Mint Rasam/Pudina Rasam

This rasam is quite different from the regular tomato or dal rasam as it is loaded with full of flavors infused by mint in it and is a perfect combination with rice and some papad.You can even savor this as a soup if you dilute it with water bit more and is perfect for rainy season.

Ingredients:

1 small bunch of mint(approx 1 cup)
2 tbsp grated dry coconut
4-5 dry red chillies
3 tbsp tamarind pulp
1 tsp grated Jaggery(optional)
a pinch of turmeric
4-5 curry leaves
1 tsp mustard seeds
a pinch of hing
salt to taste
1 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp ghee

Method:

• Grind grated dry coconut,red chillies and salt to a fine powder.Add mint leaves and grind again with little water to form a coarse paste.
• Heat oil in a kadai and add the ground paste and fry until the raw smell goes away.
• Add tamarind pulp,jaggery,turmeric and 1 and 1/2 cups of water and let it boil.Now check the taste of it and adjust accordingly adding salt,water if required.
• Heat ghee in a small tadka pan and crackle mustard seeds,add curry leaves and hing and fry and add this tadka to the boiling rasam and remove it from heat.

Serve it hot with rice,some fry and papad.

Uma and Vidya have showered me generously with so many awards.Thanks a lot uma and vidya for sharing those awards with me.

Most of the bloggers have already received them,so I am passing this to all the bloggers who have not get them so far.So Buddies,Please carry away these awards with you if you did not get before.

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Awards,Tag and extending my break.....

Hi folks,
Its been 3 weeks that I am away from blogging but seeing the number of entries posted by our fellow bloggers I feel like I am away from so many decades.:)I really missed reading all your entries girls,but slowly I will try catching them up.I am really touched when some of you even enquired about my sudden disappearance,thank you girls for your concern.
I had been to my home town(namma bengalooru) for the Ganesh chaturthi festival and naamakaran function of my niece and had a very nice time with my parents,bro,sil and my sweet niece.Time really flies away when we are with our dearest buddies,isn't it?,those 2 1/2 weeks were just like 2 seconds for me.I thoroughly enjoyed being pampered by my parents,naughtiness of my 9 month's old niece,eating outside food @ my favorite joints atleast once a day,getting dressed up for a couple of functions,shopping and what not??I enjoyed each and every second there.
This weekend we are shifting to another house here in mumbai,So I might not be able to blog for another couple of weeks until I settle down there.If I get time in between I will try visiting all your blogs though I cannot comment.I will miss you guys and will try to catch up soon.

Raaji,Ann,Sunanda,sushma,parita,Shri,PJ have showered me with these awards and they have even linked me with a tag which most of you have already been tagged.I thank you all for passing those lovely awards to me,you people made my day.

1. Kreative Blog Award
2. One Lovely Blog Award
3. I love your blog Award




Simran has passed on the Scrumptious Blog award to me:



Thanks a lot, simran for this lovely award.

Coming to the TAG...

1. What is your current obsession?

To construct my own house with my requirements

2. What are you wearing today?

Kurta, pyjama

3. What’s for dinner?

jeera rice and kaala channa with raita,papad and pickle

4. What’s the last thing you bought?

Some clothes in bangalore and few vegetables here.:)

5. What are you listening to right now?

Nothing.other than traffic sounds

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?

ohh..so many ppl have tagged me..But one common thing among us is our LOVE for cooking and blogging.

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?

A Bungalow in south bombay(which I dream of now).

8. What are your must-have's for summer?

Air conditioned rooms, cotton clothes,AC car, Umbrella/Hat

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

Switzerland

10. Which language do you want to learn?

Chinese(Mandarin),it is really a tough language.

11. What’s your favourite dish?

Pani poori,Shastralu,bilavalige and many more traditional items from our home.

12. Who do you want to meet right now?

My mom and dad.

13. What is your favourite colour?

Black & white

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?

Track pant and T-shirt.

15. What is your dream job?

To own a restaurant in Bangalore.

16. What’s your favourite magazine?

Women's Era

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?

crockery for my kitchen

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?

Not being confident about what you wear

19. Who are your style icons?

Aishwarya rai

20. Describe your personal style.?

Simple

21. What are you going to do after this?

Go and have a cup of tea.

22. What are your favourite movies?

Many to name...Padamati sandhya ragam(Telugu),Kill Bill(English)

24. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?

Lipgloss,Kajal,eye liner

23. What inspires you?

Pleasant Music and neat surroundings

24. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:

Good matching Earrings/Footwear, Kajal and Lipgloss...

25. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?

nothing..wear what ever that comes in hand.

26. Coffee or tea?

both..I prefer coffee in the mornings and Tea in the evening

27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?

Call mom and speak for hours together

28. What is the meaning of your name?

Talent

29. Which other blogs you love visiting?

I Love visiting all the blogs.

30. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?

Bengali sweets and traditional home made sweets

31. Favorite Season ?

winter

As most of you have got all these awards and tag ,I am not passing it to anyone in particular.If anyone did not get they can take it from my blog. I am so happy and honoured for being tagged and awarded. Thanks so much for everyone.

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Hurray!!!...finally received my most awaited FIRST AWARD

Its celebration time for receiving my first award!!!!

pic source: google

First of all thanks to pavithra who has passed this lovely award to me and I thank all my blogging friends who have encouraged a blogger-beginner like me with their lovely comments.



Now for the rules:

1) Add the logo of the award to your blog.
2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs (Only if you like).
4) Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blog.

I have become more of a blogaddict these days and the first thing I do every day in the morning is to check my blog for any comments left by the fellow bloggers. Today to my surprise I found a comment with the award tagged to it by Pavithra. I was on cloud9 for receiving the first award. It was the same feeling when I received a comment for my one of the initial posts for the first time.

One thing i liked the most about this Blogging world is "It connects the people who are thousand miles away even though they would not have seen each other, isn't it interesting??" Being a regular blogger now I can understand the effort,time and interest one has to invest in writing their blogs with such interesting stuff and amazing photography.My blogroll is so big that it is very difficult to choose just seven of them from it.

With a happy experience of receiving my first award, I would like to pass this award this to the following Ladies who are some among those who inspired me indirectly to own a blog with their lovely blogs.

1.Lakshmi from Taste of Mysore:
Before I started my own blog, when i want to search for the authentic karnataka food,this was the site i always referred to just because I find similar way of cooking food in my mom's kitchen.

2.Sia of Monsoon spice:
This lady does not need any introduction as she has a stunning site with loads of mouthwatering dishes and breath taking food photographs.

3.Asha of Foodie's hope:
Do i need to say any reason why i choose this lady for the award?? She always comes up with nice and amazing thali's which are droolworthy for a hungry stomach to fill for one week.

4.Madhu of Madhusfoodjournal:
I get a feel that i am only cooking when i go through her post because of the step-by-step pictures in the post.

5.Deesha of vegetable platter
Deesha has a very nice space which her beautiful presentation and description.

6.Mahima of Indian Vegetarian Kitchen
she also has a very beautiful blog with colourful photography and amazing recipes.

7.priya of priya'seasyNtastyrecipes
she has already crossed the milestone of 500 recipes and seems like she has aimed for reaching 1000 recipe milestone and also she was the host of my first event that i participated.

8 Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen
I really love to read the Baking and other amazing vegetarian stuff that she has mentioned in her Blog.

And now coming to the Ladies who have regularly visited my blog and encouraged with their lovely comments, i would like to thank specially these buddies and share this award with them.

Uma of Essence of Andhra

Ashwini of NannaAdige

priyasriram of priya's sourashtrian recipes

simran of BombayFoodie

Lubna of KitchenFlavours

EC of simple indian food

Divya of Dil-se

Varunavi of My Kitchen's Aroma

Shama of Easy2Cook recipes

Pooja of saikitchen

Gita of Gita'sKitchen

Ramya of passionforcooking

Lavanya of welcometovividharuchulu

Raaga of TheSingingChef

vibhaas of Delectable vegetarian recipes

cham of spiceclub

vrinda of sankeerthanam

Deepa of simplehomecooking

LE of HeartfulConcoctions

vishali of foodlovers

varsha of will-o-wisp

and i am sorry if i had missed mentioning anyone's name.Please accept this and i again thank you all for your wonderful support.

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