Listen to Aruna Sairam..Madu Meiykum Kanne..Wonderful Folk Song

Guruvayurappa ! enakku oru Varam Tharumappa! O god Gurvayurappa ! Bless me with a Boon.

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This is Grandpa's looks. Exclusive for my Grandkids.

And It is Hussain Saab. Listen to his Great Masterpiece.

Listen to Tabla Maestro

Nadha Brahmam Whenever I listen to Tabla Maestro Hussain, I feel being blessed by The Almighty. In every rhythm, I see His Grace. You may click on the above, and go the site YouTube to listen to his solo masterpiece. God Bless Him.

What is Called Typical THANJAVUR MEALS ?

தஞ்சாவூர் தலை வாழை இலை போட்டு சாப்பாடு என்று சொன்னால் போதும் . மெனு எப்படி இருக்கும்னு சொல்லணும்னு தேவையே இல்லை. விருந்தோம்பலுக்கு பேர் போன இடம் தஞ்சாவூர் என்று சொல்லத்தேவைஇல்லை. வீட்டுக்கு வந்தவரை வாங்கோ வாங்கோ என்று முக மலர அழைத்து அமரச்செய்து நல்ல சுத்தமான மண் பானை குளிர் நீர் கொடுத்தபின்பு தான், பேசவே துவங்குவார்கள். ந‌ம‌து வீட்டுக்கு வ‌ரும் விருந்தின‌ர்க‌ளை உப‌ச‌ரிப்ப‌து சிவ‌பெருமானை வ‌ண‌ங்குவ‌த‌ற்கு ஒப்பாகும் இய‌ல்புடைய‌ மூவ‌ர் யார் ? ப்ரும்ம‌சாரி (bachelor) (கல்வி க‌ற்ப‌தே நோக்காக‌க் கொண்டு, ம‌ற்ற‌ யாவ‌ற்றையும் மறந்து, ஆசிரிய‌ன்சொல்ப‌டி ஒழுக்க‌முள்ள‌ வாழ்க்கை ந‌ட‌த்துப‌வ‌ன்..) இர‌ண்டாவ‌து, வான‌ப்ர‌ஸ்த‌ன் (அதாவ‌து, இல்ல‌ற‌ம் நீத்து, துற‌வ‌ற‌ம் போக‌ காத்திருப்ப‌வ‌ன், சொல்ல‌ப்போனால், வாழ்க்கைத‌னை, தாம‌ரை இலை த‌ண்ணீர் போன்று , சாட்சி போன்று உள்ள‌வ‌ன். ) மூன்றாவ‌து துற‌வி,(இக்கால‌த்தில் இவ‌ர்க‌ளைப் பார்ப்ப‌து அரிது). இல்வாழ்வான் என்பான் இய‌ல்புடைய‌ மூவ‌ர்க்கும் ந‌ல்லாற்றின் நின்ற‌ துணை...வ‌ள்ளுவ‌ர். தஞ்சாவூர் வாழை இலை போட்டு சாப்பாடு அதில் என்ன அப்படி விசேஷம் என்றால், அதை சாப்பிட்டவர்களுக்குத்தான் தெரியும். மெனு என்ன என்று சொல்லி விடுவோம். பச்சடி...தக்காளி காரட் (பச்ச மிளகாய் பெருங்காயப்பவுடர், கடுகு தாளித்தது.) ஆப்பிள் பச்சடி. கோசும‌ல்லி..பாசிப்ப‌ருப்பு. க‌ட‌லைப்ப‌ருப்பு அவியல்...(பீன்ஸ், முருங்கை, அவ‌ரை, ப‌ட்டாணி, சேனை, கார‌ட்) உருளைக்கிழ‌ங்கு கார‌க்க‌றி. பீன்ஸ், முட்டைகோஸ், உசிலி. கலத்துக்கு பருப்பு, நெய்.சாதம். வெங்காய சாம்பார். மோர்க்குழம்பு (வெண்டைக்காய் அல்லது சேப்பங்கிழஙகு அல்லது பூசணி) வெத்தக்குழம்பு,(சுண்டைக்காய் அல்லது மணத்தக்காளி) எலுமிச்சை ர‌ச‌ம், த‌க்காளி. அப்பளம் வடகம். நேந்திரங்காய் வருவல் போளி (தேங்காய் வெல்லம், ஏலக்காய்,கற்பூரம் நெய் பூரணம் செய்து மைதாமாவு (இதயம் நல்லெண்ணை கொஞ்சம் கலந்து.) ஆமை வடை ஜாங்கிரி க‌ட‌லைப்பருப்பு, பாசிப்ப‌ருப்பு பாய‌ச‌ம். தேஙகாய் சாதம். எலுமிச்சை பழ சாதம். புளியோத‌ரை. க‌ல‌ந்த‌ சாத‌ம். ஆவக்காய் ஊறுகாய். த‌யிர் உப்பு க‌ல‌ந்த‌ மோர். வெற்றிலை பாக்கு தாம்பூல‌ம், ர‌சிக்லால் பாக்கு, பீடா. வாழைப்ப‌ழ‌ம்.

Latest South Indian Dish...ADAI VARUVAL

அடை வருவல் நம்ப தமிழ் நாட்டிலே ரொம்ப பேர் TEXT BOOக் லே சொல்லிருக்காப்போலே recipeச் செய்யணும்னு நினைக்கறாங்க. அப்படி செய்யும்போதுதான் நன்னா வரும்னு நினைக்கிறாங்க. அவங்க நினைப்பதுலே தப்பே இல்லை. For Housewives interested in growing vegetables in their own garden,I would recommend a visit to : http://letzcook.blogspot.com Apart from the techniques associated with growing veggies, preparing a few recipes/dishes for festival occasions is also described. The Semiya Payaasam with all its look spread its aroma even when I opened the blog. What is an Ideal Thanjavur Vazha Ilai (Thanjavur Plantain Leave) Meal ? particularly when you are awaiting very important guests. Wait for my next posting.

What interests "bloggers" !

For the last couple of years, I am touring amidst the thousands, nay, lakhs of, murky and equally silky blogs. The traffic chaos is as incredible as understandable. As a Chennaite, my journey everyday among the blogs resembles an evening, at Pondy Bazaar at T.Nagar,chennai, where one would find almost all vehicles (squeezing through pathway shops of all shades and colour) criscrossing and jamming the mainway with the helpless but untiring Police constables caught in the melee, shouting, whistling and blinking all the time. Today's blogs authored by netizens of all nations, aged anywhere between 7 and 70, are another new wonder of this world. It is literally chaos on one side. But, looking from a more positive angle, the web world or the blog world is just like a star-lit sky of the New Moon day. How many stars of varied luminicence? Likewise, how many thousands of blogs of varied interests! Adhi Sankara in his wisdom wrote " Loko Binna Ruchihi" ( People have different tastes). RUCHI, which means taste in Sanskrit, does not only refer to the taste one feels at the site of one's tongue. Rather it refers to the varied interests of men and women with regard to various things, like clothing, music, shelter, leisure, companionship, business etc, etc., etc., What is the subject which is focussed most by blogs or websites? Google or any other engine would not give a precise answer. It just directs one to 11,26,460,248,947,4982 posts. It appears that the total number of blogs exceed the number of people living under the Sun ! Today, there are so many search engines that one requires one more search engine to enquire as to how many search engines are there. It defies one's imagination as how many blogs would be there or websites would be there to talk about any subject, say, for instance, masala dosa . Talking of Dosa, you have as many varieities, as you can imagine. In case you failed miserably while preparing a particular dosa, never lose heart. Generate a new name and say, that's a new variety, and do remember to add that the product is your COPYRIGHT. Dosas fall into two distinct categories: Mavu (rice flour) Dosa.--- Rava Dosa. Mavu Dosa has again two varieties: Wheat Dosa and Rice Flour Dosa. Rice Flour Dosa is further subdivided into: 1. Plain dosa. (made with plain sunflower oil or gingelly oil) 2. Ghee Dosa.(Ghee Roast and Paper roast are sophisticated variations) 3. Onion Dosa. (podi onion dosa and sliced onion dosa are refined products) 4. Masala Dosa. (with potato curry bulging inside a slim plain ghee dosa) 5. Pesaratt. (karnataka variety)(instead of ulundhu one uses payaru) 6. Pepper Dosa. (the pepper powder is strewn on one side of the dosa) 7. Kal Dosa, where the dosa is cooked within a steaming boiler. 8. Vendhaya Dosa (Fenu greek powdered and strewn on one side of dosa) 9. Garlic dosa with pepper (with supernatural powers of digestion and anti cholesterol effects) 10. Varattu Dosa (prepared with no oil) Wheat Dosas are a different tribe. They cater to the specific needs of diabetic community. Oothappams are distant cousins to dosas. Sometimes, wives prepare them to fool their husbands, when the wet grinded flour sours beyond a level. I shall be writing a separate article on Chaste Oothappam after a while. Coming back to DOSA, we, South Indian Vegetarians, prefer dosa with at least four to five side dishes: They are: coconut Chutney, Onion Chutney, Kothamalle Chutney, Chilli-dhal mix, sambhar, kadappa sambhar, brinjal thokku, vetha kuzhambhu (gravy strong) and karuveppilai poondu inji mix. In traditional hotels, you invariably are served with coconut chutney and sambar, and chilly-dhal mix powder (with a little oil). A few amongst us prefer to take hot dosas with Ghee mixed sugar. When travelling amongst the blogs, I landed on a blog that talked about the secret of preparing a few side dishes. These dishes, if I recollect, my grandma prepared in 1942, with a precision that none now could match it in taste. So, when I found the caution note of the the author that processes were copyright, and none could reproduce them without a specific permission, I wondered whether a day would come when someone would say that "dosa" itself is copyright and one can't prepare any dosa at home without some author's permission. Fearing that such a day may come soon, I ordered my old lady at home to prepare dosa today itself, in such a way, that the new dosa could as well be nick named as: nei rava vengaya special masala dosai. Eat and be merry, because tomorrow, Ye may not have curry. Good Luck.

Drink Coffee to lower levels of Cholesterol

Coffee May Pack Dietary Fiber Courtesy: www.medicinenet.com Coffee May Be Higher in Soluble Fiber Than Wine or Orange Juice, Experts Say By Miranda HittiWebMD Medical News Reviewed By Louise Chang, MDon Friday, February 23, 2007 Feb. 23, 2007 -- Your coffee may come with a little something extra -- and not just cream and sugar. Some of the dietary fiber in coffee beans may make it into your mug, Spanish researchers report. They say coffee has more soluble dietary fiber (the type of fiber that dissolves in water and helps prevent cholesterol from being absorbed by the intestines) than wine or orange juice. Fulgencio Saura-Calixto, PhD, and colleagues at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid brewed instant coffee, espresso, and filtered coffee. They measured how much soluble dietary fiber was in each drink. Instant coffee contained the most -- about 1.8 grams of soluble dietary fiber per cup. Espresso had 1.5 grams of soluble dietary fiber per cup, and filtered coffee contained 1.1 grams, the study shows. The report is scheduled for publication in the March 21 edition of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Fiber Recommendations You would have to drink a lot of coffee -- about 17 cups of instant -- to reach the recommended daily intake of 31 grams of dietary fiber per day, based on a 2,000-calorie daily diet. That fiber recommendation comes from dietary guidelines published in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In their study, the Spanish scientists simply measured dietary fiber in coffee. They didn't study coffee's health effects; and they don't make any recommendations about drinking coffee. Past studies on coffee and health have had mixed results, note Saura-Calixto and colleagues. Fiber Sources Looking for other sources of dietary fiber? Beans, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables are leading sources. Those foods also contain insoluble fiber, which doesn't dissolve in water, rather than the soluble dietary fiber found in coffee. Insoluble fiber (roughage) may help keep bowel movements regular and reduce the risk of colon problems. It also makes you feel full. Let's say you start your day with half a cup of 100% bran cereal (8.8 grams of dietary fiber) and a cup of instant coffee (1.8 grams of dietary fiber). Then you lunch on chili containing half a cup of cooked Navy beans (9.5 grams of dietary fiber). In the afternoon, you snack on an ounce of almonds (3.3 grams of dietary fiber) and a small, raw pear (4.3 grams of dietary fiber). For dinner, you have chicken (sorry, no fiber there) and half a medium-sized baked sweet potato (4.8 grams of dietary fiber). Add it all up, and you've reached 32 grams of dietary fiber. That's a smidgen more than the recommended amount. That menu is just an example to give you an idea of foods' fiber content. Your doctor or a nutritionist have more pointers for creating a healthy diet with plenty of fiber.

Dharsan of All 12 JyothirLingams. Click here:

மஉறா சிவராத்திரி வருகிற 15ம் தேதி உலகில் வாழும் எல்லா இந்து்ககளாலும் கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது, நமசிவாய என்னும் 5 எழுத்துக்களைக்கொண்ட மஉறா மந்திரத்தை உச்சரித்து நாம் உய்ய வழி காணுவோமாக. SAURASHTRA SOMNATHAM CHA SHRISHAILE MALLIKARJUNAM UJJAINYAM MAHAKALOMKARE MAMMALESHWARAM PARLYAM VAIJNATHAM CHA DAKINYAM BHEEM SHANKARAM SETU BANDHE TU RAMESHAM NAGESHAM DARUKA VANE VARANASYA TU VISHWESHAM TRIBAKAM GAUTAMITATE HIMALAYE TU KEDARAM GHURMESHAM CHA SHIVALAYE AETANI JYOTIRLINGANI SAYAM PRATAHA PATHENNARAHA SAPTA JANMA KRITAM PAPAM SMARANEN VINASHYATI One who recites these 12 names regularly in the morning and evening he washes all the sins committed in the previous 7 births and attains all the powers and Siddhis. நமசிவாய வாழ்க நாதன் தாள் வாழ்க, இமைப்பொழுதும் என் நெஞ்சி்ன் நீ்ஙகாதான் தாள் வாழ்க,