Pavakka or Karela Masala for Chappathi

Karela Masala deep dried in oil with Onions and tomato. Pavakka or Bitter gourd is usually bitter and hence not eaten usually in Kerala for Chappathi as a curry. But this home made Karela masala is too good. Fried with Onions, Chilli and Tomatoes with a hint of Sugar, it is not that bitter and tastes very good.

Kili Njaval Fruit Juice Shoe Button Ardisia Juice

Shoe button Ardisia or Ardisia Elliptica known locally as Kili Njaval in Kerala is a very small beautiful purple black coloured fruit like Jamun. It is called Kili Njaval because birds usually eat the fruit and is not eaten by humans because it is small and has hardly any flesh. But I made a juice out of it and it is much like Jamun and tastes the same. Very refreshing indeed.

Mathi or Chala green pepper fry

Sardine or Mathi fry. Young Green pepper corns, ginger, garlic, green chili, egg white and Yoke, lemon juice and salt. Yummy fish fry

This is the Cattle farm for cows from where I get cow dung for my organic farm.

Next batch of Nutter or Red belly fish released to the pond last week.

Frog legs fried. I had some 100 Red belly fish in the pond which died due to some unknown reason and two frogs is what was left after i cleaned the pond.

100% organic home grown Mysore Poovan weighed almost 35kgs

Thinai Dosa. Very healthy made of Fox tail millet, it tastes very much to the traditional Dosa. Millets are emerging as the new super food.

Chakka pappadam from Sree Products store in Choondal. It tastes like a pappad with a sweet note of Jack fruit and tastes like pavakka kondattam. Excellent for Kanji etc.

Broiler Duck BBQ for Easter

The broiler duck for Easter finally ended up on the BBQ grill. Just plain marination with chilli powder, little turmeric powder, Salt and pepper. Lemon juice also added. Came up good and along with Onion tomato salad accompanied by chilli sauce and 7 up was s fantastic dinner indeed.

Organic Ginger grown in grow bags

The ginger grown in growbags were harvested last week. Will make some Puli inchi, Ginger pickled in Apple cider vinegar etc.

Malabar Chestnut first time harvest

We were waiting for this tree to bear fruit and eat it to know how it tastes like. The green nut similar to Badam nut but bigger in size was on the tree for 2 months and then cracked and fell down giving us these nuts similar to areacanut. Upon opening the shell, the kernel is similar to cashew nut and tastes like groundnut.

Broccoli Kale Spinach Cabbage Soup

Growing winter vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, kale etc in the tropical regions is a challenge. I manage it here in Ollur, Thrissur, Kerala, S. India for the last several years. I occasionally get to harvest it or I use the leaves for soup as you see here. This is today morning harvest and the temperatures for last several days were near 40 degrees. This soup has a pinch of turmeric only as an additive. Fully organic and healthy soup. You can add salt pepper etc. To your taste.I boiled the veggies for half an hour.

Organic Shallots and Broccoli Soup

Soups comes in different names, flavours and taste. But they will be seasoned with many additives and thus renders a yummy taste. Here is a Shallot Broccoli soup which is prepared at home from Organically grown Shallots, Broccoli, Green Chillies, Bird's Eye Chilli etc. Its taste is not so yummy because of the absence of additives. But it is very healthy and packed with numerous rejuvenating elements.