The blog hosted for this month’s ‘Tried and Tasted’ event is Divya’s Dil Se. She has a beautiful collection of recipes, and among them, I loved this one. I have always wanted a good recipe for a stuffed eggplant kuzhambu. The best I have had was made by one of mom’s friends – Velumani Auntie. … [Read more…]
Zucchini are cheap during summer, and I bought quite a lot of them. I made this salad today in a jiffy, in an attempt to use up the excess zucchini and we loved it. Whats great about this salad, is that it makes a great appetizer/finger food. You don’t need to serve it up, or … [Read more…]
My mom has a unique way of preparing yard long beans, very different than the regular poriyal or varuval. She cooks the beans in a coconut dry curry that makes it the perfect combination for lemon rice. This is one of my favorite tiffin box lunches that I Â had while I was in school and … [Read more…]
Of late, I have been experimenting by trying out new vegetables and fruits. This time I tried ‘Asparagus’. I was curious about this vegetable and was wondering how it was grown, and what part of the plant these spears were. Like an answer to all my questions aired this episode of ‘Good Eats’ and who … [Read more…]
To go with the multigrain chapatis, I decided to make a Mushroom Curry. I had gotten these beautiful mushrooms from Costco. Everything in Costco is big size, even the size of the mushrooms. They were huuuge… And that meant, they were meaty. I decided to make a rich curry and came across the recipe for … [Read more…]
Blessed are the gals whose husbands can cook.Even more blessed are the husbands who clean after they cook. :), or after you cook. In that way, the most blessed wife I know would be my mom, for she has Daddy. Almost everyday as a kid, I woke up to the sight of Dad in the … [Read more…]