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Anjeer Palada
In the coastal houses one of the dishes made on any occasion is the paramanna, or what is more famous as Paalada. With the lockdown and not really being in a mood do things I decided to improvise. I had black rice that Dr.D had got from Manipur I did try making rice out of…
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Bisu Parba of the Shivalli Brahmins.
ಯುಗಾದಿಯ ಶುಭಾಷಯಗಳು. Marrying into a Non coastal family has an advantage of its own, we get to celebrate most festivals twice. Like Yugadi. The Chandramana Yugadi or the Lunar calendar is followed in my in-laws house while in my natal home we follow the solar calendar. The Vaishaka sankrama, heralds the new year for many…
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Karachi Biscuits.
The lock down has been great, I have run out my standard nibbles. So I decided to try out making the Karachi biscuits at home. Essentially I modified the Nankatai recipe. Ingredients: ¾ cup plain flour. ½ cup powdered sugar. ¼ cup custard powder ¼ butter ¼ cup tutti-frutti. 2tbs broken cashew ½ tsp baking…
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pariyaya
Udupi Pariyaya. This was written for last week’s prompt. And I promptly forgot to post it. ಚೆಲುವು ನೋಡಮ್ಮ ಚೆಲುವು ನಮ್ಮ ಉಡುಪಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣನ ಚೆಲುವು. ಒಂದು ಕೈಯಲಿ ಕಡಗೋಲು ಹಿಡಿದು, ಒಂದು ಕೈಯಲಿ ವೆಣುವ ಹಿಡೆದು Udupi the temple town on the west coast of India is the home for lot of things, the famous Mitrasamaj which still maintains its…
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Green Amaranths Vada.
Pachche harive vade. The lockdown has caused a dwindling pantry and a dwindling pantry meals improvising on recipe’s. The kallina-patrode or spicy colocasia roast has always been a favourite of mine. Given my health and pantry conditions it is impossible to make it. Yesterday I saw pacche-harive, or rajgira or dhave-bhaji as it is called…
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World Water Day 2020
It’s a little late in the month. But 22nd March was the world water day. The theme of water day 2020 is water and climate change. 2015 WHO round up shows that 663 million of the population lacks access to safe drinking water. 2016 93%in of the people in Africa have access to…
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