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	<title>Lemon and Chillies</title>
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	<description>Tart and hot, like the aftertaste of a spicy Indian meal…</description>
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		<title>Spiced butter biscuits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, the fall-back evening snack in my house would be a biscuit.  Biscuits to me are what cookies are to kids that grow up in America.  They were sold in all shapes and sizes, with different flavoring and the queen of them all was the &#8220;cream biscuit&#8221;, in which flavored icing was sandwiched between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/15/spiced-butter-biscuits/</link>
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		<title>It was a long break&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I wrote anything on this blog; and it was not because of lack of ideas :)  Lots of cooking happened during the holiday season with friends &#38; family coming over.  There was also, of course, Thiruvatharai &#38; Pongal which was celebrated with the traditional dishes.  During this time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/07/it-was-a-long-break/</link>
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		<title>Shameless Canvassing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing here for a little over a year now; and write I do in an off again and on again fashion.  If there was an award for the most inconsistent blogger, I guess I will win hands down   Unfortunately, the award I am talking about today is for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/19/shameless-canvassing/</link>
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		<title>Colorful Pasta Salad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I got married and moved here, I didn&#8217;t think too much about having K&#8217;s sister and her family live in the same locality as well. Over time, we have grown to cherish each other&#8217;s presence in our lives, look up to each other for guidance / advice and forged a lovely relationship. Her husband [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/12/colorful-pasta-salad/</link>
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		<title>Garlicky Peppery Delicious&#8230; Rasam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather has definitely gone cold here and I can feel Winter fast approaching. Well, with the way temperatures have gone south, it already feels like Winter. These days, it is almost like we have only 2 seasons these days - summer and winter, whatever happened to spring and fall, I wonder! All I want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/05/garlicky-peppery-delicious-rasam/</link>
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		<title>Payatham urundai</title>
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Buoyed with the success of Mysore pak, M and I started thinking of the next sweet that can be made.  We were totally unprepared, so it had to be something that we could make with the ingredients we had in hand (can&#8217;t go shopping at 11:00 in the night  ).  After brainstorming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysore Pak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of my fondest memories of Deepavali are the smell of fresh, hot-off-the-stove mysore pak within the house and the fumes from firecrackers outside.  My mom would spend the day before Deepavali in making various kinds of sweets and savories that culminated in dinner(the high point) - poori-masal - poori with potato masala, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswathi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mid-2007, I went on a trip, well not just a trip but a holy trail of sorts starting from Varanasi (Kasi) - the holiest of holy places for a Hindu  -&#62; Ayodhya - the birthplace of Lord Rama  -&#62; Naimisharanya - a small hamlet on the banks of Gomathi river where Srimad Bhagavatam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/24/ganga-yamuna-saraswathi/</link>
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		<title>Deepavali</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deepavali or Diwali, as the festival is popularly called, literally means &#8220;a row of lights&#8221;.  It is usually celebrated on the 14th day after full-moon/new-moon day in the tamil month of Aipasi (or Ashwina in Sanskrit).


There are several significant events associated with this festival and two of the popular ones are

Lord Rama returning to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://madras2madurai.hopto.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/deepavali/</link>
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		<title>Maida Burfi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All those who read the comment entries on Golu would know that I made a maida (all-purpose flour) sweet for Navaratri.  I am calling it &#8220;a  maida sweet&#8221; cos I am not sure what I should call it   I started out making maida cake, and what I ended up with was [...]]]></description>
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