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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Nice effort Sasi. Keep it up. Hey where in erode you from?
Hi Sashi, great to see all ur chutneys….awesome taste and smell good. Happy cooking !!!!
Hi Sashi,
I am Udhaya from CBE, Tamilnadu basically now living in Melbourne, Australia..
Awesome Awesome.. No words to explain.. I am great fan of you sashi.. !! Today I love cooking thats because of your receipes..
All the best!!
Thanks!
Udhaya
Great website ! Keep rocking ! My taste buds are longing for tasty bites :))) I’m going to try all your recipes one by one :))) Thanks :)
Hi Sashi,
At the very sight of the kongunadu chicken recipe (which my husband was searching for)from your site, i started looking for your home town. Nice to see kongunadu dishes on a blog like this.. i am from coimbatore… married two months back, new to cooking, new to US. feeling at home… i am yet to browse your blog. hope i ll learn more….
Hi Sashi,
At-last I find a good recipe website which is easy understandable without confusing the reader.U r doing a good job. Me too from erode, all the best!
Thanks Anu :)
Nice blog…I too from erode…
Missing mom food.. start exploring new things via your site
Thanks Tamil.
Amazing Shasi, nice pictures! as i am also from erode, it is nice to see many people from erode thru your blog.wish you all the best!
Thanks Ramya!! me too .. nice to note that you are from Erode too !!
hi sashi…. im frm coimbatore and got married few months back… i neva had a chance to enter de kitchen b4 marriage bt aftr marriage im forced to cook as me and my huby stay alone…. and ur website is my god father and guru for my cooking… ryt from making pooris to chicken 65 and all de delicate dishes like baking etc i learnt frm ur blog….the easurements which u gave are so acurrate dat nothing goes wrong…. thaks a lot dear…. keep adding new receipes…. u rock….. thanks agn…
Thanks for ur lovely words Aishwarya !! I’m very much flattered.. glad you like them.
hi sashi, Its nice to hear that u r from erode. Even I am from the same place. have you published any book on ur recipes?
Sangeetha, nice to know that. I’m just doing this as timepass, not an expert in this area really.
Hi,
Nice to see you trying to come out with authentic Kongunad dish recipes.
What can be a Kongunad list without a mention about ‘Arisimbaruppu / kootaanchoru’ or varities of ‘uppuma’.
Please upload those recipes also.
Jai, I already have recipe for Arisi Paruppu – Please check this link http://www.sashirecipes.com/dhal-rice-arisi-paruppu-sadam.html. I will add uppuma recipes soon!!
Really Amazing…Keep Going!!!
We also looking forward your feed back about our newest food blog…http://mysizzlingwok.blogspot.com/
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sizzling Wok
Hi Sashi,
Ur recipes are so authentic and reminds me of my mom’s touch. Ur photos are tempting…looks exactly like my mom’s gravies. So glad and surprised that u r from Erode. Me too. Now I am @ Chennai. U r doing gr8!!! Keep going!!!
Thanks Arthe!!
tried your kabab and was a hit in my party
Thanks for coming back to say this Nitha !!
V.GOOD
I like it.
Thanks Ramsha!!
Hey good job… ellam super ra eruku.. kandippa try pannanum ….
Thanks Zeno!!
Dear Sashi!!
i am a newly wed who knows only to boil water. I am so glad at last i found a perfect space for authentic tamilnadu recipes.
i tried around 5 of your recipes in the past two days. They tasted awesome!!! i need to mention that my husband has started praising me..
because of you i am eating good 3 meals a day…
Thanks a lot Sashi
Thanks Shankari!!!
Sashi your indian recipes gets me going on the days where Indian cooking is needed! They are easy to follow and taste awesome!!
Great job buddy!
Thanks Neetha!! Hope you are enjoying them as well!!