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I had sneaked on it many times and scrolled up and down, with the faint hope that I won’t linger on the pictures for longer time. But it never happens. I droll on their pictures and they leave me breathless. They, of course refer to the pictures ok! This post was no different. I have always only made Tomato Pulao. Though Thakkali Sadam is famous in Tamil Nadu, somehow I never had an opportunity to attempt it. So when the Jugalbandits posted this, I knew I was doomed, I had to make it. I went through the ingredients, knew its going to be awesome. Because I use the same for my pulihora with tamarind.

Finally it took for Zu, to have Jugalbandi for her Tried and Tasted event, for m…

Lately I buy ingredients without a clear idea what I am going to cook. That is exactly how it was yesterday. I have seen beautiful chanterelle mushrooms, however I have no experience with them so I also bought two beautiful king trumpet mushrooms, just to be on the safe side. There was piece of pork tenderloin in the fridge, so now I only had to combine them. I remembered that I have seen somewhen on tv that they prepared meat in salt dough. This is something that I wanted to try since long, and today it was the day to do so. To pimp it up, I decided to add some hay. The pork was very tender and harmonised beatifully with the mushrooms in an improvised sauce. I served it with polenta, but instead stirring the cheese into the polenta I added it to the mushroom sauce.

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Its a pleasure to eyes biking on a Friday morning on our streets. You will get to see, all colourfully decked up ladies with flowing hair, lovingly adorned with flowers. Its a tradition to have a head bath and get ready for a full swung pooja on a Friday morning for most Hindu ladies.Though I hardly ever follow such rules, its still a pleasure to get a colour attack on your rush hour. Atleast you can relax while you wait for the traffic signal to go green! I try to put the waiting time to some use, if I am traveling by car, I try to catch on friends, if on bike, then I spend gazing and observing the world passing me by! I tell you, its great pastime. You get to see so many different people on the road, even its only for some few minutes that you have.

Peddu and Chinnu are happy going to the crèche now. They don’t cry anymore. In the beginning, Athamma used to carry Cadbury’s Gems and the moment they reach the place, she used to give them each. So seeing the gems they stop c…

This entire week I have been wrongly calculating the days. When it was actually Friday, I was still thinking that it was Thursday. And I was happy that I had a Lunch Box recipe for the my Lunch Box series. But it was very late when I realized that Friday was 1st and I had to post the MEC Round up. Well it doesn’t hurt to post them today I guess. I have got so used to posting these series on Fridays, that it feels strange when I do it any other day. What a creature of habits I turn out to be!

Ok for today’s lunch box, we have something different from the usual fare. Have I told that its been a while since I started chapatis for lunch. So its rice and the rest for hubby dear, while I take chapatis for myself. My lunch is now so interesting and I look forward to it infact. There is nothing…

As you may have guessed from the title, this is my contribution to the monthly Tried and Tested event from Zlamushka’s Spicy Kitchen. The event showcases a different blog every month, and invites participants to create and blog one or more dishes from that blog.

The first time I took part was for Tastes Like Home - a blog that was new to me (though very familiar now!). This time, the nominated blog is What’s for Lunch, Honey? - one of the very first blogs I ever subscribed to!

It was so hard to choose what to make - in the end I narrowed it down to gnocchi with garlic sage butter (I have tried to make gnocchi several times… but consistently f…