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Happy Independence Day
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Kadhi -Khichdi
Usually most of my meals are somewhere within the 10-30 minutes time limit. The simple reason being I usually don’t have more time! I clean, peel, chop etc. the veggies on weekends. Fresh Green chillies which are one of the most necessary ingredients in our cooking are destemmed, washed dried and ground to a paste along with a few drops of lime juice and refrigerated, so that it’s easy to use in our day-to-day cooking. Garlic is peeled and ground to a paste- refrigerated I also make a Greenchilli-garlic-coriander paste for one week and refrigerate it.
My Foodcourt turns One!
My Foodcourt turned One on saturday (4th August). From my first post on Methi Paratha to the latest Zunka (coincidentally both feature Fenugreek/ Methi) it has been a delicious ,learning year for me. I still remember the day when I first discovered ‘Mahanandi’ and I was introduced to this treasure called Food Blogging! Thank you Indira for being the Inspiration. After 103 posts, I have learnt a lot of things- right from taking better photos of my dishes, to better formatting for my posts! Most of all food blogging has made a lot of difference to my day- to -day…
JFI-Jackfruit
Jackfruit- I wonder why it got this nameJ. We call it Phanas in Marathi. This largest tree-borne fruit in the world is grown abundantly in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. Every house in konkan has jackfruit trees in the backyard. During these summer months, unripe jackfruit can be seen in some of the vegetable markets here in Nasik. I am not a great fan of the curry my mom makes from the unripe jackfruits- Phanas Bhaji. Ripe jackruits with the sweet smelling fleshy yellow bulbs are also sold here during this time- though a little costly (yesterday I bought 250…