The major problem you face when on any diet is hair loss. After I started sharing my diet recipes, I often come across messages asking what I do for hair loss. Usually biotin is suggested, but I have never taken any medication. I try to take care by natural remedies.…
For this month’s BM, I chose the theme sauces and preserves for week one. We use a lots of sauce in cooking and I always had stock of green chilly sauce and red chilly sauce and use them up whenever I make Indo Chinese dishes. But after I started paleo…
Who loves savoury rolls and that too with whole wheat flour? Then this post is for you. I used coriander, mint, garlic, ginger and fennel seeds to spice up the regular bread rolls and it was amazing. I used garlic cream spread and it tasted out of the world. The…
I couldn’t believe how fast time flies. It is as though I started the month long non stop marathon yesterday, but I am in the final day. I have been blogging recipes from Tamil cuisine in the order of A-Z and today is the day of Z, the final letter.…
Today I will share with you one more lunch menu I made last week. To go along with rice, I made thakkali kulambu, pudalangai poriyal, vellarikkai thayir pachadi curd and gooseberry pickle. I thought I had both the gravy and poriyal in my blog, but to my surprise, I haven’t…
For the third week of BM, I am doing family recipes. Most of the recipes from the earlier stage of my blog are family recipes. I asked mum and put together as many recipes as I can and after selecting family recipes as the theme, I was totally confused. What…
Today starts the final week of Blogging Marathon #34 and I have chosen to blog from a fellow blogger as a special theme. The blogger I am paired with is Lisha of Nandoo’s Kitchen. She has a nice collection of recipes and what interested me the most are the Kerala…
For the alphabet I, I chose to do a regional recipe. Inji murappa or inji mittai is very famous here in Tamil Nadu. Whenever we travel by bus, it is easy to hear a seller selling these mittais at bus stands. During my child hood days I never had the…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon, I chose to prepare ginger almond biscuits from Vaishali’s blog. Almonds are good source of calcium. I was searching for the calcium content of almonds and I came across a site, which gave it as 37mg of calcium in 14.5gm of almonds. So…
Pickle is a very important side dish in Indian Cuisine. South Indian pickles are very hot compared to achars of North and they use sesame oil. As pickles are meant to stay good for a year, they use lots of oil, salt and red chilly powder to preserve them. My…