Alouda/Mauritian Alouda Cold Milk/Alouda Glace

Today am taking you all to an another dream destination of many, yes my today's post is from Mauritius. Mauritius cuisine is a real mix of French, Chinese and Indian cuisine,however this cuisine is very much influenced by our Indian cuisine. While googling about this Mauritian cuisine, i was surprised to see that their most popular dishes are always prepared with an Indian touch. Am running this week's blogging marathon with Cook by capital as theme. Hence i picked the alphabetic letter 'P', after Paris and Prague, i couldnt stop myself to pick Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. Port Louis, is very much known for their street foods. And i picked one of the most known and popular drink which quite common in Central Market in Port Louis. And this drink is easily available anywhere in the island.

Almond Chia Seeds Breakfast Smoothie

Breakfast smoothie, this smoothie is quite enough to fill some hungry tummy easily with less efforts. Actually am not a breakfast person earlier, i usually skip them but now am very much strict towards me to have atleast a slice of bread with a cup of coffee or tea before leaving. And this works,am skipping that mid morning snacking habits which helps a lot for not skipping my lunch. Yes i love snacking and now having breakfast in morning is literally keeping me away from it. If i dont feel like having a bread slice, i will whisk some smoothie to fill my tummy. And this works even for my kids. Obviously i do prepare varieties of smoothies early in the morning to finish our breakfast in time.One of my recent trial with breakfast smoothie is this Almonds, chia seeds smoothie.

Mixed Berries Lemonade

f not berry season here in Paris, though frozen mixed berries comes to rescue if i plan something to dish out with mixed berries. Mixed berries works awesome either in bakes though i usually prepare them as mixed berries jam quite often. However if you get a chance to whisk out something different from the usual way of dishing out something with mixed berries and lemon, how can i resist to blend together to prepare this ultimate summer drink. This mixed berries lemonade is definitely a summer treat, a fabulous thirsty quencher, you can prepare this lemonade with simple efforts.

Thandai /Holi Special Thandai

Wiki says that Thandai, or sardai, is an Indian cold drink prepared with a mixture of almonds, fennel seeds, watermelon seeds, rose petals, pepper, vetiver seeds, cardamom, saffron, milk and sugar. It is native to India and is often associated with the Maha Shivaratri and Holi festival. The consumer of this Thandai is mostly from Rajasthan and Northern India. Thandai is the most known drink prepared especially during Holi festival. Holi is a festival of colours and this Hindu festival is celebrated to mark the beginning of Spring which will be celebrated on Monday 13 2017. It is celebrated each year around the time of the Vernal Eqinox, its typically celebrated in March but sometimes as early as February.

Jackfruit Limonade

Jackfruit, this fruit is my all time favourite after mangoes, though i get this incredible fruit rarely here in Paris, i dont forget to get them whenever they shows their heads in Indian groceries. Jackfruit, this fruit makes me always nostalgic. When we,myself and my sister were kids, every summer we spend our vacation at my grandma's village. Every summer, my paternal uncle brings home a super huge jackfruit from Panruti a well known city for Jackfruits in Tamil Nadu. Once he opens the fruit, we sit around him to enjoy those fresh jackfruit fleshs. I seriously miss those moments, however am happy that i can still get this fantastic fruit fortunately in Indian groceries here to satisfy my crave for this fruit.Whenever i get this fruit,everytime i seriously want to make delicious summer drinks out of this fruit and one of my trial is this super refreshing Limonade.

Rambutan & Tender Coconut Juice with Basil Seeds

Rambutan is a tropical fruit, named after the Malay word for 'hair', this fruit is from Southeast Asia though they grows all over the world now.Rambutan have an outer skin with soft yellowish and neon green prickly pokers all around the outer skin. Their flesh is white with a big seed in the middle and they have a sweet creamy rich flowery taste which is quite refreshing.Rambutan is highly rich in iron and helps a lot to less the body fat cotent as this fruit is high in fiber content.This fruit helps a lot for strengthening our bones as well. While tender coconut is a natural source of minerals and vitamins, their juice is excellent to keep the body cool. Rich in protein, their water are served fresh, chilled or packed. Often sold by street vendors, i simply love this tender coconut water especially while the weather is super hot outside, its a common summer special drink in India.

Nungu Lassi/Palm Fruit Lassi

Nungu, is also known as ice apple or else as palm fruit is a delicious jelly like fruit that beats all the other fruits available during summer with its cooling effect. This fruit is a seasonal fruit and its easily available during summer. This fruit have is a native to South and Southeast Asia, do you know this this ice apple is a the tender fruits of the palmyra tree and this tree is found in plenty in all the villages of South India lining the paddy fields. Not to forget that this tree is the official tree of Tamil Nadu.Ice apple is rich in vitamins, and many more minerals, children love this ice apple for their taste and softness as it doesnt contain fats or carbohydrates.This fruits are excellent remedy for prickly heat.

Pink Guava Smoothie

Pink Guava, i dont get this ultimate fruit here in Paris, but still am posting a fabulous smoothie which i blended together with an another incredible ingredient. I had an immense chance to enjoy this fruit thoroughly during my last year's trip to India. Its was a peak season in India during my travel and i dished out couple of dishes out of this fantastic fruit. After making some juice, lemonade and lassi with both green and pink guavas, my today's post is this simple but yet a delicious healthy smoothie prepared with pink guava chunks with yogurt, rolled oats. Definitely this smoothie is a very refreshing drink and dont forget to make some if you get this tropical fruit easily.

Warmer Win/Vin Chaud - Hot Mulled Wine

Hot Mulled wine is known as Vin chaud in French and this drink is quite popular in winter especially during christmas time. I tasted this mulled wine few years back while we travelled to Strasbourg, an Alsace city where christmas market is quite famous for their mulled wine. Though am not wine lover, i simply loved this hot spiced mulled wine and i was waiting to give a try to them at home as my Hubby was a great fan of this drink. Obviously when i decided to go with French cuisine for this whole month's blogging marathon under Journey through the cuisine as theme i found that for the Letter 'W' this mulled wine suits prefect as this drink is known as Warmer Win in Alsace.Vin chaud, this mulled wine is generally prepared with red wine, spices which is sweetened either with sugar or honey. Many versions of Mulled wine recipes exists depending upon the region, family and chef.

Red Velvet Hot Chocolate

If you dont have time to make something special for this year's valentine's day you can still prepare a quick and catchy hot chocolate to enjoy with your loved one. Actually this hot chocolate can replace very well if you would have missed baking red velvet cake to celebrate this day. This red velvet hot chocolate calls for easy ingredients, some prepare this chocolate with chocolate chips while some goes with cocao powder. Its all depend upon you and your pantry, if you dont have chocolate chips just go with the cocao powder, its works awesome too. My today's hot chocolate goes for chocolate chips, obviously with less efforts you can just whip out this pretty catchy hot chocolate.

Thai iced coffee - Kah-Feh yen

When i was searching for a different drink to post under this week's blogging marathon, i got hooked to this interesting, aromatic and very refreshing Thai version of Iced coffee. This iced coffee calls for simple ingredients and cardamom is a must for making this coffee. This iced coffee can be served very well with your favourite meal or else simply to enjoy with your summer brunch or else to serve for a summer breakfast, you have so many options to have and enjoy this drink thoroughly. Though several versions exists, this beverage goes for coffee, spices, sugar, milk or heavy cream (half and half) or else condensed milk. Trust me, this iced coffee is an excellent beverage to enjoy thoroughly while its too hot outside.

Mocha Cappuccino

We all know that a Cappuccino is an Italian drink prepared usually with espresso, hot milk and with milk foam. Though cream is usually used in this drink its often topped with cinnamon powder. Cappuccino is usually prepared with an espresso machine, but if you want to make it at home without any specific gadgets like espresso machine you can still make this fabulous drink. Cappuccino is traditionally served as a small serving with thick layer of foam, obviously if you are a coffee lover its better to make your own dose of cappuccino at home with less efforts.

Iced Coffee Float

If you are searching for a prefect summer breakfast drink or a drink for a lazy sunday summer brunch, just check this beautiful iced coffee float. Yes this drink asks for just three ingredients, yea coffee powder, water and vanilla icecream. With these simple ingredients you can make this ultimate drink with less efforts. This iced coffee float is one of my favourite drink, its been a while i had it at starbuck's coffee and finally i simply whisked out at home to enjoy this ultimate drink. You doesnt need any gadgets to make this refreshing coffee drink. Though i used store bought vanilla icecream, if you have homemade icecream dont forget to make this fabulous coffee float.

Roasted Rice Tea/Japanese Dark Rice Tea & Pimp My Rice - A Cookbook Review

Rice is a staple food of Indians, we cant survive without rice and we need it for our daily menu. Recently Sam collins and Gemma from an English cook book Publisher pinged me in Facebook to review a cookbook. Cookbook to review who will say 'no' obviously i immediately said yes and this book came all the way from England to Paris. When i opened the courrier, the book cover attracted me immediately, there was no attractive food pictures over the cover, a black background with brass letters saying Pimp my rice was seriously interesting and pulled me to check out the content of the book.

Ragi Chocolate Shake

I seriously want to clear few of my drafts since a long, finally today i got a chance to post one among those drafted posts. This ragi chocolate shake goes for an excellent and easy breezy preparation, actually i prepared this shake from one of my favourite blog to celebrate that blog's anniversary. Trust  me, none will notice the addition of ragi here as chocolate syrup and chocolate ice cream will mask completely the addition of cooked ragi porridge very well. Obviously this shake is one of the excellent and very best way to sneak as ragi porridge is the most hated whole grain porridge by the kids.I tried many versions of porridge to feed my kids especially with ragi or finger millet, everytime either they will have just two or three tablespoons or else i have to beg them to finish their bowl of porridge. But when i served this shake, my younger one just finished his whole glass within few seconds. Obviously i was shocked and surprised when i saw his glas was completely empty.

Limonada Con Panela/Papelón con limón/Venezuelan Panela Limonade ~~ Venezuelan Cuisine

A month of blogging marathon is getting almost over,yes just few alphabets are left, happy that i accompalished this Around the world in 30days theme brightly by cooking various dishes from 26 countries to fit the tastebuds of my family members. For 'V', i was between Vietnam and Venezuela, vietnamese ingredients are easily available for me since am living in China town. However i want to try a different cuisine and hence i opted for Venezuelan cuisine.

Venezuelan Cuisine, a complete unknown cuisine for me, while googling i found that this Cuisine has a lot of European influences (especially Italian, Spanish and French) and is quite flavourful. But you can also find indigenous as well as African influence. As Venezuela is such a large and diverse country, each region has its own distinctive regional cooking.On the coast you will find high quality fish, shellfish, crayfish, fish soups as well as fish stews. Try the pargo (red snapper) or the dorado if you have the chance. Coconut is also part of some dishes.In the Andean region the food is quite different. Even the most famous dish the "arepa" is not made of cornmeal but wheat. Here you can find cured meats and sausages which are sold in many rural villages. You should not miss the famous fresh trucha (trout) dishes which come from the many Andean streams and lakes.The food in the Amazon region varies a lot from the rest of Venezuela. Besides the main ingredients like yucca, corn, beans and bananas some people even eat turtles, tapirs, monkeys birds and deep fried ants.Meat lovers will enjoy the parillas (mixed grill) in Venezuela as the quality of meat is quite high and the prices are low. You can choose between muchacho (roast beef), solomo (sirloin) and lomito (steak).

Watermelon Mint Smoothie

Its summer here, obviously the local farmer markets is stuffed with summer fruits, watermelon is one among those varieties of summer fruits we never forget to buy once they starts showing their heads. Watermelon this fruits is our family favourite, i can start my day with this fruit and end my day with it as well. I tried even doing a watermelon diet as i love this fruit that much. This fruit is one among the cheaper summer fruit easily available in the market obviously who will fail to get them. During one of our recent visit to the farmer's market pulled us to get a super huge watermelon, back home i tried salad with feta cheese, lollies, gaspacho and this smoothie. Even i didnt trashed the white rinds, i cook delicious dishes out of it. So apart from the outer green skin everything from watermelon can be used in different way in cooking.

Carrot Celery Smoothie

Smoothies, this drink is prepared simply either with fruits,vegetables or in a combination of vegetables and fruits. I simply love fruits in smoothies and rarely combined vegetables in smoothies. Since i picked Sizzling smoothies for this week's theme for blogging marathon, i tried this healthy, simple, quick, very mildy sweet and aromatic vegetable smoothie. Actually i want to make green smoothie with green vegetables like cucumber, green apples and spinach which was in my to do list since a while. Since none at home want to taste the green smoothie i opted for this eye catching carrot celery smoothie. Celery gives an excellent aroma to this smoothie and carrot gives a mild sweetness.

Gojiberry & Banana Smoothie

Today's post is my first trial with the famous gojiberries, these berries are easily available for me in Chinese stores but somehow i wasnt comfortable to give a try until i came to know more about this incredible berries by googling. Then a day, i picked a small packet of this berries and back home i tried them in smoothies, trust me the smoothie i tried everytime with this gojiberries is a big hit with everyone at home. However i love this banana gojiberry combination in smoothie.The goji berry is also called as wolfberry. This berry is a bright orange-red berry that comes from a shrub that's native to China. In Asia, goji berries have been eaten for generations in the hope of living longer.Earlier people have used goji berries  to treat many common health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, fever and age-related eye problems. Goji berries are eaten raw, cooked, or dried (like raisins) and are used in herbal teas, juices, wines, and medicines.

Lime & Clementine Mocktail

After oranges, our favourite fruits is clementines, this incredible fruits are loaded with vitamin C.Regular consumption of clementine fills your body with vitamin C, which helps to keep various diseases like high blood presure and hardening of arteries etc. Vitamin C also play an important role in boosting the human immune system and fighting cardiovascular disorders.Do you know clementines contains high concentrations of dietary fibers which ensure the smooth function of our digestive system.Obviously we try to keep this fantastic vitamin C rich frutis quite often in our diet especially while winter is around to boost ourselves to tolerate the weather.