Deep fried Baby Corn Kababs & a Special Award

Have you ever come across a recipe and instantly hooked by it? I hear many yeses... I have come across many such recipes and my bookmarked folder is in the verge of bursting and yelling at me!!! I took a pledge long time back that I will stop bookmarking recipes until I try all the previously bookmarked ones. Thanks to my laziness, the pledge was broken the same day.

When Ria posted her empire style chicken kababs, the way she described it coupled with her inviting pics, I wanted to try it instantly. I didn't have chicken at hand but that didn't stop me and I went ahead substituting chicken with baby corns. We had it with vegetable pulao and the combo was spot on. Will try her original recipe soon...

Adapted from Ria's
~*What U Need*~
For batter
APF / Maida - 2 tbsps
Cornflour - 1 tbsp
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp
Egg - 1
Cumin Powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Lime juice - 1 tbsp
Green chilli - 1(finely chopped)
Red food color - a pinch
Salt - to taste

Baby Corns - 15
Oil for deep frying

How I Made it:
Slice and cut the baby corn into 1/2 inch pieces. In a mixing bowl, whisk all the ingredients under batter section into a smooth mixture. Add the baby corn pieces and mix to coat well. Marinate it in the fridge for 3-4 hours. Heat oil and when hot enough, drop in the marinated pieces and fry for 3-4 mins turning the pieces occasionally. Drain excess oil on paper towel.

Serve hot with ketchup.

Moving on to the special award, a few days back I got an e-mail from Michael Nelsen, Editor of Be@Home blog, part of Become.com. This is what it read:

Hello,
I just found your blog, My Culinary Trial Room, and you have a really great food site! I like that you showcase so many different dishes. You have great photography and your recipes are easy to follow.
I’m an editor for the Be @ Home blog at Pocket Change, part of Become.com’s blogging network, and thought your site was particularly exceptional. I wanted to give you a button for your site for being an “Editor’s Choice.”
If you’re interested in receiving this e-award, please let me know and I’ll create a custom button for your site and send you over the HTML code.
Thank you for your time and keep up the great work!

I was so excited to read the e-mail and was surprised to know that my blog has been read and recognized by such a reputed network. I am so happy to accept this award. Thanks Michael.

Food Blog Award

So thats it Folks...
With Love,

Signs off!!!

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Banana Berry Blast and awards

Its the season of fresh ripe strawberries here and the ones got at this time are bright red and beautiful even to look at. What else do you need to grab a packet or two whenever you lay eyes on them. The recent pack that I got had a few berries which were slightly on the sour side and hence I added a very ripe banana to our milkshake and the shake was a blast of flavors.

~*What U Need*~
Strawberries - 6
Ripe Banana - 1
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
Ice cubes - 2 to 3

For garnishing
Walnuts and whole strawberries

How I made it:
Hull the strawberries. In a blender, add the hulled strawberries, banana, milk, sugar and ice cubes and blend well.

Serve garnished with walnuts and whole strawberries.

Now onto the awards shared by my sweet fellow bloggers. Thanks a ton guys.

Sonali of Only Fish recipes shared "Liebster blog" and "Versatile blogger" award




The versatile blogger and Inspirational blog award from Recipe World.



The versatile blogger award from Maha of mahaslovelyhome.

The rules for accepting this award are:
1. Add the Versatile Blogger Award.
2. Thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link back to their blog.
3. Share 7 completely random pieces of information about yourself.
4. Include this set of rules.
5. Forward this award to 15 fellow bloggers, and inform them with a comment on each of their blogs.

I share these set of awards to following fellow bloggers
> Melange
> Roshu of World of Tastes
> Sobha of Good food
> Asiya of Chocolate and Chillies
> Poonam of Kande Pohe
> Faseela of Good food ends with good talk
> Preeti of Preeti's Kitchen Life
> Anjali of Spice n Sugar Tales
> Kalpana of Life with Spices
> Reshmi of Easy Cook
> Kaveri of Palakkad Chamayal
> Gayathri of G3 Food Spot
> Sravs of SravsCC
> Julie of Erivum Puliyum
> La@ Food Slice

Now onto 7 random info about me
> I am a die hard Harry Potter fan and this was one of the few things that I first shared with my huss the first time I saw him. In fact the first condition that I posted to him was to take me to every Harry Potter film first day first show.
> I love traveling and some of my must-go places are Ireland and Switzerland
> One of my wildest dreams is to attend the La Tomatino Festival @ Spain
> I was never into cooking and never did I think that it would turn into my passion let alone start an own cookblog.
> I am crazy about baking and am now mad about collecting baking pans and most important of all gotta get a good OTG.
> I like being independent and pregnancy has sent me into a dormant state but I am happy about that.
> I had never seen F.R.I.E.N.D.S till my marriage and it was the huss who introduced me to the series and now I have seen all the seasons 4 to 5 times. Bing bang theory and two and a half men also joins the list.

So thats it Folks...
With Love,

Signs off!!!

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Awards Galore Again & Am Lovin' it

I know that I am so slow, no thats a wrong phrase to use... I am turtle slow or can I say it as dead slow in collecting all the lovely awards passed by lovely people and posting it in my blog. I have been a bit busy with my office work and hence most of the posts thats been coming out of the blog are the drafted ones. Only a few are new. and hence the delay in the awards post. But today I was determined to collect and post 'em all... And so I did!!! :)

So on to the awards...

Fajeeda of Faji's hot pot and Vardhini of Vardhini's kitchen

Sangee Vijay of Typical Indian Cooking

Vatsala of Show and Tell

Asha George of A Tasty Challenge

Food Glorious Food of My Personal Food Journal

Oooooffff... At last done... Oh god its not finished yet.. I have to pass it on to some lovely fellow bloggers... Ummmmppppfff I hate this part...

I pass on all these awards to 15 or more of my lovely blogger friends...

Cook from Doha
Babli from Khana Masala
Suparna of Food Fascination
Prathima of Indian Recipes
Suman Singh of Incidental Indian Cooking
Geetha of En Samayal Araiyil
Sobha of Good food
Deepthi of Good Food Recipes
Angie of Angie's Recipes
Hari Chandana of Indian Cuisine
Kalpana of Life with spices
Vardhini of Vardhini's kitchen
Sangee of Typical Indian Cooking
Sadhana of MyLovelyKitchen
Aruna of Veggie Paradise
Ambreen of Simply sweet n savory
Sharada of Cooking Kriya
Kalyani of Kalyani's kitchen

So guys u know the rules, keep the ball rolling!!! Happy Blogging!!!

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Green salad with Sweet Corn and Olives | Awards Again

I am obsessed with salads these days. I go to any restaurants and you see me looking at the salad recipes available. Nothing can beat a fresh refreshing salad with a homemade simple dressing in one hand and “Confessions of a Shopaholic” in the other hand :). This is one of my favie mainly because it includes sweet corn and olives.

~* What U Need*~
Cabbage – ½ cup
Lettuce leaves - 10
Green capsicum – ¼ cup
Boiled Corn kernels – ½ cup
Pitted black olives – 2 tbsp
Apple cider Vinegar – 1 tbsp
Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp
Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Pepper – a pinch
Red wine – 1 tbsp (optional)

How I Made It
Chop the cabbage, lettuce and green capsicum to a not so big or not so small size.
In a large bowl, add the chopped veggies, olives, vinegar, mayonnaise, olive oil, salt, pepper and red wine.


Give it a stir.
Serve immediately. Sit back and relish the freshness.

We had this with a glass of fig n honey milkshake and it was divine.

Now moving on to the awards...
Shoba of FoodMazaa passed on her very own Food Mazaa award and Ambreen of Simply Sweet N Savory again passed on this award.

Akila of Learning to Cook passed on the participation award for the event - Dish Name starts with 'G'

Jabeen of Jabeen's corner passed on a whole bunch of awards.

Ambreen of Simply Sweet N Savory has passed on a whole basket of awards :)... Thanks sweetie...

Snegithi of En Iniya Illam shared this cool award...

Thanks a lot dearies and I apologize for taking such a long time to post all the awards. All these awards mean a lot to me.
I have already penned moused down 7 crazy facts about me here.

The rules of the Awards are ..
1) Accept, and post them on ur blog with the link to the person who gave it to u.
2) Pass it to 15 other blogger friends to keep the ball rolling.
3) Let the nominated person know about his/her award

And now... whew.... the difficult part. Passing on the awards to fellow bloggers...
I would like to give it to...

Geetha of En Samayal Araiyil
Preety of Preety's kitchen
Cook from Doha of Experiments with taste
South Indian Home
Love2cook
Aruna of Veggie Paradise
Nandhini of Nandhini's food
Priya sreeram of Bon Appetit
TreatNTrick
Jeyashri of Jeyashri's kitchen
Prathima of Prats corner
Ammu Mohan of Rasi's Veg Bites
Menaga of Sashiga
Saraswathi of Saras's Kitchen
Ananda of A pinch of Love

I am sorry but I am limited to numbers... But everyone of my dear blogger friends deserve these awards... Next time I am not gonna pick names... I have decided guys...

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Awards r raining Cats and Dogs!!!

Dear friends,
I am so much honored. Everyone had been kind and generous enough to pass me so many awards. This post would be quite long but nah not with my words but with the generosity of each fellow blogger... Thanks dearies.

Love2cook passed on the below awards

Sojo of My Culinary experiments and Harika of Harika's Kitchen passed a collage of awards and an individual sisterhood award

Harika of Harika's Kitchen passed a whole lot of awards

I have already penned moused down 7 crazy facts about me here.

These were the two unique awards of the lot that Harika passed on.

To all my dear blog mates, everyone of you deserve these awards and hence please feel free and pick up these awards and do pass it on to keep the blog rolling...

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