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Deepika

Just learning what it means to deal with diabetes type II in the family.  There's so much to know.
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Nourishing and Rejuvenating -- Coriander Rice by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Some time ago, I learnt that the coriander plant, aside from containing powerful antioxidants, was actually considered a great herb for diabetics, helping lower blood sug ... Read on »
Basundi for a Berry Hot Summer by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating It's been two years since I posted a sweet dish on my blog.  We no longer really eat any rich desserts, it's been a long time, except maybe during the occasional family v ... Read on »
Seasoned Long Green Brinjal by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Today, 11th March 2010, is World Kidney Day.  World Kidney Day is a joint initiative taken by the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of ... Read on »
Onion Paratha by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Healthy eating, in my experience, starts off as a conscious effort.  There is often a moment of lapse where a craving just needs to be satisfied, and you either give in o ... Read on »
Red Kidney Bean Soup With Veggies by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The much awaited and pleasurable New Year weekend has come and gone.  The specialness of this particular New Year was that the holiday mood lasted three beautiful days, r ... Read on »
Ragi and Bajra Dosa by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I've posted my version of whole grain ragi dosa before.  This is just another variation of the same, having added a bit of bajra (pearl millet) too to the batter.  Since ... Read on »
Tangy Tomato Chutney by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating A brief sojourn to the south of the nation several weeks ago was the cause for an immense sense of relaxation and contentment, something that had been missing from our li ... Read on »
And so the summer's gone ... Toasting with Mint and Watermelon by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Dark moody clouds now overwhelm the skies, threatening to spill over. Monsoon's actually been delayed for about a month or so on account of cyclonic activities during the ... Read on »
Tomato Dosa by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Once upon a time, tomatoes were thought to be poisonous. We need to applaud the one brave person who, knowingly or not, bit into a ripe juicy red tomato and survived the ... Read on »
Cooking Cucumbers and Stirring Memories by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating My mother has always been a consummate cook and house manager par excellence. The parties of our childhood years when the Indian community gathered at our house to sample ... Read on »
Whole-grain Jowar (Sorghum) Dosa by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I've had occasion to travel to a few places over the past six weeks or so.  It's been a while since my family set foot out of town on a long journey and we thoroughly enj ... Read on »
Cooking Cucumbers and Stirring Memories by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating My mother has always been a consummate cook and house manager par excellence. The parties of our childhood years when the Indian community gathered at our house to sampl ... Read on »
Mushrooms and Bread ... made for each other by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Mushrooms are my latest love, from a culinary perspective of course. It wasn't always like that, though. I hadn't ever tasted mushrooms until a year ago, when we went o ... Read on »
Tomato-Flavored Crumbled Idlis by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating For a couple of years now, changing weather patterns and reducing rainfall in areas that need it the most have led to spiralling cost of basic food items. The negative i ... Read on »
A South Indian delight -- Virsa by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating North and South Indian cuisines used to be plainly demarcated based on the staples they used. While the northern areas relied on wheat, bajra and jowar among other thing ... Read on »
A Monsoon Treat -- Rasam Vada by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The monsoons finally arrived ten days ago, albeit a bit late this year. Fears of the city's water supply drying up have now been put to rest. Wetness of the season for ... Read on »
Aubergine and Rice, with spice by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I first learnt about different ways of spicing up rice through my mother-in-law. I don't mean that she showed me how to make these dishes since we don't live nearby, but ... Read on »
All about rice by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating It used to be that the first reactions to a diagnosis of diabetes in a family member would be often to have the patient completely shun all carbohydrates. The patient wo ... Read on »
Cumin-Flavored Coconut Chutney by Deepika Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating For a while now grey clouds have flitted across our skies raising the hope of rains, but a month has gone by without the much sought-after downpour. Rains, this year too ... Read on »