Jam with Mango pieces floating in it! Time Required: 20 Minutes Ingredients: 1 Cup Mango pieces (neither raw nor ripe), preferably Thothapuri 1 Cup Sugar
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This is sweet dish is prepared using rice flour. This is usually prepared during festivals and especially on Mangala Gowri Vrata and Nagara Panchami.
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In Mysore every Saturday during the Hindu month of Shravana, July – August in Gregorian calendar, young boys wearing dhoti with a cotton bag hanging on their shoulders and a prominent naama / tilak on their forehead would stand outside the door and call out “Venkataramana Govinda Govinda” or “Sri Venkateshaya Mangalam”. We would run [...]
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This sweet is prepared using fried gram flour and is prepared on Nagara Panchami festival.
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Picture1 – Entrance to Trikuteshwara Temple This ancient temple of Trikuteshwara dates back to the Kalyani Chalukyas who ruled this region during 1050 to 1200 CE. This temple is situated in Gadag, North Karnataka 60 kms from Hubli. The presiding deity is Lord Shiva and there are three Lingas / representation of lord Shiva installed [...]
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A blue rock pigeon found the space below one of my bonsai a safe place to lay its eggs. We were thrilled to have this family and watched the busy parents building what they thought was a cozy nest with a maximum of 6 sticks!
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Rathasapthami is a festival in honor of Sun god. On this day a rangoli / kolam (patterns drawn using chalk powder) of ratha / chariot is drawn inside the shrine of households celebrating this festival. My mother has drawn the below illustrated rangoli.
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Time Required: 45 Minutes Ingredients: 2 ¼ Cup Maida / Refined Flour 1tin Condensed Milk 120ml / ½ Cup melted butter 150ml water 2tsp Vanilla essence 2tsp Baking Powder 1tsp Soda-Bi-Carb (Cooking Soda) 4 – 5 tbsp Tutti Frutti
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Yogurt with Pineapple makes a cool accompaniment to Parathas or Roti / Indian bread. Time Required: 10 Minutes Serves: 4
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This festival is also known as Jyothirbheemeshwara Vrata and Pathi Sanjeevini Vratha and it is mentioned in Skaanda Purana (Skanda Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, is the largest Purana and is devoted mainly to the life and deed of Kartikeya (also called Skanda or Muruga), a son of Shiva [...]
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