Having grown up in a Christian-dominated society, I grew up with a lot of influence from the religion. I studied in a Christian School (no matter what the headmistress says now, it was a Christian School, we sang hymns at Monday assembly and said "Our Father" every morning before classes), almost all of my parents' friends were Catholics, I used to find more peace in Kurisupally, a church that was closer to my home than Thirunakkara Sivan Temple. This is not to say I favour one religion over the other, I ended up turning agnostic. Ironic, I know.
Anyway, this post was not to talk about my religious preferences, but to talk about Swapna Chechy and her blog -
Swapna's Cuisine. Swapna Chechy is a childhood friend of my sister's. She is probably familiar to most of you since she has been an avid food blogger for the past couple years. Her cooking distinctly reminds me of my childhood, of sneaking in homemade wine when I was 8, eating bitter, rum-soaked raisins by the fistful at 10, and the sugar rush from all the Christmas cakes, both homemade and otherwise, that would flood into our home starting the first week of December well into the New Year.
Here are 6 Christmas Recipes from Swapna's Cuisine that I highly recommend.
Not sure if I will have time this year to make any Christmas cookies and cakes but I will be home at the time so I am sure there will be no shortage of
Christmas Fruit Cake!
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Fun post ! Im going to kerala fr a week, any recommendations fr authentic food ? Thnks
ReplyDeleteOh God… This is a big surprise on a lazy Sunday morning when I saw your mail Bindya!!! Thank you so much dear for recommending those recipes… I am on cloud 9 now :):)
ReplyDelete:-D! Now where have we heard the first part again! Had to laugh. Many of us can relate to the 'convent-educated' part!!!! Was looking at the Vellayappam; we call vellayappam for the white one. This one looks more like a regular 'appam'.
ReplyDeleteThanks a ton for this link...Am definitely making that Christmas cake, looks so so good !!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, can totally relate to the Catholic school bit, the 'Our Father' and the churches !
Brilliantly done... would love to try tha plum cake!
ReplyDeletewow..would love to try that chicken balls..Yum
ReplyDeleteEven I luv her space,..recipes are perfect for the Christmas,..
ReplyDeleteHi Nag,
ReplyDeleteWhat ever you say .... Swapna's recipes are good but your kind of explanation with the pic by pic narration is aswome.....Thank you and keep it up.
Our Father is one prayer I will never forget, the number of times we've said it:)...First time at your friends blog...will definitely try the appam.
ReplyDeleteX'mas is big in Kottayam..! I still remember all the shops in Kanjikuzhy having tables out on the pavement filled with X'mas cards and stuff... By New Year's our house used to overrun with more cakes than we knew what to do with... Love X'mas time.. my fave time of the year..
ReplyDeleteThanks for the list... :)
Once i tasted Vegetable stew Appam and Plum cake..yummy...thanks to visit my blog.
ReplyDeletecheers
rani