Kalathu Podi - To mix with rice and eat

Recipe for another podi.

Horsegram(Mudirai/Kollu) - 1 cup
Chana dal - 1/4 cup
Urad dal - 1/4 cup
Peppercorn - 4 nos
Jeera - 1 tspn
Red chilly - 4
Salt as required

Dry roast the dals separately, till nice aroma comes .
Roast the rest of the ingredients together.

When cool, powder the ingredients together fine ly,in a mixer grinder.

Mix with hot rice using oil/ghee. Serve papads or mezhukkuvaratti as accompaniment.

I eat with gingely oil even though I love to have with ghee

Copra Kalathupodi

Buildings Are Top Cause of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

I just read something in Lightsearch Magazine online that I didn't know.

If you had asked me what produces the most greenhouse gasses before I read the article, I would have answered vehicles.

AIA Survey: Only 7% of Voters Know Buildings Are Top Cause of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

We humans really need to get our act together.

It blows me away that we HAD an energy crisis back in the late 70's and it's taken us till now to realize we've got a problem.

Peggy

Stop Using Plastics and Save the Earth!

Today in the San Francisco Chronicle Mark Morford, the irreverent columnist, opened my eyes about where all the plastic is going, after it leaves my kitchen and home, in his column entitled Come see our giant toxic stew!

Horrified, I followed Mark's links to the LA Times site called Altered Oceans

If you dare to look, be sure to do Part 4, on Seaborn Plastic Debris.

Then tell me what you're going to use next time you have a choice.

Peggy