Meo's Cuisine

Thursday 8 December 2011

Gooseberry chammanthi

Sometimes little things might work wonders such as this

Day before yesterday we celebrated our first wedding anniversary....cant imagine we had completed an year so soon...I made some chicken biriyani,beef cutlets and vegetable cutlets...This beef cutlet is my mom's special recipie which I had relished during my childhood days.My mom makes this often and takes it to her office and shares it with her colleagues....I do also remember she made during one of the mission sales day in school and I sold some 40 cutlets for 700 rupees...I started selling the cutlets for 4 rupees each and as the demand increased we increased its price up to 15 and 20 rupees... still there were students ready to pay for it.I guess that was in my 4th or 5th standard and our class stood second in mission sales collection..

Kerala style fish curry

Fish curry in kerala is cooked in earthern pots which elevates its flavour.
For that matter any dish cooked in an earthern pot has an unique taste.

I still remember the taste of fish curry made by my grandmother freshly plucked and ground spices available at home like pepper,turmeric,chillies ,curry leaves and the fish caught just few moments before making the curry from the river flowing beside our house.Makes me feel nostalgic...Waiting for my next visit to kerala.

Here goes the recipie.

Kozhukatta

Rice dumplings stuffed with a mixture made of coconut and jaggery, a traditional sweet.

After a long time made kozhukattas...

Its our family' all time favourite and I make it when I want to avoid a deep fried snack or when there is extra coconut in my shelf else when I have leftover dough of iddiyappam.

But this time, I had planned to make it as I had a sudden craving for it.Kozhukattas are prepared at home very frequently and especially on saturday, previous day to palm sunday.And the day is called "kozhukatta shinyaicha" or kozhukatta saturday in cochin.

I feel really happy when I cook traditional food because I feel a kind of reunion being established with my roots and also it reminds me of sweet old childhood days.