Promotional Giveaway for my readers

The CSN promotion team at counter stools contacted me sometime back  about a promotional giveaway to my readers. After few email exchanges I decided to go about it. But then life intervened and two days back I

mailed them again to check if the offer is still open. They were kind to say yes and here I present two choice of gifts to my lovely readers. If you are interested in having a counter stool at your kitchen, do visit their exclusive site for counterstools.

Inspired by Srivalli, I followed a healthy diet plan for sometime. In between I had to break. Now I am back at it, though I  cheat at times. Its fine even I am able to follow atleast partially, since its better than no diet plan at all.  I find any other fellow bloggers inspired to follow the diet. If any of you want to follow a strict diet in terms of wieght and nutrition facts, then this is for you.

Nutritional Label Scale

Enough of dieting topic. How about  some home made waffles. Thanks to Bangalore Baker, I got to know about this from one of her posts.Various possiblities of waffles came to my mind. Hope this interests you as much as it did to me

Chef's Choice International WafflePro

To win one of these, all you have to do is leave a comment here. If you are non-blogger, leave your email id so that I can contact you if you happens to the lucky one. This promotion is open for 10 days ie till 5th of April. If you also tweet about it, you will have an additional chance of winning. The giveaway will be shipped to only US/Canada.

I chose to do this post today, since not everyday do I turn a year older. For a change, this year, I get an opportunity to give the gift. Thanks to my lovely readers who visit here often and to those who take time to leave their comment here.

Microwave Chocolate Thiratipaal- Celebrating Bloggers

The First Recipe i tried when i bought a MicroWave Oven was Priya's Microwave Chocolate Thirati Paal, For a novice in MW this dish is Divine, coz doesnt have much to do and it is done in minutes.

So, When MEC-Celebrating Bloggers Event was announced i immediately thought of trying this again and posting it. It came out very well and my hubby dear enjoyed it a lot coz he has this crazy love for ThiratiPaal. Whenever i return from india first thing he checks with me is Did u get Grand Sweets/Aavin Thirati Paal? Now After this MW Chocolate Thiratipaal he now gets his favourite Dessert ready in a Jiffy!!!

Ingredients

1no Sweetened condensed milk tin (400gms)

1tbsp Ghee

3tbsp Curd

2tbsp Dark chocolate powder
Nuts for garnishing

Method

Take the condensed milk, ghee, curd and dark chocolate powder in a microwave safe bowl. Cook for 12minutes high in microwave oven (take in between and stir every 3 minutes), this mixture would have reached the thiratipaal consistency. Pour this mixture in a bowl , garnish with any nuts. Microwave cooking time may change depending upon your oven.

Sending this ThiratiPaal to MEC-Celebrating Bloggers Event Hosted by Jayashree, Event Started by Srivalli

Neiappam

Neiappam - Traditional Sweet made during Krishna Jayanthi. Some even make it during Aavani Avittam - the Only Male Function!!!! There are n number of recipes for making this, we even have an instant appam recipe. Now, i have made it using the long way by soaking rice and dal. Tasted yummy!!!!

Ingredients

Rice - 3 cups

Urad dal - 3/4 cup

Methi seeds - 1 tsp

Freshly Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup

Jaggery - 3 cups (equal to that of Rice measurement)

1 Medium-sized riped Banana

Method

Soak rice, urad dal and methi seeds for 4-5 hours.  Drain and Grind to fine batter with lil water. The batter should not be thin!!! The Consistency should be between idly and dosa batter. Not too thick and Not too thin!!! Cut the jaggery using Knife to thin slices. Add jaggery and banana to the final round of grinding. Transfer the batter to another vessel, add fresh coconut and mix well. If the batter is too thin add 2 tbsp of wheat flour.

Heat the appam pan, pour the batter in each kuzhi, Dont worry about the Calories, add some Ghee to the appam. Keep the flame low and cook both sides.