Am doing this post in a drowsy state after a heavy lunch,to wish you all a happy new year.
Had a feast for lunch along with our neighbour,here goes the new year menu,
Sambar,Rasam,Aviyal(Boiled vegetables in coconut,green chilli sauce flavored with yoghurt and coconut oil),Vendakkai thayir pachadi (Ladys finger in Yoghurt),Mangai vella pachadi( Mango n Jaggery),Paal payasam,Aama vadai(Channa dhal vadai), kovaikkai poriyal and of course appalams(urad,rice and tapioca papads). ( Diet.aavadhu innonaavadhu,sappadaradhukku dhane porandhu irukkum,kanna moodindu sorry kanna thorandhunde amukalam)
And tomorrow is ‘Vishu‘,beginning of malayala new year,since DD is palghat variety we are celebrating it too,by arranging a vishu kani (one like this)with mirror and tomm morning first job to look at ourselves in that mirror.may not be a heavy-duty lunch like this but the tentative menu is Puliseri(Similar to more kozhambhu),olan( red pumpkin along with green chillies cooked in coconut milk) and ada pradhaman( payasam made with rice ada) and may be eriseri(yam and plaintain cooked with pepper and urad dhal).The best part in Vishu celebration is the ‘Vishu kai neetam’,kids and younger ones in household receive money from elders.
Am feeling remorseful only for that i have not stuck to those rules(since she was up before i cud finish everything) i had set to treat Ambuli with,i screamed at her,lost my patience many times and so on.She enjoyed paal payasam and appalams so she can forgive me.
Have a great year ahead.
P.S: Once my friend said i was completely domesticated these days,after going through this post,even I feel that, am domesticated way beyond considering I have never knew to use a pressure cooker before marriage.
April 14, 2010 at 5:05 pm
hey, iniya chithirai thirunaal nalvazthukkal….not sure if we celebrated this wen we were in spore…. but cant forget our pongal celebration, wherein, we brough in power cut at spore by cooking paal pongal in rice cooker…. 🙂
May the coming year bring in lots of happiness to you all…. special wishes to Ambuli 🙂
Cheers,
Janani
April 14, 2010 at 5:14 pm
இனிய தமிழ் மற்றும் விஷு நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்
April 14, 2010 at 5:20 pm
puthandu nal vaazhthukkal.
Now that seems like one royal feast. Ambuli’s home should surely be added to the gourmet list that you featured a few posts ago.
April 14, 2010 at 5:46 pm
hey,
what a feast !!! yenna dhaan domesticate aanaalum, ivalavu items ore shot la naan paanadhu illa :).. may be with company.. but single aala pannadhe illa 🙂
April 14, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I think only for the first time its difficult,then you will get accustomed.
April 14, 2010 at 5:47 pm
@ PJ: I wasn’t there for Chithirai thirunaal,yes we did that,good part is we had a gr8 neighbour.Thanks a lot for ur wishes.
@ Ani: Thanks n surprised to see in tamil,you shld tell me how?
@ Ramesh: Thanks and nothing royal,only the festive samayal tats it.
April 14, 2010 at 10:35 pm
பார்க்க – http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Tamil
April 14, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Actually i have tried this feature available in Gmail,but was in doubt if it would work if i copy paste it here,so now i understand Ctrl C and Ctrl V works.
April 15, 2010 at 11:41 am
An award for u on my blog .. will b bk to read the post 🙂
April 15, 2010 at 12:40 pm
I cud only c all those fud items 😛 😛
I so want an elaborate meal like that … yum 🙂
A very happy new yr to all of u @ home 🙂
Hope we get to c pics of ur Vishu Kani 🙂
April 15, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Will cook for you when i come to Hyderabad.
Will post Vishu updates today.
Thanks for the award and wishes…