overnight for it to solidify.

Clarified Butter / Ghee is ready !

Continue reading →

Roasted Garlic Olive Oil Spread

Roasted Garlic Olive Oil Spread is fluffy and spreadable straight from the refrigerator. It is made by whipping Olive oil and Butter in equal proportions along with Roasted Garlic. It is a simple, delicious and easy to make spread without compromising the taste of butter. Try It you will Love it :)

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Omelette Pizza

Omelette Pizza is very simple and healthy dish that can be served at any time of the day. The eggs along with veggies form the base of the pizza and topped with some more veggies and cheese. Omelette Pizza is very easy recipe to make within 15 to 20 minutes and satisfies the Pizza and Omelette cravings together.

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Sweet Coconut Fried Pies

Sweet Coconut Fried Pies has crunchy outside and sweetened coconut inside making it very delicious snack . This is a famous dish in India and is prepared especially for Diwali (Festival of lights). These pies are called asSweet Somas/ Karchikai/ Kajjikayalu/ Karanji in different parts of India. These are made with different variation in the filling mostly sweet. These fried pies can be stored for more than a week in air tight containers and consumed.

In this post, I would like to show you how to make this easy Sweet Coconut Fried Pies.

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Memories of My Motherhood

Every mother holds on to the memories of her child crystal clear no matter how many years pass by. Each and every moment is very special.  Motherhood brings in new kind of energy, new responsibilities, lot of happiness and satisfaction. Even the smallest accomplishments by their kids bring immense pleasure to moms. From the day one till today it has been a complete learning process and happy experience for me with my daughter.

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Share the Load ! Everybody do Your Share !

Clean Up , Clean Up 

Everybody Clean Up 

Clean Up ,  Clean Up 

Everybody Everywhere 

Clean Up ,Clean Up 

Everybody do your Share 

- As my daughter sings her kindergarten song when she helps me doing the chores
k.

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: A Letter to My Daughter About Honesty

Dear Sweety,


In this letter, I would like to record couple of important moments in our life when you have learned 'Honesty is the best policy - When it is served with More Sugar and Less Pepper'.

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Scrambled Egg Mini Samosas

Samosa - A tasty and famous Indian Snack that has a crunchy outside and a tasty inside. It became more popular through out the world due to its taste and the crunchiness.

Egg - By itself is a healthy, tasty and easy to cook food.

In this Post, I would like to show you an easy and simple way to cook Scrambled Egg Mini Samosas. These are bite size samosas that makes it a perfect snack for any occasion.

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Simple Roasted Chicken Noodle Soup in Crock Pot

Slow cooking the butter roasted chicken and the fresh vegetables in the chicken broth brings the rich flavor to this soup and makes it tastier and healthier.

Just Homemade: Simple Roasted Chicken Noodle Soup in Crock Pot

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Basic Two Strand Bead Necklace

I always have an interest towards jewelry making. Recently, I got a chance to attend a jewelry making session and learnt a very basic jewelry making technique. In this instructable, I would love to share a simple step by step method of making a necklace that is simple and looks good. Hope it helps :-)

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Achieved our dream together

As our child’s 2nd birthday was nearing my husband and myself who are from a normal middle class family had a dream of buying a residential land on our princesses birthday with all our savings money. Even though we have dream to buy a land, we actually did not know where to start and how to go about, we know buying land is a huge investment and we have to be very careful. we were not interested to take a loan from bank and pay the monthly installments for decades.

Once decided to give a try, we have expressed our interest to both of our family members. Everyone appreciated our idea and suggestions from each of them started to pour in.From the next day onward with lots of enthusiasm we started searching in the internet, local newspapers etc…. as days went by we felt everything became slow and a lot of hesitation and confusion was involved.

One day during evening tea time, my father called me and said buying a land is not easy but if we missed this chance then we may never get it back and he also asked me to discuss with my husband to put a plan with our requirements, desire and a budget on a paper to have a clear picture.That night was a sleepless night for my husband and myself. we discussed and came up with clear requirements and a plan. This gave us back our hope of continuing our search.

As my husband works from a different state, during weekdays myself along with my father, father-in-law and brother-in-law started to contact different land promoters and visited their lands later would discuss with my husband over the phone daily and during weekends my husband and myself continue to do the same.
Meanwhile my mother, brother, mother-in-law and sister-in-law gathered information from friends and other family members. Within couple of weeks we had lot of information and we had identified few lands to consider for buying. Those couple of months all the family members came together and worked as a team and spend quality time together.

Finally after thinking of lots of pros and cons we had decided a land that suits all our requirements, but the budget was higher than we estimated. Since the land was good and we decided to buy, my husband was thinking to get loan from family and friends for the rest of the amount but I told him that it is our dream and we will put in all our savings and jewelry and we did that still we were short. We informed our family member and without any hesitation they accepted to help us in all possible ways they can and they did it. 

Nearly around 3-4 months of entire families effort the day has come and we finally registered our land on our daughter's birthday. That day was obviously a very joyous day in our life not just because it is our only daughter's birthday or that we bought a residential land but it is that we did that as a family and as a team. The experience that we went through those 4 months was very wonderful and built our relationship with everyone even more stronger It was the time of my life when I realized that we are #together in this journey of life and were never alone.

This blog post is part of housing.com

Continue reading →

Just Homemade: Edible Fondant Rings

Rings in any format is always special. In this blog post, I will show you how to make beautiful, colorful and edible rings using the marshmallow fondant and some simple tools. These rings can be used to decorate engagement and marriage cakes. It can also be used to decorate muffins for special occasions. The design that I showed here is made using the simple tools available at home, there are endless design possibilities and the limit is up to our imaginations.

Continue reading →