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10 facts about Valentine's Day

10 facts about Valentine’s Day

Wish you all A Very Happy Valentine ’s Day! Let us celebrate this day of love, joy and happiness! Here are some ‘Valentine’ dishes to inspire you. Hope you find inspiration among this array of dishes, to cook for your Valentine! Here are 10 facts about Valentine’s day, which I have compiled for you: Valentine’s…

via 10 facts about Valentine’s Day! — Tangy Tales

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My new food blog

My new food blog

Corn pakoras

Hey! I finally started that food blog I have been thinking about! Now it’s gonna be recipe time… Can’t wait to hear what you have to say about the blog.

Please do stop by and check my new site: http://www.tangytales.com/

I also request you to follow me at this site as I have added many recipes on this site and plan to continue adding more and more recipes in the upcoming days.

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Dangar Pacchadi or Urad dal chutney

Dangar Pacchadi or Urad dal chutney

Chutney #17

My chutney making spree continues….

Here is pacchadi from Tamil cuisine made with urad dal and curd.

Urad dal  (in Hindi) is known as split black gram in English. Also known as orid dal, it is known as Minapappu in Telugu. It exists as a whole dal or in split form. The split form is the commonly used urad dal in many households in India. The whole dal is known as Minnulu in Telugu,…

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Friday Musings….

Friday Musings #1

Each weekend, on Friday, I will be posting a food quote or a  food thought or food related sayings or food facts/trivia which one can ponder upon. Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments.

Here comes the first one.

Yes, for sure!

During my young days, I did not have much liking for coffee.  My association with coffee started after I got married.  I slowly started…

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Custard Cookies

What do you do with custard powder? Make custard and add fruits to it. I love to add only bananas to my custard and enjoy the experience to eating this sweet dessert which literally melts in the mouth!

However I recently came across a recipe for Custard cookies at http://www.kurinjikathambam.com/ and immediately tried it.

Lo, wonderful custard cookies were ready. My daughter relished these…

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Vegetables: hate them or love them

Vegetables: hate them or love them

When I approached Gabi, from ’https://cookingwithoutlimits.wordpress.com/, Cooking without Limits, to write a guest post for my blog, she promptly and graciously accepted my offer. She has published several recipes and excellent food photos on her wonderful food blog, ‘Cooking without Limits’ And I hope to learn some food photography tricks from her…

I am very glad to share on my blog, this guest…

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Peanut Chutney with tomatoes

Peanut Chutney with tomatoes

Chutney # 15

Whenever, I make peanut chutney, I add tamarind to render tanginess to this dish. However, recently, my mother in law told me that one can add tomatoes instead of tamarind. I was eager to prepare this version of the chutney. Last weekend, I made it and it was indeed tasty. I always roast the peanuts and store them. Besides increasing its shelf time, these come in handy to use,…

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Tomato, Coriander and Onion chutney

Tomato, Coriander and Onion chutney

Chutney # 15

Usually, I avoid making dishes with onion as my mother and mother in law do not prefer to eat this vegetable. I chanced upon this recipe in some of my old handwritten notes, which I had jotted down from a college friend, years back.

There are some recipes, which upon reading, you want to rush to your kitchen and prepare it. This was one of them! And lo, I made it to go along with…

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What is your signature dish?

Everyone who cooks, has a signature dish. A dish which they can cook well, a dish which always turns out good! A dish which can be prepared effortlessly and which does not let you down, a dish which can be stirred and served to guests, a dish which needs no written down recipe..

I checked the actual meaning of ‘signature dish’ and the following was listed in…

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Cabbage Dosa - with a crispy twist

Cabbage Dosa – with a crispy twist

# 3 as part of the Attulu fest

Last weekend, I wanted to try out a different type of dosa keeping in view of my resolution of trying a new dish every weekend. Inspired by the recipe for cabbage dosa by ‘Cook with a Smile‘ and by ‘Tarla Dalal’, I set about making this ‘innovative’ dosa. A dosa with a crispy twist !

The dosa with a tangy, spicy and crispy twist!

As my mother in law and father in…

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Peanut Coriander Chutney

Chutney # 14

Being a South Indian, who invariably loves chutney’s, I end up having either dosas or idlis for breakfast on most of the days. Thus I am always on the look out for chutneys which I can make and have as an accompaniment during the morning meal.

This week, I tried Peanut Coriander chutney. I had some peanut powder readily available, which I had made earlier and stored. Thus making…

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Coconut facts!

Did you know that in some parts of the world, especially in the coastal areas in India, the coconut tree is considers as Kalpavriksha. As per Hindu mythology, Kalpavriksha is a wish-fulfilling divine tree in Hindu mythology. It is considered sacred due to its multiple uses.

In fact all the parts of the coconut plant (botanically it is not considered as a tree) are useful to humans! Indeed it is…

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Coconut chutney with green chillies

Coconut chutney with green chillies

Chutney # 13

Coconut is a versatile fruit and it is used to make a variety of dishes. One such dish is the famous coconut chutney. There are varied versions of coconut chutney. One can make a variety of chutneys with it like coconut chutney: with red chillies or with sesame seeds, or with coriander, or with ginger, or with chana dal or with tomato, or even with curd (alongwith some vegetables,…

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Capsicum tomato chutney

My love for ‘ground relishes’ continues…I am always eager to make various chutneys which accompany my breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Last week, I tried out this wonderful capsicum pacchadi (chutney in English) which left my taste buds satiated!

The ‘fiery’ pacchadi!

Here comes my 12th post about chutney. Lots more to come…

Capsicum Tomato Chutney

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Nirvana via Stomach!

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Kothimir Kharam

Coriander Chilli Splendor – yes, I would name this dish, so, in English. ‘Kothimir’ in Telugu language, refers to Coriander leaves or Chinese parsley. This herb is known as Dhania or Dhania patta in Hindi. Cilantro, is the Spanish word for Coriander leaves.

Love this look as it is my first attempt at food styling!

Kothimir Kharam in Telugu, literally translates to: ‘Coriander Spicy’ This is a ‘no…

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Corainder 'leafy' facts

Corainder ‘leafy’ facts

As we discuss about coriander, here are some informative facts about this wonderful herb!

I cannot imagine anybody not liking any vegetables or fruits as all of these are beneficial to us in some way or the other. Moroever who cannot like the fragrance or the taste of  corainder/cilantaro?

But did you know that there is an online anti-cilantro community called  http://www.ihatecilantro.com/

It…