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Mixed bag of recipes

Today we had a picnic with 'South Indian tiffins' as the theme. I chose Biyyam pindi vundala upma and Plantain peas podimas. Everybody liked plantain podimas and All occasion yellow cake turned into chocolate cake with a cocoa powder sachet sticking out of a collection bowl. Into the cocoa cake went a




My husband helped me in shaping the biyyam pindi into tiny rounds. He was very confident that it would all coagulate. That is what ensued and I ended up making poha.



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