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My parents left last week and now I am back to regular cooking. We've been harvesting a lot of fresh veggies like tomatoes (about 5 lbs every week), mint, curry leaves, spinach, raddish, beans, okra from our very own backyard. I've been using raddish along with fresh spinach to make a simple salad to serve before dinner. All this while I kept throwing away the raddish greens from my garden. Last week when I spoke to my mom she said that they were healthy and good source of iron too like spinach. So decided to make keerai poriyal (raddish greens subzi). I usually use about 3-4 raddish plants everyday to make my fresh salad. I saved the leaves for a week to make this poriyal. Raddish Greens Poriyal: Ingredients: Raddish leaves (chopped roughly) – 2 cups Onion (chopped) – ½ Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Urad dal – 1 tsp Channa dal – 1 tsp Red chillies – 2 (broken) Coconut (shredded) – 1 tbsp Oil – 1 tbsp Salt – as neeeded Method: Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal, channa d

Yes its a year since I started this blog. I have learnt so much from the food blog world in the past one year. So many new recipes, new gardening ideas, kitchen tips and most importantly have come to know so many food bloggers out there. When I started this blog, it was only a place to store my recipes for me to visit later and to share it with my parents who live far away from me. But now I am happy that I have people who regularly visit my blog and encourage me with their comments and suggestions. My husband says that I make new dishes these days just to take pictures and post them on my blog and honestly most of the times he is right. So a big thank you to all my friends, regular readers and fellow food bloggers. Doodhi (Bottle gourd) halwa Ingredients: Doodhi (bottle gourd) (grated) - 2 cups Milk - 1 cup Sugar - 1 cup Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp Ghee - 3 tbsp Cashews - 1 tbsp Raisins - 1 tbsp Method: Fry cashews and raisins in 1 tbsp ghee. Fry grated doodhi in the remaining ghee fo