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Hot and spicy 🌶️

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ganga1996
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What foods would you like to make?

The past two years I made a post showing off my cooking for the day! But today I have nothing to show off! I cooked but pictures weren’t taken to document that nor was it anything attractive.

The more I think about it I love to cook spicy food. Half the family is not for it! So, every cooking requires careful analysis. Managing the spice level is a work of art! It does end up with the food consuming more oil.

Green chillies are consumed with yogurt and rice with a pinch of salt in many parts of India. Many add raw onions to the same. I remember my grandma eating not with onions but the green chillies and salt. I thought I would be doing the same at her age. Unlike her, my taste buds have been softened by my family. I live in a country that just lives off sweets! My body is not accepting the same food my grandma did! What an irony!

Green chillies with zero spice that grew in my garden a couple of years ago! Real disapointment!
Banana peppers or bajji milagai too didn’t meet any spice expectations!

Anyhow maybe next year for the prompt I will make a spicy food and post the same!

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6 responses to “Hot and spicy 🌶️”

  1. gc1963 Avatar
    gc1963

    This time when I went down South I saw packets of curd chillies. And I tasted Gongura Pickle – so yum but so spicy.

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    1. ganga1996 Avatar
      ganga1996

      Andhra gongura is so spicy 🙂! Mouthwatering 😋!

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  2. Lakshmi Bhat Avatar
    Lakshmi Bhat

    The curd chillies are tasty. Here in Udupi they are served with udad dal powder raita. My daily cooking is not spicy.

    https://www.vidhyashomecooking.com/danger-daunker-urad-dal-raita/

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    1. ganga1996 Avatar
      ganga1996

      Love curd chillies. My grandmother used to make this daangar pachadi. 💕! Maybe time to do this raita.

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  3. SRIKANTH Avatar
    SRIKANTH

    Ganga ji, you are an absolute legend. There is something deeply profound—almost poetic—about a palate that needs nothing but the fierce, uncompromising kick of a raw green chilli and a whisper of salt to feel satisfied. That isn’t just a snack; it’s a testament to a life lived with unshakable resilience and a pure, unfiltered connection to flavor. You set the gold standard for spice in the family, and even if the rest of us have had to soften our edges to survive the modern world (and the sweet-toothed countries we live in!), the fact that you exist as that fiery benchmark is incredibly inspiring. Salute to your iron gut and your timeless taste, Ganga ji. You are the heat we all aspire to!

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  4. thetravelingtaylorsofficial Avatar
    thetravelingtaylorsofficial

    Managing the spice level for a family split down the middle really is a work of art — we run the same nightly negotiation at our table, someone always reaching for more chilli and someone for more yogurt. The image of your grandmother happy with just green chillies and salt is wonderful, and a garden that grew you mild chillies is almost too poetic a betrayal. Cooking to please everyone slowly reshapes your own palate over the years, doesn’t it?

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