Welcome to Subbus Kitchen - Brahmin Recipes made easy now !
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About Me
I could write for hours about myself, but there is a direct focus of this blog. About me in a nutshell: I am about 53 years old and married for 35+ years. All along I am a typical house wife.
The objective of this blog is to inspire you to cook and show you how easy it is to cook. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. As I am from a south Indian Brahmin family, obviously the focus of the blog would be on South Indian Brahmin recipes.
But this part was supposed to be “about me”… :-)
About my childhood
I born in a small village in the Tirunelveli district called Kallidaikurici. This is a very beautiful village in the banks of the river Thamirabarani. My mother was a wonderful cook. Most part of my cooking skills has come to me from my mother and I am sure it’s applicable to every one of you. She used to cook a very tasty food for almost 10+ family members daily with the minimum available things and infrastructure. You can feel the flavour of Tirunelveli taste in my recipes and my birth place is the reason for the same.
Marriage life
I am married for 35 years now. After marriage I shifted to my in-laws house in Nagercoil (Asramam village). My in-laws were from Kerala orgin and this is the reason why you also see the flavour of Kerala taste in some of my recipes. My mother-in law is equally good in cooking as my mom and she inspires me equally. My husband worked for state transport corporation and got retried. I have three sons out of that 2 sons were married
Now…
Since 2006, I am living in Chennai with my elder son. As cooking was an integral part of my day to day life and also the inspiration given by my son and daughter in law I decided to share the recipes which i learnt over a period of time from my mom, mother in law, relatives, friends and through my daily experiences and present them in the best possible manner. I am just the author of the blog, but its my elder son & his wife's idea, passion to create a website and to run them successfully. I would be happy to hear success stories from you who have tried recipes posted here. It would be my pleasure, if you’ve benefited in some way by what you read on http://www.subbuskitchen.com/.I would like to thank my elder son and daughter in law who are in behind the scene and help me in running this blog.
You can reach me at subbalakshmi@subbuskitchen.com.
26 comments:
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Thanks. You are most welcome.!
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I have come across this website only today;i want to try each item and will let you know.still learning to cook.
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I really wanted to share this good news with you all.
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There is one item called VADAKARI. You have not included this item along with Dosa Vadakari
Please try to tell us how to prepare this recipe
Thanks.
On behalf of so many interested persons
Thanks.
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Hi.I am newly married and live in Dubai..I am also Tamil Brahmin from Kerala.I found your recipes are similar to my mom's recipes.Especially the traditional recipes which are prepared during Festival seasons..Thanks for the recipes.By seeing your blog I am now more confident of cooking dishes especially festival recipes.Thanks once again for these recipes..
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viji says,22/september/2011 10.50 p.m.
Dear Mam,
I live in
delhi for past 13 years. My mother cooking is very tasty but i missed her. After seeing your receipes
I am very much happy.This helps me to my cooking.
Thank you
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Thanks Viji. Your are most welcome!.
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Dear Aunty , Thanks so much for this blog.. Iam devoping interest in cooking and i try a lot of my grannys cooking which i learnt from my Aunt. Iam from Tirunelveli Saiva pillai family and i love the tirunelveli taste . I have decided to try all the receipe u have posted. My husband and son are food lovers and now i can indulge them in variety.. thanks a lot
krishnapriya
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Very lovely, and most useful, website, especially for those of us that love tamil nadu brahmin cuisine! Thank you for this blog.
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Mami :
We follow your website and would you be nice enough to inform us with a general idea as to what to cook for Swami samaradhanai. Thanks for the help.
S..
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Hello Mami,
It will be nice to get 'Sambar satham' recipe. Please post it if you get a chance.
Thanks
Purnima
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Dear Mami,
Wonderful website! Very nice to see a full list of all our traditional Brahmin recipes. I always refer to this, when I want to cook up something different.
Can you please post recipes for Mohan Laddoo and Puliyakuthi Poduthuval
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Dear Subu Aunti
I am married to Palkkad Brahmin and originally Maharashtrian Brahmin. This Blog helped me so much and started cooking one by one all your recipes. My husbund is very Happy.
Thank you
Madhavi
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Dear mami,
could u please add the receipe of mahani pickle
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Madam,
I have prepared quite a number of recipes after going through your website. Thanks to you, I could make my daughter and husband enjoy the south Indian dishes / preparations during our recent stay abroad.
One query: Have you published these recipes in the form of a book? If so please give me the details of the same so that I can buy and benefit from the book.
Thanks and Regards.
Annalakshmi
(Email id "abala2303@gmail.com" )
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Hi Annalakshmi
Thanks for your nice comment. I haven't published any book yet. May be i don't know to whom should i approach for the same. Will give it a try. thanks for your encouragement.
Subbalakshmi.
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Dear Mami,
can u pls help me with the recipe of soup varieties and raw rice idly??
Thanks and regards,
Annalakshmi
(Email ID: abala2303@gmail.com)
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Vanakkam Subbu Mami,
Greetings. Through google came to your blog, very happy, i can tell what you are doing is service to the Indian citizens in and outside India, though it might not be something you look at while doing this, but that is the truth. Let me humbly tell you, even a person who has been all along never interested in cooking, will get inspired and motivated to start cooking after seeing your sincerity and love with which you are giving informations not only on cooking, but reasons for the festivals which goes long way to generations that are not growing in Indian atmosphere, wishing you all the best for 2012 and many thanks to your Elder son and Daughter in law who are supporting so that we all enjoy cooking here,
Mikka Nandri,
Anbudan
Thanjai Bala
Hannover, Germany
thanjaibala77@gmail.com
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Hi I am living in Pune at present, but basically I am a tamilian from Tirunelveli. I came to your blog while searching for some other thing in the net. i am very happy to read your recipes. They are written in a simple manner. Today i am planning to write that pachai milagai kulambu. i will definitely give a try to all your awesome recipes. Thank you Aunty
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Hi Sathya, Thanks for your comment. It's my pleasure !. Please post your comments after you tried the recipes, so that i can improve upon them if required. All the best and Happy new year.
With luv
Subbalakshmi
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Maam
today only i went through ur blog for kali and thalagam. tomorrow i am going to try it. very good site. hats off to ur son and daughter in law for the great job. definitely will try kali and come back to u.
selvi, dubai
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Thanks Madam for the excellent recipe of Thiruvathira kali. We are originally from palakkad area and I found the dish as authentic as we used to make at home during my childhood days. Thanks a million and with best regards, Revathi
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Namaskaram Mami,
Hope you are doing well.
Please advise the items to be made for Seemantham. We are doing the function next week after pongal. The list of items to be made will be very useful.
Thanks a lot for your excellent recepies. They are the best source of guidance on South Indian Brahmin foods.
Regards,
Aditya
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Atleast you could have named this blog as 'Vegetarian receipes' rather bramin receipes. :-) This is not looking good. Because there is no caste specific receipes from old days. All are life style based receipes. :-) Hope you understand.
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Hi, your comment is very valid and my intention is not to drive my blog towards 'caste based', but to identify the recipes from specific orgin. We do have chettinad recipes, palakkad recipes, and many other type of of food within tamil nadu. Since i am from specific origin, my recipes obviously reflect the style of cooking. So, just to tag the style, i choose the specific caste here. Otherwise, its a benefit for all and open to everyone!.
I'm newly married and I live in US. I am also a Tamil Bhramin from Tanjore District. Most of your cooking and the style of cooking I could see is like how my mother does. So instead of calling my mother to India everytime, I use your blog and cook food. This helps me a lot and I cook very well. Thanks for all your recipes :)