watermelon lettuce salad /marudhuskitchen One of the satisfying and refreshing meal Iam keen on nowadays especially during this summer days are salads! that too my liking to fruit dominant salads is at its peak.Eating salads has many advantages!you are getting a bag full of essential nutrition with less calorie intake and more fibre.More fibre is very...
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...
coconut milk porridge /thengai paal kanji There is confusion and controversies going on about including coconut in our daily diet because the fats are harmful.But I read it somewhere the positives of using coconut is that you can use it without any hesitancy.The fact says that you should not boil the coconut milk for longer time...
murungakkai rasam /drumstick rasam recipe Those days they planted trees and plants at their backyards for a reason that they are not only useful but for easy accessibility as well !not like today. we don't even know what's going in for a plant to grow well were we simply buy them and use-them blindly.Yes!of-course there is...
kanchipuram idlis / Kudalai idli(kancheepuram temple style) kanchipuram idlis is one of its luxurious kind among other versatile variations of idli's that are dominant with an authenticity filled with pure South Indian punch.The very name kanchipuram idlis reminds me of my chennai days there my neighbor aunty who not to mention is a well worse cook...
andhra pachi pulusu recipe /rawtamarind(pachai puli)rasam Yet another variety of rasam I have grown up with!its andhra pachi pulusu recipe /raw rasam/puli rasam a soothing,light soulful soup to have as a digestive food after a heavy dosage of sunday feast.Yes,most of the sundays end up with heavy diet which we can't refuse or ignore whole family...
poondu milagu rasam /pepper rasam recipe The garlicy smell coming out of my amma's kitchen and am jumping down the stairs of my home peeping into kitchen to see my paati(grandma)grinding the roasted masala with garlic for rasam.Usually whenever there is a heavy lunch during sunday afternoons this one rasam is a compulsory item to complete...
kai kuthal arisi pongal /hand pound rice pongal Already done with usual sakkarai pongal for thai pongal at my space and nowadays am trying some ways to have hand pound rice/kaikuthal rice regularly!atleast weekly once but not as such as boiled rice but as snacks and even as desserts.The soaking time and cooking time is little...
mangalore sweet bun recipe /Konkani buns/banana puri My whole one life would not be enough to learn about countless number of cuisines around the world in detail!this sense of longing is same for all the foodies like me.Mangalore is one part of South-canara or Dakshin Kannada and this time when exploring South-Canara I fixed to try...