Every time I visited my farm I kept making a mental note to pay a closer visit to some of the medicinal plants that has been growing like weeds everywhere on my farm. I spotted the beautiful Thumbai poo (Leucas aspera), Ammaan pacharisi (Euphorbia hirta) and Keezhanelli (Phyllanthus niruri) very early on. The first time …
You all know about my abundant chilli harvest and my farm goals for this year don’t you? You don’t!!! *insert my horrified look* – then you must read this post here first. Okay, so my chilli loaded harvest and my obsession with fermented food kind of coincided and boy am I glad that happened! I …
Today was a soup, salad and kabab lunch kind of day. Again, it wasn’t planned. My corn had been steaming for over an hour and then pressure cooked as well yet it didn’t soften even one bit. That’s the thing I had mentioned earlier too about the heirloom corn varieties…they are hardy! Not the softies …
If you are wondering what’s so interesting about a bland cucumber salad, then you have to read this! The picture doesn’t do justice because I couldn’t bother shooting an aesthetic one, so pardon me for that. The last couple of weeks have been too delicious, too rich and too over-stimulating for my gustatory receptors. Oh, …
If you have never tried this one, you definitely must! Now the story goes like this. I didn’t start out planning to make them and I really don’t know how I ended up with these. All I wanted to do was churn out the butter from the cream I’d collected over the week. As I …
Yesterday my daughter and I watched the movie “Julie and Julia”. I was watching it for the second time but as she wanted to watch it with me, I decided to watch it again. As anyone who has seen that movie would have guessed by now what’s to happen next…Did you guess? Well, inspired by …
Vallarai Keerai, commonly known as memory power greens, is a powerful medicinal herb that confers immense health benefits primarily for enhancing brain activity and nervous system functioning, besides helping with joint pain in arthritis, healing stomach ulcers, decreasing stress & anxiety and…being an overall skin and hair tonic too. Phew, this is a power-house greens …
Let’s look at an interesting and lesser known green called Musumusukkai… Musumusukkai / Mukia maderaspatana belongs to Cucurbitaceae family. This is just to give you the necessary details to google it up in case you aren’t familiar with its common name. I was pleasantly surprised at the scientific name “maderaspatana” as in “Madrasa pattinam” the way …
Magical Colour Changing Lemonade Today while I was at my farm, I walked past these pretty blue flowers. I would always think that I will get back to them later and collect some to show you something magical but always forgot in the rush of other things. This time guess what, I stopped and instantly …
10 Processed Food Items to Avoid If only you could see grocery store food staples for what they really are? – Chemically-laden, Over-dose of preservatives, Fake lab-concocted alternatives, artificial colours, flavours and carcinogenic additives. The food label that lures gullible consumers saying “Low fat” & “low sugar” are mere eye-wash. I put together the top …
