Festivals

Besan Ladoo with Pumpkin Spice & Other Diwali Sweets Recipes from the Archives

October 23, 2011
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Happy Almost Diwali everyone! Hope everyone is busy making sweets and other treats for Diwali that is just a few days away. I spent yesterday making besan laddoos and kara sev and also of course, “taste testing” them. I hope to make some coconut burfis too before Diwali day and some gulab jamuns for Diwali [...]

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Pinto Beans Sundal ~ Pinto Beans Stir Fried with Coconut and Lightly Spiced with Red Chillies and Asafoetida

October 3, 2011
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Happy Navrathri! Happy Dusserah! It is such fun filled festive occassions that make me miss home a lot. Yes, it is true that you have built this new family of friends, new home and get the opportunity to celebrate with them and create new memories but the memories of celebrating these back home are bittersweet [...]

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Christmas Fruit Cake

December 27, 2010
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Having lived in Kerala for most of my life with many malayalee Christian neighbors and friends, Christmas never went unnoticed. Even though Carols and Christmas stars put up in front of everyone’s homes reminded you that Christmas was here, the highlight of the holiday season were the numerous fruit / plum Christmas cakes and …

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Pongal Duo – Venn Pongal (The Savory One) and Chakkara Pongal (The Sweet One)

January 14, 2010
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Pongal as it is called in TamilNadu, India or Sankranti as it is called in various other parts of India is the harvest festival and sun, rain and all that has helped in a good harvest are worshipped. It usually falls around the 15th of January and also signifies the beginning of Uttarayana where the [...]

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Rava Laddoo and Khoya Peda for Diwali

October 19, 2009
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Diwali was always the funnest festival – new clothes, tons of sweets and even more fire crackers – those days were fun!! Its now the second diwali that im celebrating away from family. But it is special in its own way as AJ and i get to celebrate this together and we have our friends [...]

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Navratri Specials

September 29, 2009
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The 10 days of Navratri ( Nav means nine and Ratri means night) are over and now I have to pack all my Golu dolls safely and put them away till next year. Navratri used to be fun days during my childhood. First of all, making the Golu – setting up the steps/tiers and arranging [...]

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Celebrating Vishu ( the Kerala New Year) with a Sadya ( the traditional feast)

April 15, 2009
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First of all, Happy Vishu and Happy New Year to all of you! Second of all, I am really really sorry for not being blog hopping and reading all those fabulous posts all you guys have written. I have been soo busy with the vishu preps and a couple of chiro appointments in between, including [...]

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A festival and a birthday!!

September 12, 2008

I just cannot believe how time flies..its been a year since i got introduced to the blog world and started blogging. A big thanks to my friend Aarthi, who inspired and encouraged me to start blogging!! I have made a lot of good friends, learnt a lot more about food and cooking and my blog [...]

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Happy Pongal!!

January 16, 2008

Happy Pongal to everyone!!! This is my first time celebrating Pongal on my own. I called up my mom and got the recipes for Sarkarrai Pongal and Vadai. Next thing on the agenda was to shop for the ingredients. There was a tiny disaster…i was not able to get them on time as we were [...]

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