Kerala is a fish loving community and we have created an incredible variety of dishes featuring fish. Of all these dishes, fish cutlet is by far my favorite. To make cutlets, firm fleshed fish such as tuna or mackerel is cooked along with spices, onion and herbs. The bones are then removed, and the
I think every home in Kerala stocks up a minimum of two pickles, the common varities being lemon, mango, gooseberry, garlic etc. Dates, meat and fish pickles are usualy reserved for special occassions. We are, atleast my family is, so much in love with pickles that every meal, however scrumptious it
I have already shared a recipe for soft and pillowy palappams here. But I recently tried out this recipe, and while the taste was almost similar, the appams were definitely much, much softer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the dish, appam is a leavened rice bread from Kerala. It is an abso
My son loves paneer and demands paneer curry (or pizza, if he is feeling lucky) almost every weekend. In an attempt to make a healthy curry, I substituted paneer with tofu and paired it with whole wheat Kerala porotta instead of plain flour ones. He heard me blabber about the substitutions and pulle
Its old news now, but I hope you remember Barack Obama’s remarks about religious intolerance in India towards the end of his historic visit to the county. The next time he makes one of those visits, I request the CIA or whoever decides the president’s itinerary to let him drive through the busy st
This is the non vegetarian version of my capsicum curry that was quite a hit with everyone who tried it. Adding chicken to the recipe has made it even better (obviously)! It is very much like the North Indian curries you would enjoy in your favourite Indian restaurant. The curry pairs well with whit
Kaala Vaalu pokumbol ariyam enthinennu. Likewise, when you see the recipe for sichuan sauce on a blog, you can be sure that another schezwan recipe that uses this sauce is on its way soon. And I chose to share the recipe for Schezwan noodles which is a wildly popular dish of the Indo Chinese cuisine
I spend my lunch time in office with a gang of girls gossiping, sampling each others’ lunch, cribbing about weight gain and swapping recipes. Because everyone else is a vegetarian and non keralite, I get to taste a lot of things that I am not familiar with, such as Akki Roti, Bisi Bele Bath, Vaangi
Have you ever wondered about the kind of relationship you will share with your spouse a few years down the line, when you are old? After many years of togetherness, will there be anything left to talk about, or will a perpetual silence prevail to be occasionally broken by visiting children and grand children? Will outings be as much fun as they are now, or will you be too tired and grumpy to move out of your reclining chairs? In my family, uncles and aunts seem to be enjoying retired life in luxurious homes with their pets and gardens, large flat screen plasma TVs for the latest movies and all the “mega” serials, comfortable cars to take them to marriages and engagement ceremonies, exhibitions and sales. I just can’t wait to get retired! A part of my maternal uncle’s daily routine is a game of cards in the evening at the “Elder’s Club”. Though the name suggests a unisex club, women are a big no-no here (they surely don’t want anyone telling them off when their gossip goes over the limi
2014 was a fairly good year for me and I entered the New Year with a lot of positive thoughts swimming through my smart and pretty head. And one among them was that I would loose the few extra kgs that had tormented me all through the past year. So determined was I that I even briefly wondered whet
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