I hope I am not boring you with all my millet recipes. This month has been so much fun featuring my day to day food, especially millet snacks and breakfast recipes for the A-Z Tamil cuisine recipe marathon. I regularly use Cholam/ Jowar, Saamai/ Little Millet and Kudiravaali/ Barnyard millet.…
As you know, I am doing an A-Z Tamil Nadu dishes this month for the mega Blogging Marathon. For the alphabet, I selected this sweet aappam and as usual made it millet based. I used saamai / little millet instead of rice. I get all types of millet in the…
After two deep fried snacks, let us have a look at a healthy steam cooked snack which is so tasty. I have tasted these kozhukattai near Meenakshi Amman temple. After the traffic was stopped on the four streets surrounding the temple, it has become a great place to go by…
I love poli/ boli as we call it in our area. The polis we get here are thick and has so much outer dough and is very chewy. If it gets to room temperature, then there will be no softness left in them. So after marriage, I have stopped eating…
During the month of Kaarthigai comes Kaarthigai Deepam. On that day we light earthern lamps all over the house and do special poojas. Mom used to make a great feast with sambar, rasam, 21 varieties of side dishes, payasam and offered them along with fruits for Lord Murugan. I have…
For last week’s Fondbite’s Bake Along, Subhashini chose a very healthy cake recipe using ragi flour. As you all know ragi or finger millet with so many health benefits. I read somewhere that it is rich in calcium, has a high fibre content, makes a great baby food, good for…
Today is the 18th day of Tamil month Aadi and it is celebrated as aadi perukku. This day is celebraated to welcome the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. Usually rice varieties such as lemon rice, puliodharai, coconut rice, pongal and thayir saadam are made with vadai and payasam. Rituals are performed…
After making uppu seedai successfully, I had a batch of the seedai flour left to make the sweeter version. For Indian Cooking Challenge this month, when Srivalli asked for a recipe suggestion and I suggested this uppu seedai and vella seedai. I usually think that seedai is a bomb which…
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…
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…