If you haven’t yet become familiar with the word “Dalgona” then this is something we would like to introduce you to. If on the other hand ,you have been seeing the various Dalgona posts and updates ,we have some trivia for you too ! Cold coffee as we know it will never be the same […]
Summer lunches (Raita/Pachadi)
Simplicity Coimbatore , Thayir pachadi for summer </a My favourite part of staying in a hotel,as a child, was when our parents allowed us to order room service. My mother would sigh and chuckle to herself when she spotted the dish of boondi raita. Pudina paratha, dhal makhani and boondi raitha with a bit of […]
Valarmathi Mess
Simplicity Coimbatore , Valarmathi Mess in Coimbatore </a Many years ago ,a young boy watched his parents work long hours in their family restaurant dishing out choice delicacies from their cache of recipes. On occasion he would assist by chopping onions or help out behind the counter depending on which area of the eatery needed […]
Byadagi chillies
Simplicity Coimbatore , Byadagi chillies in a Rogan Josh Dried red chillies in South India At home when it comes to using dried red chillies we favour two varieties;the small round ones and the tapered medium length ones with the thick skin. These are known as the gundu milagai ,popular in Chettinad cooking and […]
Red & purple foods
Simplicity Coimbatore , The red in your diet Strawberry cultivation in India When I mentioned that strawberries were in season,I was corrected by a friend (familiar with Mumbai /Pune) who said that the season for strawberries from Mahabaleshwar was at its end but the strawberries growing in the hills closer to Coimbatore would be […]
Kadugu Chutney (mustard seeds)
Simplicity Coimbatore , The kadugu chutney kaddhai Sometimes I look for info on traditional ingredients by watching tamil you tube channels. This is so informative especially when it comes to knowing more about native medicinal plants. While surfing from one video to the next I happened to chance upon one video uploaded by the channel […]
Globe amaranth tea
Simplicity Coimbatore , The Vaadaamalli tea Working within a specific budget is when the creative mind has to come up with low cost options which still fit the brief. That’s when we tend to look around us not with just the eyes but also by opening the mind and thinking a little more out […]
Egg fruit
Simplicity Coimbatore , have you tried the nutrient rich egg fruit ? It was about 3 years ago when a fellow food enthusiast and loyal reader (Sanjana) had something very interesting to share with me. Her ancestral farm was getting a bit of a clean up and the family were planning to plant some new […]
Sour dough bread
Simplicity Coimbatore , Ancient art of bread making , sourdough bread What we know of the bread making process today consists of using one important ingredient; baker’s yeast ! And yet that is not how it was made in ancient times. Bread making dates back to a time even before it could be documented […]
Ragi (finger millet)
Simplicity Coimbatore , Special harvest , Ragi The importance of the harvest festival has been ingrained into us as early back as my memory goes. It’s not like the significance was explained to us in words, we understood merely by watching.The rituals exhibit a sense of reverence rather than only a celebratory feeling. It is […]
