Food & Memories of Mangalore
Hello folks! I am back again with another video and hence reposting this recipe. I had first shared this recipe on Mar 30, 2014 and have made it a zillion times over the years. This is one of my absolute favourite banana bread recipes and so I decided to shoot a video. So do scroll…
Folks, my oven has seen a lot of baking this lockdown. Some were recipes that I had booked marked eons ago and it felt like the lockdown was the perfect time to try them out. Then there were recipes that were born out of sheer necessity. Well, a few weeks ago I posted the video…
Heyya folks! Another seasonal dish is coming your way today! Well, I am not the kinds who goes out of her way experimenting with fruits but this had to be done! There was a theme announced on the food group I manage on Facebook and for the first half of the month of June it…
Eggless Dark Chocolate & Walnut Cake
Hello my dear people! It’s raining mangoes at my place. I am so thankful that now, despite the pandemic I am blessed to find good & sweet mangoes. Although they are slightly expensive, they are still making their way into my home, so I am grateful for that. Imagine watching the mango season go by without taking a single bite of this glorious fruit! Since the past few weeks I have been eating them to my heart’s content and also trying out all sorts of dishes with mangoes in their raw & ripe form. I shot a couple of videos with raw mangoes and then the recent post that I shared earlier this week was for a mango chutney that was used as a marinade for chicken wings. Do check out all these recipes at the end of this post…
‘Tis the season folks! Yes, I am talking about the mango season!! Being fans of this glorious fruit we make the most of the season’s bounty every year. However, this year, thanks to the wretched Covid-19 we were unable to find any earlier. As we brought some good Alphonsos & Badamis home, our kitchen filled with the aroma of ripening mangoes and one day out of the desperation (or maybe greed) to eat them we cut open a couple and were dismayed to find them still unripe. We didn’t want to throw them as we had obviously paid through our noses. The man suddenly said he’d make something out of them and off he started to experiment. I asked him if we should shoot a video. If the recipe flopped we could trash the video clips as well, but it…
Hey guys! It’s been a while since I posted a new recipe, isn’t it? So what kept me busy during Covid times? Well, for starters, I haven’t been busier than this ever before thanks to the fact that the kids are at home all day (and night) and distance learning (DL) is not a cakewalk. My daughter needs all the support I can give her as she is not tech savvy yet and DL involves a lot of worksheets that are required to be downloaded and then uploaded once the homework is done. Besides this, there are whims & fancies of the kids that need to be attended to, ofcourse these are always pertaining to what they want to eat for their snacks. I mostly make whatever they want to eat so there are no prizes for guessing that pizza…
Folks, I am back with a super simple yet delicious recipe for an instant pickle. Yes! instant, because with minimal effort & time you can make some pickle without having to wait for weeks. This pickle is made using young/unripe jackfruit which we also call as ‘kadgi’ in Konkani. You see, like the coconut and banana trees, the jackfruit tree and its fruit are so versatile and useful for us that we make use of them to the maximum. The leaves of the jackfruit tree have culinary use too where we weave them into little baskets and steam idli batter in it. This is called as ‘kottige’ or ‘kotto‘ in the local languages of Mangalore. Another similar preparations are the Itoo (corruption of the term ‘hittu’ which means ‘batter’ in Kannada). Then there’s Idiyo which is sweet/stuffed rice dumplings steamed…
