The infant happy recipe that we are going to make today involves the use of Porridge (Daliya).
Porridge is a rich source of protein and is good for your infant's stomach and digestion. [More]

The recipe we are going to make today is with Moong Dal (a type of lentil). It is commonly known as Moong Dal Soup/ Moong Dal Ka Pani in Hindi.

Lentil soup is recognized as a highly nutritious, particularly good source of Protein, Dietary Fiber, B vitamins, magnesium, iron, and Potassium. Lentils are very easy and quick to cook. Lentil soup helps your child develop his/her taste buds for a healthy food and it plays an important part in the child's mental and physical growth. [More]

Bitter gourd is one vegetable that my husband has hated for years due to its bitterness and i guess you would find people in every home who hate it too. But here we present a recipe to make it spicy and chatpata so that its bitterness is moved away a bit and you can enjoy its high vitamin and minerals like calcium, phosphorous, iron, copper and potassium. [More]

It is a strange but true fact found by a Good Food channel study in Britain that 1 out of 20 women don't even know how to boil eggs. Another strange fact that has come up is that 1 in 10 women can cook fewer than three meals without looking at a recipe book or asking for help.

The poll of 2,000 men and women commissioned by the Good Food channel found that the typical female can cook only seven dishes from scratch.
More than one in five women struggles with a basic curry, one in six cannot bake a cake and one in ten has never cooked a roast. [More]

It is summer time again in India and the season of delicious Mangoes too. Mango enjoys a unique place in Indian hearts. it is considered to be king of fruits and is one of the most desired fruit in hot days. Mango is sweet in taste and its basic nature(taaseer) is hot. You would have heard about this from your dada and dadiji's that if Mango's heat is not taken away, it may harm your internal system. Also, if you are suffering from Acne (pimples) on your face or any other similar disease, your doctor would have advised you to stay away from Mango and dry fruits. Dry fruits are also hot in nature. But what to do if you simply love Mango? Is there a way out? [More]

Identifying the stale state of packaged meat is going to be easier soon. A new technology developed by Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT in Munich is a step forward in this direction. They have developed a micro film which is initially yellow in color and turns blue if the meat has started decaying. [More]

In a new research, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth looked at the amounts of alcohol women drank during their early pregnancy and analysed its effects on their babies. The study linked drinking alcohol during pregnancy with an increased risk of miscarriage, premature birth, and low birth weight. [More]

Researchers at the China Agricultural University bred 300 cattle with human genes so their milk contains the same beneficial and unique nutrients and fat content as breast milk. It is certainly a good news for moms unable or unwilling to breast feed their child.

There is still a debate going-on on the safety and nutrient content of this milk as compared to human milk. Scientists feel that genetically modified cow's milk would be safe for child feed. [More]

The researchers have found that even a few minutes of cooking reduces levels of those compounds. The reduction is steepest in whole garlic, and less pronounced in garlic that has been crushed before cooking. Crushing or chopping garlic releases an enzyme, alliinase, that catalyzes the formation of allicin, which then breaks down to form a variety of healthful organosulfur compounds.

Hence, allowing crushed garlic to stand for 10 minutes before cooking enhances formation of those compounds before heat inactivates alliinase. [More]

I also sent an entry for my husband's great effort to make something very unique for me. He is not a great cook but he did this trial specially for me and was successful. This is the biggest gift i could have ever got from him..though i expect some more bigger ones :) [More]

I started my cooking stint with washing utensils and dishes and finally graduated to cooking vegetables.
Initially i used to get confused about what spices to add, what to do with vegetables and finally how to gets things together to eat.

When i used to cook, only i used to eat!!! I never had any sense for any spices..it made no difference if i put more or less salt, i used to enjoy my dish all alone...nobody had the guts to appreciate my work :( [More]

Have you ever wondered what happens to the animals that get killed on road mishaps? Well...they get eaten by other animals, birds and HUMANS. Yes..you read it right...Humans.

Well, I have not come across anybody who eats them but a full cook book talking about various ways to cook the road kills does prove a point that there are people who eat them!! [More]