Vankaya Tomato Pachadi
Dosakaya Pachadi
Girl’s Education
Red ribbons tied on oiled black hair, the hair plaited and combed. The school bag is ready. The lunch bag sits on top of the dining table, emanating various smells of curries, rotis and dals waiting to be taken to school. After eating breakfast, my little neighbors are excited to go to school. Of course, …
Cabbage Pachadi
My mother-in-law keeps telling me about the weirdest pachadi’s ever. I have never tasted them or heard about them before and neither has my mom. My mother-in-law learned a few from her mom, a few more from her mother-in-law and a few more from neighbors. Her bendakaya pachadi and cabbage pachadi are apparently from her …
Bendakaya (Okra) Pachadi
Kobbari (Coconut) Pachadi
Without a pachadi (pickle) our meal is incomplete. Even after living in the US for nearly six whole years, my heart and palate still screams and craves for aavakaya, maagai and gongura. Without any one of the pickles I don’t feel the satisfaction of eating rice. For the past two years, VJ and I have …
Youth For Parivarthan’s Ordinary to Extraordinary
Foreword From Pooh January and February have been incredibly difficult for us at Jabberfoodwocky. Po’s kid Arlo has been sick numerous times and I have been incredibly busy with everything at home. In our search for Ordinary to Extraordinary, we have come across so many individuals. Choosing them was a very easy task but getting …