Kurma

You may remember that I have some 'rare' chili plants in my garden.

Since so many of you asked me to take some more shots of their progress, here we are 2 weeks later.

No sign of fruits yet.

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What do you cook when your teenager turns vegetarian?

Paula Goodyer, THE AGE, Melbourne Wednesday, January 21, 2009

"No one knows how many Australian teenagers turn to their parents one day and announce that - like Lisa from The Simpsons - they're now vegetarian. But the guess is that it's no rare event - especially among girls.

But in the US they've crunched some numbers and, based on interviews with 9000 parents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that around one in 200 American teenagers has taken a pledge to veg.

Anecdotally, teenage vegetarianism seems to be an increasing trend, often driven by animal welfare concerns and often sparked by animal slaughter videos on YouTube, The Washington Post reported last week". More...

(Don't forget to read the comments - there's a lot. k)

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Thanks to all of you that wrote me on my email address regarding the chakki recipe. The comments option was/is temporarily out of order.

The reason I had not heard of the recipe is that chakki is not the real spelling. These delicious, crunchy savoury spirals are known as chakli, chaakli in the Marathi language (or chakkuli) and chakri in Gujarati

Throughout India they are known by a whole lot of other different names as well, acccording to the region, like muruku, murukku, or murkoo in Tamil and Telugu, for instance. When stored in a sealed container they last for a long time.

Ok, I still haven't got a recipe to share with you, but I am sure there will be one coming my way soon. And a request to Steve, my blog facilitator: please remove the bar on comments. Thank you.

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