Happy Tamil New Year to all my readers Today is the first day of Tamil New Year. Also known as Chittirai Varusha Pirappu, this day always close to my heart. Today we started our tour to various temples early. We had a nice darshan at Sai temple and then we…
Today we are going to Haryana after Gujarath for the month long Indian Food Odyssey. Haryana is one of the Norh indian states which came into existence during 1966 after being carved out of Punjab. It shares its boundaries with Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. As the state was…
Today we are going to Chattisgarh which is situated at the central part of India. Chattisgarh was separated from Madhya Pradesh in 2000 and shares it boundaries with Orissa, Jharkand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Three years before when we went to Shirdi, we stayed at a…
Today we will make a dish from Assam. Assam is also one of the seven sister states of North Eastern India and shares international with Bhutan and Bangladesh. Rice is the most important ingredient of this cuisine. Khar is a traditional dish made in Assam using ashes of banana stem.…
After a long time, I am taking part in another Blogging MArathon Series. And this edition is very special. You may remember the A-Z Blogging Marathon I did last year. When we finished that Marathon, immediately discussions began for this Indian States Themed Marathon. Srivalli chose 30 states and Union…
For the International Cooking Challenge (IFC) started by Sara and Shobana, this mont’s host Savitha suggested recipes from Persian Cuisine. Savitha chose different recipes for the members to try. THere were some non vegetarian recipes too. Fereni has been in my to do list for long. So when I saw…
For this month’s South Vs North challenge, started by Divya, the challenge posed by the Northern team host Santosh Bangar was Mawa Gujiya. March is the month of Holi – The festival of colours and in every UP household gujiya and gajar ki knji are prepared. Santoshji chose the recipe…
All my last month’s pending challenges will be posted this month. Last month’s International Food Challenge started by Saraswathi and Shobana, was hosted by Sharanya. Every month a region’s cuisine is explored and for the month of February it was Andalusia, the southern part of Spain. She gave us four…
It has been more than 10 days, I posted in my blog. These 10 days were the toughest days in this new year. After mom left us to heavenly abode 6 months back, my dad has also followed her. I just couldn’t believe it. Now I am left without my…
I have joined another interesting group this year. International Food Challenge was started by Saraswathi and Shobana and it focuses on international dishes. We the members try out a recipe from a selected cuisine every month. I thought it was interesting to try out various recipes and so I joined the group.…