Coconut

I was born and brought up in the land of coconuts and yes coconuts for a major part of our diet we malayees are always looking for optimal utilization of resources and it’s amazing how many uses they are discovered for the good old coconut. From its husk used for rope to its leaves used to build houses, sweep floors. The very coconut , the tender inside used in cooking and making oil , its hard nut outside used for making spoons for cooking or burned to make the fire for cooking and the water used for drinking and even make alcohol ..


LOL amazing what a single tree can do... Our families have always used coconut oil for our head, body and consumption. It helps moisturize your skin and scalp .It’s a natural antiseptic and hence helps fight infection, it for the base for several oils in Ayurveda .It’s one of the main oil used to cure Eczema. Consumed it helps in weight loss, its lighter than regular oils however an acquired taste is.

I absolutely love cooking in this magic oil and always carry it around everywhere I go

All about home Food

I was seeing a program yesterday on TV about how the Indian society was surely shifting away from our tradition foods to the fast and easy culture adopted from the west .This has also made me thinking about my own food journey. As stated by Ayurveda, each body has its our unique DNA according to the land it is born in and then each body has certain foods that suite their body type and certain that don’t .After coming here, I have seen both lean and not so lean people and often wondered how the lean managed to remain lean despite all the fast food they ate and how I after coming here have managed to pound on so much weight .Well today I realize the answer.

My body best suites the good old dosa idly lifestyle and not the bread and biscuits lifestyle and I also see that the moment I slightly change my diet to the good old days , my fat goes melting away on its own ..

I searched for variety in western food only to find that there was far many in Indian too, just that I had to look. Probably the submissive Indian in me is still trying to gimmick the western food just so to be recognized as civilized and modern... Somehow we find the western food exciting to discover and new recipes from the Indian cuisines boring...

May be like Yoga it would take another foreigner to tell like that our good old brown rice and Sāmbhar is healthy, delicious. Sad that even though I would like to say that I am liberated, my thoughts are still chained...

Cooking ....

Italian Pound Cake Checked,


Nankatai Biscuits Checked,

Cornbread Checked

Boy am I bored or what


Lately I have been so bored that I have literately exhausted my culinary skills .Its amazing what boredom can actually teach you. I have never cooked before and since we loved in here I have been so bored sitting at home that I have been trying to cook everything under the son I have tried the Indian , the Chinese , Mexican ,Italian ,American and of course the British .. As much intimidated each recipe looks in the beginning slowly but surely you realize that it’s all the same.

Today I can confidently look at any recipe and say I can do this and yes I can... All it takes is you getting into the kitchen and trying...Yes there have been several disasters but now I have developed the knack of turning a disaster into a palatable dish as well...

Cleaning ...

One of my favourite and most difficult chores for the day is cleaning .As much as I love to see a clean neat house I know it takes a lot of effort. Especially when you are an Indian in UK lifestyle designed house. I often wonder when I clean why on earth a landlord would opt for white gas top and bathroom fittings for a house to be rented .My House is filled with all the light shades yu can imagine and its pain staking to keep this clean but I do it the best way possible


I cook less and wipe more every time I am in the kitchen in the fear of our masala's playing havoc with the white stove top.. And the worst case is the Bathroom...

I really don’t understand why you have a bath tub in which you stand and take bath 90 % of your time .Its pain staking for someone like us who have lived in bathroom back in India where you could pour water without the fear of spilling it over .You could turn around without the fear of falling off ...This is also probably one of the main things that makes me want to wish to go back home. Yes the lifestyles are different the reasons different .But imagine a household like us who drape ourselves in oil everyday taking bath in a bath tub, disastrous it would be had it not been for my everyday painstaking chore of clean ..So much so that I feel like I have almost lost a layer of skin from my hand

Brain Dead

I was actually conversing with my friend the other day and then actually realized that I am not even able to get a joke that easily, one skill I was very proud of before was my humor sense and timing... No one could beat me in that .But today I suck at it.


I have been rather sedentary over the last one year and slowly so has been my brain and today I realize that as a result, things are slowly fading away. It’s become difficult to recollect things .I forget things in a fraction of a second

One other place that I can glaringly see the difference is in my writing .I struggle to get a flow of writing these days.. It’s never been this way .I was someone who always enjoyed writing and whenever I set out to write something words would come down my brain automatically, but today I have a clean stale and I am struggling to find that word I am looking for

Well I guess an idle mind first becomes a devils workshop and when he gets bored our mind then becomes dead...Slowly but surely I feel like I am heading in that direction and hence I am forcing myself to keep writing however disappointed I am about how bad my writing is ,I am going to continue just so that I keep my brain active

Gang Rape

Every day I read the paper (NDTV) I am struck by just the sheer amount of gang rapes that are coming into picture .Everyday, a girl is being stripped off her identity, her life and all this because of some boneless dogs who fail to respect women..What can be done, the whole country debates in unison? While some want them to be stripped off their masculinity others want them to be counseled and understood as to what makes them do it...Whatever the case, a women does not feel safe anymore just for the simple fact that she is a women. And this is really sad...


Do men think of women as just mere objects .or are we women seeking attention by the way we are .I don’t think it’s either .I think it’s just the lack of accountability by the system . I don’t think that the convict in Delhi case hung himself. I think he was tortured and killed and yes I do believe he deserved it

Rich or poor...It happens across society and there are just thousands of reasons and just no solution. The respect for women needs to be inculcated right from homes to schools to colleges .It should be nipped at the bud.

I also think that these men are the most insecure people on the planet and that they find the weirdest reason to satisfy their masculinity...Sick and depressing

Fun few days

A friend came over day and we were able to gather some old memories of our school and all the fun we had .. It was shocking to actually realise 10 years have passed since school . Well indeed I am getting old .Both of us being in the jobless category poured out our grievances and that surely felt good ..As sad as the thought is , sometimes it feels nice to know you have company ....

My walks and yoga keep continuing through I must admit my laziness is fighting really hard to make me loose this .But I am trying hard to keep up

I have been baking cooking and trying crazy receipes .. Cornbread , rocky road.. Yumm. pasta in whwite sauce with tomato and ham... Not bad my culinery skills are getting awakened !!!

Every Thrusday my son and myself we viti our local library for our nursery rhymes session..This half hour of rhymes is as much a fun for im as it is for us mothers ..You see all of us gleaming and proudly singing all the rhymes as though we would like to pronounce to the world that yes ,We know it too ... Its always been fun and relaxing ...