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Who could say No to mangoes!!! Mango tops up my favourite list 🙂 Mango takes different role in my diet, Veggie in sambar, pickle as accompaniment, fruit as snack 😀 In Tamilnadu the Totapuri aka Ottumangai/Killimooku mangai is the most used in cooking. They are added in Sambar, Sweet Pachadi …

A traditional recipe with shallots and spices triggering the taste buds to experience a different taste. A special ingredient, the onion undergoes a special cooking process and added to the dish. This is my mother’s recipe and my favourite too. When we were residing in Secunderabad, we visited our grandma …

Do you discard the Cauliflower stalks while cutting florets for cooking? Then you should have missed a yummilicious taste. Time to give your taste buds a change from the taste of normal veggies. I never knew that the stalks, dhandal known in Hindi are edible and used in Cooking, until …

A Chinese dessert. This recipe is similar to our Desi Ammini kozhukattai. Tang Yuan is traditionally served during Chinese weddings and Winter Solstice Festival. Tangyuan is a common dessert here in Singapore which is available in food stalls and happens to be my favourite dessert apart from Chendol. The chewy …

Diwali Wishes A sweet recipe for this diwali. Boondhi Burfi a twist to ladoo. Laddoo a ready made sweet at home 🙂 My mother usually prepares it whenever she feels to make a sweet and I took over the family tradition of making ladoos for no reason. Ladoo is the …

Ladies finger – that’s how I learned the name of the vegetable in school 🙂 I am not sure why the name Okra got familiarized against Ladies finger. I am not into the research of the name behind, just a curiosity.. Heard that the leaves of the plant are edible …

Onam Wishes Onam Sadhya never completes without a Payasam. Though there are many varieties of Payasam for festivals, here I am with a payasam where Oats as the main ingredient. As of now, Oats has entered into the Indian culinary and got desi versions of it. And Oats is not …

Rekindling my childhood memories with snacks which welcomed me after a tiring school session. My mother made it a point to fill my tummy with nutritious and healthy diet especially for evening snacks. I grew up before to the globisation era, the oil dunked chips weren’t a national snack then, …

Ganesh/Pillaiyar Chathurthi – The main dish, the Kozhukattai/Mothak, my favourite 🙂 I feast on Kozhukattai and all nears and dears know about my love for Kozhukattai. A variety of kozhukattais get packed to our home on Pillaiyar Chathurthi 🙂 Who don’t love kozhukattai, for a change prepare palpazha kozhukattai for …