The Goan Cuisine – The Best Of Goa
- 31
- July
- 2017
The cuisine of Goa is so unique in many ways. It still traces its humble Indian (Hindu origins), and highly influenced by Portuguese style. About four hundred years of Portuguese colonization and prolonged Mughal (Islam) rule has changed the cuisine in an incredible fashion. So, here you go…my humble take on the touch of […]
Kannadiga Oota – The Karnataka Meals
- 26
- July
- 2017
Oota in Kannada means a major meal of the day. The cuisine of Karnataka has a very long history of its own. Most of the famous South Indian dishes like Masala Dosa, Udupi Sambar, Mangalore Rasam, Mysore Pak traces its origin to Karnataka. A typical Kannadiga Oota (Karnataka meals) may include Chitra Annam, Palya, Gojju, […]
Kerala Sadhya – God’s Own Country
- 19
- July
- 2017
Sadhya (Malayalam: സദ്യ) means Banquet in Malayalam. It is a variety of dishes traditionally served on a plantain leaf in Kerala, India. A normal Sadhya can have about 24-28 dishes served as a single course. Recipes Choru – hand-pounded rice / rose-matta arisi Parippu + Neyyi Aviyal Senai Kizhangu Erisseri Vendankka Puliserry Kumbalanga Olan Beetroot Pachadi Avaraikka Mezhugupuratti Peechinga […]
North Indian Thali – Weekend Specials
- 12
- July
- 2017
Full course meal is often neglected in our busy weekdays cooking. No one has time nor energy to prepare a complete five course meal! And, if you’re on zero-carb, no-meat diet (like my hubby) your entire course has to be prepared with soy protein and vegetables! And, that’s too much of chopping and mincing! So, […]
Andhra Meals – The Taste Of Home
- 05
- July
- 2017
Well…You all know that I am from Tamil Nadu, right?! But, here is a thing of me that goes soft for Andhra Pradesh. Whether it’s food, culture or people…I don’t know, it’s kind of my Second Home. Yep, genuinely…very close to my heart. Although, I spent very little of my adult life at Hyderabad! I […]
Thalai Vazhai Ilai Sappadu – Tamil Meals
- 07
- May
- 2017
Cooking is like love…It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. - Harriet Van […]
An Epic Breakfast Feast
- 31
- March
- 2017
I am back, I am back…I am back. With three fold zeal to rock this culinary world! Wondering…who tuned my tabs? Aha, I visited my motherland and spent two whole months there with my folks! Now, that I am back with fresh ideas to blow this blog away. Whooo-ah! Does the jubilation make sense, now?? […]
The Fish Platter – A Humble Meal
- 05
- January
- 2017
Thinking about ever-rocketing budget and health issues, sometimes I want to go..hide under the rock…and never come out! But, lets get practical. We have to live, we have to eat. We have to have a life, right! Maintaining a standard meal almost every single day is yet one more parameter in addition to the general […]
Milagu Sambar – More Than Just Food
- 01
- March
- 2015
Comfort Meal – More than Just Food We all have them engraved in our mind hearts & no wonder we crave them hard at times. When down with flu or while feeling really blue; whether its a jubilation mood or time to encounter something terrible; its a best thing to turn to. Yes, I am talking […]
Seeraga Kanji – Therapeutic Meal
- 15
- February
- 2014
The historic winter snow-storm is over…but we are stuck with ice. This pretty little town, looks so abandoned and filled with ice, ice and more ice…until my eyes could reach (yes, just like the way Wordsworth described those daffodils). Hmmm…I have been hibernating for the past whole week, due to this bad weather! I can […]
