Today is Varusha Pirappu, or the day when a new year is born according to the traditional Tamil calender

There are some recipes that the minute you lay your eyes on them, you know it’s going to taste great. And you can’t wait to make it and taste it yourself. This was one such yummy recipe that I came across in Prevention magazine a couple of months ago. It featured soba noodles, which I had in the pantry; peanut butter which I had just made a bottle of; fresh oranges for the dressing and there was nothing to stop me from trying this one out

Update:

It’s that time of the year again when we think about the year that was and the year that will be. I’m glad that this love for food blogging has sustained its second year well. There have been the recent lows due to my regular broadband connection going AWOL, and google taking a full minute to load on my standby datacard. But that’s history now. The broadband has been restored to its earlier glory and so will food blogging

Weekend Breakfast Blogging is back to home ground this month. Guest hosts are lined up for WBB # 16 and 17. If you would like to take up hosting for December 07 and onwards for 08, please put in a line to me at [email protected]

When I asked Indira a couple of months ago, what she thought of ‘Chillies’ as a theme for JFI amongst some others, she gave a double thumbs up! After all which person from Andhra worth his / her salt will not light up with excitement at the thought of chillies

and such similar thoughts post World Environment Day