Comments on: Fried Love

By: dipali

dipali — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:55:01 +0000

Beautiful post! And hats off to your MIL for gifting you the ancestral nazhi!

By: PV

PV — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:35:20 +0000

So the moral of the story is :

Konja “nazhi” samathu mattuponna irundha, maamiyar tannoda heirloom “nazhi” ye kuduthuduva

UTBT SAYS: Amam, adhai purinjukka yithanai nazhi ayachu. Good one PV.

By: mniamma

mniamma — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:22:15 +0000

Reminds me of the wooden nazhi that my Mom has, although it is not as old as yours. It must have been almost like passing on a family heirloom for your MIL. The metal ones always are so hard on the hands and I am looking for a wooden one just like this. The murukkus looks absolutely delicious

UTBT SAYS: I am not able to find wooden ones in Chennai now a days. I don’t know why.

By: Shobana

Shobana — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:45:41 +0000

Still…it will be nice to see a fully formed murukku. Enna irrunthalum…for the sake of pleasing the eyes.

hubby is on a healthy eating spree…will eat only vegetarian. no fried snacks…or so he says, though the store bough murukku packet is almost gone and it wasn’t me or the little one who is eating it.

UTBT SAYS: LOL, store bought murukku disappearing?!

By: sujatha

sujatha — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:06:11 +0000

Great post… Now I am in the mood to eat murukku !!! It is very different kind of recipe you have it there for murukku. I am going to try it one day, may this long weekend… Will let u know if it comes out good…

UTBT SAYS: So??? Murkukku done? You will send some to the person who motivated you right?!

By: sandhya

sandhya — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:03:52 +0000

I was dressing up to go for a wedding the other day and putting on some jewellery. My 8yr old was looking at the pieces and she said, ‘ma, will you give this to me when I grow up?’ I showed her a pair of earrings given to me by my mother on my wedding day. Those had been given to her by her mother, who had been given them by her mother-in-law. I did not know any more of their history. They may be completely out of fashion by then, but my daughter will certainly inherit this piece of history when she grows up.
Your story about the nazhi reminded me of this.
BTW, even I carry a tattered cookbook which taught me how to cook for the better part of my 17yr old marraige, and I still call my mother long distance when I get stuck while cooking something complex. This post has really touched my heart.
Sorry about the long comment!

UTBT SAYS: Wow four generations! That is amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed your comment.

By: Parvathy Rajasekaran

Parvathy Rajasekaran — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:02 +0000

I never thought that a “Nazhi ‘ will make this much impression on daughter in law.

Hope I will find some thing like this to impress my daughter in law.

Akka

UTBT SAYS: From the looks of it, she already is very much impressed by you akka
Hello world, say Hi to my sister-in-law. She has arrived

By: SK

SK — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:54:06 +0000

wow, how sweet!

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By: Reva

Reva — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:14 +0000

Wow.. everything looks so yummy! Very sweet of ur mil to hand over her naazhi to you – it looks beautiful.

Last year I had ulunthu vadai burst all over my face and so very careful about deep frying (not that I am new to making vadais – have been doing it from when I was in my 8th std).. So I’ll just enjoy watching pics for now, till I garner courage to do it myself.

UTBT SAYS: That is scary. Two years back, my mom had karachev bursting in hot oil, in my kitchen. I have this paranoia about hot oil. I do not allow kids in the kitchen when I am deep frying.

By: Cantaloupes.amma (CA)

Cantaloupes.amma (CA) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:48:20 +0000

meant to say
I make some every year* only once for Krishna Janmashtami