March 15, 2008

Arusuvai Friendship Chain and an Event Entry

During one of my usual blog hop, Meera's post on Eggless Banana Cake caught my attention. I always look for eggless cakes. Among the list of the ingredients, she had mentioned about doodh masala. She has posted the recipe for the same earlier. In the recipe for doodh masala , found one ingredient which was new to me.Haven't heard about that before. On further googling,landed at Indira's. Needless to say, its a treasure house of recipes featuring all most all ingredients used in various regions of India. She has introduced the ingredient for doodh masala in one of her posts on Indian ingredients. What to say about her pictures. They are so real that you might extend your hand to pick them from your screen.


Now cut to the Arusuvai Friendship Chain. Arusuvai is started in India by the mother-daughter duo - Latha amma and Lakshmi of The Yum blog. I had mailed Srivalli, of interest to be a part of the chain. Ever since, Srivalli mailed me that I was to receive from Gaurav, I have been visitng his blog everyday to see if he has posted on his arusuvai ingredient. What to say about the post
on Arusuvai, there wasn't any updations on his blog then. One fine day, there arrived his post. He made up for the delay with 3 posts on the ingredient he received. Still a week passed, with out his mail confirming he sending me the courier. Finally received the intimation from him. He had mentioned the courier guys asking for door no etc. In my place, the building/door no doesn't have any significance. Rest of the address details is enough to locate.

And it arrived at my door two days back. As soon as I opened I found a packet of some seeds. If not I have stumbled on Meera's post, I will not have known what it is. How hard I might guess. If I taste it, I might have a feeling of having tasted it before, but never its name. It was Charoli/Chironji/Saara Pappu. Many thanks to Indira for introdcing it to me and to Gaurav for giving me an opportunity to use it. I feel, this is the spirit of Arusuvai.


I prepared Dates Banana Milkshake adopting recipe of Chandrika of Akshayapatra.
Since I had to prepare for 5 and didnot have enough dates, I added some Dates syrup also. Garnished with the charoli seeds sent by Gaurav.


I am sending this off to Sig's MBP event, which has Mixed Drinks as the theme.

I will be sending a secret ingredient to Sunshinemom of TongueTicklers.

PS. If any of you , who reside in India and is interested to part of this friendship, please leave a comment in Srivalli's or at Bharathy's blog, who are co-ordinating this.

18 comments:

  1. wow...looks great..thanks fro playing along..

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  2. looks tasty!!!i found your arusuvai chain quite interesting...but i live in singapore...wish i could be a part of it..

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  3. Nice entry.....I know what you mean about door numbers....I still don't know the no of my house in Kerala :-))

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  4. That's really nice.
    I thought the Arusuvai Chain had come to an end in India. Looks like I have been missing a lot of these posts.

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  5. yummy entry..nice way u've used arusuvai ingredient:)

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  7. Forget my other comment, I did get your email... Sorry... :) Thanks Jayashree for the wonderful entry...

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  8. thank you all for your comments.

    sowmya, during ur next visit to India, do mail me and I shall be happy to send you a secret ingredient.

    jayashree,the same with me. But I know my present house since that is asked in most of the govt. application forms.

    aparna, looks like now it is come to a halt. Hope it revives soon.

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  9. Hi Jayasree,

    Im fairly new to the food blogs and is watching this chain going around.I wanna be a part of the Arusuvai Chain .. can you please send me a secret ingerdient ?? btw ur drink looks yummy ....

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  10. Kamalika, thanks for dropping by my blog. Regd. Arusuvai, has mailed you.

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  11. This looks good. Never imagined a combi of dates and banana. Will surely try it out. BTW, along with the packet for you, bought one for myself too. Thanks to your post, I'll try the milkshake out along with my packet of Chironji.
    P.S. : In the hindi movie Khosla ka Ghosla, Anupam Kher's eldest sons name was Chironji Lal :))

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  12. Gaurava, thanks. This is what MBP is all about. Thats how even I got to know the combo of dates and banana. Try it and I am sure you will like it.

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  13. Thnks a lot for taking up and linking us with much interest,dear :)

    Do let us(srivalli or me) know if anyone comes your way mentioning he or she is intersted to be a part of the chain :)..

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  14. Bharathy, I am just doing my part to keep the chain going. Hope it goes on. Shall surely let u or Vally know if someone comes on my way. Thanks for co-ordinating the chain.

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  15. Arusuvai chain brings interesting links with it doesnt it!

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  16. Miri, you are right. The chain has introduced to me new blogs and has given the opportunity to interact with those bloggers as well.

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  17. Hi Jayashree, Am glad to be a part of this chain!! Received my ingredient late afternoon. I guess it is...... I am putting a post on my blog after this comment and a thanks to Srivalli for initiating me into this....I feel like a member of alpha beta kappa or some secret service agent!!! Am I going too far?

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  18. Hi, just posted my recipe with the kulith you sent me. I have this huge amount of Muscat seedless dates my sis-in-law sent me. Just found a way to use it easily in your milk shake. Thanks!

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