Happy's Cook

Sunday, April 03, 2016

Oven Toasted Cashew Nuts Recipe | Spicy Roasted Cashew Nuts

Hope everyone is having a good and relaxing weekend. We had a great time today. My daughter, Happy was very busy throughout the day taking care of her new baby doll. She bathed the doll, changed a new dress and took it to the church. Also, on our way back home she made the doll play slide and swing along with her. It was fun seeing her imitating Jany and me when she talks to the doll. As I type this post, she is making her baby doll sleep by singing rhymes :)

Let's move on to today's post about the crunchy toasted cashews. (Don't worry about the fat, it is healthy to have few cashews a day). Before starting to Sydney, I was clearing all the leftover items from by fridge. I had some leftover cashew nuts which dad has brought to Chennai two months back. So thought of using it in a recipe. Finally, I tried this guilt free toasted cashews and cashew nut pakoda, which I will be posting it soon.

Kaima Idly Recipe | Recipe with Left Over Idly | Vegetable Kaima Idly | Fried Idly with Masala | Breakfast Recipe

Hope my regular readers might be thinking where "Happyscook" had gone over the past few months. Few well-wishers and blogging friends personally emailed me asking about my disappearance from this lovely space. And, this is a well deserving break according to me, Yes!! we have moved to Sydney in February. To set everything in our new home and sending Happy to a new playschool took almost two months. Though I had taken 70+ recipes in my draft from India, I was very lazy to compose a post again.

Finally, I am back with a new recipe. Let's go to today's recipe and it is a recipe for using leftover Idly. I had Kaima Idli 4 years back in Saravana Bhavan restaurant which was inside my office campus. I liked it very much and I was having it frequently until I was bored. Three months back after a long break I tried chilli Idly in a local restaurant which was very similar to the Saravana Bhavan Kaima idly. Jany liked it and Happy too was interested, but it was very spicy for her to handle. Hence, the next week I tried this Kaima idli in the home for her sake with the spice level according to her preference. We all loved it and here I am with the recipe:

Pongal Special Recipes

Khajoor Ka Halwa Recipe | Dates Halwa | Chef Venkatesh Bhat Recipes - Recipe #9

Hope everyone are in celebration mood and I wanted to post a dessert to celebrate the first day of the year. So here I am, with this rich and delicious Khajoor ka Halwa. I tried it during Diwali but somehow missed to post it here. Also, I missed posting my Venkatesh Bhat Recipe series for the past few months. Planning to concentrate in the future. I got this recipe from his show Samayal Samayal. This is a very rich dessert which is prepared with dates, channa dal, milk and ghee. I have already posted Ghajar ka Halwa/Carrot halwa which is similar to this. Without any delay, let's see the preparation steps:

Peanut Butter Marshmallow Fudge Recipe | Easy Chocolate Fudge | Homemade Chocolate Fudge | Peanut Chocolate Fudge

I thank God, the Almighty for giving us a peaceful and blessed year. The year 2015 went well for us with so many good memories and fun. We are ready to welcome the new year with same hope and prayers. I wish everyone a Happy New Year. May the new year brings Joy, Peace and Happiness to you and your entire family. To end this year with a sweet post, I had reserved this in my drafts for more than three months now. I love marshmallows and I introduced it to Happy when we were in Paris. Though it doesn't have any health benefits, I prefer to munch few :). I reserved few to try this recipe and here I am with this yummy and super quick fudge recipe:

Vazhakkai Podimas Recipe | Raw Banana Podimas | Raw Banana Stir fry

I am back with a dish for my vegetarian readers. I know how they have cursed me for posting non-veg recipes more often. I am planning to balance it in the future by giving importance to both veg and non-veg. Today's recipe is my recent favourite side dish for rice. I got this recipe from my colleague Nisha. She is a pure vegetarian and I bug her to share her traditional recipes. She even discussed with her mom and shared me few recipes. We are a small gang of people who go for lunch sharply by 12.30. In the gang, everyone is pure vegetarian except me. So obviously, our chit chat revolves around the food we bring that day. Once Nisha brought this and it tasted awesome. I got the recipe from her and tried it that week. We all loved it and I am here with this simple and easy recipe: