Amaranth in coconut sauce(Bhajji denTe randayi)
We get two types of edible Amaranth – red ones called as ‘tambdi bhajji’ and green one(we call it white) called as dhavi(white) bhajji. Any greens are called bhajji in Konkani and stems are called as dento/dente. These greens are full of iron. Moreover all parts – stem and leaves of it are delicious especially [...]
Read more »Groundnut Laddoos ~ Peanut Balls Neivedyam for Ganesh Chaturti!
During our recent trip to my sil home, my elder sil had made us these yummy Groundnut laddos along with Sesame laddos. Both were simply out of the world tasting! Though we make Sesame Ladoos for all Ganesh Chaturti, I don’t remember Amma making the Peanut laddos that often. Though we literally rock and roll in peanuts. We love everything with Peanuts!
Read more »A Trip to Tirumala Temple!
A trip to Tirumala Tirupati takes planning. Its not only a place I love visiting but also happens to be my parent’s native place. So you can imagine my joy going back there every time. As I child, I remember traveling with parents to grandparents home. For us a visit to the temple is a must atleast once a year, if not more than that. And Dad used to take care of all the arrangements.
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Wish you all a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi.
We had great festival celebrations at home today. We brought home a small Ganesha idol yesterday. We spent last two days shopping for pooja materials and getting everything ready.
V built a beautiful mantapa . I prepared a traditional spread as offering. We did the pooja to the [...]
Read more »Vinayaka Chavithi Pooja ~ Ganesh Chaturthi Greetings!
I wish all my readers a happy Vinayakaya Chaturthi!Its been a real hectic day, just wanted to share our pooja and few pictures! We went to for temple visit to Tirumala and came back this morning. So asked Amma to get us the Ganesh Idol. Otherwise we normally go shopping to get the lord home!
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Sometimes you just need to see for yourself to know how far you have come!
Read more »Tomato-capsicum rice
I am always in search of simple and easy recipes for our lunchbox. I recently started preparing lunch on previous day to make my mornings a little bit less stressful. This is one simple dish that makes its appearance very often in our boxes.
Tomato-capsicum rice is something I have been cooking for a long time [...]
Spicy drumstick (Maskasangi sukke)
Sukke(Konkani) translates to dry. Sukke is a type of dry sidedish with coconut. Some times, it has a coconut paste and sometimes it has grated coconut.
Maskasangi – drumstick sukke is a very simple and delicious dish. V’s grandmother shared this with me during my last India visit. I tried it with frozen drumsticks and [...]
Aloo Masala ~ Baby Potato Curry!
This simple Baby Potato Masala or the Aloo Masala with Quick n simple Tomato Rice was our Saturday meal. Since Athamma was coming only on Sunday, we had a simple breakfast and planned to visit my new born nephew! Knowing its a national holiday for the Independence day, I agreed to meet my blogger friends. Only to know very late in the evening that it was a day off for the kids.
Read more »Spicy banana pepper
When we go to fresh vegetable section or to farmer’s market, I feel like trying the new vegetable that I haven’t tried before. My such experiments were not always successful. So last few days, I sticked to “known” vegetables. But last week, I saw these beautiful banana peppers at farmer’s market. They were very fresh [...]
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