Puli Kootu….the first time I had this dish was when one of my friends’ mom who was visiting from India made this. It tastes the same as a puli kuzhambu, only thicker, and the advantage is, it is chock full of veggies. It is thicker than a kuzhambu and is meant to be eaten as … [Read more…]
Thanks to Nithu’s ‘Best from Waste’ Event and to fellow bloggers who inspire me to try new things. Last week I came home from grocery shopping, and started planning my meals for the week, by chopping and bagging veggies. I had gotten a personal watermelon and set to disassemble it. I used a melon baller … [Read more…]
I went to the farmers market this week, and again I picked up greens…This time I went when it was almost pack-up time. As I hurried in, I saw a young guy slowly packing up these greens in a box. They still were very fresh. I remembered that these were Indian greens and I asked … [Read more…]
You may have seen that I’ve never posted any seafood recipes in my blog. Although I am not a meat eater, I could bring myself to cook meat dishes for my husband. But, somehow I cannot bring myself to cooking seafood. I am slowly clearing out my inhibitions and trying it out..for the sake of … [Read more…]
To go with my spicy kuzhambu, I made a quick and easy Snake gourd stir fry with channa dal. Its quick, easy and nutritious too. Ingredients: 1 snake gourd, insides removed, quartered and sliced 1 small onion chopped 2 red chillies broken 1/4 cup channa dal 1 tsp oil 1/2 tsp mustard 1/2 tsp split … [Read more…]
Flax..the first time I heard of this was in a recipe for Vegan cakes. Then it kept appearing in a lot of blogs I frequent and the fact about how healthy they were made me look for it in the store. I was telling myself that it must be some kind of expensive ingredient that … [Read more…]