Milk rusk/ Homemade rusk is a dry, hard, mellow sweet double bake bread usually served/ consumed as tea time snack. Rusk is usually a store bought snack but can be easily baked at home that too with handful ingredients so you get to relish oven fresh tea time snack. Rusk can […]
Fresh cherry loaf cake/ Cherry cake is a moist, super soft, spongy and delicious loaf cake loaded with fresh cherries. Yes cherry season is here and everyone is off to cherry picking, and when you are totally into picking business without having count of the quantity you end up relishing […]
Chicken malai kabab/ Chicken Reshmi kabab/ Murgh malai kabab is a scrumptious, creamy and very flavorful kebab/ kabab that is super easy and quick to make. Handful ingredients mixed / massaged on chicken breast cubes; marinated for hours then baked/ tawa cooked to perfection. I prepared this Reshmi kabab recipe last […]
Jackfruit Cupcake/ Chekka cupcake/ Palapazham cupcake/ Jackfruit cake is one such moist, spongy, delicious and quick to make sweet treat loaded with jackfruit and its flavors for sure. Jackfruit season is on and I am sure many of us are big fans of this fruit for its sweetness and distinct […]
Baked vegetable dum biryani/ Baked dum biryani is one such easy and super quick to make one pot meal that can be prepared in oven in no time if you have all the ingredients ready. All you need to do is mix all the ingredients, layer it with rice, bake […]
Whole wheat sponge cake/ Wheat cake is a light, soft, spongy and delicious cake. It is prepared with all those ingredients necessarily used in the making of basic sponge cake (handful only); but in this recipe I replaced maida/ all purpose flour with whole wheat flour/ atta, as the title […]
Hello and welcome. I’m Sandhya—the hands, heart, and stories behind Sandyathome This blog was never planned. It began quietly—just like the way my mother and grandmother used to cook. No measurements. No books. Just feeling. Growing up, I didn’t realize I was being shaped by their everyday magic. The gentle clinking of ladles, the warm smell of curry leaves crackling in oil, the quiet hum of love in every dish—they stayed with me. I didn’t inherit written recipes. But I inherited something far deeper—the emotion of cooking, the way food could heal, gather, and speak when words fall short.
