Thirupaavai Paasuram #7
Thirupaavai Paasuram #7 is all about waking up another friend of Andal with a different set if examples. The Samudra Manthan is alluded to as well.
Butter
Brown/Burnt Butter Sauce
Learn the step by step process of making Brown or Burnt Butter Sauce. Am only wondering how different it is from the humble Ghee ??
Churning Butter, Indian style
This post is for my blogosphere friend Katharine. When I had posted about churning butter at home, she wanted to know the process. So here it is – Heat full cream milk till it forms a layer of cream and starts to rise. It has to be full cream (Full Fat) milk for making butter. … Read more
Butter – not the melting kind, a Pune special
Dearest Appa, This post has to be addressed to you because every time I eat a butter, I remember you and can almost hear you say “they use their feet to mix the dough, and maybe their sweat mixes with it or even worse, their snot”. It still didn’t stop me from loving this crisp … Read more
Milk, Butter, Memories and plastic
During summer holidays we would visit both my paternal and maternal grandparents. At my paternal grandmother’s place, they had cows at home and the milk would be heated in a heavy bottomed pan throughout the day as coffee was made or people drank milk. At night, my grandmother would scrape the bottom of that pan … Read more
Small Savings Matter
I had been saving a teaspoon of cream that would remain in a 500 ml packet of Amul’s cow milk. I saved it for about a month and my mother was getting antsy that I would just waste it by letting it go rancid. But I had other ideas. I added a teaspoon of curd … Read more
Pune food diary..
We were in Pune from the 8th till the 14th. Yes, we timed it in such a way that we could be in Pune to celebrate Geetu’s birthday. The eating binge started on the 8th evening … With Geetu’s birthday cake and those delicious cute cupcakes that Dinky had ordered. Don’t know the name of … Read more