When we were living in Chennai, I always bring tamarind from our native place near Thengapattanam in Kanyakumari, where we get fresh tamarind form the tamarind trees near our home. Most of the times, I make excess tamarind juice and waste the leftover. I tried keeping the leftover in the refrigerator for later use, but … Continue reading Storing tamarind juice
Kale is a kind of leaf cabbage, it contains more nutritional value than spinach. You can find it in most of the vegetable stores in the US. I am making this one like our hometown style murungai keerai (drumstick leaves) poriyal. Kale also tastes like murungai keerai. It is a very simple recipe. Ingredients Kale … Continue reading Kale poriyal
Naranga theeyal is one of the common dishes in our hometown. In most of the wedding feasts, it is served with rice. It is generally made with naranga (citron), it is also called as narthangai in other parts of Tamil Nadu. I hardly find them in the vegetable stores in the Minneapolis area, but we … Continue reading Lemon theeyal
These vegetarian burger patties are one of the favorite comfort foods for my daughters. Many times I tried making the burger patties based on different cook book recipes, then I created this one with a combination of selected ingredients from those recipes and additional items.of my choice. This recipe uses dry beans, but you can … Continue reading Black bean burger Patties
One of my favorite hobbies is creating fairy gardens. It is so much fun to watch a little plant environment grown in the mini world you've built. In summer I make an assorted variety of mini fairy gardens in my backyard, but since there are few more weeks before summer come in full blast, I … Continue reading Mini glass bowl fairy garden
