Indo Chinese Vegetable Noodles.

Indochinese dishes are the ones prepared using the Chinese cooking methods using the Indian ingredients, a fusion , accepted by most of the Indians world wide. Vegetable Chow mein or noodles is my kids’ favourite, preferred any time of the day.As they are pure vegetarians( not allowed to stir in eggs either ;)..I go chop chopping the veggies...and once this part is done, the preparatory becomes...

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A Spice Mix for a Spoonful of Christmas...

It had been quite a surprising discovery that a cute girl residing in Sweden has almost the same tastes of that of a lady who dwells in South India!!.The resemblances of these ladies are the love for chillies, spices, care for their sisters and more..So what if comes, if these attributes blend?...Care for the sisters, love for the spice mixes and sending them over as a gift?..After having seen and...

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RCI-Varalakshmi Vratham...

A day for Ladies, with the yellow sacred threads, kumkum, flowers and the Kalasam with the face of the Goddess atop, decorated with jewellery and flowers is a never to miss sight.Offerings or Neivedyam like white payasams, tamarind rice and some traditional sweets are made for the goddess Varalakshmi along with the offerings of fruits, coconuts and betel leaves and nuts.Pushparchanai or flower offerings...

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Fantastic Four Meme...

The Yum girl, Lakshmi, has tagged me for a Fantastic Four Meme.Thank you Lakshmi.I prefer posting the memes separately without the recipes, attached.(Whispering the reality- Simply can't overcome the recent laziness to blog recipes) :)So please bear with me to come up with "a recipe less Meme".Here Goes:4 Places I've lived Alappuzha (Kerala, India)-infancy,Kottayam (Kerala, India)-childhood till marriage,Thanjavur(T.N, India)-After Marriage,Now residing in a town of T.N- Totally Nailed-Settled...

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Egg so cool!...

Not "a-so-good -photographer", not a proud owner of a fine model cam,Just a spirit to be a part ; not an yearn for success...A shot so casual with not much preparation, a single shot for participation.......to pamper the great interest in the art of "Photography"... Three cheers to Jai and Bee for initiating this great event of "Click"!!The month's theme is egg...Still not feeling confident to take...

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Chakka Varatti/Jack fruit Preserve.

The game is over..and lemme shake hands with bee (who came up with the first right guess),tbc, remya and sumitha who had also guessed right! It was really nice to scroll down the varied guesses ... most of them associating their imaginations with their own regional, traditional sweets..that was the sweetest of you too...:)Soon after finishing editing this post I was unusually prompted to search the...

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Guess the food in the bowl!...

Never been up with a guess game so far!..:D..Can you guess the food in the pictu...

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Kozhukkattai and Paruppu payasam for Vinayaka Chathurthi.

Ganesha is the first to be worshipped, whenever we start anything hoping to go well.He in turn relieves us from the difficulties and solves our problems.Vinayaka Chathurthi is celebrated in the month of Avani on chaturthi (4th) day which comes after the new moon.As always, I headed to the kadai veedhi, the previous evening to get the Mun Pillayar/Clay Ganesha, yerukkampoo malai , arukam pullu, vilampazham,...

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JFI-Vazhakkai Pattinam Varuval / Crispy fried Raw Plantains.

My severe hunt for the ripe bananas ended a sad demise as they are totally 'off' season here.I had always watched with envy and awe, the heavy trucks of T.N loaded with bananas heading to Kerala, where bananas are abundant, raw and ripe, year round, and me hunting for the same in the source point!!.I had wanted so much to whip up something with the ‘real fruit’ and now left with no other choice than...

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