Love and Calories!!

Gargi Mahatme, a staunch follower of my food blog, "Love and Calories", have always admired my efforts put in cooking and has recommended many world foods to me. Some of them, she has tried in her own kitchen and has sent the recipes to me. One such dish is this delicious "Cheesy Mushroom & Spinach Chicken Breasts". I am very pleased to include this dish in my blog as the "Guest Recipe". Thank You Gargi for sharing this recipe and apologies for the delay in publishing it to the world!! Enjoy Cooking!! Ingredients: 6 chicken breasts  oregano flakes grated cheese (generous amount) white button mushrooms (finely diced/chopped) a small bunch of spinach (you can use parsley as an option instead) olives (optional) but if you are using parsley,  add the olives as it will have the Italian touch to the dish.. (cheese+parsley+olives+garlic) 8-10 garlic (finely chopped) butter  extra virgin olive oil salt & pepper for seasoning toothpicks...

Now Pulikachal or Puliyodharai must be a very unfamiliar word to most of you however South Indians can immediately relate to it. So let me explain to those who literally don't have any idea whatsoever. As most of us know that Rice (Sadham in Tamil) has got a special place in every South Indian's heart, plain white rice is mixed with variety of lentils, vegetables & spice mixes to give an unique flavouring to it. Many of the popular variety rice dishes are Thayir Sadham (Curd Rice), Thakkali Sadham (Tomato Rice), Sambar Sadham, Thenga Sadham (Coconut Rice) etc. One of which is the Puli Sadham or the Puliyodharai which is nothing but Tamarind Rice. The Rice is mixed with a special tempered tamarind mix which tastes super TANGY & obviously delicious. You just need some poppadams or some crisps to go with it. Usually I buy ready Puliyodharai mix from any of the Asian Stores & use it instantly to my plain white rice. These variety rices are so quick to make especia...

This recipe of "Minced Meat Pasta with Rum & Cheese" is brought to you by my very good friend Simran Wahan, who has tried & tasted herself at her home & recommended the same to be published on my blog. I was also super excited as this is the very first "Guest" Recipe & that too from a non blogger. So excuse the clarity of the photographs as she had no intention of sending this recipe to me but later changed her mind. Thank You Simran for your lovely recipe, and am sure your recipe will be seen world wide & will be tried out by some foodies at their respective kitchens, including me. ;) Ingredients: 200 gm pasta (Any of your choice) 500 gm minced meat 20 ml rum (Simran says, if you can handle it, add more ;) ) 200 gm sweet corn soup powder (any corn based soup) 5-6 cloves of garlic (crushed) 10 gm sugar loads of grated cheese (preferably mozzarella or cheddar) fresh sprig of thyme or dried thyme to sprinkle at the end salt & pepper to season M...