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    • Sometimes it's best to let nature take its course
    • Stage two - the growing medium
    • Starting over
  • From my kitchen
    • Baker's formula for cake
    • Chatak
    • Cucumber time
    • Curry needs salt
    • How to crack open and grate a husked coconut
    • Making marmalade
    • Measuring 'andaaz'
    • Tasty soups without stock
    • Versatile pumpkin
    • Archived posts
      • It’s been a while...
      • Food idioms
  • Recipes
    • Breads and Rice
      • Dhal roti
      • Khichdi
      • Meat palau
      • Rawa dosa (semolina pancake)
      • Roti
      • Vegetable palau
    • Condiments
      • Coconut chutney
      • Khattai chutney (dried green mango chutney)
      • Khuchla
      • Lime pickle
      • Mango chutney #1
      • Mango chutney #2
      • Pumpkin pachadi (Pumpkin chutney)
      • Quick cucumber raita
      • Spicy apple pickle
      • Sweet lime pickle
      • Tamarind chutney
      • Tomato and mint/corriander chutney
      • Tomato chutney
      • Vendhay Kulambu
    • Sweets
      • Condensed milk and peanut fudge
      • Gulab jamun (Fiji style)
      • Halwa
      • Kheer (Indian rice pudding)
      • Pumpkin payasam (pumpkin pudding)
      • Sewai (Vermicelli pudding)
      • Shrikand (Sweet yoghurt dip)
      • Spice cupcakes
    • Savoury Snacks
      • Banana chips
      • Bonda (deep fried potato balls in batter)
      • Nimkis
      • Sago chips (sun dried and deep fried)
      • Sun dried potato chips
      • Vade (Deep fried lentil patties)
    • Seafood, Meat, Poultry and Eggs
      • Boiled egg curry with coconut milk
      • Chicken curry
      • Crab curry
      • Fish curry
      • Peppery chicken soup with potato
    • Vegetables and Pulses
      • 'Baked' beans
      • Amaranth leaves with coconut cream
      • Arai (Arbi) curry
      • Bean curry
      • Black-eyed pea curry
      • Cabbage Koottu
      • Carrot pachadi (carrot and yoghurt salad)
      • Chard with potato
      • Dhal (plain)
      • Dhal with choraiya bhaji
      • Dry fry dalo with spices
      • Elcheri
      • Ghotal bhaji
      • Khattar (jackfruit) curry
      • Moong curry
      • Mor kulambu (Yoghurt curry) with cucumber
      • Potato and leek fry
      • Pumpkin curry
      • Puttu (lightly spiced plantain)
      • Sauteed spinach
      • Steam fried karela
      • Stuffed karela
      • Vegetable and lentil soup
  • Herbs, spices & more
    • Amaranth
    • Asafoetida
    • Cardamon
    • Cinnamon
    • Cloves
    • Coriander
    • Cumin
    • Fennel seeds
    • Fenugreek
    • Garlic
    • Ginger
    • Khattai
    • Moong
    • Mustard seeds
    • Plantain
    • Sawtooth coriander
    • Sewai
    • Tamarind
    • Turmeric
  • Index
  • Feedback
Dig In
  • Home
  • In my garden
    • An orb in my garden
    • Curry leaves
    • First weekend in Spring 2014 - perfect weather to get started
    • My gardening calendar
    • Pesky slugs!
    • Ready for planting
    • Serendipitous gardening
    • Sometimes it's best to let nature take its course
    • Stage two - the growing medium
    • Starting over
  • From my kitchen
    • Baker's formula for cake
    • Chatak
    • Cucumber time
    • Curry needs salt
    • How to crack open and grate a husked coconut
    • Making marmalade
    • Measuring 'andaaz'
    • Tasty soups without stock
    • Versatile pumpkin
    • Archived posts
      • It’s been a while...
      • Food idioms
  • Recipes
    • Breads and Rice
      • Dhal roti
      • Khichdi
      • Meat palau
      • Rawa dosa (semolina pancake)
      • Roti
      • Vegetable palau
    • Condiments
      • Coconut chutney
      • Khattai chutney (dried green mango chutney)
      • Khuchla
      • Lime pickle
      • Mango chutney #1
      • Mango chutney #2
      • Pumpkin pachadi (Pumpkin chutney)
      • Quick cucumber raita
      • Spicy apple pickle
      • Sweet lime pickle
      • Tamarind chutney
      • Tomato and mint/corriander chutney
      • Tomato chutney
      • Vendhay Kulambu
    • Sweets
      • Condensed milk and peanut fudge
      • Gulab jamun (Fiji style)
      • Halwa
      • Kheer (Indian rice pudding)
      • Pumpkin payasam (pumpkin pudding)
      • Sewai (Vermicelli pudding)
      • Shrikand (Sweet yoghurt dip)
      • Spice cupcakes
    • Savoury Snacks
      • Banana chips
      • Bonda (deep fried potato balls in batter)
      • Nimkis
      • Sago chips (sun dried and deep fried)
      • Sun dried potato chips
      • Vade (Deep fried lentil patties)
    • Seafood, Meat, Poultry and Eggs
      • Boiled egg curry with coconut milk
      • Chicken curry
      • Crab curry
      • Fish curry
      • Peppery chicken soup with potato
    • Vegetables and Pulses
      • 'Baked' beans
      • Amaranth leaves with coconut cream
      • Arai (Arbi) curry
      • Bean curry
      • Black-eyed pea curry
      • Cabbage Koottu
      • Carrot pachadi (carrot and yoghurt salad)
      • Chard with potato
      • Dhal (plain)
      • Dhal with choraiya bhaji
      • Dry fry dalo with spices
      • Elcheri
      • Ghotal bhaji
      • Khattar (jackfruit) curry
      • Moong curry
      • Mor kulambu (Yoghurt curry) with cucumber
      • Potato and leek fry
      • Pumpkin curry
      • Puttu (lightly spiced plantain)
      • Sauteed spinach
      • Steam fried karela
      • Stuffed karela
      • Vegetable and lentil soup
  • Herbs, spices & more
    • Amaranth
    • Asafoetida
    • Cardamon
    • Cinnamon
    • Cloves
    • Coriander
    • Cumin
    • Fennel seeds
    • Fenugreek
    • Garlic
    • Ginger
    • Khattai
    • Moong
    • Mustard seeds
    • Plantain
    • Sawtooth coriander
    • Sewai
    • Tamarind
    • Turmeric
  • Index
  • Feedback
  • More
    • Home
    • In my garden
      • An orb in my garden
      • Curry leaves
      • First weekend in Spring 2014 - perfect weather to get started
      • My gardening calendar
      • Pesky slugs!
      • Ready for planting
      • Serendipitous gardening
      • Sometimes it's best to let nature take its course
      • Stage two - the growing medium
      • Starting over
    • From my kitchen
      • Baker's formula for cake
      • Chatak
      • Cucumber time
      • Curry needs salt
      • How to crack open and grate a husked coconut
      • Making marmalade
      • Measuring 'andaaz'
      • Tasty soups without stock
      • Versatile pumpkin
      • Archived posts
        • It’s been a while...
        • Food idioms
    • Recipes
      • Breads and Rice
        • Dhal roti
        • Khichdi
        • Meat palau
        • Rawa dosa (semolina pancake)
        • Roti
        • Vegetable palau
      • Condiments
        • Coconut chutney
        • Khattai chutney (dried green mango chutney)
        • Khuchla
        • Lime pickle
        • Mango chutney #1
        • Mango chutney #2
        • Pumpkin pachadi (Pumpkin chutney)
        • Quick cucumber raita
        • Spicy apple pickle
        • Sweet lime pickle
        • Tamarind chutney
        • Tomato and mint/corriander chutney
        • Tomato chutney
        • Vendhay Kulambu
      • Sweets
        • Condensed milk and peanut fudge
        • Gulab jamun (Fiji style)
        • Halwa
        • Kheer (Indian rice pudding)
        • Pumpkin payasam (pumpkin pudding)
        • Sewai (Vermicelli pudding)
        • Shrikand (Sweet yoghurt dip)
        • Spice cupcakes
      • Savoury Snacks
        • Banana chips
        • Bonda (deep fried potato balls in batter)
        • Nimkis
        • Sago chips (sun dried and deep fried)
        • Sun dried potato chips
        • Vade (Deep fried lentil patties)
      • Seafood, Meat, Poultry and Eggs
        • Boiled egg curry with coconut milk
        • Chicken curry
        • Crab curry
        • Fish curry
        • Peppery chicken soup with potato
      • Vegetables and Pulses
        • 'Baked' beans
        • Amaranth leaves with coconut cream
        • Arai (Arbi) curry
        • Bean curry
        • Black-eyed pea curry
        • Cabbage Koottu
        • Carrot pachadi (carrot and yoghurt salad)
        • Chard with potato
        • Dhal (plain)
        • Dhal with choraiya bhaji
        • Dry fry dalo with spices
        • Elcheri
        • Ghotal bhaji
        • Khattar (jackfruit) curry
        • Moong curry
        • Mor kulambu (Yoghurt curry) with cucumber
        • Potato and leek fry
        • Pumpkin curry
        • Puttu (lightly spiced plantain)
        • Sauteed spinach
        • Steam fried karela
        • Stuffed karela
        • Vegetable and lentil soup
    • Herbs, spices & more
      • Amaranth
      • Asafoetida
      • Cardamon
      • Cinnamon
      • Cloves
      • Coriander
      • Cumin
      • Fennel seeds
      • Fenugreek
      • Garlic
      • Ginger
      • Khattai
      • Moong
      • Mustard seeds
      • Plantain
      • Sawtooth coriander
      • Sewai
      • Tamarind
      • Turmeric
    • Index
    • Feedback
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Gulab jamun

Measuring 'andaaz'

Mandarins

Spice up your food

Let food be thy medicine!

I love food! 

Food for pleasure. Food for health. 

Cooking, eating, reading about, and more recently, growing. This site is my 'notebook' on all things food. 

 I like cooking old family favourites, dishes that I grew up eating, as well as trying out new recipes and experimenting, creating my own dishes, not always successfully. The recipes listed here are mainly family recipes. Most reflect my 'Fiji-Indian' roots, and you'll find recipes for home style Indian dishes made from ingredients readily available here in Australia.

I would love to be able to grow as much of my own food as possible and get the most I can out of my small backyard. But easier said than done.  Still I persevere.

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