Tag: Recipe
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A Guide to Making Your Own Peanut Butter
Are you a fan of peanut butter? If so, you’d be delighted to know that making your own homemade nut butter is very simple, delightfully creative, extremely satisfying, and highly cost-effective. It is also an accessible way to connect to how your food is made and what goes into it, even if in just a…
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Make Your Own Booklet Series.
The Amazing Uses of Banana Stem – 1 Over the years, Solitude Farm Café has created many projects to help educate people on the benefits of local foods. One such effort was this collection of pamphlets made by Sarah Kundig (youtube.com/myfoodforest) These simple pamphlets give people who come to the café a chance to take…
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Idly Making With Leaves
In various cultures, the practice of steaming food in jackfruit leaves isn’t just about culinary delight; it’s a tradition woven with both cultural significance and medicinal benefits. This age-old practice has been cherished for generations, particularly in regions where jackfruit trees thrive. The medicinal properties of jackfruit leaves are noteworthy. Rich in antioxidants and flavonoids,…
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Pumpkin Tendrils
While we often savor the succulent flesh and seeds of pumpkins, their tendrils, the delicate vines that extend from the plant, are often overlooked. However, these seemingly insignificant tendrils hide a treasure trove of nutritional value that deserves recognition. These finger-like props are searching for branches and other plants to climb onto so that the…
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Sambhar
Sambhar is the most generic of all Tamil dishes. Its basically, a dal curry cooked with vegetables and tamarind. At solitude, as we have so much sundakai and banana stem, we always add them along with the traditional ingredients of drumstick and green mango. Sambhar can have so many variations of taste depending on the…
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Mango pachadi
To value local foods effectively, one must have different recipes for the produce at different stages (i.e., the same plant produces a vegetable and a fruit). Mango is quite versatile; it can be eaten raw in a salad, made into pickles, and cooked in sambar. Another wonderful way to use it is to make it…
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Amla Ice Cream
Despite the fact that amla has the highest vitamin C content of all the fruits, unlike the local Tamilians, who love to eat it raw, my kids included! Myself as a British-born, grown up with apples and pears find it too tart. There are many ways other ways to enjoy this fruit, one of them…
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Mango Pickle
In the summer season, when unripe mangoes are falling from the trees, it is our duty to pick them up and use them!!! It’s harvesting time!! Let’s leave aside the actual pickles for a moment and just look at what making pickles means on a social level. People come together, cooperating on a collective task…
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Tamarind rice
Wanna travel the world and worried about food. Wooaahhh, we have tamarind rice for the rescue. Tamarind rice is a common travel time food of south India, which can last for a couple of days, as tamarind acts as a natural preservative. Soak tamarind and make it as a paste using your hand. Heat oil,…
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Manathakkali berries
Manathakkali berries or black night shade berriesManathakkali is synonymous with Tamil culture. While the leaves are used to make a delicious curry, the small black berries are delicious thrown in a salad or eaten just like that. The green berries are toxic raw, but can be cooked in a tamarind based gravy. The ripped manathakkali…