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  • Recipe Kai Murukku - My practice sessions
    Kai Murukku - My practice sessions (1 vote)
    One of the traditional Tamil cookbooks I have recommends to practise making kaimurukku at leisure in small quantities to perfect them. Every year on the day of gokulashtami I vow myself to try them again. I never get around making them[...]
  • Recipe Cheedais and Murukkus for Janmaashtami
    Cheedais and Murukkus for Janmaashtami (1 vote)
    We are done with the Janmaashtami festival weeks ago. Than why am I still savouring the dishes made for Sri Krishna days on end? Purva and Priti are hosting the Festive Food season with dishes for Janmaashtami and Ganesh Chathurthi[...]
  • Recipe Coconut laddoo
    Coconut laddoo (2 votes)
    Festival season around there is lot of visiting friends and being visited by friends happening. I try to keep stock of some goodies to entertain. With loads of activities in line with Navarathri, making elaborate preparations and time[...]
  • Recipe Sukhiyan
    Sukhiyan
    Two months ago, I guess it is only that long ago, and hope not longer, a lady mailed and asked me to post the recipe for sukhiyan...I hope today I will type and post too. I am sorry Akhila for the delayed post. At home this is made invariably[...]
  • Recipe Kaju Burfi
    Kaju Burfi
    This recipe was given to me by Kanthi maami, my cousin's mother-in-law. I have written down the recipe just as she had given us that makes twenty thin burfis. I had made with five times the given recipe this deepavali. I had made them slightly[...]
  • Recipe Paruppu poli
    Paruppu poli
    Have you ever disliked any particular food just because it had a silly colour, it oozed oil and any such trivial reason? Well, I have. Thinking back, I have disliked many reasonably nice dishes just because they were not the colour of my[...]
  • Recipe Sago Murukku
    Sago Murukku
    Sago murukku was the challenge given to members of Indian Cooking Challenge way back in March, to be posted by the 15th of April. Though I had two recipes in one cookbook, I never had attempted until Srivalli lured me by posting[...]
  • Recipe Nylon Ribbon
    Nylon Ribbon
    Soon after I posted the ribbon pakodas, my sister, my good buddy and worst critic pointed out that they were extremely brown, not golden. i explained to her that I used the rice flour amma had brought from India and she had complained about[...]
  • Recipe Coconut burfi
    Coconut burfi
    Burfis are one of the sweets that I grew up eating very often. We, my sisiters and me lived with my parents and paternal grand parents in their home. We were very used to unannounced visitors dropping for lunch or even staying a few days.[...]
  • Recipe Arisi Karjikkai
    Arisi Karjikkai
    Karjikkais are very popular sweetmeats. Usually, flour is rolled out and sweet fillings are stuffed in and deep fried to make them. The very delectable variation is the arisi karjikkai where the outer coat is made with rice flour with some[...]