All those that aren’t Indian or that aren’t that I make regularly.
I love eating sweets – the Indian ones that my mom made for us whenever I asked her. I do enjoy the occasional doughnut, a cupcake or the sugar loaded macchiatos from Starbucks. Whenever I wanted to eat something sweet, I would beg my mom to make halwa or payasam or chikki. Sometimes she obliged, if she didn’t …
I don’t like Tomatoes that much. If I’m cooking with tomatoes I make it mushy so that I don’t get a bite of the tomato pieces. A few weeks ago, I was tired to do anything else and had nothing in the fridge, so I decided to make some tomato perugu pachadi. Perugu pachadi is usually made with sorakaya (bottle …
I’ve already written this way too long post about the podi process to make it. So I’m not going to go on another lengthy post about it. But yeah my love for chaaru is obvious. For me, without chaaru a meal isn’t complete, but after moving to the US I’ve made less and less of it. For Arlo, I’ve started …
I don’t know how this podi originated but some of my first memories involves my ammamma (Mom’s mom) feeding me this amazing Chaaru. When my ammamma made chaaru, the neighbors three doors down could smell the amazing delicious rasam being brewed. My mom makes it pretty amazing too, but ammamma’s was the best. She passed away a few years ago …
As per my previous posts, you guys must have figured out that I’ve been trying so very hard to cook really healthy. VJ doesn’t have many complaints and usually just eats, but then he doesn’t even compliment me much. I just keep cooking and hoping that the food that I cooked is delicious. It usually …
