Archive for the ‘tiffin’ Category

Kunukku

Posted by Desi Girl on September 14th, 2007 under tiffin  •  7 Comments

You know those days when you have a yen for something crunchy, spicy and with a zing to chase the blues away? The days when the rain keeps lashing against the windows, making you long for something hot, hot, hot? Well, a kunukku is made for such days. Marry the simple kunukku with some scrummy [...]

Veggie adai

Posted by Desi Girl on April 7th, 2007 under diet food, tiffin  •  2 Comments

Adai is a traditional Tamil dinner dish that is quite healthy too. Having a really dodgy digestive system, I was always restricted to just one adai for most of my life, till I hit my 20’s. It was never my favourite dish though.
A few years back, the dietician at my brother’s gym gave him a [...]

Bread Uppuma

Posted by Desi Girl on April 2nd, 2007 under bread, breakfast, tiffin  •  2 Comments

One of the easiest items to make for brekkie is good ole upma. Whenever my gran asks me what tiffin I want, my ever-ready answer is upma. Rava, aval, samba rava, rice - whatever it is, I love upma in any shape or form. Of all the various forms of the item, bread upma is, [...]