Last weekend was a glorious one (how many times have I said that in my earlier posts). The weather was perfect; not too hot or cold and all that accompanied with a beautiful sunshine. This natural setting woke up the food blogger in me and transformed me into a food photographer. That prompted me to walk around the house with the camera dangling around the neck trying to capture pictures of this tomato onion salad and other dishes in different angles, varying amount of sunlight, different backgrounds etc. This went on for almost half a day and 45 pictures later…
Panaka (Indian Lemonade)
Panaka(Kannada) is usually prepared on Sri Rama Navami a Hindu festival, celebrating of the birth of Lord Rama. Panaka or Panakam (Telugu) is a sweet drink prepared with jaggery, lemon and pepper. This is an Indian version of lemonade and uses jaggery instead of sugar. Jaggery is a rich source of iron due to the process involved, using iron utensils. It is considered by some to be a particularly wholesome sugar and, unlike refined sugar, it retains more mineral salts. Moreover, the process does not involve chemical agents. Indian Ayurvedic medicine considers jaggery to be beneficial in treating throat…
Cucumber Pancake/ Cucumber Rotti Recipe
Given a chance I would eat this everyday for either breakfast, or lunch or dinner. This is how fond I am of this Cucumber Rotti. It is easy to prepare, uses readily available ingredients, does not require any fermentation and the taste is delicious. It is light tasting and also healthy. It is also a good way of using up the cucumbers lying around. This is a variation of the Cucumber Dosa that I have made before. This is traditionally eaten during breakfast. If you are skeptical of the taste of cooked cucumber then let me assure you that…