carrotsandcherries

It is Varalakshmi Vratham tomorrow said mom, yesterday. Brain starting generating all sorts of choices for sweets the ones that I either never tried like this one and the ones which were a flop in the consistency. hmmm..........I thought, I asked mom "What kind of sweets and savouries must I make tomorrow?". She told me to make a sweet with jaggery and any savoury like vada. Since quite some days I was contemplating to try out the "Boliyal" as it is called in sourashtra, bobbatlu in telugu, boli in tamil. Well whatever it is called I really miss the boliyal that mom used to make at home. The stuffing is made of simple ingredients, easy to combine and moreover tastes so good !! My recipe for the stuffing is adapted from the one mom used to prepare. The dough for the boliyal was a spontaneous one. I got six 4 to 4.5 inch dia boliyals for the measurements below, We need, For the stuffing : Channa dal - 1/4 cup Jaggery - 1/2 cup Coconut chopped - 1/2 cup Cashe...

Le Marché as it is called in French, the farmers market here has quite a few treasures in the summer. The colours of the vegetables, berries, fruits ohhhh!!!!!!!!!!........you feel like trying out all the market has to offer you. The variety of tomatoes, their colour, shapes and sizes ....... and all the tomatoes have a distinctive taste of their own. Some are sweet, some sour, some just have a subtle taste and are best when eaten in a salad. Let me show some of them.... The Normal variety of tomatoes Pearl tomatoes - Tomates perle Cherry tomatoes - Tomates cerise (The above loose ones the below in bunches or en grappes) San Marzano Tomatoes (I never tried them out) Tomates Rosé de berne I dont know the name, but they were quite sour these tomatoes Yellow tomatoes (for quite obvious reasons :P) - Tomates jaune The normal good looking variety of tomatoes in bunches - Tomates en grappe True salad tomatoes - Tomates coeur du boeuf (heart ...