A popular dish in Kerala is fish curry. This is a definite staple in everyone’s home and is really easy to make. Of course, it is delicious too! Try this recipe this week. Tip: Serve the curry in the pan that you cooked it in. This will improve the taste! Tip: Eat with Basmati rice. Ingredients: 500 grams (either King Fish or Pomfret), cleaned and cut into pieces 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/2 tsp
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Two weeks ago Isel and I said goodbye to our first home here in Wayanad, stashed our belongings in to an auto-rickshaw and made the bumpy and twisty ride to our new home in Valad. The air is cleaner here, the lifestyle more calm, and the stars and moon ascending over the hills at night can take one’s breath away. That being said, the first few days were definitely quite hectic, organizing and buying pots,
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We are excited to continue our series of biographies featuring the women who participate in Profugo’s Tailoring Training Program this month, with our third tailor, Nalini. Nalini also hails from Prashanthagiri. She and her husband met at her uncle’s wedding. They are working very hard to support their daughters, ages 5 and 9. While Nalini spends her days at the tailoring workshop, her husband works far away in the district where he was born and
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Slowly waking from sleep, the crowing of the rooster becomes more and more lucid, cock-a-doo-da-looo! I rub my eyes and put my feet on the floor. Although sleepy, I smile because today is the start of implementing the wells in Prashanthagiri. I gather my things needed for the day; a camera, my housedress (this is what the ladies wear to work), and some materials for the tailoring workshop. Off I go to the bus. As
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This Sunday our village was full of sounds. Firecrackers marked the beginning of the Hindu New Year according to the Malayam calendar in Kerala. Anxiously awaited by many of the children at our English classes, this “Vishu” Festival carries a very suiting (yet unorthodox) name for a new start. “Vishu” meaning “equal” according to the Sanskrit language or equinos, the time when the day and the night are equal in duration. So, as children were running around
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