Myriad Musings

AND for all seasons for that matter :) It can be made with any grains on hand, I have made it with broken wheat, bansi rava, regular rava, broken rice, broken millet, oats, flattened red rice (aval), flattened white rice, broken maize and broken corn!  I have only tried mixing rava and wheat, not any other grain. It can be made very very simply, just a tadka of mustard, jeera, green chillies, urad daal, chana daal, curry leaves and hing; If you prefer the non-satvic version, lots of onions. It can be made with a veritable garden of vegetables, the so-called english variety only though, carrots, peas, cabbage, capsicum, tomato, potato.  And of course coconut.  Coconut is the chocolate of the dessert world.  It can improve Anything and Everything. It can make it sweet or spicy, it is just that the sweet version has a different name, Kesari.  Together with coffee it form the ubiquitous SKC (sweet kara coffee) kannadigas seek in the evening. Some versi...

Today, I set a simple lunch for my son - Roti, Aalo Sabji (potato curry), Millet Rice and Moar Kuzhambu (More like Gujarathi Kadi). Halfway through the meal, he said "I love everything you have prepared today"!!! It must be snowing in Chennai ;) This behooves me to set down the recipes I used in 24 caret gold! Or atleast this blog. Aloo Sabji - A modification of my MIL's so called Aloo Dum (The real aaloo dum is a complicated mughlai undertaking, requiring fried baby potatoes and a almond-cashew rich gravy) 1 Cup of shallots, peeled and coarsely chopped 5 Medium sized potatoes thoroughly washed, unpeeled, cubed and put in a bowl of cold water (about 3 Inches long) 1 Small sweet potato (about 5 inches long) washed,peeled, cubed and added to the cold water 3 Tomatoes of the country variety, juicy and somewhat sour, disintegrates when cooked 20 Curry leaves, washed and torn 1 tsp Jeera 1 tsp black mustard 1 tsp kalonji 1 tsp fennel seeds 1/2 tsp M...