Author: Lekshmi Radhakrishnan

Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

Looking for a fantastic cream cheese frosting that tastes great and is also better for your health and the environment? Well, look no further!

Easy Tips For a Greener Holiday Season

Easy Tips For a Greener Holiday Season

During the holiday season, between Thanksgiving and New Year’s day, the amount of waste we generate increases by a whopping 25%. That equates to an extra million tons each week in the form of food waste, shopping bags, bows, ribbons, packaging, and wrapping paper, to 

Sambar Masala Powder

Sambar Masala Powder

You’ll never go back to store-bought sambar masala powder after you give this a try! You can make it in bulk and store it in an airtight container for ease.

Roadtrip to Yellowstone & Grand Teton

Roadtrip to Yellowstone & Grand Teton

This year has been rather unsettling, to say the least. We have been staying completely isolated especially since my Mom lives with us and she falls into the high-risk category because of her age. If that wasn’t bad enough the smoke blanketing Seattle from the 

Split Chickpeas Pudding | Kadala Pradhaman

Split Chickpeas Pudding | Kadala Pradhaman

Kadala Pradhaman is hands down everyone’s favorite Kerala dessert in this house and it makes an appearance for every single sadya we make throughout the year! If you’re a chickpeas lover like us, I guarantee you’ll be a fan too. Mashed split chickpeas is simmered 

Vermicelli Pudding | Seviyan Kheer | Semiya Payasam

Vermicelli Pudding | Seviyan Kheer | Semiya Payasam

This is quite possibly the easiest and quickest Indian dessert. Roasted vermicelli is cooked in milk, cardamom, and sugar, then garnished with roasted cashews and raisins. Typically payasams from Kerala are made with coconut milk and sweetened with coconut sugar. This particular one is not 

Cucumber Pulissery | Vellarikka Pulissery

Cucumber Pulissery | Vellarikka Pulissery

Diced cucumbers in spiced coconut and yogurt-based curry. Pulissery is typically served last during a sadhya when my stomach is ready to burst at the seams so I usually end up not eating it. But I do love it as a casual every other week 

Pulissery

Pulissery

Pulissery is another spiced coconut and yogurt-based curry. It’s typically served last during a sadhya when my stomach is ready to burst at the seams so I usually end up not eating it. But I do love it as a casual every other week curry 

Ash Gourd & Black-Eyed Peas Curry | Olan

Ash Gourd & Black-Eyed Peas Curry | Olan

One of my friends who tried olan for the first time said, ” It tastes like a bowl full of love!” Yeap, that pretty much sums it up. Black-eyed peas and ash gourd or winter melon are simmered in coconut milk and seasoned ever so 

Kerala Vegetable Medley| Avial

Kerala Vegetable Medley| Avial

Avial is an original from Kerala. It’s Kerala’s very own unique vegetable medley. Veggies are layered, steam cooked, and enrobed in a mixture of spiced grated coconut and luxurious coconut oil. A sadhya is just not complete without this on the upper right-hand corner of