Category: 365 Days

It’s as simple as this – when we find different and interesting ways to use the plants that surround us, we are more likely to benefit from the healing properties that Mother Nature has to offer us through them. This recipe for a herbal iced tea is just one more way to benefit from the…

Imagine! A raw vegan lasagna, without pasta sheets! It truly is the dish of our dreams. Our friend Sarah makes this lasagna with bottle gourd, by peeling it into thin strips, the size of pasta sheets. After peeling the slices into strips. Layer the bottle gourd ‘pasta’, with the fresh tomatoes, homemade pesto, papaya sauce…

Turmeric is a very easy plant to grow in an urban setting, or on an apartment balcony. This amazing plant is a medicine, a condiment, a dye, a cosmetic ingredient, and used in ceremonies too! Fill up old buckets, pots, tin cans,or even old vegetable crates with sandy soil mixed with compost, and when the…

Pacha Manga Pachadi This one is bound to be a pleasant surprise if you’ve never tried it before. We have a Mango tree that gives fruit that aren’t particularly sweet nor tasty as fruit in the regular sense. So instead, we pick them before they ripen i.e. when they have grown to size, but are…

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius The Elephant Foot Yam is known as ‘Karunai Kizhangu’ in Tamil, or ‘Suran’ in Hindi. It is a large, round tuber which thrives in tropical climates and is much revered and popularly consumed in most parts of India for its nutritive value. It gets its name from the fact that the whole yams…

Cucumber seeds are fairly easy to obtain and store, and hence, are a good start to your Road Back to Nature. firstly you must wait till the cucumber to ripen on the plant, when it is ripe-You simply need to cut the fully cucumber vertically in half, and remove the seeds from the centre (the…

If one has ever wondered what one could do to swiftly improve one’s immune system, and keep it well prepared for responding to possible viral attacks, there is hardly any natural dietary supplement better for that purpose than Amla juice. In fact, according to one review, after the Barbados Cherry, Amla is the second richest…

Valuing traditional recipes obviously allows us to reap the rewards of millenia of culinary evolution. This recipe has emerged from this Bioregion with what grows here, and what is suitable for the climate here. Kara Kuzhambu has a history in that traditionally there were no fridges, and the use of Tamarind preserved the food up…

Sambar Vengayam Over time, Onions have become one of the most used vegetables in popular, mainstream Indian cuisine, but those who know it, know how much more flavourful the smaller bulbs, or shallots are. And the superior flavor is not the singular advantage, it is also about the ease with which one can begin cultivating…