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I’m Sashi and I’m a foodie. I was brought up in a small town, Erode in Tamilnadu, India and I live in the US now.
I am like most, day scholar till my college days and mom’s packed lunch. In all that while, I have cooked only a couple of times at home before I graduated. Why bother during weekends, get up late and order mom to give a cup of coffee at noon in the middle of her Lunch prep. Have brunch at 1.30 or 2.00 PM. This is how I was till I finished my college.

When I started to work away from home I missed my Mom’s food, every day though I was eating a lot of variety foods. Yes, everyone really miss their Mom’s home made food when we are out of home. From then, I started collecting recipes from Mom and Granny. We make lots of comments when we eat at home, I used to tell my Mom, one of my friends brought a nice food today, why don’t u make like that ? etc.. Now, I ask my mom, to tell me the recipe of the wonderful rice she cooked the other day and also want it very authentic.

After my marriage, as all of us do, I wanted to impress my husband on the very first day and I did. I always try different food and surprise him daily. He appreciates and gives me feed back for all the recipes I try. Nowadays, when I talk to my grand ma, I ask for some recipes from her, funny isn’t it.

I am a foodie with a bit of health consciousness. So you wouldn’t find some Ingredients which are taste boosters like MSG ( Ajinomoto ) that might harm our Health, I try to avoid and replace with substitutes or just ignore them, yet try to make it tasty. But I love to try all sorts of food with very little constraints. I have tried many cuisines like American, Mexican, Greek, Chinese, Italian, Thai, Germany, English, Japanese, Malaysian and the list will be growing, no doubt. Indian food has a lot of variety, and I am sure I have to try the remaining 99.9% of the treasured Indian varieties. I am placing all the varieties I am trying. But you know, I have a long list of other varieties to try, sure I would post other cuisines too.

These days people seem to forgot our own authentic recipes, lot of cook books, TV shows etc made us to change our ingredients from the original form to the taste we like. I have started a quest for an Authentic Kongunadu Recipes. I am trying to add as many Kongunadu Recipes as I can. These recipes are collected from different sources. The taste might slightly vary all over kongunadu, so add or reduce ingredients accordingly.

All the recipes in this site are tried and tested recipes. I have modified and improved it over time. I am passionate about eating tasty food and it turned on my cooking interest.

Cooking is an art, involve yourself in cooking and you would see miracles in ur kitchen. Trust me. Take pride in ur kitchen, won’t you love ur kid or hubby saying ur Food is the best. I don’t mind spending that little extra time in cooking a delicious meal. Serve the tasty food to ur Family, this is the key success to keep ur family in ur control. No one makes the perfect recipe at the first time, right measurement and at the right time turns the recipe perfect, so keep on trying.

Keep visiting my site, and ur input makes me happy and allows me to perfect my recipes. I am excited to read all ur comments, so please keep them coming. Try out some of my recipes and let me know how did you enjoy with ur Family and how did it make  a difference. Please feel free to contact me for any suggestions or queries.Happy browsing !!!

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23 Responses to “About Me”

  1. Jayapal Chandran says:
    March 10, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Hi,
    Feeling glad to read the para starting with “These days people seem to forgot our own authentic recipes, lot of cook books…”. I, again appreciate your selfless self indulgent effort to give your idea online. I have thought a lot to maintain an online system to maintain recipes(totally natural) of our people (which has been always a healthier and kind) but you are already here so better i can use your idea. Previosuly i didnt check your about me and now… i am here… i will send your site link to our people when ever i could so that they will not forget our ancestors healthier culture.

    Can you also suggest what should people avoid with respect various seasons and health conditions. eventually you will become like late “valamburi john” the person who appears daily in|on|for sun tv to give tips on diet.

    LONG LIVE YOUR GRAMDMAA!!!

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  2. Namitha says:
    March 5, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    Hi Sashi,

    What a lovely space you have here. Great to know more about you. I did my masters in a college near to Erode(Maharaja) and used to visit Erode very frequently :-)

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    • Sashi says:
      March 5, 2010 at 10:31 pm

      Thanks Namitha for ur pleasing words. Ah !! finally I met a person who lived in Erode for sometime. Am happy to meet you here !!!

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  3. Yaso says:
    March 3, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    Sashi,
    Kalakara…………….. I started to visit your now and then. But ur photos looking very yummy……… Hope I will be able to try some of your receipies and enjoy the food.

    Cheers,
    Yaso

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  4. Prabhaa says:
    March 3, 2010 at 10:17 am

    Fabulous Sashi,

    I am more captured by the recipe photos…HATS OF TO YOU:)
    This makes me look into the recipe.
    Good going and good luck Sashi

    Regards
    Prabhaa

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  5. Eshwar says:
    March 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Hi Sashi,

    Keep up the spirit… I wish you Best of Luck!!!

    ~Eshwar

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  6. SathyaSridhar says:
    February 26, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Sashi,nice to see ur profile.I am from Tirupur.M also missing my amma and kongunadu samayal,,

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    • Sashi says:
      March 4, 2010 at 9:24 pm

      Me too Satya, Miss my Mom and her food. The reason to start this site is to dedicate it to my Mom in remembrance to every days cooking of her.

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  7. GeethaPriya says:
    February 24, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Hi Sashi,
    I am a fan of ur website!!U r doing a wonderful job on revisiting Indian recipes even though u r in Arkansas.I will keep posting my valuable comments and will recommend this site to my friends as well.
    I think u remember me?????

    Cheers!!

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    • Sashi says:
      February 24, 2010 at 4:32 pm

      Hi Geetha,your name sounds very familiar. But I wonder how do I know you ? Might be from the school. hmm.. sorry if I dont get u right. BTW, Thanks for your valuable appreciations and a big thanks to recommendations.

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  8. Sashi says:
    February 15, 2010 at 10:19 am

    Thanks all for sharing ur experience with me .. looking forward to hear more from you.

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  9. Dhivya says:
    February 15, 2010 at 7:58 am

    Hey Sashi…very good receipes…I tried most of your recipes and it turned out well..:)..Good work da..

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  10. Anitha says:
    February 10, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    Sashi, I have tried many of ur recipes and they tasted really good. Many thanks to you. Keep up the good work. :)

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  11. Dhivya says:
    February 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    It remainds my college life too. Mom’s recipes are the best. Thanks for sharing recipes with us, I have tried many of ur recipes and they are delicious.

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  12. Nithya says:
    February 5, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    Hey Sashi, nice collection of Kongunadu Recipes. Would like to visit here often. Please post some more kongunadu recipes.

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  13. Malini says:
    February 4, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Sashi, thanks for sharing kongnadu recipes. All the best.

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  14. Kavitha says:
    February 2, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    Hi Sashi, You have a very good collection of recipes. This remainds me of my College days. I never cooked before my marriage. Now it’s otherway round, I enjoy cooking. Thanks for sharing ur recipes with us.

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  15. Deepa says:
    November 16, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    hi love all your recipes. magic!!! there isnt much blogs which has authentic kongu recipes. for that reason luv your blog. keep posting!!!

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