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Wishing all my readers a very happy Navratri. Dasara is in full swing here. It is already the sixth day! We feast-ers cannot believe how fast the last six days have passed. For fast-ers I know a few...
View ArticleRice Badam Kheer
Dasara is such exciting time. Celebrated all across India, various traditions are popular in various parts of the country. Mysore Dasara for me is synonymous with crowded Mysore, the time my father...
View ArticleQuick Carrot Halwa
Wishing you all a happy Ayudha Pooja. Also spending a minute here to remember Gandhiji and Sastriji on their birth anniversaries as well. It is poignant that the Prime Minister should be kicking off...
View ArticleKalakand
We are proud of our diverse society, something that is in or DNA. While it is cool to be a multicultural society, it takes a lot to be there and be nice especially with all the under currents of...
View ArticleShort Cut Kajjaya
We love our Kajjaya. But it is really a labor of love. It takes for ever to get done. Soaking the rice, grinding it and then making the Kajjaya mixture and then deep frying, indeed it a time consuming...
View ArticlePalak Panner Butter Masala
There are always times when we find mind blowing food at the most unexpected places, especially when we travel to unfamiliar places.Such foods and the experience of that particular meal leave a...
View ArticleHurali Kattu
What could be a Kannadiga's answer to Dal Makhani? the rich decadent elixir, just a spoonful of which makes that moment as smooth as silk, as light as a feather and as satisfying as a mother's...
View ArticleQuinoa and Strawberry Kheer
Fashion has not spared food. We come across some fad, some really 'cool' ingredient to work with often. Then comes a deluge of good things about the ingredient. Once people start consuming it in a big...
View ArticleKadalebele Payasa with condensed milk
Of late food scene in India has exploded. We see so many restaurants, cuisines of all kinds in tier two cities as well. Super market shelves are exploding with new ingredients, sometimes for better...
View ArticleMasale Idli
Our grandmothers were very creative when it came to using left overs. They lived in a world without Microwaves and Refrigerators so the task of preserving and consuming left overs was rather hard....
View ArticlePudina Coconut Chutney
Chutneys define Indian cuisine in a way nothing else does. They are spicy, adds that zing which takes a meal to the next level. They are of course a part of every festive meal. They can be a part of a...
View ArticleVegetable Jalfrezi
Life has changed beyond recognition in the past three decades or so. No one imagined what the dual power of Manmohan Singh's Economic liberalization and the internet boom was to become. Now with the...
View ArticleMotte Palya/ Scrambled eggs Kannda style
I love eggs. There was a time in life when one boiled egg and half a liter of milk constituted my breakfast everyday for months at a stretch! I do same now occasionally, just that this older me cannot...
View ArticleNavane Uppitti
Navane or foxtail millet is one of those hardy drought resistant grain that could not survive the deluge of green revolution. With every upside new technology ushers in, there will be a few downsides...
View ArticleHesaru Bele Kosambari Vade
We as a society never wasted anything, especially food. We always salvaged the saddest of foods. If nothing else worked, the cattle of the house or neighbor was always there to do the honor! Now our...
View ArticleChicken Biriyani Kannada Style
Running a series of non-vegetarian Kannadiga recipes has always been on my to- do list but some how it has not materialized. So going one recipe at a time rather than a series is perhaps more doable....
View ArticleBottle Gourd and Panner Kofta Curry
There are time when I crave for rich luxurious foods, like Pooris, Makhani gravies etc. Kannadiga being simple to the core were not all the great at conjuring a dish which could qualify for 'heart...
View ArticleBadami Haalu 2 / Almond Drink
We were a generation that grew up watching advertisements for Nutramul, Horlicks, Complan the drinks that were supposed to make kids grow big and strong. Well my mother had her own recipe to make us...
View ArticleChunky Style Mossoppu
Of all my memories, those related to food are still the strongest. Once a foodie, always a foodie I guess. When we lived in Shankarmutt, Mysore a few decades ago, it was a different world. We could...
View ArticleTender Green Vegetables in Green Masala
Where have I been all these days ? It was summer followed by a vacation in India and then back to work while Sunny boy was not yet back to school. Now that the school has started, there is some degree...
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