Thengai Poli
- 04
- November
- 2009
Ingredients: All purpose flour 2 cups Salt – pinch Grated coconut 2 cups Jaggery Cardamom pods 6 crushed Ghee Method: Knead the all purpose flour, using warm water and bring it to a smooth dough. Now in a skillet, heat jaggery and add coconuts and cardamom to it, bring this to halwa consistency. Now make […]
Pattaani Paruppu Vadai
- 02
- November
- 2009
Pattaani Paruppu Vadai: Yellow Peas Vada. Yellow Peas Masal Vadai. Street Vendor’s Special Vada. Coimbatore Pattu Paruppu Vadai. Kovai Pattani Paruppu Vadai. Kovai Paruppu Vadai. Coimbatore Paruppu Vadai. You all know that I am basically from Chennai (but still prefer to call it as Madras). We(Chennaiittes/ Madras vaasi) uniquely distinguish ‘two different vadas’ into ‘Medhu […]
Madras Filter Coffee
- 01
- October
- 2009
Madras Filter Coffee: Grandma’s Filter Coffee. Mommy’s Filter Coffee. Madras Filter Coffee. Iyengar Filter Coffee. Agraharam style Filter Coffee. My Mommy is a big time coffee lover in the family. She used to prepare it, in a much authentic way…probably the way she adopted from my Grandma. Buy coffee beans, roast it to perfection(that is […]
Idly Milagai Podi
- 07
- July
- 2009
Idly Milagai Podi: Chutney Podi. Idly Podi. Idly with Ellu Podi. Madras, Murughan Idly Milagai Podi is quite famous! Although I couldnt perfect the recipe…I tried my level best! Ingredients: Urad dhal 1 cupDry red chilies 10-15 (bright red ones)Brown sesame seeds 2 spoonsCurry leaves 4 twigsSaltAsafoetida 1 pinch Method: Dry roast each item, seperately […]
Carrot Halwa
- 05
- May
- 2009
See, I would have accepted AK’s proposal at the first place, if he had had chosen a nice dessert to dig in on our first date rather than spending a huge fortune on a diamond ring!! Which I don’t even wear. Anyhoooo, the poor guy waited three loooong years before I nodded ‘Yes’ for marriage. […]
Green Grass Juice
- 10
- February
- 2009
Arugham Pul Juice: Herbal Concoction. Arugham Pul Ras. Arugam Pul Kashayam. Dhoob Ki Kashaya. Wild Bermuda Grass Juice. Bermuda grass, Botanical name of this grass is Cynodon dactylon. We call it as ‘Arugham Pul’ in Tamil, they call it as ‘Durva’ in Sanskrit & ‘Dhoob’ in Hindi. Before going into detailing about this particular grass…let […]
Marina Cafe’s Grilled Chicken Biriyani
- 13
- October
- 2008
Marina Cafe’s Grilled Chicken Biriyani: Tandoored Chicken Biriyani. Slow Cooking Recipe. Extra Hot Biriyani. Tandoori Chicken Biriyani. Once again Biriyani recipe!!! I know you guys are pulling my leg there! Can’t help it! Though we taste this common food at any place now! People have become really skilled in making it! Its no more ethnic […]
Muttai Dosa
- 12
- September
- 2007
Muttai Dosai: When we were doing M.Phil at the University of Madras….myself, Sugumar and Jayanthi…used to have breakfast in the canteen all the time. And Sugumar prefers this Muttai Dosai, most of the time. We started teasing him for that. Well…anyway he says…this is the only tiffin they make ‘suda suda after you order’! Well…makes […]
Onion Samsa
- 24
- June
- 2007
Onion Samsa:(South Indian Style) Vengaya Samsa. Vengaya Samosa. Onion Samosa. Piyaz ka Samosa. South Indian Style Samsa/amosa. Did you all think that, I made a typo’ there ‘Samsas’ instead of Samosa?! Hmmm, this is how I differentiate between Big Large Potatoes & Peas Filled Samosas with this simple street food! Samsa sounds like a cool […]
Aamai Vadai / Thavalai Vadai
- 01
- February
- 2007
Thavalai Vadai or Aamai Vadai: Large Sized Protein Vadai. Protein Vada. Madras Aamai Vadai. Madras Thavalai Vadai. When I was studying 3rd standard, I happened to taste this ‘vadai’ at Light House, Madras. My Uncle told me that this is called ‘Thavalai vadai’ (literally means Frog Vada, eew) or it is sometimes called as ‘Aamai […]
