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From my childhood, I have a strong aversion to apple. No matter how much I tried, I cannot get myself to like this fruit. My parents did everything they could to make me eat this. Even now, whenever we talk to them, they tell me to eat it. My hubby has a entirely different story. [...]

This is one of the very popular Konkani sweets. There are few types of duddaLLis – one prepared with rice and coconut, the second one is made with arrowroot powder (kachra peet), the third one is made from ragi flour. Arrowroot or Kachra peet is the powder prepared from tubers. The leaves of this plant [...]

When it comes to my Pachi‘s cooking and sweets, I can think of only one dish. Biscuit pudding…Ahh..Its so tasty. Though I don’t like sweets or chocolates, somehow this dish is my favorite. Whenever I go to Pachi‘s house in Balgaum, I ask her to prepare this and then I request her to let me [...]

We call Bottle gourd as ‘Gardudde‘ in Konkani (there are other names also). ‘Dudde‘ is pumpkin, I wonder if it is related to pumpkin in someway?? I loved these burfis from my childhood. I would go on eating a half-dozen of them at a time. I think the color of these largely depend on the [...]

Wish you all a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi. Bottlegourd is called gardudde in Konkani. According to Ayurveda, this vegetable has many medicinal values. It is supposed to be very good for digestion. Yoga guru Shri Ramdev keeps talking about the importance of this vegetable in many of his shows. Many people take juice of this [...]

Wish you all a very happy raksha bandhan. Raksha bandhan is a Hindu festival, signifying the love between brothers and sisters. On this day, sister tie Rakhee to brother and in return brother promises to look after her. He also gives gifts to sister. More about this festival here. As few of you know, I [...]

Chibbad(Konkani) or Karbooja(Hindi) is a kind of sweet melon. There are so many different kinds of melons available here, I was very much confused which one to use for this dish (and also for the milkshake). Finally I zeroed on cantaloupe which had the same taste as the one we got in India. Chibbad is [...]

There is a big story of my experience with preparing this dish first time. We were in Sydney and invited by one of our friends for Ganesh Chathurthi. We thought of taking some sweet with us. But I did not know how to cook any sweet (because I don’t like any sweets). Then I found [...]

Wish you all a very happy Makar Sankranti. I wanted to post something sweet today. When I searched through my pictures, I saw these pictures. I had tried this a while ago. Aruna sent me this recipe few months ago. When I tried it, we both enjoyed it a lot. Being a Gajar Halwa and [...]

This is a specialty from my native Kumta. I have not seen anyone making them at home. These are readily available in the shops. The best “Ganti” are available in a restaurant-shop “Alka”. Since my non-Konkani friends/relatives didn’t get the name “Ganti”, they called it “Chalk piece sweet” because the original “Ganti” is white in [...]