This is a sincere attempt to blog about the traditional “Tamil
Brahmin’s” (Tam-Brahm) recipes. This
blog will contain the recipes of the food that are typically cooked in a Tamil
Brahmin community (Iyer & Iyengar).
There is an old saying that goes like this “You are what you
eat” and TamBrahm Cuisine follows the concept of shaping the personality, mood
and mind of the family members.
In every Tambrahm family, if someone cooks a good, delicious
food the immediate comment will be “Your grandma used to cook this really well or
your athai paati is a specialist in this”. On top of it sometimes the comments
will be like “I have never found that taste in my life till now and I challenge
it can never be cooked like them”. Every one boasts about their mother,
grandmother, and wife even though the taste is the same or in-fact sometimes
better.
The attempt is to bring what is so-so-so special about the ordinary
recipes of our Parents & Grand‑parents that were treated so special and also
keeping the fact in mind the “Kai-pakkuvam” (Can we call this as ripeness) will
differ from person to person.
Moreover, though we eat different kinds of food, the count
of forgotten recipes has increased drastically. For Example : Angayapodi, Karuvapilai Kozhambu, Arisi Sundal, Gottu
Rasam, Thavala Adai, Devasa (Milagu)
Samayal, Elai Vadaam, Rasa Vaangi are some of the recipes lost its presence because
of fancy samayal.
This blog will have all the recipes starting from how to
make idly to How to do “Murukku-Seedai”.
Watch this space . . .
Super Sriram! Will watchout for updates! :) - Jenny
ReplyDeleteDelicious! Great photo - can hardly wait to read more.
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