Thursday, April 2, 2009

Mane Adige: Thambittu ( Wheat-Jaggery Dumplings)

Mane Adige: Thambittu ( Wheat-Jaggery Dumplings)
Hi Ramya,
I have recently been addicted to mane adige.
I love all the snaps of the recipes. They look beautiful.
I tried maddur vade from ur recipe & it turned really good.
It tasted the same as we get in maddur near mandya.
I would like to suggest small variation of thambittu.This is done with kadlepappu or hurigadle powder.
My mom is the best at doing this. Its very soft any time u eat.I remember other bangaloreans doing rice thambittu for which they needed a stone to break it to pieces. U could not bite it too. It would be very hard.But, this one is very soft every time.
Make kadlepappu powder. Keep aside jaggery syrup. The consistency should be like its sticky.
Add some cardamom powder to the jaggery syrup. Some grated dry coconut to the pappu powder.
Add little by little jaggery syrup & bind the powder well until u can make them into small round balls.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Bangalore-traffic hell

Bangalore is silicon city of India. Everythings good. But, what about the traffic? What do we see on a road? hardly any two wheelers..maximum four wheelers. Looks like India has all its car supplies sold in Bangalore alone. Adding to it is the quality of roads. Today they tarr the road, next day the BWSSB/ KEB/ BMRDA authorities are seen digging the road. How long are we seeing the metro rail work going on MG road? The road contractors too are negligent enough to concentrate on giving the best roads. Best Roads means the easy traffic.
Not just that, every ones in hurry cant wait for signals or cant wait for their turn patiently. Rush, rush, rush. Peoples ego comes on their way for car pooling.
Some Solutions for traffic control
1. Use public transport system.
2. Time management so that you are not late to work and need not hurry on roads.
3. Reside near work places. Travelling can be avoided.
4. Maintain some sense of responsibility when there is traffic Jam. Dont add to it. But, try to dissolve it.
5. Dont allow roads to be dug up unnecessarily.
Be a responsible Bangalorean. We can have the best traffic.