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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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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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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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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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.......

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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.......

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BlackPepper Magic-2024

 

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

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Cardamom Gift - 2024

Cardamom Gift - 2024

Cardamom & Black Pepper

brought the world to our feet

through the battles of greed or oppression

they remain Supreme

as long as vadali in vaddaku

shal remain rooted firm

and soar skywards

to tell 

what we stood for 

on 

our ancestral land

our history

& 

our victories

as red as our soil

and our mothers' blood

the essence 

of 

our spices!

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

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Mother Mary

Mother Mary - @ St. John

He is Your Son

& You are his Mother

from now on!

I PRAY & THANK YOU, Mother!

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

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Ceylon Pickle-2024

What a Blessing....

To pass on family

Traditions of ancoent culture

the wisdom to make the food last

and make it the right way

for the Well-being of all!

for 

 

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

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Cherish

 

Plentiful.. .

What a Gift to cherish.....

Cherries in your backyard!

 I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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