Thursday, December 5, 2024

Ancestral Recipes - Cutlets

 A Ceylon Family Favourite: Cutlets

Salmon Fish Spicy Cutlets
Learned from my grandma
made with much LOVE 
for my grand-daughter JCR!

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Millets Grin

 Millets Grin

...The Brightest!

My Grandma used to tell us all the time that white four is making people less heathy. She knew from her life experience. I believed her not only because she was my grandma, but, I knew she was very smart and she read the ‘Sunday Observer & the bi weekly Morning Star. She had graduated from Uduvil Girls College finishing her senior Cambridge. She spoke English fluently & wrote letters to her nieces/nephews abroad in English.

According to my grandma, during her childhood ( and from ancient times) Tamil people ate Millets regularly and were very healthy & lived long. Of course she often cooked Kurakkan Puttu & give us with Palmyrah jaggery & coconut milk. Priceless!

She had nice long shinny hair & the brightest white healthy teeth I have ever seen

& no wonder the orderly at the doctor's office had asked her to remove her denture - thinking they are fake... My grandma was so... offended for a moment and then she started laughing. 

This was the funniest story she liked to tell us while giving us 'burned husk of Rice' - the charcoal powder - for us to brush our teeth and of course we did using our right fore-finger. I never had cavities though we ate sweet desserts & breakfast until we were teenagers and had to use Tooth brushes at the boarding school!

Of course we consumed no millets at the boarding school - Rice based & mostly White Wheat flour (locally referred to as the American flour) - Bread/ Biscuits/ Cake. You name it... all our favorite modern snacks at school were made of white flour & white sugar...  A long way away from the healthy Millet grains!



Lets eat more Millet Grains & Grin the Brightest - like my Grandma!

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

TAMILI

  ஆதித்  தமிழ் 

தமிழி, வட்டெழுத்து / கி.மு. 200: 

கல்வெட்டுகள்/ஓலைச்சுவடிகள்/செப்புத் தகடுகள்

காசு/ தாழிச்சட்டி ஓடுகள்

கிருந்தம், வடமொழி = கி.பி.200


தொல்பொருள் கண்டெடுப்பு: 

Dr.Vasanthi Srinivasan & Mrs. VijiyaSamuneeswari

Mrs. Yuvarani sathiyamoorthi (Scientific Inscritions)

மதுரை வட்டாரத்தில்...



 am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Monday, September 30, 2024

Joy At Work

 

Have you seen 
the JOY at work?
The minds 
in sync
with nature...













The hearts
brimming with Awe...
of the sounds
of the carefree birds
the gentleness of the breeze
tickling the branches 
of the weeping willow
to giggle!
 


















joy released...
from wild berries
vibrant on the path
vivid and juicy
with butterflies
ready to take flight

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Beyond JOY

To be called

 a POET

And to be recognized

Beyond Medical Sciences

As an inspiration of JOY














And be called 'The JOY POET'

Never crossed my mind --

Even in the wildest dreams


As POETs & Authors

Inhabited a heavenly realm

Immersed in my universe of books

Growing up in Serendip!


I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

Copyright©2023VeerajaR




 

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Sandal Support


 

Chembaka Viryan - The Red Jackfruit! This Jack fruit plant can be a good longyerm root supporter for Sandal. Sandal seem to grow well in Uduvil Red soil!

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

Copyright©2023VeerajaR

Thursday, September 12, 2024

BlackPepper Magic-2024


 

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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