Solitude Farm

Category: 365 Days

  • Papaya Thai salad

    Papaya Thai salad

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    Green papaya is one of the best local foods that you can find. It grows like a weed and when peeled and grated, its very much like a carrot. Green papaya salad is famous is Thailand and solitude farm cafe! Peel the papaya,( you might want to use gloves, as there is a white liquid…

  • Papaya black dal curry

    Papaya black dal curry

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    Papaya black dal curry is a fantastic nutritious and fibre-rich mouth-watering curry. For this, boil the black dal (cowpea) and keep it aside. Heat oil and add mustard seeds, cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise, and bay leaves. Add onion, tomato, green chilies, and ginger garlic paste, saute it for a while, and add the raw…

  • Green Gram dosa

    Green Gram dosa

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    Green gram or Moong dal is a local, fast growing legume. It is a rich source of protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals. It can be used in many different ways, one of which is the green gram dosa. Soak the moong dal and allow them to sprout overnight. Grind the green gram sprouts into a…

  • Mushroom spinach and mushroom spinach flower

    Mushroom spinach and mushroom spinach flower

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    When guests come for a walt to the field, they are often surprised when I give them the Mushroom spinach to taste. They look at me in surprise and say yes, indeed this prolific weed tastes like mushrooms! The flowers have a milder taste and can also be eaten. If we take a little time…

  • Veggie burger

    Veggie burger

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    Solitude farm cafe veggie burger is an awesome way to utilise excess vegetable into a delicious and healthy kid friendly meal. First soak some dal, at solitude we have been using Mysore dal and green gram. After soaking, grind them in a mixie and leave aside. Saute ginger, garlic, onion, chilli, plantain, spinach and any…

  • Growing trees

    Growing trees

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    I planted a tree!! WoW!! This day planting a tree seems something almost esoteric. People should know how to plant a tree; it is simple and valuable for our environment. If they are fruit trees, they even offer us tasty fruit. In this blog, we are dealing with how to plant a tree. First, you…

  • Thippili powder

    Thippili powder

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    As well as using it in rasam and in our salad, a nice way to value thippili is to dry it and powder it.Dry powders are easy to store and easy to administer as a medication. A nice way to use the powder is to mix a spoonful of the powder with some honey. This…

  • The black velvet bean

    The black velvet bean

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    The black velvet bean is a vigorously growing Creeper. It fixes nitrogen and is thus a good ground cover, it can be used in a no-tillage method for rice cultivation, it can be used as cow fodder, the beans when they are immature can be used in curry and they taste a bit like boiled…

  • Yard long beans stir fry

    Yard long beans stir fry

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    Yard long beans, from the cowpea family, is a bean that grows up to a yard in length as the name implies. In this bio region the yard long bean can grow all year around. It’s very fast growing and can be used in salads, curries and stir fries. The creeper needs a simple structure…

  • Thippili

    Thippili

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    Thipili or pepper longam is an ancient Indian plant. It is good for respiratory diseases, digestion and even a cancer cure. As well as high medicinal value, it can use in cooking such as Thippili rasam. This plant also grows in shade and has a good economic value. The first step to revaluing the plant,…