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  • sweet potato Usali

    Sweet potato ½ kg. Green chilli 2 Coconut scraping ¼ cup Cooking oil  2 tbsps. Asafoetida pinch Urad al 1 tsp Salt  to taste Jaggery to taste Mustard Kharipatta  Clean the sweet potato, kin and dice to small pieces. In wok pour the oil, and season with mustard, urad dal, green chilli and kharipatta add…

  • Janmashtami

    It is Krishna janmashtami at my hometown. Suddenly I see our elaborate family network and our roots in place. My  near seventy mother has donned her super cape, and make all the goodies that are to be made, the 5 types of laddoo, and chakkuli and the works. She has then put them into the…

  • Holiday Traditions

    Holidays are fixed sometimes by the constitution and sometimes by cultural traditions when routine work is suspended. Traditions are customs and stories handed down from generation to generation. As a child the greatest of holiday tradition was the one that arrived bang on the middle of rains, the birth of Lord Krishna celebrated in my…

  • 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…

  • growing up with friends

    Udupi was a small sleepy temple town. We lived in a joint family. So my cousin Ahalya was and is not only my sister but also best friend. It was strange that we had issues with our mother’s because of each other but between us it was not. She was of course all of a year and…

  • scents of the past

    whiff of memory Fragrance Lake sense of smell is great. One fragrance that stays with me is the fragrances of sandalwood sachet. My maternal grandmother Parwati was a no nonsense person. Yet she always had a small indulgence she would. place small sachet  between her sari’s this gave a mild fragrance to them. this stayed through out the day. we…