Mango!

Nothing says summer like the arrival of mangoes and watermelons to the markets. And of course, the sweet songs of the cuckoos in the mornings, the power cuts and the hot afternoons. 

A slightly longer, nostalgic post on my blog, The Green Tea Evenings - Here

After I am done sighing at the awesome smell of mangoes the minute I open my fridge, I have to plan a short vacation and also the endless work that has been piling up when I was busy doing... well, eating mangoes... :) and yeah, the home photo studio for my food photography experiments.

Tell me, how are your summers going? Lots of fun? Vacations? What other plans?

No-Bake Chocolate brownies

Browsing through Nags’ Edible Garden, I felt like I stumbled upon a treasure when I discovered this awesome no-bake brownie recipe , and that too eggless. It took me a while to assemble all the ingredients and to get the lazy self into the kitchen, but when I found myself finally mixing them all, I knew I really had a treasure.

An awesome, very healthy, and ready in a jiffy recipe that makes a batch of at least 20 brownies, this one is for keeps. And I am going to make this every week from now on. :-D

Kodyelu–a different one!

The more I cook Mangalorean food, the more I realize what Mangaloreans eat. How we get our proteins. How vegetables are imbibed in a subtle way into our meals. And how important coconut is for us all. :-)

Oh btw, in case you were wondering – Kodyelu means Sambar in Tulu, my mother tongue, the language spoken only in South Canara district of Karnataka state.

This is a sambar, very like the Paji masala kodyelu one I posted a while ago, with a slight difference. The earlier post had raw masalas in it, and this sambar uses roasted masalas.