Yes. It has to do with two reasons - a. The ingredients used for making these are of the highest quality - right from the grains to the ghee. b. Psychology. - Parth Awasthi
I used to go w/my friend to the temple only for the prasadam- tis the best !! I once worked on a project in Ooty where we had a bhoomi puja. The Prohits (?) come from one of the mutts and I tell you the food they made was the best ever veggie food I have eaten in my whole life. @Arjun "Khitcheri" is a rice dish ( I maybe wrong). yep, I miss good old india ! - Peter Dawson
Arjun - it's one celebrated around February. Something to do with the harvest festival. We called it Khitcheri, my Tamil friends called it Ponggol. Not celebrated in India? - Rai
@rai, ok pongal i know :) @peter, i was asking abt the festival by that name. the food recipe i know of already - Arjun
Well, the harvest festival is called diff names at diff parts of India.In eastern part of India, we have "bihu" and "boishakhi" . In south, pongal and as u say "Khitcheri" and in west(punjab) its called "Baisakhi". ANy one know any other names? - Arjun
Cool! I never knew the different names. Thanks! - Rai
Pongal=> I am very familiar with .. we always had sugarcane to munch on !! :)- - Peter Dawson
@Peter did not know that u r to have sugar cane on Pongal!! - Arjun
well it was always tied around to my neighours front gate as part of the tradtional deco for celebration.. but they dont just buy two of them long ones,..they used to buy a bundle and then clean it up and as part of the giveaway plate you will find an elbow lenght of sugar cane... so from all the neighours that used to send us their plates, with sweets and nice stuff, we got a lot of sugarcane too. in reverse during Xmas we used to send them the rose cookies, kullculls,cake and whatever.. :)- do they still do these traditional exhcnages between friends ?? - Peter Dawson
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