I‘m Sashi, a software engineer and a foodie. I hail from Erode, Tamilnadu, India. I live in the US now.
This website is my personal blog to share every day cooking to friends and family. I am trying to add a lot of different recipes but focus mainly on Authentic Kongunadu Recipes. I love making it spicier so adjust the spice levels according to your taste buds.
The recipes are collected from my Mom, Granny, Mother-in-law, Friends and different source.
Little to talk about me, like most I was day scholar till my college days and used to take 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 ask for a cup of coffee at noon, have brunch at 1.30 or 2.00 PM and stayed away from cooking till I completed my studies.
Everyone has different inspirations, when I started to work away from home I realized how much I missed my Mom’s food even though I was eating a lot of variety foods and there it began. Very true everyone really miss their Mom’s homemade food when we are out of home. We complain a lot when we eat at home, being away changed that, these days I ask my mom to tell the delicious recipe she used to make.
After marriage, I started exploring more to impress my husband. He enjoys and encourages me for trying out different varieties. Good or bad, his feedback helps me improvise better. I am passionate about eating tasty food and it spiked my cooking interest.
I care a lot about the quality, taste and am also health conscious. I try to avoid some stuff like MSG (Ajinomoto), readymade mixes which contains more sodium. Either I substitute or just ignore them, yet try my best to make it tasty. All the recipes in this site are tried and tested recipes. I have modified and improved it over time.
Cooking is an art, involve yourself and you would see miracles in your kitchen. Take pride in your kitchen, won’t you love your family or friends loving your food. Serve the tasty food and stay in everyone’s heart. Not everyone makes anything perfect at the first time, right measurement and the patience makes the recipe perfect, so keep on trying.
Please let me know the feedback about the recipes, your encouragement is what keeps me moving and adding more tasty recipes. They make me happy and allow me to perfect my recipes. I am very much excited to read each individual comment and sometimes even wonder if it is me they are talking about, please keep them coming. Try out my recipes and let me know how it worked out for you. Please feel free to contact me for any suggestions or queries.
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Hey Sashi, very good receipes, I tried most of your recipes and it turned out well..
Thanks Rammi. Glad you like it.
I have tried some of your recipes and I was very happy with the outcome. Your recipes have real flavor. Thank you
Thanks Pressy!!
hi sashi,great work,nice recipes.
Thanks Yuvana. Hope everyone at home is doing good.
Hi Sashi, I have enjoyed making some of your recipes of authentic Kongu recipes, thought only my Mom knew all the secrets!!! How true that we do not appreciate what we have when we have them. I used to do exactly what you did. Get up at 11.30 – 12 O’clock and have my Moms coffee and then her delicious lunch, which I punctuated by saying “make something different next time” etc but ate more than what I should be eating! Then moving to the UK missing Moms cooking so much, annoyingly spelling out how my mothers cooking tasted to my wife, who is not from kongunadu! But thankfully, she (maybe just to shut me up?) has learn to cook from my mom and dad and now I can’t distinguish my wife’s from my mothers cooking! How lucky can one get do you ask? By stumbling across a blog like yours and making something different tasting to what everyone is used to, and getting accolades! Thanks for sharing your recipes.
Thanks for sharing abt you and ur lovely appreciation Ravichandran !!! Glad to note that u r enjoying ur wifes cooking, Have fun !!
Joysshalini says:
December,2/12/ 2010 at 3:59pm
Amazing work shasi.
i like your cooking types thanks lot
Thanks Joysshalini!!
Dear mam,
ur recipies are yummy n delicious,1st i was impressed by the photographs, n when i went thru na,its simple to try it out n particularly the ingredients in ur recipies’-can be available in all our places. I came to know that u were from Erode.. I’m from Bhavani…
thank u.keep rocking.
-Kalai.
Thanks Kalai for those sweet comments. Nice to meet u in my blog !!
yeah, I add the recipes which every anyone can get in their place and also try preparing from Scratch.
Hope you enjoyed browsing my website. Have fun !!
Amazing work sasi.
Small suggestion. If possible upload vidoes.
I personally prefer video recipes than reading :)
There cud be many lazy ones like me :)
And I keep visiting your sites to check out the photos :)
Thanks Anitha. Videos !!! ha ha no way .. thats too much.. also i’m kinda busy with work ..so no time for that now. But surely do it when i have time.
Hi Sashi,
I’m from a small village in salem, Tamilnadu. I used to be the same like how you described yourself. I used to comment on my mom’s cooking when i was at home. Now, im married and live in Minneapolis,mn and i have a bunch of recipe papers that i collected from almost everyone in my family. Whenever i come across any new recipe, i always write it down and try it. I love trying out new recipes.I miss my mom’s cooking. Im bad in cooking Veg food.So, i was googling for some authentic tamilnadu veg recipes and i came across your hotel style Veg. curry and i printed it out immediately. I’m going to try that out tonight.I added ur website as my favourite.I see lot of interesting recipes which i haven’t had in years. Im going to try one by one. Thank you for posting the recipes. Keep posting.
Hi Ramya, nice to meet someone neighbor to my naive place. Hope u guys liked the Veg Kurma. Come back often !!1
Hi Sashi,
For the past 3 months, i have been visiting your site almost every day and trying out lot of new dishes. Whatever tried, came out great. Thanks to you!!! I have become a big fan of your recipes now and now I started enjoying cooking more than ever. Thanks again for all the great recipes you have and keep posting a lot. Namma oru samayal tastey thani thaan.
Thanks for ur lovely comments Ramya. Glad u liked the recipes.
Hi sashi ,
Im Vidhya . Im also from kongunadu , near Erode .Now Living in US .What you written is 100% true for me too . As you said , now im calling my mom to get her recipe. After i go through your food blog , i am so happy as if my mom is near me to tell her recipes. Thanks a lot for sharing . keep posting . Really i feel emotionally happy as if i got a chance to talk with my old friend ….
Vidhya, good to see u. Thanks for ur words, felt like hearing them from one my friends. Am really excited to meet u, Hope u have enjoyed the recipes in my site.
hi sashi,
i am really impressed by your recipe photos.i am newly married,as u said i also want to impress my hubby.So i am searching for good and easy recipes.Your website is very interesting. I studied in coimbatore, so i tasted some kongunadu recipes in my friends home. I am a fan of arisu paruppu sadam and sandhavai. i tried it in my home but i didnt get the same taste. if possible can you post those recipes.
Thanks,
Abirami
Abi, good to see u here. Every newly wedded girl wishes the same, I know :)
Here’s the link to Arisi Paruppu Sadham which I already posted – http://www.sashirecipes.com/dhal-rice-arisi-paruppu-sadam.html. you can also check the variations which other people do in the tips section.
I am a die hard fan of Sandhavai but I didnt get the Sandhavai Maker from India,added in my next shopping list to India. But I am making it using Mrukku acchu, if you want will post them soon. :)
Also, you can find lot of Kongunadu recipes in here. http://www.sashirecipes.com/category/kongunadu-special
Happy browsing !!
hi sashi,
im from namakkal currently in chicago…i did my college in perundurai near erode(kongu engg college).. i looked around ur site.. its very gud collections of recipes.. looks so tasty tooooo…i love cooking always..i tried some,all r so tasty.. i became one of ur fan ..
Geetha, Thanks. I am from Kongu Engineering too. It’s great pleasure meeting one of the Alumni here !!
Hey Sashi got it .. now I know why u were so excited.
Thanks for stopping by my blog Sashi. Thrilled to know that we share similar passions for cooking and more thrilled that you post authentic kongunadu recipes. Keep them coming Sashi. Will peek in often to say a hi. Happy Cooking n Happy Blogging
Thanks Radhika, Glad to know you, I would also be following you to get the SBD weekly updates. :) Keep them updated weekly.
Hi Shashi, thank you for stopping by at my blog. You’ve wonderful space here with amazing recipes. Though, I can browse veg recipes only. :) But, i must say you have maintained your blog very well. Keep it up! :)
Happy cooking n blogging!
Cheers,
Sonia
Thanks Sonia for ur kind pleasing words, am so happy to hear them. Keep coming back.
Hey Sashi..interesting write up About u…My Mom is from Coimbatore and spent all of my holidays there..I keep pestering her to give me all the authentic recipes..Great knowing you…will peek in often..
Thanks Shabitha for dropping by, good to know that ur mom is from CBE, will sure follow u to learn ur mom’s authentic kongunadu recipes.
Hi Sashi,
You have a good collection of recipes.. Nice to see ur profile.. Kalakuringa.. Super blog.. following u..
Thanks Anu for ur pleasing words.
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!!!
Jay, Thanks for ur encouraging words. I swear I’m not an expert in this area yet, just a newbie in Cooking. But will surely collect some health info and try to add them too. Thanks for the Idea.
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 :-)
Thanks Namitha for ur pleasing words. Ah !! finally I met a person who lived in Erode for sometime. Am happy to meet you here !!!
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
Thanks Yaso. do visit often and let me how did it turn out. I would be more excited in hearing them back.
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
Your comment really is a energy booster for me. Thanks for the compliments Prabhaa !!
Hi Sashi,
Keep up the spirit… I wish you Best of Luck!!!
~Eshwar
Thanks Eshwar for ur hearty encouragement.
Sashi,nice to see ur profile.I am from Tirupur.M also missing my amma and kongunadu samayal,,
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.
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!!
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.
Hey Sashi…very good receipes…I tried most of your recipes and it turned out well..:)..Good work da..
Thanks Dhivya, Keep coming your feedback means a lot me.
hi love all your recipes. magic!!! there isnt much blogs which has authentic kongu recipes. for that reason luv your blog. keep posting!!!
Thanks deepa. I would try adding many Kongu recipes as i could. :)