sivarathri : 5 Recipes
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Cut and Dried
Well it has been a long time since my last post, once again with good reason. Most of the time in the past fortnight was spent remembering Manni in each and every small thing I did. Every time I did something, I was reminded of similar[...] |
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Recipe: Cucumber Dosa
Dosa is dosai to the Tambrams . Sweet Dosai was an integral part of our Sivarathri festival. As the full fast on Sivarathri day meant abstinence from salt, people ate vella dosai (sweet dosa) and paruppu kanji after offering pooja in the[...] |
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Sivarathri 2009
One more Sivarathri . Our elders used to say, "After Sivarathri, the winter chill goes away chanting Siva Siva ." True to the saying, it suddenly turned quite warm on Sivarathri day. This will now continue until we get our pre-monsoon showers,[...] |
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An Ode to Puthucode
I realize that I have just completed 200 posts. I am dedicating this 201st at the lotus feet of Puthucode Bhagavathy , Sri Annapoorneswari , whose blessings have guided me in all my endeavours and who showers Her blessings to one and all by her[...] |
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Important festivals in February 2009
Before continuing with my Kanu descriptions, I need to take a time out to list the festivals we observe in the month of February. Well this is half Thai and half Maasi ( the Tamil months) or half Makaram and half Kumbham (Malayalam months).[...] |