Curry Mela 18th

My dear regular readers, and not so regular ones.
Welcome to the 18th Curry Mela.

And a special welcome to the hundred odd repeat visitors who visit the blog repeatedly even on the same day. Muahhhhh!! to all of you... Ok,OK... I take it back if you didn't like it... :-D

Anyway, we are on the 18th episode of the Curry Mela... MAY THE CURRY MELA LIVE LONG!!! I am as excited as when I first started it... To tell you the truth, I used to be more popular before I started the Curry Mela, for my original easy recipes, and had more visitors some days than I have today. I used to have more commenters too...
After I started the curry mela, some people have even dropped my blog from their Blog rolls. I don't know why!!!
One reason could be that, earlier I used to spend my friday night, after work and saturdays and sundays cooking delicious dishes, to post over the week. Nowadays, I spend most of my fridays and saturdays bloghopping and compiling the curry mela. I don't even have the time to comment... date line for the event you see. But I am not complaning.. I love it...
But I am glad that many people like my Curry Mela and continue to support it.
And I am really glad I have been able to do this every weekend except when i had to go home for my Aunt's last rites. And I hope I can continue this for a long time.

Welcome You all again to the Curry Mela...... Here follows this weekend's spread... Enjoy!!!

Thalassery ayila curry, Ayila or Mackerel or Bangda cooked in a typical Thalassery(North Malabar) syle of making Ayila curry or any other fish curry.

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Banana chips galore, or was it bangalore.... Those fresh, off the frying monstor pan....

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Some cool green tomato recipe, visit for more greens :-)

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Dondakaaya Masala, or tindora... We have more tindora recipes this weekend...

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Dondakaya vepudu / tindora(stir fried Indian Gherkin), another tindora dish. Dried version of the above... Different though...

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Capsicum kairas , Till recently, I always found to hard to think of ways to cook capsicum. I have learnt at several recipes of late, from food bloggers, who else..

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Lentil Adai or pancakes, to be had with Coconut chutney, or butter or jaggery.. Yummy..

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Onion Adai, and the sam dish made with onions. Don't try Jaggery here, lol.

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Curried Tempeh, "Tempeh made by fermentation of soybeans is versatile meat substitute.It has a complete protein food that contains all the fibres of soyabeans and all the amino acids.Proteins and isoflavenes have many health promoting effects for men and women alike.Benefits like cancer risks and heart diseases and menopausal related problem.It is an excellent alternative for hormone replacement therapy . " writes the blogger.

Let me add something there, a similar thing is very popular in the north east, and it is a delicacy. We call it "hawaizaar" perhaps, derived from hawai for soya beans and zaar from Achaar or pickle. We prepare this with Gobi to make great gobi curry, and the more popular one is called Chagem pomba, where we cook the hawaizaar or tempeh with a little rice, peas, some smoked fish, some sarsong ke patte ( Mustard leaves) and a herb.. The pungent coriander like thing, but the leaves are like needles.... I don't know the name, in Manipur we call it Pakhon. In Shillong they prepare pork with this Tempeh, tastes heavenly. The dish is called, turumbai if I remember right.
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Chipotle Chicken, this is one chicken dish that will be tried by Anthony before the weekend ends lol...
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Fish Curry Meen Kozhambu, oh! how I love fish.
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Singapore Chili Crab, and crabs.. I can eat so much crabs till I develop cramps, literally... Cooking crabs takes a special skill, eating also takes a special skill....
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Avial is a very popular south Indian dish, very tasty and light to the stomach. Quite healthy too, but not too long ago, i used to ask my friends what Avial was when I first saw it on the menu in our canteen, then I found bloggers writing about it and found it so easy to cook and yet so healthy.....
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Surakkai Sambar (Bottle gourd sambar) , some body asked me to post Sambar... luckily there was this amazing blogger posting a nice variant of Sambhar....

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Oven fried Onion rings, didn't I mention that the onion rings at Ruby Tuesday are amazing, and beats their pork chop??? You can cook your won now, after you see this recipe..
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Kashmiri Ragan Josh, another must try.. Anyway I have so many Mutton dishes over the past few weeks and i have all in my picture folder.. haven't been able top post them, and I didn't want to post too many non-veg recipes at a stretch ;-), since many of my readers are vegeterains... But this Ragan Josh sure is next in line...
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Smoky Burgers, some amazing recipes from across the world...
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Grilled Salmon with Avocado and Mango Salsa, this recipe so very bowled me over, I don't know what to comment ;-) amazing stuff eh!
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Onion Relish, Those kinds that comes on Pork chops and sizzlers... And rare times when someone have used bayleaves on the same...

Thank you all...

I hope you all love the Curry Mela....

Not quite a Blog mela, not quite an event.... Blogging is all about it isn't it? No rules...