Cool selection, folks-and peanuts are always welcome (especially boiled or dry roasted!).

Oh, and stop hating on sambar and moolis :-D

I’ve also been known to serve negative calorie wine too.

;-)

now if you can get me some negative calorie rum raisin icecream!!! - b.

the boiled peanuts look just fantastic! I could eat them right now.

Looks like you have cleared a part of the bookmarked folder. Mine is overflowing!

:hammer:’whack us with those wet noodles’ :laugh: liked that.
Pass those peanuts here they are looking awesome

Tsk tsk…radishes…sambar. I love sambar, and I just don’t get it! Radishes…well, I’ve been eating those spicy small ones since I was quite little off the crudite-platters so, when I finally tried the “foreign”, large, mild ones it was plus-plus all the way! Isn’t there a recipe for mooli-halva with chocolate-Tia Maria sauce out there somewhere? :-D

You two always have great reads; keep it up- we all need it for our beverage-breaks!

anyone who likes radishes has an olfactory problem. and sambar is just saaad. i have some sambar podi i can send you, but i won’t ‘cos it’s more than two years old. - b.

O wow boiled peanuts…..I am drooling, I want some

boiled peanuts looks awesome:). what radish:nono: oh gosh its all radish sambhar on weekend for us haha H always buys atleast 2 big bunches of them and we love it

please tell me you have a biiiiiig exhaust fan in your kitchen - b.

But mooli is soooo good - the winter ones in Delhi are almost sweet! And what’s not to like in sambar?

But then we are talking about who had never made pooris till now! They have a very ‘foreign’ palate, I tell you. More ‘running afte them with belans’ is needed…that’s plenty of calorie burning for me!

Glad you agree on them peanuts!

moolis are sweet? i no believe. i’ve been away from india for a while, but you can’t make up such tall tales. - b.

you’re giving away peanuts? need to go lock up my monkeys…be right back

don’t forget the gin and tonic. - b.

The peanut pix are lovely. And what are you going to do with the two-year-old sambar podi, Bee? Do tell, I can learn from you.

play ‘jaws’ music. hold breath. take sambar podi out of freezer. walk gingerly to the bin. open it. chuck it in. better yet, flush it down the loo. do a little jig. - b

Anita, another reason for the ‘belan’ treatment ‘Sallu is cute’.

john abraham is cuter. - b.

am convinced you guys are on something…as in a controlled substance or something illegal!! as for me, you’re providing the kicks!! am high as a kite….look forward to logging in and checking out your posts for the day and thats becoming part of my daily fix!! cheers!! you guys rock!!

immoral, fattening and illegal. what’s not to like? - b.

Boiled peanuts ? Thats our family favorite! Once we took a bag of it to the theatre for snacks and when peeling it the salty water inside was sprinkled all over our neighbours in the row. They couldn’t figure out why they are weeping even for comedy scenes. And my father warned as we were laughing to our heart (not for the comedy in the movie but our weeping neighbours;) !

And regarding the samabr podi try out my version! I bet your noses will invite the smell when its freshly ground!

JA: that I agree.

Ours is a peanut family. Just love them!

bee - radishes are sweet, sachiii…. we used to get them outside our school in delhi when i was a kid (more like a baby), they used to sell them plain…or slit with lemon salt and masala…yum

what are you going to tell me next? that i am queen of scotland? - b.

My dad still has a handful of peanuts when he reads himself to sleep :-) every night :-)

Love the boiled peanuts and trying to suck out the last morsel of saltiness before biting into it….and glad to see my humble egg curry make it into your hall of fame

my comments have started appearing again! Thanks a lot Bee!

Bit comforting to know even you throw out stuff from the pantry, B! You don’t come across as a pantry pack rat

i didn’t buy/make that sambar powder. someone gave it to me ‘cos of course everyone is supposed to looooove sambar. - b.

Radish and Sambar are meant to taste yucky? Isnt that a bit too drastic? Perhaps you should taste some good Radish Sambar

ok so a. we’ll discard the sambar podi and use only coconut and chillies - and subtitute tamarind with a tomato

b. we’ll use the delicious radish we get in Chennai that lends a sweetish flavour to the sambar (Radishes here come with zero odour - so i have no clue what the smelly business is all about)

what say?

PS: lovely peanuts

nope. radish sambar is double yucky. even if it’s chennai radish. - b.

and so i did some quick research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon - these are the nice ones i guess - no smell, very very mild taste - to be bought only in winter. i guess the 150 you so bravely used up are notoriously pungent small ones. either ways if i ever made soooooooooo many dishes of one vegetable i’d stay away from it for a really really long time.

Very funny….and a new award your way…check out my post..

Srivalli
http://www.cooking4allseasons.blogspot.com

Bee! you don’t like sambhar and summarily dismiss sambhar powder. My My how would I ever cook without those?

Boiled peanuts…this is just about the best reward one could hope for!
Thanks for this list…I need to go and try many of these myself.

What a lovely array of recipes to read! Not to mention the big catching-up I need to do with your own creations. Those boiled peanuts look so tempting. Around here the only place I have ever seen fresh peanuts for boiling is in the Indian grocery. Got me craving some now

Y’all have been vewwy vewwy busy!!;D
I am planning to buy boiled Peanuts on the way back home to NC. There are farmers selling Peaches,Videlia onions, sack of sweet potatoes and boiled peanuts all thru’ SC roads every summer in little shacks.Driving back home in few hrs, see you tomorrow:)

I just had boiled peanuts last week! Nice picture.
That’s a lot of recipes you’ve tried from other bloggers… great going!
Bee, I’m sorry to say this but I like radish-sambar - 2 of your worst nightmares combined!!

conceded, you dislike radish and sambar like i hate any rice-dal based sweets (sakkarai pongal, payasams and pradhaman included).

inspite of this you actually ventured to make radishes (loads of em) and sambar!!!! :bow:

perhaps someday i shall also make rice pudding!!! or will I?

join the club. i don’t like payasam either. i especially don’t like the slimy vermicelli payasam. but i love pradhaman. - b.

Dear queen of scotland,

Radish is sweet, yes! Want me to send you some Singapore produce?

if you accept some prickly green kerala produce in exchange. - b.

Boiled peanuts looks awesome, I remember during rainy season in bombay you will find in bulk, we used to boil with salt and haldi and enjoy with our evening soaps…thats Mind blogging snaps of peanuts, I love the salted, boiled ones!

Bee, saw ur comment y’day but I have been a bit tied up ….u were jet-fast in trying that…..neverreceived such a ‘tried-out’ comment so fast!

Shn

Peanuts - how i love them… fresh out of the soil, boiled and eaten! don’t know why, I hate the same peanuts - roasted… gives me headaches.

ok, i accept the peanuts, boiled that is
something awaits u over at mine

Peanuts *are* yummy!
Now…can anyone point me to the negative-calorie peanut butter?

Hi Bee!
Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog.

Love reading your posts…one of my faves was the description of how to pronounce ‘moon’ with a thick Indian accent (from the Paneer butter mattar splutter post)….still makes me laugh!

**head meet desk** ouch. who are you, my friend? or were you named ‘anonymous’? - b.

Gorgeous pictures of da peanut king. Love them boiled. They taste better paired with raddish

Oh lord..forgive them for they know not what they are doing :nono:….first you drive us nuts with all that puris and cluris and then offer us peanuts… :devil:…..

photos are just beautiful. Love the boiled peanuts any time.

Oh yes, everyone is supposed to lou sambar! And dunk any and every “tiffinitem” in a huge, spreading pond of yellow-brown slop with watery coconut chutney squished into the mix - don’t you just love the thought? Mwah! (And if it’s radish sambar, it just may transport you straight to seventh heaven!)

to the wet noodle!
Love your candid post! Tells us so much about how fair u guys are! Love that :-)
And the peanuts look yumm! Beautiful photo!
I have something waiting for u guys in my blog ;-) I’m sure u already got it! but just wanted to give it to u guys all over again!
Hugs
Latha

Boiled salted peanuts are so much missed by us here. Where did you find the whole peanuts with shell Bee? Nice choice of blogger friends dishes tried out there. I want to try red pepper chutney among the rest from that list

we get them in the bin at the local co-op. - b.

This is a seriously nutty post! The posters have gone nuts! okay, okay, corny, I know

Ahhh…vintage sambar podi. A fine year it was I’m sure; but no, I couldn’t possibly deprive you of such luxurious stock, but I do thank you for the offering just the same!

i want those boiled peanuts. i too can make them u know.

Cool selection! I have come to fancy peanuts after coming to the US and checking recipes from Mahanandi! I use them liberally now. the only thing i cant eat is peanut butter!

A touching post Bee. Could see a person through their words. You are so apt for this adage. Your photos are awesome. When you tell me - nice pictures Viji, i used to see my pictures again, how did I it took it to get this compliment from you. One need a big heart to appreciate others. I enjoy all your posts, not only the photos, but also your write up. They are so lively. Wonderful job Bee and Jai. Congrats. Viji

thank you for your kind words, viji. they mean a lot. i do love your pics. they bring out the essence of the dish. - b.

Oops! Didn’t realize my comment came up as anonymous!
Well, it’s from me:)

So here is is again!

Hi Bee!
Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog.

Love reading your posts…one of my faves was the description of how to pronounce ‘moon’ with a thick Indian accent (from the Paneer butter mattar splutter post)….still makes me laugh!

-Savithri

oh, it’s you!!! nice to see you again, savithri. - b.

its awesome how many people are trying to convince you that you must like radish and sambhar….that too together!!

Hi Bee,
Delicious chutney… You don’t like raddish..You have to try red raddish they are mild and tasty. My hubby doesn’t like radish in sambar (b,coz of the smell) but likes in paratha and raitha.