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Archive for August, 2007

Emily’s Ratatouille

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on August 31, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Aubergine Inspired by a picture on Emily’s
I adore Emily’s Rocky Road of Love – I love the way she writes her recipes, with so much care and passion. Emily’s recipes are inspiring and I have picked a bunch of tidbits from her cooking style. The absolute hit was of course Ratatouille, a dish I [...]

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Srijayanthi-Maavu(flour) for all the Bhakshanams (Festival Snacks)

Posted in Festivals, sweets, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 31, 2007 | 8 Comments »

The Rice flour and Urad dal flour for Seedai, Thattai, Vella seedai (Traditional Tamil Festival Snacks) are the same. You can prepare the flour in one go. To make lovely coloured and crunchy snacks this is the best maavu (flour).
If you are grinding in a mixie, make one kg maavu. If you are grinding [...]

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Srijayanthi( Krishna jayanthi or Janmashtami or Gokulashtami) and Recipes

Posted in Authentic Iyengar Recipes, Chats and snacks., Festival cooking., Festivals, Janmashtami, Rice varieties, Srijayanthi, Tamizh Culture, childhood memories, cooking, food, recipes, sweets, tamil culture, vegetarian, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2007 | 28 Comments »

Tanjore Painting of Lord Bala Krishna made by Latha Narasimhan (me!!) Update: Thanks SeeC, for suggesting that I put a web optimized image with a copyright.
This year Srijayanthi also known as Gokulashtami/Janmashtami/Krishnashtami falls on 4th September.As always I am posting the details and important recipes (prasaadams or offerings) of Krishna jayathi or Janmashtami or [...]

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Dumroot Halwa / White Pumpkin Halwa

Posted in sweets, tagged , , , , , on August 28, 2007 | 23 Comments »

Dumroot Halwa is Karnataka’s version of Lauki/ Doodhi/ Sorakaaya made out of Pooshnikkai (in Tamil) or Ash Gourd. This is the microwave version of Dumroot Halwa. A couple of random tidbits:
1. I followed my Appa’s recipe. My Dad’s fetish for experimentation in the kitchen is rather entertaining, though it means a lot more work for [...]

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More recipes for Aavani avittam

Posted in Festivals, sweets, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 28, 2007 | 15 Comments »

Recipes for following have been posted below:

Parangikai Paal Kootu (Sweet Pumpkin in Milk, Jaggery and Cream)
Poori Payasam (A Unique Pudding)
Aama Vadai (Channa Dal based Vadai)

Parangikai Paal kootu (Sweet Pumpkin in Milk, Jaggery and Cream)
This is a sweet kootu which my hubby loves. I have not prepared for a long time as the tender [...]

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Awards For The Yum blog

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 27, 2007 | 17 Comments »

The award season in the Food Blogosphere is not ending any time soon!!! My friend Archana of luv2eathate2cook has presented me with these awards! Thanks Archu! She says we rock! With all the lovely comments from all my blogger friends, we must definitely rock!

And then the Schmoozer award! All of you [...]

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