Cooking from other blogs

Upma kozhukatai/uppurundai over mint chutney

I get ever so excited about cooking new dishes and discovering new tastes that I forget about the simple, familiar food that we are very much used to. Here I was searching for some more new recipes and I saw Nandita's recipe for upma kozhukattai ( we call it uppurundai ). Oh I almost forgot this childhood snack food. Its a simple, humble tummy filler and my mom used to make it when we were kids !! Do I need more reason to rediscover the taste for this snack !! I made it just as per Nandita's instructions and it came out great !!!!

Plantain podimas with mint rice

Another of my favourite at home is Vazhakai podimas. I saw this recipe by Sudha on friday so I remembered quite to bring home plantains. Again I love this recipe for its simplicity. I followed her recipe exactly. It came out great !!

Thanks for all your inquiries about my laptop.. Ravi has made temporary arrangements and hooked a desktop monitor and serves the purpose now. Meanwhile he is deciding between a thinkpad and notebook :)