The whole world is slowing down! We have faced local, regional or even country-wise emergencies before but #Coronavirus is something that’s making the entire world stop and take stock. Lock-downs, Quarantines and wheels of economies coming to a grinding halt…This period has shined light on our state of self-sufficiency more
If your family is anything like mine then you know where to get the best pizza in town. Of course, it’s got to be your very own homemade pizza; the pizza base, the sauce and the toppings, all made just the way you like it! It was Sunday night and
Homemade Tomato Ketchup using Farm fresh tomatoes… When I tried this recipe for the first time, my kids were very skeptical to try it. They looked at it with doubting eyes; smelled it suspiciously and then finally, reluctantly, tasted it. And, the verdict…it was a smashing hit! and I got
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
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
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
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
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
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
**************************************************** MY Book Release Super excited to share that my book “Farmer Sutra” is released on 28 Oct 2023. It’s a memoir of my farming journey on – “How a city-dweller realised her farm dream!” which is being published by Srishti Publishers. You can buy the book from Amazon HERE
