Paal cake

A Malabar tea shop special, this tastes better the next day, and then, it is addictive. Kind of like donuts.

Sample Kerala meal

Another favorite sample Kerala meal combo - Rice, sambar, fried fish, yogurt chili peppers, and yogurt.

Rava laddu

One easy delicious treat from childhood.

Old style Kerala sponge cake- I still haven’t achieved that old taste!

Growing up, we used to get these yellow flower shaped cakes back home. I loved the taste and the aroma of those. They still make something that looks like those cakes, but sadly, not at all the same taste or texture. I couldn't find a recipe online either! I tried to recreate that and came up with this. This is delicious, but not that old cake. Wonder what flavoring or essence they used back then. Same with the plum cake that we used to get back then. Today's plum cake is not at all like the old ones.

Yellow split pea soup - sample Kerala meal

My favorite combo. Forgot to add yogurt to the plate. Yellow lentil soup, spicy, fried fish, and a little lime pickle with rice.

Egg bread rolls

This is my tweaked version of eggbread. Soft, with just the right amount of sweetness, this is very easy to make too.

Jangiri

Another Indian sweetmeat. We Malayalis call this on jilebi too. Made of lentils and soaked in sugar syrup, this one is really jangiri, actually it is called by many names, while the real jalebi is made of all purpose flour and most of the time, fermented.