There are days when all I want to eat is a nice big bowl of salad. I would not have said the same 20 odd years ago. When I first moved to Sweden, my first meal when I landed in Uppsala was a bowl of greek salad. I was astounded that my lunch was a…
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Vegetarian Fajitas
One of our favorite food to eat in Mexican restaurants have always been fajitas. Last week my son was making a batch of chicken fajitas for the week and sent me a picture. This inspired me to make fajitas for dinner. This recipe has been modified from the Vegetarian Times (one of my favorite…
Keerai Poduthuval ( Stir-fried Greens garnished with coconut)
We all grew up learning about Popeye the Sailor Man and how eating spinach gave him muscles and that it is high in iron. Interestingly it does not have as much iron as was thought. It is a case of a misplaced decimal point. A German chemist in 1870 accidentally recorded that spinach has 35…
Sesame Seed Rice (Ellu Sadam) with Roasted Eggplant and Yogurt Salad (Kathirikai Pachadi)
There was a time when I bought a lot of cookbooks. I still do but I have become selective now. As promised, here is my first post from my cookbook shelf. Southern Spice is a book I enjoy reading. The author is Chandra Padmanabhan and I also own her first book, ‘Dakshin’. All recipes in…
Thayir Sadam and Mangai Inji (Yoghurt Rice and Mango ginger pickle)
Curd Rice or Yoghurt rice is a very simple dish eaten at the end of a meal. After a fiery hot meal with a medley of spices, curd rice cools the system. You have to eat it to experience the feeling. It is comfort food for most south Indians. In the summer months, this is the…
Vegetable Pulao and Raita
Rice is a staple of India, especially in the south. It is very versatile. Plain cooked rice has no flavour and takes the flavours of the curries you add to it. In the south, there are variations of gravies like sambar, rasam, vathakuzhambu, molagootal etc. Some of them are flavoured with tamarind to give…
Chai With Preethi 