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Category: cauldron

  • country roads take me home

    This was the days when I was a junior doctor at SDME Dharwad, We had a student from the Mundgod Tibetan settlement. A soft-spoken well-behaved girl. But she did the forbidden that is she fell in love with an Indian boy. I met her couple of years later; she was no more the exuberant girl…

  • My Favorite Summer Drink

    Time for a cool drink Summer in my childhood meant variety of coolers as drinks, starting with Panaka, tandai, cashew extract, raagi milk, rose milk. But my favourite has been the Mung bean drink. About a table spoon of mung bean is ground with a pod of cardmom and a table spoon of jaggary adding…

  • summer drink

    Summer in my childhood meant variety of coolers as drinks, starting with Panaka, tandai, cashew extract, raagi milk, rose milk. But my favourite has been the Mung bean drink. About a table-spoon of mung bean is ground with a pod of cardamom and a table-spoon of jaggery adding water gradually until it reaches the consistency of milk. If this…

  • gingerbread

    Ginger bread is a soft molasses cake flavoured with ginger. It is a soft molasses ginger cookie sometimes elaborately decorated. Ginger bread also refers to elaborate ornamentation Gingerbread could also mean something superfluous, tasteless, embellishment particularly referring to architecture. 5th of June is the gingerbread day; there seems a mild confusion whether it is the…

  • rocky road day

    An interesting day today is the day that the radio was patented. It is also an informal holiday in the Uncle Sam land called rocky road holiday. Of course us being ardent highway on my plate fans we thought it this day was dedicated to Rocky who was on the road, paying for every meal…

  • choice theory and decision

    yaksha prashne is a profound question put forth by the forest creature to Yuddishtra in the Indian Epic Mahabharata Cooking Green Curry ಪ್ಲಿನ್ಕ್ಯ್ ನನಗೆ Its menu planning time again, the biggest dilemma  of the day. It starts what to cook, that which vegetable I cook. Then balances the proteins, carbs, by the time that hurdle are overcome the…