Google reader to be retired

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 5/19/2013 2:01:00 PM

'Friends, I recently found out that Google is retiring the Reader. All these days I have used the Google Reader to keep in tough with all you folks and your lovely blogs. My question is how are you people planning to keep in touch? Any tips to depend on Facebook to follow blogs? Thanks much'

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Motte Tovve

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 5/2/2013 9:26:00 PM

'As I grow older and as I spend more and more time in the kitchen I realize that my idea of a well stocked pantry was too exhaustive. In fact my list can actually be cut down by half. If we are creative, we can dish out excellent and healthy meals with very few ingredients perhaps with what ever we have in the pantry/refrigerator. I have been steadily reducing the number of items in my pantry and'

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Morning Glory Slice

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 4/9/2013 7:15:00 PM

'It is matter of few weeks. I got tired of fixing breakfast every morning. No we are not cereal-out-of-the-box or bread kind of people. We are Dose-Paddu-Chapati-Akki rotti kind of people. I felt like I needed a break from the first dish of the day but I wanted to make something rather healthful. So I decided to make morning glory muffins. But I did not have a proper muffin tin, I converted the'

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Kayi Obbattu

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 4/7/2013 7:24:00 PM

'Ugadi is just round the corner. Ugadi is the first day of our calender and therefore celebrated by all communities across the Kannada heartland. It is probably the one of the two festivals that is widely celebrated back home, the other being Deepawali. Traditional Ugadi celebrations are best observed in smaller towns and cities. Bangalore being so cosmopolitan these days Ugadi in Bangalore is'

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Badam Puri

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 4/5/2013 7:55:00 PM

'Badam puri also known as Surali puri is one of those old fashioned sweets which were very popular back in the days when everything home made was the only option. I remember my grand mother making this for important occasions. She made it for our house warming ceremony and for my cousins naming ceremony. Those were the days when women in family gathered to cook elaborate meals for 100-200 people.'

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Huli Pudi

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 4/4/2013 3:39:00 PM

'When do cooks back home feel they have come of age and are no longer amateurs in the kitchen? My answer would be when you make pickles and pudis. I few weeks back I ran out of my stash of Huli Pudi that my MIL brought last summer. I had been conserving it for quite some time but I had to see the bottom of the bottle one fine day. So I rolled up my sleeves and got to do what was needed. I had the'

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Spring Break Brownie

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 3/23/2013 9:03:00 PM

'It is time for spring break in this corner of the world. Sunny boy too enjoyed a sort of spring break last week. We had a wonderful time. We hit a milestone that I have been looking forward for a long time. We baked together for the first time. No prize for guessing that we did a brownie. Sunny boy helped me measure out everything. He stirred the mixture and of course he licked my beaters clean.'

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Tondekayi Fry

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 3/9/2013 5:28:00 PM

'After three short years my laptop battery decided to die on me stalling my life as a blogger for weeks. Just happened to receive my shipment and guess what the first thing on my mind, write up a post. I have a bunch of photographs from the previous weeks that needs to be done and sent to blogger heaven! Here is the first one. Tondekayi or the Tindora /Ivy goud is one of my favorite vegetables'

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Pinto Beans Toge

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 2/14/2013 7:49:00 PM

'Winter is such a sad time for a vegetable lover like me. There are very few great looking produce in the super markets. So this is the time of the year that I end up buying all kinds of beans and lentils. This past week I got a big bag of Pinto beans. They looked good and they ended up in my Toge. The toge was rich and creamy and very rich even though there was hardly any added fat. We ate this'

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Mushroomy Onion Soup

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 2/10/2013 10:05:00 PM

'I had heard so much about the french onion soup. I had to try it. Long long ago, when I landed a job, I took Honey out for a treat to a local restaurant. I saw the soup on the menu and was very excited about trying it. I asked the waitress if the soup contained meat. She said no. I was ecstatic. I ordered the soup ate it and enjoyed it. As a new bee to this country and to the culture, I did no'

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Spicy Orange Baby Bok Choy

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 2/1/2013 10:05:00 PM

'Sunny boy wants to be a chef these days. He is in the kitchen all the time, trying his little hands in making one pretend dish after another. After endless chocolate, strawberry pancakes, Doses and Paddus, he finally graduated into a dish of his own. He said he was making 'strawberry chicken and ......may be banana chicken'. I am like wow! He will probably grow into a foodie like me. That'

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Lentil and Spinach Soup

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 2/1/2013 9:48:00 PM

'They say Indian Agriculture is a gamble with the weather gods. My blogging shares a similar equation with the weather gods.  If the weather is bright and sunny, I get a chance to get some decent photographs. If I have decent photographs in my folder, I force myself to weave a story around it. Once I have a story ready, I can have the post up and running in no time. But the past few weeks, I have'

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Eggplant Salad / Badanekayi Salad

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 1/25/2013 9:14:00 PM

'Eggplant aka Brinjal aka Aubergines, are versatile vegetables. They are great in curries, steamed, fried, grilled, in pickles, pizzas, with rice ....the list goes on. I love them. I got to pile them onto my cart every time I look at them in the super market. It reminds me of a friend who I happened to meet in the supermarket, back during my university days. I was as usual piling on more eggplants'

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Caramel Custard

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 1/22/2013 7:53:00 PM

'My favorite movie of all times is perhaps 'You've Got Mail'. I love books, I love love stories, I love Tom Hanks, I love internet and there it is. My favorite movie. I watch it when ever I feel like watching a movie but cannot decide on one. Fair enough! right. Well what has a caramel custard to do with an old movie... This time it is a spiced rum called Brinley, which reminds me of Tom Hanks'

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Palak Panner

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 1/15/2013 7:30:00 PM

'I love Palak Panner, Saag Panner all those green dishes with Panner in it.  Unlike the buttery greasy versions, Palak Panner can be made with very less fat but taste heavenly. I make this dish quite a few ways but this is the simplest version,  my erstwhile land lady taught me decades ago. This was probably the first dish I learned to cook. At first I used to find it daunting,  getting the Palak'

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Happy Sankranti

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 1/14/2013 6:13:00 PM

'Wishing everyone a very happy Sankranti. Love this celebration of a bountiful harvest. Love the Ellu Bella, sugarcane, Sakkare acchu and of course the riot of colours on cattle back in Mysore. Like a true harvest festival, Sankranti is actually a celebration of peasants and his way of life. Cattles being a major asset along with land in peasant households,  occupies the center stage this time'

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Deviled eggs Kannada style!

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 1/6/2013 2:37:00 AM

'We are just past the season of eating. So my inbox is full of stuff I served at dinner parties these past two weeks. We are right now in the season of resolution, mostly of eating well and probably loosing weight. It never worked with me. So this time thinking of the longer horizon, and no resolutions! Appetizers often are the most unhealthy of all courses (may be except desserts). They are'

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Mooli Pomogranate Raita

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 1/4/2013 6:34:00 PM

'New year kicks in. This time around, I have no resolutions. It never did work with me, figured out any  day is just as good as the 1st of Jan to do good things. Just not reading News as voraciously as before, just to sort of keep the mind away from all the bad news floating around. Now for some new recipes. I wanted to present a Raita for a dinner party, something that says winter in a mouthful'

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Short cut to Rasmalai

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 12/30/2012 10:43:00 PM

'This year started out like any normal year. But ended like none that I have known before. It might not have been the end of the world, but indeed the end of the world as I knew it before. I am so very sick and tired of all the crime that is happening around us, right from cowardly swines violating women like never before, little girls violated in play schools, little kids slaughtered by manics,'

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Shahi Choley

Author : Kannada Cuisine      Blog : KANNADA CUISINE      Date : 12/27/2012 11:17:00 PM

'Our season of eating continues and after days and days of entertaining I had practically exhausted all my options to make something different. So fell back on good old Choley. Because this particular evening, I was making very few dishes and had to step up the Choley a bit, to make it good enough for the center piece. This one did stand out!   We will need, Kabuli Channa  (cooked)  3.5 cups'

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