Paniyaram~O~Paniyaram !

A few days back while planing for a rather official mid morning snack for a group of special people from my favourite town we chose to order a much popular chettinadu snack- Paniyaram and Kara Chutney! I had my apprehension as to whether everyone would enjoy it, whether it would get leftover and wasted but I m happy to say I was so wrong!

On the menu were ~
Karapaniyaram Spicy Panniyaram
Inipupaniyaram Sweet Panniyaram
 Karachutney Spicy chutney

Sweet Panniyaram is mildly sweet due to the jaggery in it . It does not need a side dish or a chutney can be eaten like a snack or with a hot cup of coffee or tea! It tastes best when it is hot.

Kara panniyaram is usually bland and tastes somewhat like a roasted idly and hence you need a nice spicy chutney as a side dish.

Spicy chutney made by grinding onions, tomatoes, red chilies with tamarind seasoned with mustard and curry leaves.

Kara chutney and Kuzhipaniyaram a match made it heaven!

More pics of Karapaniyaramm

Karapaniyaram

Sweet paniyaram

Here is how the vessels looked once we were done!


Ain't it the most beautiful site? :)

Power of research~ Lessons from GOOGLE DOODLE

Today was a regular day at work>>> I came in,  log on and went about my activites and  i m stuck with doubts somewhere I resort to my friend/ philosopher and helper at work >>GOOGLE.

 

 

Today's google doodle looked like fresh peas scattered on my screen and just when i thought they 've gone nuts i hovered my cursor over the pea pods it indicated it was Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday today!

 

For those of u who feel you ve heard of him but can't remember who he was.. Gregor Medel is

• The father of MODERN GENETICS   
• Path breaker/ Pioneer in his field
• Best lesson to the World on perseverance
• My personal hero :) he was introduced to me by my high school Botany teacher 

Mendel was born to a simple peasant family in 18th century, entered priesthood early in life, although a mathematician by education he was a passionate gardener, in fact it was application of his math skills that helped him with Laws of inheritance (later known as Mendel's laws of inheritance).

 

Mendel's discovery about the traits of inheritance was way ahead of his times, in other words no one really understood or appreciated his work in his time when he was alive. However he went about  documenting his work with great sincerity and meticulously noted down every single detail of his research which was preserved in the state library for about (hold your breadth) 100 years!! Yes  my fellow researchers it was exactly 100 years befre Mendel's work was rediscovered by the then popular genetisits Hugo De Vries, Carl Corren and Tshemark .

 

Medel's  research revolutioned the world about 100 years after his death he was crowned father of genetics and every single law we have in inheritance is based on his extensive reasearch.

 

All of us are working in very unique areas of research which have never been explored before, in a way we trying to create a break through with our work and it can be intimidating, and disheartening somtimes when you hit a low point and feel like giving up just remember the story of Mendel and power of research .

 

Great things are bound to happen to those who persevere!

 

All New Amethyst

Amethyst

Ahh i know its been a good 10days since i posted something on my food blog, I have loads of snaps but i haven't been able to sit down and write :) so let us begin where we left ~ AMETHYST! So i finally went to the all new Amethyst last Sunday. Needless to say with a dear girl friend who made my afternoon absolutely delightful!

All new Amethyst @Whites road

Greek Salad

 I ordered a Greek salad made out of fresh olives, crisp lettuce leaves, fresh chopped cucumber, tomatoes and cheese. It was light, nutritious and refreshing.

And for starters we ordered crisp fired chicken lolly pop with a side dipping of mayo - YUM!

And yes a cool glass of fresh lemon flavored iced tea to sip :)

Thin crust chicken pizza

 We were about to explode with just this and yet we ordered dessert :) a friend of mine once said
"Life is short so remember to start with dessert"

Dessert~ Carmel, baked pineapple with roasted almonds- *SIGH* Gimme more  :P

The picture below is not Pandora from AVATAR ~ Its the all new AMETHYST 

My friend was soo inspired by the gardens at Amethyst she wanted to make a parody "Pandora Thandi Varuvya" loosely based on AVATAR & VTV :P