ರಾಗಿ ಮಣ್ಣಿ/Finger Millet Halwa

Ragi/Millet is most well known for its rich calcium content than any other cereals. In South India it is the most common food fed for growing children. This is even given as one of first cereals to babies for its rich nutrition filled with calcium and iron and protein content. Moreover it is easily digestible…

I am back….

Dear friends hope all of you enjoyed the new year! We had a wonderful vacation with a mixture of climatic changes, it was total relaxing yet full of fun filled time . We are still at the verge of getting adjusted to the normal routine. .. as school started Coming to blogging and my kitchen…

ದೀಪಾವಳಿ ತಿಂಡಿಗಳು/Deepavali snacks

Coming back to blogging after a long break over the deepavali is like just landing after a jet lag. The weekend of deepavali was filled with fun and feast for us celebrating with family and friends it was overall a fun filled events and celebrations for kids. From clockwise Rava laadu, Chakkali, mixture, kara sev,…

ಬೂಂದಿ ಲಾಡು/Bhoondi Laddu

Happy navratri to one and all! hope all of you all enjoyed celebrating feasts. It was long since I made laddus so thought of making Bhoondi laddu which I learnt the very first time correctly last year during deepavali. It turned out to be a quite easy at firs try. This is one of the most…

Methi-Paneer Rice and FAHC

Left over rice who doesn’t have ?  Last week we had been busy with events at office and cultural events over the weekend from our sangha in Singapore. Admidst of our kids final exams for non-tamil- speaking kids (hindi/gujrathi….). Generally getting home late not eating enough or eating most junk ended up lot of food were leftovers. leftover rice…

ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ ಭೂಥ ಗೊಜ್ಜು/Raw Mango Curry

Mangoes mangoes , the thought of summer vacation one of the most wanted one to taste the different types of mangoes, the raw from thotapuri to the gojju mavinkayi (wild varieties) used for making gojju, sasve, thambili to the ripe wonderful Malgovas, raspuri, the neelam and not the least alphanso. I remember during our childhood times as my memory draws …

Kadabu and panchgajaya on Ganesh chaturti Event

Normal menu at my native usually consists of 21 different variety of sweets and savory items along with 2 kosumbaris, 2 types of palya(vegetable fry), 2 types of Hasi/pachadi with coconut and yogurt base, gojju/kayirasa, tilisaru, thambli, huli(sambhar), majjige huli, masala bhath, bhajjis/vadas, 2 types of kadabu and lot more. I restricted our food to…

ಬಾಳೆಹಣ್ಣು ದೊಡ್ಡನ/Banana Dosa(Pancake)

This is one of the dosas made at my home. This dosa/pancake has a very soft and spongy texture. One of my favorite dosa with a dollop of ghee tastes delicious. I have used the dark brown liquid jaggery from my native prepared freshly from cane sugar just after Makara Sankranti/Pongal. My Mother in law makes…

ಗಣೇಶ ಚತುರ್ಥಿಯ ಶುಭಾಷೇಯಗಳು/Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

ಗಜಮುಖನೆ ಗಣಪತಿಯೆ ನಿನಗೆ ವಂದನೆ ನಂಬಿದವರ ಪಾಲಿನ ಕಲ್ಪತರು ನೀನೆ. ♦ಗಣೇಶ ಚತುರ್ಥಿಯ ಹಾರ್ದಿಕ ಶುಭಾಷೇಯಗಳು ♦ Happy Ganesh Chaturti to one and all May God bless you all and bring you all the success and prosperity always!  

ವರಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ ಹಬ್ಬ/Varalakshmi festival

 This post had to be posted long ago took so long to appear. It was busy month visiting my friends houses in the evenings and sweets and sweets and kara with all the yummy frieds crisp vadas. Basically every other day we ended up with lot of yummy food. Here comes my lakshmi pooje. Usually it…