telugu valla kodalu telugu pilla

Ours is a vegetarian household in the Pacific Northwest; we are an extended family living together, with ages ranging from sixties to six; we are adventurous eaters, and always looking for something new to try, but we have to temper the heat a bit for the little one, and the more outlandish concoctions for the oldest one :-)

When I say vegetarian, I of course mean Indian vegetarian (using dairy); we do occasionally use and eat eggs inside dishes.

I have never liked writing down recipes - there is so much redundancy. First listing ingredients, then naming them again as they get used in the method, and then needing to identify mixtures by their ingredients when combining with other mixtures.

Then I stumbled across Cooking for Engineers and the moment that I saw their tabular method of presenting recipes, I fell in love with the technique.

I realize that some people would find this method non-intuitive and difficult to follow, but for me as an engineer, and all my fellow scientists, mathematicians and so forth out there, this is the ideal way to present a recipe! I have posted an entry explaining how to read the recipe if you need a little help to get started; you can see it here.

- Sivani

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The question is always where to draw the line between giving enough information and going on and on and on and ...
I have been having great fun reading responses to the Fantastic Four Meme that has been going around. Being relatively new to the food blog world, I found this a great opportunity to learn a little more of my fellow bloggers than those cryptic little "About" pages tell me.

Then I got tagged by Rajitha from Hunger Pangs, and I thought that this would be an interesting way to expand my "About" page.

(The actual entry can be found here)

My Fantastic Four Meme

4 Places I Have Lived (in no particular order)
• Rustenburg, South Africa
• Fargo, North Dakota
• IIT Madras Campus
• Portland, Oregon area

4 Jobs I Had
• Nanny (while a student)
• Cricket Scorer on television
• Curriculum Developer and Lecturer for Computer Training Concern
• R&D Engineer

4 Favorite Places I Have Holidayed
(This is our joint list.
My list of places before marriage would be a little different)
• London
• Delhi
• Cape Town
• New York

4 Favorite Foods
(I'm cheating royally here; then again, it's my meme...)
• Andhra Thali: panasa pottu kura; gutti vankaya kura; tomato pappu; pappu pulusu; charu; pulihora; bobbattlu; avakayi; gongura pacchadi; dosa avakayi; appadam; vadiyalu; paramannam
• Kimchee Jigae
• Desserts: Basundi, Potharekulu, Chocolate Mousse, Mysore Pak (from Saravana Bhavan), hot Jalebi
• Drinks: Fresh lime soda, Madras coffee, Ginger lemon chai

4 Favorite Places I Would Rather Be
• In an armchair next to a fireplace reading a book and watching a storm on the ocean
• Graduating, instead of still working towards the Masters
• In Nalli's with a blank check in my bag
• Always with the one I love