This topic brought me back to my childhood memories where my brother was so small to fit inside the children basket of the trolley when he took a handful of raisins packets and put in the trolley as my father was moving it. Yeah,we take raisins much. We took them morning with milk, breakfast like […]
These kidney shaped beans are found mostly in delicious delicacies like always- favourite halwa, ladoo, payasam, kaju katli, kesari and also added in mouth savouring recipes like briyani and yummy cashew mushroom. They are also added as a main ingredient in chicken, prawn and paneer gravies. My stomach is beginning to craving for it:( Coming […]
Walnuts are one of the oldest tree fruits known to man from 7000 BC. It is native to the region of Balkans streaching eastwards to Himalayas and Southwest China. The romans actually called walnuts as “Jupiter’s royal acorn”. Who is my uncle and one of the best doctors in South. (No wonder he has a […]
Dates come with combination of craving sweetness and wholesome nutrition. They come in different varieties in which the black dates and red ones are very available. Black dates are believed to have originated around in Iraq, and have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt. The ancient egyptians use dates to make […]
This topic of benefits of sesame chikki “Ellu mittai” brings me back to the childhood memories. Once I and my older brother went to a small stall to buy something to eat when we get bored (yeah,we get hungry when we get bored lol!). The string of colourful helium filled potato chips packets caught my […]
This topic brings me back to the mouth-watering memories where my mother boils peanuts in the cooker and gives them to us as an evening snack. We also buy two cones of 10 rupees each during our 8-hour long bus travels when we go to our grandparents’ home, Devakottai. Me and my brother love to […]
The wicked effects of added sugar are becoming increasingly more evident! People are turning back to natural substitutes. Today, the over consumption of sugar is the number one reason for American obese epidemic. For an average person who is having a BMI of 25, the WHO recommends only 6 teaspoons of sugar. It is […]
Experts suggest that sorghum millet should be a part of their daily regular diet. They are nutritional, non-glutinous, and not acid-forming foods, making digestion easier. There is a need for dietary modifications because of sedentary lifestyles. A proper diet has become very important, and millets have become the best bet! “ Said Dr. A. Sharadhadevi, […]
Not too far back in time, we drank pathaneer (a sweet beverage extracted from palm trees) and paruthipal (milk from cotton seeds) in early morning to relieve indigestion. Indian household use to keep holy cows at their home for their daily milk, those humans don’t use drug or machine to milk a cow before, no […]
The Nutritional Importance of Millets the world has recently realized the nutritional value of millets! We should restart ourselves by switching from rice to organics and millets! – Agriculture Minister, Krishna Byre Gowda. Millets have been a major food source in Central India, Southern India, and the hilly regions of Uttarakhand until the time of […]
