Special Mom’s blog

Yesterday I was talking to some friends. They were surprised about the number of languages spoken in India. Being bilingual is very common in India.

With so many languages, the dialect is also different amongst various regions. Anyhow food habits too change. Me and my husband though we speak the same language, we follow the same religion and also belong to the same community, food preparation is not the same. I grew up in a household that added a ton of coconut to their gravy whereas my husband’s did not.

Yesterday my mom was saying she was going to get a coconut fot a dish and I was thinking, Oh boy it has been a while since I made the dish called “thengai araicha kuzhambhu”, translated a gravy made with grinded coconut 😀! It requires a certain knack to make this dish and memories flooded me. This is an exotic dish for my husband and I have no compulsion to make it. What was a staple is now exotic. Isn’t it interesting.

Drooling my mom’s Coconut grinded gravy, thengai araicha kuzhambhu😀!