Having a fun with improvisaion!
即興の楽しみ

We use a small induction cooker for our cooking in our new flat. We have been waiting for gas to come for more than two months. Apparently if you want to get a gas cooker in your house quicker, you need to bribe some people……

Avial Lunch box
アヴィアル弁当

After coming back from our weekly vegetable shopping, Sunil made some delicious Avial (Keralan food)for lunch so I put the left over for his dinner:-) I added an aubergine dish from the recipe by Das Sreedharan (The owner of RASA, Keralan reastaurant in London) and…

Snake Gourd /Pudalangai Kootu
蛇瓢箪?の料理

I noticed vegetables which looked like snakes in the market and found out that the name of the vegetable was indeed called “Snake Gourd”(Pudalangai in Tamil). Apparently it is popular and used a lot in South Asia. It has fibers, minerals and vitamins and it…

Keralan lunch box
ケララ料理弁当

We cooked Keralan food for lunch. As usual, the left over became Sunil’s dinner:-) Tamarind rice, Tindori Throne, papaya and pomegranates. ケララ料理を昼食に作った。いつもと同じく、残り物はス二ルの夕飯に変身。タマリンドライス、ティンドーリ・スローン、パパイヤにざくろ。

Clay pots
素焼の器(土器みたい。)

When I saw little clay pots are used for putting sweets in our local sweet shop “Sweet Basket”, I had an idea to put all my spices in small cray pots. It looks pretty and also it is environmental friendly. When we leave Hyderabad, we…

Keralan food day! (Tamarind rice, Tindori throne, Moru Kachiathu with Green banana)
ケララ料理の日(タマリンドライス、ティンドりとココナッツを使った料理、グリーンバナナとヨーグルトを使った料理)

Sunil and I watched a Tamil film called “Un Samayal Arayil”. This film is the remake version of Malayalam film “Salt N’ Pepper”. Sunil watched both films and he prefers Salt N’ Pepper but we watched “Un SAmayal Arayil” this time. 日本語文は英語文の後にあります。どうぞ読んでくださいね。

Local market
近所の青空市場

Thursday and Sunday are our big vegetable shopping day. Vegetables, fruits and flower sellers open their shops on the street. One of the most popular shop is the one, which sells the vegetables in a truck. There are always two long queues in front of…

Fish lunch box
魚弁当

Rava Fish fry, Andhra fish curry and vegetable sambar. 魚のフライ、アンドラスタイル魚カレー、野菜のサンバー

Mooli paratha, which reminds of me one of my favourite foods in Nagano.
大根パラタ!大好きな信州お焼きを思い出させる味

One of my favourite North Indian dish is Mooli paratha. It reminds of me one of the regional dishes where I come from (Nagano prefecture), Oyaki. I loved my mother’s oyaki for a snack after I come back from school. You can put any vegtables…

Thursday is Fish day!
木曜日は魚の日!

Thursday is our fish day! Hurrah! Because we can get some fresh fish in the nearby street market on Thursday. They have less varieties of fish compare with a big shopping center but the price and quality are very good so we are quite happy…