rice flakes payasam /aval payasam recipe / poha kheer This rice flakes payasam is a great festive sweet that can be done at less time without any hassle.Usually for this cashews are roasted and added to the payasam at the end.Suddenly I thought how would it taste?if added along with poha. So,I roasted both poha and...
recipes for karthigai deepam /thiru karthigai special recipes Its an auspicious festival celebrated with great importance all over Tamil nadu. Lighting earthen lamp lights are the main part of this festival.In our home we have a custom of lighting lamps for 3 days.The day before karthigai deepam and after the deepam day.For thiru karthigai making pori...
diwali legiyam recipe /diwali marundhu /deepavali marundhu Although sweets,savouries and crackers are the special part of diwali the most special inevitable one is the “Diwali marundhu”. Usually as a child our mothers would wake us at early hours of Diwali morning. As a child so much of expectations and excitement will always be there to burst...
make ulundu kozhukattai /how to make uppu kozhukattai It's a dread-full face to face pair for sweet kolukattai.If you are too obsessed with sweets like me and you go on eating sweet modaks endlessly.A thing that has an equalizing effect is to have some spicy kolukattai's to finally end up this sweet quest.Every year its usual...
aadi pathinettu /aadi18 special recipes We people here in Cauvery delta region are eagerly expecting for the release of water in full swing for the great day called"aadi pathinettu /aadi18".Usually they open water before a week in advance.Its a divine sight to see the effortless lavish free flow of Cauvery river during this aadi 18.Let celebrations...
sesame seed rice /ellu podi sadam My fondness for sesame seed/ellu all started when tasting ellu urandai/ladoo Each bite with crunch and nuttiness that one can never stop with having just one.The temple term for this sesame seed rice /ellu podi sadam is "Ellorai" served as prasadam at most of lord perumal temple's.I have never made...
recipe for black rice /kavuni arisi payasam Ever since I have tasted that chettinad special sweet with black rice(kavuni arisi) that my friend kavitha had brought it for a get together party!the taste really obsessed my mind.It was totally a healthy filling dessert I have ever had and made me feel how we are missing such...
panagam recipe /panakam (Summer drink) This traditionally designed drink panakam/ panagam recipe has become confined only to be done during certain festivities like ramanavami and tamil new year.But its not a simple drink to keep away from!its a superb kind of refreshing cooler to be had althrough these summer months.I simply adore the simplicity of this...
kamban koozh (withkambu/pearlmillet/bajra instant powder) It's a real challenge to cope up with scorching summer heat waves . Usually the severity will begin little later but this time it's too much of heat here that we are experiencing now itself. Any way we have to continue with our chores. We can't just stop everything and sit...
recipe for nimki /Bengali savoury snack The pleasure of Bengali cuisine is its subtle difference in taste got from dominance of mustard oil and the paanch phoran!these two makes all the trick to make it as a special type of fare to die for and making me always longing to travel more through this cuisine.This time...