Suchitra's Life Journey

  Yumm if grown organically..  That is one of my bhindi plant in my garden. Learning a lot on planting, dealing with pests, rats... Its joyous to be able to grow even a single Bhindi. We can turn up a lovely salad or tasty chutney to have with piping hot rice or masala bhindi or simply fry it up with some salt and chilli powder. Here in Hosur I have a wonderful farmer uncle Karunakaran about 65+ years old retired from airforce who just loves to grow tomatoes , Bhindi, beetroot, chillies and so many other varieties. Some fail, some work out. Whenever I meet him he is always happy to have discovered something new and how to grow vegetables better. Well, I just thought of sharing some quick mouth watering dishes made with bhindi. 1. Bhindi Salad Ingredients:-  1/2 kg bhindi, slit length wise in 4 and cut in 2 inch pieces one handful small onion peeled and finely chopped 2 amlas juice salt to taste pepper as required I used a cast iron kadai for this. Added some coconut oil ,...

Yesterday was lockdown and today the vegetable van did not arrive. With just a few onions and chillies was wondering what should I make. So I wandered into my garden and looked around. Did not find any vegetables . But saw my papaya tree full of unripe papayas.  Had heard that, one can make some delicious curries with them.Have never tasted Papaya curries. So that is my Papaya tree has quite a lot of fruit. My maid covered half of the low hanging fruits to avoid an evil eye. Something new to me again. Well, so I made up my mind that I am going to cook papaya.Using a sharp knife cut out one from the upper branch, dropped it into my small bucket to avoid the sap all over me. Next I went on to do some research and was surprised to find some interesting recipes by different states of India. So I chose a recipe from Bengal and one recipe by vah re vah chef. 1) Kancha peper ghonto  from Bengal 2) Raw papaya fry  by Vah re vah Chef Care taken:- While peel...