The Pink Café

I was looking for a dessert which is simple and healthy for today and what came to my mind was Parfait. But the day was Mexican themed and I didn't want to deviate for the dessert part and spoil my theme plan ;) I was looking for similar desserts of Mexican origin, coz I wanted an easy healthy option and has base ingredients which I already have at home.  My search for the recipe ended in this great dessert from Mexico, The Fruit Bionico, which resembles parfait in many ingredients, just some difference in some of them. And I found an interesting factor in it and that strengthened my decision to go on with this. Yes, that is nothing but, our own freshly grated coconut :P Bionico is on sweeter side when compared to Parfait because of its sweetner condensed milk. I had my jars saved from Frozen bottle ice cream cakes, and that helped me to give my Bionico that ramp ready look. After the layers were set up, I was going crazy with the photos, as the beauty was looking so pr

This was on my Mexican themed spread day, I prepared Fajita which is a very easy and always a party hit dish. This can be a finger food, as stuffings inside breads, or even as side dish for the main course. As any other Mexican dish, this is on the high side of spiciness and should have a flaming symbol on the plate. I have seen Mexican foods being loved in India because of this spicy factor, as we Indians can't eat Bland food, lol  (no offense intended). Jokes apart, I love every cuisine, as even it is different from ours, every single cuisine has its authentic value and taste, that once you get into the soul of each food, you will see the beauty of them. The base spices are very simple and common in all dishes, it is just the addons vary per dish in their cuisine. According my food ethics, you should maintain the base recipe as is if you are preparing an authentic food of a particular cuisine. Something like, you should not prepare chicken with Chinese sauces and call it Faji

I am catching up my healthy eating back this week, as the past 2 weeks were not so healthy, literally was eating out all the junks, donuts, mousse, milk shakes, ice creams, steaks... Oh my god the list never ends. I think I ate for a lifetime the past weeks. So this week was supposed to be that break week, to retain back my healthy cooking and eating of course, and a big order was placed in Big basket, my favorite store. As you guys would know by now, I am trying out salads every weekend as it was a big hit among my friends. Today also I have prepared a salad, which I would wish to call, a Green Salad, as the green color is overpowering others. I think this is influenced by a YouTube video on healthy foods, on how they can keep you feel full and with less calories. If you want to view that video here is this link : Free foods. So greens are one among the first free foods which has enough nutrients but has negligible calories. So I grabbed a bunch of veggies and also ma

Everyone out there, who are in my circle knows my love affair with this guy and I don't think I have to now officially publish this message. My obsession, my love Hot Chocolate! Chocolates were my love growing up too, nevertheless to mention, every kid would love chocolate. But I was never a person with sweet tooth, I loved all the savory things stuffed in the bakery slides and used to drool over it, because at my home my health guide Mom had a very big 'No' for bakery stuffs. But lately I realized that my love for chocolate is not just an infatuation as a kid, but it is so real and when I say chocolate, it is not every chocolate out there. It is the purest, darkest chocolates with more than 70% cocoa in it. Some of my favorites being the Belgian made Godiva, Lindt bars and Lindors in dark chocolate flavor. I will munch over a 90% Lindt bar just like that and my friends called me crazy when they tasted and blamed me for spoiling their mouth :-| I don't have any ratio

Parfait pronounced as "Parfae" in French means Perfect, and there is no doubt how this dish got that name. It is a perfect blend of its ingredients which touches all senses of your taste buds, sweet, sour, crunchy, crispy, nutty... And good thing is we can have it guilt free if made with right ingredients and proposition. Parfait is such a flexible dish where you can master the ingredients yourself and you won't go wrong about it. Its easy and a fulfilling dessert which everyone would love and you can save your efforts for your other courses in meal, if this is planned for dessert :) Traditionally Parfait is made with a custard cream as per wiki, but all the later ones and YouTube videos shows the Greek Yogurt, fruity layers, the healthy one. To make it more healthy, I added honey as substitute to sugar. So you guys know, weekends are my time to pamper myself, and while pampering I don't want myself to go overboard and over do and put on my pounds. Parfait save

This time when my hubby was in Bangalore for visit, I was making traditional breakfast items and Idiyappam was one among it. He loves all rice cooked breakfasts like Appams, Idiyappam and Puttu and every morning either one of these were prepared.  So on Idiyappam day, I was first thinking to make a spicy chicken curry, but this combination I used to make most often and became so boring for me, and I wanted do something different this time. I took chicken drumsticks in a cleaning bowl  and was dreaming about our restaurant visits the past days. It was really awesome time and I feel happy to iterate through those moments. Soon, in a moment I decided the chicken recipe I m gonna prepare, basically inspired by one of the chicken dishes we had the former day, from The Permit Room, which we found to be a mallu organized restaurant. We weren't aware of it until we saw the menu over there. But the chicken tried was not Mallu dish, it was Guntur chilly chicken, and don't get